Google Cloud Digital Leader Practice Exam
Google Cloud Digital Leader Practice Exam
About Google Cloud Digital Leader Practice Exam
The Google Cloud Digital Leader exam has been built for candidates with the knowledge and skills to distinguish and evaluate the various capabilities of Google Cloud core products and services to achieve desired organizational goals. As a Google Cloud Digital Leader, you should be well-versed in basic cloud concepts and the ability to demonstrate a broad application of cloud computing knowledge in various applications.
Skills Required
The Google Cloud Digital Leader exam is independent of the job role. The exam evaluates the skills of candidates who wish to develop proficiency and understand the purpose and application of Google Cloud products.
Exam Details
- Exam Duration: 90 minutes
- Exam Language: English, Japanese
- Exam format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple response questions
- Exam Prerequisites: None
- Recommended experience: Experience collaborating with technical professionals
Course Outline
The Cloud Digital Leader exam assesses your knowledge in the following domain-
Domain 1: Explain Digital Transformation with Google Cloud (approx 10% of the exam)
1.1 Learn how Cloud Technology is Transforming Business
- Definition of Terms: cloud, cloud technology, data, digital transformation, cloud-native, open source, open standard.
- Understand the differences between cloud technology and traditional or on-premises technology.
- Understand the benefits of cloud technology to a business’ digital transformation: this technology is scalable, flexible, agile, secure, cost-effective and offers strategic value.
- Understand the primary benefits of on-premises infrastructure, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multicloud and differentiate between them.
- Understand the main business transformation benefits of Google Cloud: intelligence, freedom, collaboration, trust, and sustainable technology.
- Understand the implications and risks for organizations that do not adopt new technology.
- Understand the drivers and challenges that lead organizations to undergo a digital transformation.
- Understand the transformation cloud and how it accelerates an organization’s digital transformation through app and infrastructure modernization, data democratization, people connections, and trusted transactions.
1.2 Learn Fundamental Cloud Concepts
- Understand how transitioning to a cloud infrastructure affects flexibility, scalability, reliability, elasticity, agility, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Apply these concepts to various business use cases.
- Understand how an organization’s transition from an on-premises environment to the cloud shifts their capital expenditures (CapEx) to operational expenditures (OpEx), and how that affects their total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Understand and identify when private, hybrid, or multicloud infrastructures best apply to different business use cases.
- Learn to define basic network infrastructure terminology, including: IP address; internet service provider (ISP); domain name server (DNS), regions, and zones; fiber optics; subsea cables; network edge data centers, latency; and bandwidth.
- Understand how Google Cloud supports digital transformation with global infrastructure and data centers connected by a fast, reliable network.
1.3 Learn Cloud Computing Models and Shared Responsibility
- Define IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Understand to Compare and contrast the benefits and tradeoffs of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS including total cost of ownership (TCO), flexibility, shared responsibilities, management level, and necessary staffing and technical expertise.
- Understand computing model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) applies to various business scenarios and use cases.
- Understand the cloud shared responsibility model. Compare which responsibilities are the cloud provider’s, and which responsibilities are the customer’s for on-premises and cloud computing models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
Domain 2: Explain Innovating with data and Google Cloud (approx 30% of the exam)
2.1 Understand the role of data in digital transformation and the importance of a data-driven culture
- Learn how cloud technology enables data to be applied in new ways
2.2 Understand to Identify common Google Cloud solutions for data management
- Learn to recognize examples of structured and unstructured data
2.3. Understand to identify common Google Cloud solutions for smart analytics
- Learn to articulate the business benefits of storing data in the cloud
- Learn to apply appropriate business use cases for databases, data warehouses, and data lakes
- Learn the benefits of Google Cloud data products, including: Looker, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage
2.4. Understand to identify Google Cloud’s solutions for machine learning and AI
- Learn to define artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
- Learn to Outline the importance of data quality in ML prediction accuracy
- Learn to describe Google Cloud’s differentiators with regard to AI and machine learning
- Learn to recognize the ways customers can use Google Cloud’s AI and ML solutions to create business value
Domain 3: Explain Infrastructure and application modernization (approx 30% of the exam)
3.1 Understand what modernizing IT infrastructure with Google Cloud means
- Learn why legacy infrastructure struggles to deliver modern services to customers
- Learn the benefits of modernizing infrastructure with cloud technology
- Learn to differentiate between hybrid and multicloud infrastructures
- Learn to differentiate between virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing within business use cases
- Learn to identify the Google Cloud solutions that help businesses modernize their infrastructure
3.2 Understand modernizing applications with Google Cloud
- Learn the business drivers for modernizing applications
- Learn the benefits of using cloud-native applications
- Learn to apply the appropriate change pattern to different business use cases
- Learn the benefits of Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos, and App Engine for application development
3.3 Understand the value of APIs
- Learn how application programming interfaces (APIs) can modernize legacy systems
- Learn how APIs can create new business value
- Learn the benefits of Apigee
Domain 4: Explain Google Cloud security and operations (approximately 30% of the exam)
4.1 Understand financial governance in the cloud and Google Cloud's recommended best practices for effective cloud cost management
- Learn how adopting cloud technology affects the total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Learn to identify the cost management strategy needed in a given business scenario
4.2 Understand a cloud security approach and Google Cloud security benefits
- Learn to define fundamental cloud security terms, including privacy, availability, security, and control
- Learn what is meant by a shared responsibility model
- Learn the security benefits of using Google Cloud
- Learn to Identify today's top cybersecurity challenges and threats to data privacy
- Learn to demonstrate how organizations can control and manage access to cloud resources
4.3 Explain how IT operations need to adapt to thrive in the cloud
- Learn to differentiate service availability requirements in the cloud versus in on-premises environments
- Learn the operational challenges that DevOps solves
- Learn to apply the goals of site reliability engineering (SRE) to different business use cases
4.4 Explain to identify Google Cloud solutions for cloud resource monitoring and application performance management
- Learn the potential impact of unexpected or prolonged downtime
- Learn to define monitoring, logging, and observability within the context of cloud operations
- Learn to identify the Google Cloud resource monitoring and maintenance tools.
Exam Details
- Exam Time: 90 minutes
- Exam Language: English, Japanese
- Exam format: Multiple choice and multiple select
- Exam Delivery Method: Online-proctored and Onsite-proctored exam
- Prerequisites: None
- Recommended experience: Experience collaborating with technical professionals
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