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Professional Cloud Developer

Build, test, deploy, and integrate cloud-native applications on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Developer exam across every Domain.

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Google Cloud service

Spanner

Topic in 10 exam domains

Also called: managed Spanner, managed version of Spanner, Spanner production service

Google Cloud's fully managed relational database service.

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7 objectives in 4 of 4 domains

Domain 1
Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications
~32% of exam
1. 1.3Storing and accessing data
  - Selecting the appropriate storage system based on the volume of data and performance requirements
  - Designing appropriate schemas for structured databases (e.g., AlloyDB, Spanner) and unstructured databases (e.g., Bigtable, Firestore)
Domain 2
Building and testing applications
~23% of exam
1. 2.1Setting up your development environment
  - Emulating Google Cloud services using the Google Cloud CLI for local application development and local unit testing
2. 2.3Testing
Domain 3
Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment
~24% of exam
1. 3.1Deploying applications to Cloud Run
  - Invoking Cloud Run services using triggers (e.g., Eventarc, Pub/Sub)
Domain 4
Integrating applications with Google Cloud services
~21% of exam
1. 4.1Integrating applications with data and storage services
  - Managing connections to various Google Cloud datastores (e.g., Cloud SQL, Firestore, Cloud Storage)
  - Reading and writing data to and from various Google Cloud data sources

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Application Default CredentialsFeature Identity and Access ManagementService DataflowService Cloud MonitoringService

SpannerService

Compute EngineService Cloud RunService FirestoreService GKE AutopilotFeature Google Cloud StorageService Google Cloud CLIService Cloud LoggingService Cloud Key Management ServiceService Query insightsFeature customer-managed encryption keysFeature BigQueryService Pub/SubService Cloud SQLService Cloud Run functionsService

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Application Default Credentials secures Spanner
Application Default Credentials works with Spanner
Spanner depends on Application Default Credentials
BigQuery works with Spanner
Dataflow works with Spanner
Cloud Monitoring works with Spanner
Cloud Run functions works with Spanner
customer-managed encryption keys works with Spanner
GKE Autopilot works with Spanner
Google Cloud Storage works with Spanner
Identity and Access Management secures Spanner
Google Cloud CLI works with Spanner
Query insights is part of Spanner
Cloud Key Management Service depends on Spanner
Cloud Key Management Service works with Spanner
Cloud Key Management Service secures Spanner
Cloud Logging works with Spanner
Cloud Run works with Spanner
Cloud SQL is an alternative to Spanner
Compute Engine works with Spanner
customer-managed encryption keys secures Spanner
Spanner depends on Identity and Access Management
Firestore depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials secures BigQuery
customer-managed encryption keys depends on Cloud Key Management Service
BigQuery depends on Application Default Credentials
Dataflow depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials works with Firestore
Application Default Credentials works with Pub/Sub
BigQuery works with Cloud Logging
Application Default Credentials works with BigQuery
Application Default Credentials secures Pub/Sub
Pub/Sub depends on Application Default Credentials
BigQuery works with Dataflow
BigQuery works with Cloud SQL
Application Default Credentials works with Dataflow
Application Default Credentials works with Compute Engine
Application Default Credentials works with Google Cloud Storage
Cloud Logging works with customer-managed encryption keys
BigQuery works with Cloud Monitoring
Dataflow works with Pub/Sub
Application Default Credentials works with Cloud Run functions
Cloud Key Management Service works with customer-managed encryption keys
Cloud Run functions depends on Application Default Credentials
Application Default Credentials secures Compute Engine
BigQuery is an alternative to Google Cloud Storage
BigQuery is an alternative to Pub/Sub
BigQuery works with Cloud Run functions
BigQuery works with Google Cloud Storage
Cloud Monitoring depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Monitoring works with Cloud SQL
Cloud Run functions works with Pub/Sub
Cloud SQL works with Identity and Access Management
BigQuery works with Pub/Sub
Cloud Run depends on Application Default Credentials
Cloud Run functions depends on Pub/Sub
customer-managed encryption keys secures BigQuery
customer-managed encryption keys secures Cloud SQL
customer-managed encryption keys secures Pub/Sub
Identity and Access Management secures Firestore

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