Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Examination

This course will prepare you for the Google Cloud-certified Professional Cloud Architect exam by helping you identify your skill gaps, providing multiple case studies, and giving you valuable tips and advice.

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A private training session for your team. Groups can be of any size, at a location of your choice including our training centres.

As a Google Cloud Partner, we’re here to help you prepare for the Professional Cloud Architect exam.

On this one-day course, you’ll gain a basic overview of the Professional Cloud Architect exam, reviewing each section and sample case studies.

We’ll share tips and examples covering design and implementation skills that could be tested on the exam. In addition, we’ll cover optimising and operating business processes, technical optimisation for security, performance, cost, and ongoing operations and reliability.

We’ll help you identify skill gaps and further areas of study to help you prepare for the exam, as well as advise on appropriate target learning resources.

Our Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Examination course is available as a private training session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom, at our training centre in The Shard, or at a location of your choice in the UK.

Course overview

Who should attend:

This course is for Cloud professionals who intend to take the Professional Cloud Architect certification exam. You should have knowledge and experience with Google Cloud; we recommend you take both the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure and Google Cloud: Design & Process courses beforehand.

What you'll learn:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Draw on information, tips, and advice we’ve given you for taking the exam
  • Consolidate your knowledge by looking at sample case studies
  • Review each section of the exam covering highest-level concepts sufficient to build confidence in what is known by the candidate
  • Better understand potential skill gaps / areas to dedicate more study time to
  • Access appropriate target learning

Course agenda

Module 1: Understanding the Professional Cloud Architect Certification
  • Position the Professional Cloud Architect certification among the offerings
  • Distinguish between Associate and Professional
  • Provide guidance between Professional Cloud Architect and Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Describe how the exam is administered and the exam rules
  • Provide general advice about taking the exam
Module 2: Sample Case Studies
  • MountKirk Games
  • Dress4Win
  • TerramEarth
Module 3: Designing & Implementing
  • Review the layered model from Design and Process
  • Provide exam tips focused on business and technical design
  • Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business and technical requirements
  • Design network, storage, and compute resources
  • Creating a migration plan
  • Envisioning future solution improvements
  • Resources for learning more about designing and planning
  • Configuring network topologies, individual storage systems and compute systems
  • Resources for learning more about managing and provisioning
  • Designing for security and legal compliance
  • Resources for learning more about security and compliance
Module 4: Optimising & Operating
  • Analysing and defining technical and business processes
  • Resources for learning more about analysing and optimising processes
  • Designing for security and legal compliance
  • Resources for learning more about security and compliance
  • Advising development / operation teams to ensure successful deployment of the solution
  • Resources for learning more about managing implementation
  • Easy buttons
  • Playbooks
  • Developing a resilient culture
  • Resources for learning more about ensuring reliability
Module 5: Next Steps
  • Present Qwiklabs Challenge Quest for the Professional CA
  • Identify Instructor Led Training courses and what they cover that will be helpful based on skills that might be on the exam
  • Connect candidates to individual Qwiklabs, and to Coursera individual courses and specialisations
  • Review / feedback of course
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