FAQ:

Questions: What is the Google Professional Cloud Architect?

Answer: Cloud architects that specialise in professional services make it possible for businesses to use Google Cloud technology. They design, create, and manage solutions that are strong, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic in order to achieve business goals using their in-depth knowledge of cloud architecture and Google Cloud. An business that has a Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect on staff is able to take use of Google Cloud technology. This person is able to design, create, and manage solutions that are strong, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic by using their knowledge of cloud architecture and Google technologies. These solutions are used to drive business goals. The Cloud Architect has to be an expert in all facets of business cloud strategy, as well as in the design of solutions and architectural best practises. Additionally, the Cloud Architect has to have expertise in software development processes and approaches, such as multi-tiered distributed systems that can run in hybrid or multicloud settings.  

Question: What all are assessed in this Google Cloud Professional Architect Exam?

Answer: Your ability to do the following will be evaluated for the Professional Cloud Architect certification if you take the exam:

• Create a blueprint for the architecture of a cloud solution.
• Infrastructure management for cloud solutions, including provisioning.
• Created with safety and regulation in mind.
• Processes, both technical and commercial, need to be analysed and improved.
• Take charge of the various cloud architecture implementations.
• Make sure that the solution and the operations are reliable. 

Question: What is the length of the Google Cloud Professional Architect Certification exam?

Answer: 2 Hrs. 

Question: In what all languages this Google Cloud Professional Certification exam is available?

Answer: It is available in both English and Japanese.  

Question: How many questions in real exam, i can expect?

Answer: There would be 50-60 Multiple choice questions in real exam.  

Question: What about Case Study's in Profession Cloud Architect Certification exam?

Answer: Every test consists of two different case studies that depict hypothetical companies and the corresponding solution approaches. Your ability to apply your knowledge to a real-world business scenario will be evaluated via the use of case study questions, which account for 20-30% of the total score. During the test, you will be given a split screen so that you may watch the case studies. There is a possibility that some of the questions on the test for the Cloud Architect Certification may direct you to a case study in which you are asked to explain a made-up company and its proposed solution. The purpose of these case studies is to give extra background that will assist you in making decisions on the answers to the questions. Review the many case studies that might possibly be asked about on the test.

Question: What is the current Syllabus for this certification exam?

Answer: Current Syllabus is as below, divided in 6 sections.

Section 1: Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

1.1 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements. Considerations include:

• Business use cases and product strategy 

• Cost optimization 

• Supporting the application design 

• Integration with external systems 

• Movement of data 

• Design decision trade-offs 

• Build, buy, modify, or deprecate 

• Success measurements (e.g., key performance indicators [KPI], return on investment [ROI], metrics) 

• Compliance and observability

1.2 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements. Considerations include:

• High availability and failover design 

• Elasticity of cloud resources with respect to quotas and limits 

• Scalability to meet growth requirements 

• Performance and latency

1.3 Designing network, storage, and compute resources. Considerations include:

• Integration with on-premises/multicloud environments 

• Cloud-native networking (VPC, peering, firewalls, container networking) 

•   Choosing data processing technologies 

• Choosing appropriate storage types (e.g., object, file, databases) 

• Choosing compute resources (e.g., preemptible, custom machine type, specialized workload) 

• Mapping compute needs to platform products

1.4 Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and architectural diagrams). Considerations include:

• Integrating solutions with existing systems 

• Migrating systems and data to support the solution 

• Software license mapping 

• Network planning 

• Testing and proofs of concept 

• Dependency management planning

1.5 Envisioning future solution improvements. Considerations include:

• Cloud and technology improvements 

• Evolution of business needs 

• Evangelism and advocacy

Section 2: Managing and provisioning a solution infrastructure

2.1 Configuring network topologies. Considerations include:

• Extending to on-premises environments (hybrid networking) 

• Extending to a multicloud environment that may include Google Cloud to Google Cloud communication 

• Security protection (e.g. intrusion protection, access control, firewalls)

