Google Firebrand's training for Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

- Only 4 Days

On this accelerated Google Professional Cloud Architect course, you’ll learn how to design and secure scalable solutions to enhance your business. You’ll also learn how best to enable organisations to utilise Google Cloud technologies.

In just 4 days, you’ll learn how to:

Advise development and operation teams to deliver effective cloud architecture
Design for security and compliance – including legal
Configure network topologies and individual storage systems

This accelerated course is designed for senior-level professionals. If you’re interested in developing your skill-set and knowledge in Google Cloud technologies, this course is ideal for you.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
You'll be certified in just 4 days. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals. No hidden extras
Pass first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9am – 5pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day quality learning time, with your instructor
You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
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Benefits of Training with Firebrand

Two options of training - Residential classroom-based, or online courses
A purpose-built training centre – get access to dedicated Pearson VUE Select facilities
Certification Guarantee – pass first time or train again free (just pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs)
Everything you need to certify – you’ll sit your exam on the course and return home certified
No hidden extras – one cost covers everything you need to certify

See Curriculum...

Module 1: Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

1a. Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements:

Business use cases and product strategy
Cost optimisation
Supporting the application design
Integration
Movement of data
Tradeoffs
Build, buy or modify
Success measurements (e.g., Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Return on Investment (ROI), metrics)
Compliance and observability

1b. Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements:

Integration with on-premises/multi-cloud environments
Cloud native networking (VPC, peering, firewalls, container networking)
Identification of data processing pipeline
Matching data characteristics to storage systems
Data flow diagrams
Storage system structure (e.g., Object, File, RDBMS, NoSQL, NewSQL)
Mapping compute needs to platform products
Integrating solution with existing systems
Migrating systems and data to support the solution
Licensing mapping
Network and management planning
Testing and proof-of-concept
Cloud and technology improvements
Business needs evolution
Evangelism and advocacy
High availability and failover design
Elasticity of cloud resources
Scalability to meet growth requirements

1c. Designing network, storage, and compute resources

1d. Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and architectural diagrams)

1e. Envisioning future solution improvements

Module 2: Managing and provisioning solution Infrastructure

2a. Configuring network topologies:

Extending to on-premise (hybrid networking)
Extending to a multi-cloud environment which may include GCP to GCP communication
Security
Data protection

2b. Configuring individual storage systems:

Data storage allocation
Data processing/compute provisioning
Security and access management
Network configuration for data transfer and latency
Data retention and data lifecycle management
Data growth management

2c. Configuring compute systems:

Compute system provisioning
Compute volatility configuration (preemptible vs. standard)
Network configuration for compute nodes
Infrastructure provisioning technology configuration (e.g. Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Terraform)
Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)

Module 3: Designing for security and compliance

3a. Designing for security:

Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects)
Data security (key management, encryption)
Penetration testing
Separation of Duties (SoD)
Security controls
Managing customer-supplied encryption keys with Cloud KMS

3b. Designing for legal compliance:

Legislation (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), etc.)
Audits (including logs)
Certification (e.g., Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework)

Module 4: Analysing and optimising technical and business processes

4a. Analysing and defining technical processes:

Software Development Lifecycle Plan (SDLC)
Continuous integration / continuous deployment
Troubleshooting/post mortem analysis culture
Testing and validation
IT enterprise process (e.g. ITIL)
Business continuity and disaster recovery

4b. Analysing and defining business processes:

Stakeholder management (e.g. Influencing and facilitation)
Change management
Team assessment/skills readiness
Decision-making process
Customer success management
Cost optimisation / resource optimisation (Capex / Opex)

4c. Developing procedures to test resilience of solution in production (e.g., DiRT and Simian Army)

Module 5: Managing implementation

5a. Advising development/operation team(s) to ensure successful deployment of the solution:

Application development
API best practices
Testing frameworks (load/unit/integration)
Data and system migration tooling

5b. Interacting with Google Cloud using GCP SDK (gcloud, gsutil and bq):

Local installation
Google Cloud Shell

Module 6: Ensuring solution and operations reliability

6a. Monitoring/Logging/Alerting solution

6b. Deployment and release management

6c. Supporting operational troubleshooting

6d. Evaluating quality control measures

See Exam Track...

You'll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

Exam format: Multiple choice/multiple select
Duration: 2 hours
Domains:

1. Design and plan a cloud solution architecture
2. Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure
3. Design for security and compliance
4. Analyse and optimise technical and business processes
5. Manage implementations of cloud architecture
6. Ensure solution and operations reliability

See What's Included...

Your accelerated course includes:

Accommodation *
Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
On-site exams **
Exam vouchers **
Practice tests **
Certification Guarantee ***
Courseware
Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
24-hour lab access
Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
*** Pass first time or train again free (just pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs)

See Prerequisites...

Before attending this accelerated course, you should have experience in:

Enterprise cloud strategy, solution design and architectural best practices
Software development methodologies and approaches - including multi-tiered distributed applications which span multi-cloud or hybrid environments

Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.

See Dates...

Google Course Dates

Google - Firebrand's training for Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
Start	Finish	Status	Book now
22/6/2020 (Monday)	25/6/2020 (Thursday)	Wait list
19/10/2020 (Monday)	22/10/2020 (Thursday)	Open	Book now

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