Google Cloud Architect

The Google Cloud Architect certification validates expertise in designing, developing, and managing secure, scalable solutions on Google Cloud. It covers cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and security. Designed for IT professionals and architects, it demonstrates the ability to optimize cloud strategies, ensuring reliability, performance, and cost efficiency in deployments. Target Group Cloud Architects & Solution Designers Professionals Systems Administrators & Infrastructure Engineers DevOps Engineers Engineers focused on automation, CI/CD, and cloud deployments Software Developers & Technical Leads Developers building distributed applications who want to understand cloud architecture best practices. IT Managers & Consultants Decision-makers Concepts Covered 1. Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture Assessing business and technical requirements. Designing secure, scalable, and reliable architectures. Applying the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. 2. Managing and Provisioning Cloud Solution Infrastructure Deploying and configuring compute resources (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine). Managing storage solutions (Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Spanner). Networking design with VPCs, subnets, firewalls, and load balancing. 3. Designing for Security and Compliance Identity and Access Management (IAM). Data protection and encryption. Compliance standards and shared responsibility model. 4. Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes Monitoring and logging with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging. Cost optimization strategies. Performance tuning and scaling. 5. Managing Implementations of Cloud Architecture Migration strategies (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, re-architecting). Deployment orchestration with Cloud Deployment Manager and Terraform. CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. 6. Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability Designing for high availability and disaster recovery. Backup and restore strategies. Exam and Prerequisite Type: Online or onsite proctored exam.

Duration: 2 hours. Questions: Multiple ‑ choice and multiple ‑ select scenario ‑ based questions. Language Availability: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and others.