• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

Architecting with Google Compute Engine (AGCE) will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine. This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You'll also learn how to deploy practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

Audience profile

  • Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers
  • Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine

Show More Show Less

Course details

Module 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
  • List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud
  • Interact with the Google Cloud Console and Cloud Shell
  • Create Cloud Storage buckets
  • Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
Module 2: Virtual Networks
  • List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
  • Explore VPC Networking
  • Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
Module 3: Virtual Machines
  • Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines
  • Describe the disk options for virtual machines
  • Explain VM pricing and discounts
  • Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • Describe the IAM resource hierarchy
  • Explain the different types of IAM roles
  • Recall the different types of IAM members
  • Implement access control for resources using IAM
Module 5: Storage and Database Services
  • Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore and Cloud Bigtable
  • Choose a data storage service based on your requirements
  • Implement data storage services
Module 6: Resource Management
  • Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy
  • Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers
  • Organize resources using labels
  • Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud
  • Examine billing data with BigQuery
Module 7: Resource Monitoring
  • Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging
  • Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring
  • Identify and fix errors using Cloud Debugger
Module 8: Interconnecting Networks
  • Recall the Google Cloud interconnect and peering services available to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
  • Determine which Google Cloud interconnect or peering service to use in specific circumstances
  • Create and configure Google Cloud HA VPN
  • Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering
Module 9: Load Balancing and Autoscaling
  • Recall the various load balancing services
  • Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances
  • Describe autoscaling behavior
  • Configure load balancers and autoscaling
Module 10: Infrastructure Automation
  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform
  • Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace
Module 11: Managed Services
  • Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud

Show More Show Less

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have:

  • Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (GCF-CI) or have equivalent experience.
  • Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments.
  • Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment

Our Technology Partners

Spectrum Networks is the Authorised Learning Partner for some of the leaders in IT technology for Digital Transformation