Google Professional Cloud Architect (GCP) Practice Exam
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
About Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
This exam objectively measures an individual’s ability to demonstrate the critical job skills for the role. To earn this certification you must pass the Professional Cloud Architect exam. The format is multiple choice and multiple select. The exam has no prerequisites. This exam must be taken in-person at one of our testing center locations. The certification helps to demonstrate your knowledge of designing, developing, and managing secure, robust, and dynamic solutions on GCP with the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
Exam Details
- Exam Name: Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
- Exam Duration: 120 Minutes
- Exam Type: Multiple Choice Examination
- Passing Score: No Scoring Criteria
- Exam Fee: $200
- Eligibility/Pre-Requisite: None
- Validity: 2 Years
- Exam Languages: English and Japanese
Skills Measured
A Professional Cloud Architect enables organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud Platform, this individual can design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives.
Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect exam assesses your ability to -
- Check Design and plan a cloud solution architecture
- Check Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure
- Check Design for security and compliance
- Check Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
- Check Manage implementations of cloud architecture
- Check Ensure solution and operations reliability
Exam Structure
The Google Professional Cloud Architect (GCP) Exam covers the following topics -
Domain 1: Understand to design and plan a cloud solution architecture
1.1 Explain to design a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements
- Learn Business use cases and product strategy
- Learn Cost optimization
- Learn Supporting the application design
- Learn Integration with external systems
- Learn Movement of data
- Learn Design decision trade-offs
- Learn Build, buy, modify, or deprecate
- Learn Success measurements (e.g., key performance indicators [KPI], return on investment [ROI], metrics)
- Learn Compliance and observability
1.2 Explain to design a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
- Learn High availability and failover design
- Learn Elasticity of cloud resources with respect to quotas and limits
- Learn Scalability to meet growth requirements
- Learn Performance and latency
1.3 Explain to designing network, storage, and compute resources
- Learn integration with on-premises/multicloud environments
- Learn Cloud-native networking (VPC, peering, firewalls, container networking)
- Learn to choose data processing technologies
- Learn to choose appropriate storage types (e.g., object, file, databases)
- Learn to choose compute resources (e.g., preemptible, custom machine type, specialized workload)
- Learn to map compute needs to platform products
1.4 Explain to create a migration plan
- Learn to integrate solutions with existing systems
- Learn to migrate systems and data to support the solution
- Learn software license mapping
- Learn network planning
- Learn testing and proofs of concept
- Learn dependency management planning
1.5 Explain envisioning future solution improvements
- Learn Cloud and technology improvements
- Learn Evolution of business needs
- Learn Evangelism and advocacy
Domain 2: Understand to manage and provision a solution infrastructure
2.1 Explain configuring network topologies. Considerations include:
- Learn extend to on-premises environments (hybrid networking)
- Learn extend to a multicloud environment that may include Google Cloud to Google Cloud communication
- Learn security protection (e.g. intrusion protection, access control, firewalls)
2.2 Explain to configure individual storage systems. Considerations include:
- Learn Data storage allocation
- Learn Data processing/compute provisioning
- Learn Security and access management
- Learn Network configuration for data transfer and latency
- Learn Data retention and data life cycle management
- Learn Data growth planning
2.3 Explain to configure compute systems. Considerations include:
- Learn compute resource provisioning
- Learn compute volatility configuration (preemptible vs. standard)
- Learn network configuration for compute resources
- Learn infrastructure orchestration, resource configuration, and patch management
- Learn container orchestration
Domain 3: Understand to design for security and compliance
3.1 Explain design for security. Considerations include:
- Learn identity and access management (IAM)
- Learn resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects)
- Learn Data security (key management, encryption, secret management)
- Learn Separation of duties (SoD)
- Learn Security controls
- Learn to manage customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud Key Management Service
- Learn Remote access
3.2 Explain Designing for compliance. Considerations include:
- Learn Legislation (e.g., health record privacy, children’s privacy, data privacy, and ownership)
- Learn Commercial (e.g., sensitive data such as credit card information handling, personally identifiable information [PII])
- Learn Industry certifications (e.g., SOC 2)
- Learn Audits (including logs)
Domain 4: Understand to analyze and optimize technical and business processes
4.1 Explain analyzing and defining technical processes. Considerations include:
- Learn Software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Learn Continuous integration / continuous deployment
- Learn Troubleshooting / root cause analysis best practices
- Learn Testing and validation of software and infrastructure
- Learn Service catalog and provisioning
- Business continuity and disaster recovery
4.2 Explain analyzing and defining business processes
- Learn Stakeholder management (e.g. influencing and facilitation)
- Learn Change management
- Learn Team assessment / skills readiness
- Learn Decision-making processes
- Learn Customer success management
- Learn Cost optimization / resource optimization (capex / opex)
4.3 Developing procedures to ensure reliability of solutions in production
- Chaos engineering
- Penetration testing
Domain 5: Understand to manage implementation
5.1 Explain advising development/operation teams to ensure successful deployment of the solution
- Learn application development
- Learn API best practices
- Learn Testing frameworks (load/unit/integration)
- Learn Data and system migration and management tooling
5.2 Explain interacting with Google Cloud programmatically
- Learn Google Cloud Shell
- Learn Google Cloud SDK (gcloud, gsutil and bq)
- Learn Cloud Emulators (e.g. Cloud Bigtable, Datastore, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Firestore)
Domain 6: Ensuring solution and operations reliability
- Learn to monitor/log/profile/alert solution
- Learn deployment and release management
- Learn to assist with the support of deployed solutions
- Learn to evaluate quality control measures
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- Practice objective questions with section-wise scores
- In-depth and exhaustive explanation for every question
- Reliable exam reports to evaluate strengths and weaknesses
- Latest Questions with an updated version
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What are our Practice Exams?
- Practice exams have been designed by professionals and domain experts that simulate real time exam scenario.
- Practice exam questions have been created on the basis of content outlined in the official documentation.
- Each set in the practice exam contains unique questions built with the intent to provide real-time experience to the candidates as well as gain more confidence during exam preparation.
- Practice exams help to self-evaluate against the exam content and work towards building strength to clear the exam.
- You can also create your own practice exam based on your choice and preference
