Somebody once told me: keep learning no matter what :)
I was studying for the Google Cloud Digital Leader Exam. Here is my study path that I designed and followed to pass the exam :)
Some recommendations that worked for me:
- I took notes of acronyms meaning and names of services. In most cases, these names have a relation with the objective of the service. So using my background and logic I solved some questions!
- I took notes of little details that I considered important or hard to remember. In this way, when I was learning, I could go back and I had a chance to remember the notes with just a quick look.
- I read the requirements, rules, times, numbers of questions related to the exam! I didn't want to lose the exam for not being on time.
- I completed the courses available in Coursera. See the links below:
-- Introduction to Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
-- Innovating with Data and Google Cloud
-- Application and infrastructure modernization with Google Cloud
-- Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations
-- Google Cloud Practitioner Essentials.
- I tried some Google Cloud practitioner sample questions.
- I read about identity, networking, pricing model, conditions of service support.
- I tried the simulation tests in [Whizlabs] y [Pluralsight]. They are paid, but free trial versions work well.
- I attended the online exam, so I chose my home with the supervision of a remote person.
- Finally, I tried to sleep well the previous day and after the exam and I enjoyed a ice cream when I receive the results!
If you don't pass the exam, there is always a solution. Although you have to pay again, it is not game over!
Consider following this roadmap and mark each step when you finish!
- Cloud Glossary
- Cloud Concepts
- Google Cloud Concepts
- Google Cloud Products
- Google Cloud Training
- Google Cloud Certification
- Google Cloud Sample Questions
- Google Cloud Labs More Resources
| Term | GC Service | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Zones | Zones | Locations (zones within regions) where resources are housed. |
| API Endpoints | Cloud Endpoints | Single entryway that allows multiple APIs to act cohesively. |
| Autoscaling | Engine Autoscaler | Scales resources (of a group) up or down based on usage and rules. |
| CDN - Content Delivery Network | Cloud CDN | Global network that delivers content based on locations of users. |
| Compute | Compute Engine | Scalable compute instances (servers). |
| Data Warehouse | BigQuery | Central repositories of integrated data. |
| DNS - Domain Name System | Cloud DNS | Naming database where domain names are translated into IPs. |
| IAM - Identity Access Management | Cloud IAM | Manage access to cloud services and resources securely. |
| LB - Load Balancing | Load Balancing | Pushes traffic across multiple targets in multiple AZs. |
| MD SP Service | Dataflow | Managed Data Stream Processing Service. |
| MK K8s Service | Kubernetes (GKE) | Managed Kubernetes (K8s) Service to run K8s clusters. |
| MNoSQL DB Service | Cloud Bigtable | Distributed non-relational database service. |
| MSQL DB Engine | Cloud Spanner | Managed SQL Database Engine. |
| MSQL DB Service | Cloud SQL | Managed SQL Database Service running multiple SQL engines. |
| Messaging Queue Service | Cloud Pub/Sub | Message queuing service to decouple and scale distributed systems. |
| NAT - Network Address Translation | Cloud NAT | Outbound internet traffic from instances in a private subnet. |
| Network Peering | VPC Net Peering | Networking connection between two VPCs for routing traffic. |
| Network Routes/Routing | Cloud Routes | Set of rules to determine where network traffic is directed. |
| Object Storage | Cloud Storage | Scalable, highly available storage for objects. |
| Pub/Sub Messaging | Cloud Pub/Sub | Pub/sub messaging service to decouple distributed systems. |
| Region | Cloud Region | Worldwide locations where resources are hosted. |
| Security Groups | Firewall Rules | List of security rules that allow or deny network traffic. |
| Serverless Container Service | Cloud Run (+GKE) | Run containers without managing servers. |
| Serverless Functions | Cloud Functions | Event-driven service that runs code in response to events. |
| Subnet | Cloud Subnet | Logical subdivision of an IP network. Can be private or public. |
| Third Party or Guest Access | Cloud IAM | Grant access to resources to another cloud account. |
| Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Cloud VPC | Logically isolated section of cloud where resources are launched. |
| VPN Gateway | Cloud VPN | Private connection to VPCs. |
That's all folks! 😄
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