2.2 Configuring individual storage systems. Considerations include:

• Data storage allocation 

• Data processing/compute provisioning 

• Security and access management 

• Network configuration for data transfer and latency 

• Data retention and data life cycle management 

• Data growth planning

2.3 Configuring compute systems. Considerations include:

• Compute resource provisioning 

• Compute volatility configuration (preemptible vs. standard) 

• Network configuration for compute resources (Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, serverless networking) 

• Infrastructure orchestration, resource configuration, and patch management 

• Container orchestration

Section 3: Designing for security and compliance

3.1 Designing for security. Considerations include:

• Identity and access management (IAM) 

• Resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects) 

• Data security (key management, encryption, secret management) 

• Separation of duties (SoD) 

• Security controls (e.g., auditing, VPC Service Controls, context aware access, organization policy) 

• Managing customer-managed encryption keys with Cloud Key Management Service 

• Remote access

3.2 Designing for compliance. Considerations include:

• Legislation (e.g., health record privacy, children’s privacy, data privacy, and ownership)

• Commercial (e.g., sensitive data such as credit card information handling, personally identifiable information [PII]) 

• Industry certifications (e.g., SOC 2) 

• Audits (including logs)

Section 4: Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

4.1 Analyzing and defining technical processes. Considerations include:

• Software development life cycle (SDLC) 

• Continuous integration / continuous deployment 

• Troubleshooting / root cause analysis best practices 

• Testing and validation of software and infrastructure 

• Service catalog and provisioning 

• Business continuity and disaster recovery

4.2 Analyzing and defining business processes. Considerations include:

• Stakeholder management (e.g. influencing and facilitation) 

• Change management 

• Team assessment / skills readiness 

• Decision-making processes 

• Customer success management 

• Cost optimization / resource optimization (capex / opex)

4.3 Developing procedures to ensure reliability of solutions in production (e.g., chaos engineering, penetration testing)

Section 5: Managing implementation

5.1 Advising development/operation teams to ensure successful deployment of the solution. Considerations include:

• Application development

• API best practices 

• Testing frameworks (load/unit/integration) 

• Data and system migration and management tooling

5.2 Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically. Considerations include:

• Google Cloud Shell 

• Google Cloud SDK (gcloud, gsutil and bq) 

• Cloud Emulators (e.g. Cloud Bigtable, Datastore, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Firestore)

Section 6: Ensuring solution and operations reliability

6.1 Monitoring/logging/profiling/alerting solution 

6.2 Deployment and release management 

6.3 Assisting with the support of deployed solutions  

6.4 Evaluating quality control measures

Question: Why should you become certified in Google Cloud Platform?

Answer: A few of the findings from Google's 2020 Survey are as follows:

• Individuals who have completed the Google Cloud Certification Program have increased their level of self-assurance by 87% about their cloud abilities.
• The GCP Cloud Architect certification was the one that earned the most money in both 2019 and 2020 (2).
• More than one in four people who earned their Google Cloud certification took on additional responsibilities or leadership roles at their place of employment.

Question: Why should you make getting your Google Cloud - GCP Cloud Architect Certification a goal for yourself? 

Answer: You may improve your knowledge of cloud architecture and the Google Cloud Platform by earning the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. You will learn how to design, create, and manage systems that are strong, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic in order to drive business goals if you choose to become a Cloud Architect.

Question: Your ability to do the following will be evaluated on the Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect exam? 

Answer:

• Create a solution architecture for GCP, and serve as its architect.
• Manage and supply the infrastructure of the Google Cloud Platform solution.
• Created with safety and regulation in mind.
• Processes, both technical and commercial, need to be analysed and improved.
• Take charge of the various Google Cloud architectural implementations.
• Make sure that the solution and the operations are reliable.

Question: Who should go for this GCP Architect Training Course?

Answer: This Google Cloud Platform training is open to the following types of professionals:

Those people who are interested in establishing their reputation and worth in the market as skilled cloud architects

Those in the working world who are interested in passing the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect test

• System Administrators
• Professionals Working in the Cloud
• Architects of Potential Solutions
• Architects of the infrastructure
• Engineers Specializing on Site Reliability
• Leaders in Technical Areas