Cloud Architecture
10 Labs · 64 Credits · 11h
Cert Exam Practice
This Quest is intended to provide hands-on practice for those preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. Students will get hands-on exposure to a wide range of Google Cloud Services and techniques which are closely mapped to the topic areas in the certification test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your knowledge and abilities in these topic areas, you will need other preparation to succeed in the question and answer test itself (such as work experience).
Cloud IAM: Qwik Start
Google Cloud IAM unifies access control for Cloud Platform services into a single system to present a consistent set of operations. Watch the short video Manage Access Control with Google Cloud IAM.
introductory
1 Credit
30 Minutes
Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers
In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how setup both network load balancers and HTTP load balancers for your application running in Google Compute Engine virtual machines.
advanced
7 Credits
40 Minutes
Networking 101
In this lab you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform by setting up a network and 3 subnetworks; and how GCP might differ from an on-premises setup.
fundamental
5 Credits
3 Hours
Networking 102
Properly secured networks control connections and access into, out of, and among your resources. In this lab, you will practice deploying Networks and Subnetworks in two different GCP projects and multiple instances within the Google Cloud.
expert
9 Credits
1 Hour 15 Minutes
Getting Started with Cloud KMS
In this lab you'll work with advanced features of Google Cloud Security and Privacy APIs, including setting up a secure Cloud Storage bucket, managing keys and encrypted data using Key Management Storage, and viewing Cloud Storage audit logs.
fundamental
5 Credits
30 Minutes
Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes
In this lab you will learn how to: Provision a complete Kubernetes cluster using Google Container Engine; Deploy and manage Docker containers using kubectl; and Break an application into microservices using Kubernetes’ Deployments and Services.
expert
9 Credits
1 Hour 15 Minutes
Stackdriver: Qwik Start
This lab shows you how to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Stackdriver.
introductory
1 Credit
40 Minutes
Application Performance Management (APM) with Stackdriver
In this lab, you'll tour some of the unique Stackdriver features enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot your applications with production debugging, API call tracing, and dynamically-added logpoints.
expert
9 Credits
45 Minutes
Deployment Manager - Full Production
In this lab you will launch a service using Deployment Manager, and monitor it using Stackdriver. You will set up basic black box monitoring with Stackdriver Dashboard and establish uptime check alert notification to trigger incident response.
expert
9 Credits
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Continuous Delivery Pipelines with Spinnaker and Kubernetes Engine
Create a Kubernetes Engine cluster, deploy an application, and use Spinnaker to continuously deploy the application when changes are made to the application.
expert
9 Credits
55 Minutes