Google Professional Cloud Developer — Study Guide
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This guide covers each PCD domain in depth. Pick a domain to go deep, or work through them in order.
The domains
- Cloud-Native Application Architecture and Service Selection — Cloud-native application architecture on Google Cloud centers on building stateless, resilient services that scale horizontally, minimize operational
- Compute, Containers and Serverless Runtime Platforms — App Engine - Environments: - Standard: Sandboxed, rapid scale, per-language fixed runtimes; low cold-start latency with automatic scaling; restricted
- API Design, Integration and Event-Driven Development — Modern application integration on Google Cloud blends well-designed synchronous APIs with resilient asynchronous and event-driven patterns. The goal
- Application Data, State and Storage Patterns — Modern applications on Google Cloud routinely combine multiple data stores to balance latency, consistency, scalability, cost, and operational
- Identity, Authentication and Application Security — Identity is the new perimeter on Google Cloud. Applications must authenticate principals (users, services) and authorize them for least-privilege
- Continuous Delivery, Configuration and Infrastructure Automation — Continuous delivery on Google Cloud integrates build automation, artifact management, deployment orchestration, infrastructure as code, and strong
- Observability, Debugging and Site Reliability Operations — Observability, debugging, and site reliability operations in Google Cloud center on making systems measurable, diagnosable, and resilient. Strong
- Performance, Scalability and Resilience Engineering — Autoscaling signals and warm capacity - MIG autoscaling supports CPU utilization, load balancing utilization, and custom metrics via Cloud
- Testing, Quality Engineering and Safe Release Management — High-velocity teams on Google Cloud pair rigorous testing with progressive delivery to reduce risk while accelerating change. A robust strategy spans
- Cost, Governance and Sustainable Application Operations — Cost, governance, and sustainable operations are inseparable in modern Google Cloud application development. The goal is to expose and control spend,
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