[NEW] Professional Cloud Architect

About this course

Detailed Exam Domain CoverageDomain 1: Design and plan a cloud solution architecture (23%)Key Topics: Enterprise cloud strategy, solution design, workload migration approaches, scaling, and decoupling strategies.Domain 2: Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure (18%)Key Topics: Service catalog and provisioning, disaster recovery (DR) planning, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Terraform structures.Domain 3: Design for security and compliance (18%)Key Topics: Identity and Access Management (IAM), data security, encryption keys (CMEK/CSEK), regulatory compliance, and secure network perimeters.Analyze and optimize technical and business processes (15%)Key Topics: Stakeholder management, change management, cost/resource optimization, business continuity, and customer success management.Manage implementation (13%)Key Topics: Application and infrastructure deployment, API management best practices, testing frameworks (load, unit, integration), data/system migration, and management tooling.Ensure solution and operations reliability/excellence (13%)Key Topics: Operational excellence pillar recommendations, Google Cloud Observability (Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Error Reporting), and site reliability engineering (SRE) best practices.Course DescriptionPassing the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification exam requires a deep understanding of architectural patterns, trade-offs, and the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. It is widely considered one of the most challenging IT certifications because it does not just test your knowledge of individual services—it tests