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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide

You're reading from   Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam Guide Become an expert and get Google Cloud certified with this practitioner's guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835468869
Length 496 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Prashant Kulkarni Prashant Kulkarni
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: About the GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Google Cloud Security Concepts 3. Chapter 3: Trust and Compliance 4. Chapter 4: Resource Management 5. Chapter 5: Understanding Google Cloud Identity 6. Chapter 6: Google Cloud Identity and Access Management 7. Chapter 7: Virtual Private Cloud 8. Chapter 8: Advanced Network Security 9. Chapter 9: Google Cloud Key Management Service 10. Chapter 10: Cloud Data Loss Prevention 11. Chapter 11: Secret Manager 12. Chapter 12: Cloud Logging 13. Chapter 13: Image Hardening and CI/CD Security 14. Chapter 14: Security Command Center 15. Chapter 15: Container Security 16. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam I
17. Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam – Mock Exam II 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google Cloud regions and zones

This topic is not part of the exam blueprint. Due to the fact that this is related to the design and architecture and how services are organized, it’s important to understand some of the foundational concepts of how Google organizes its regions and zones. We will also look at what global, regional, and zonal resources are.

Regions refer to geographic locations where Google Cloud has data centers that offer cloud services. For example, in the United States, Google has regions in Iowa (us-central), Virginia (us-east), and Los Angeles (us-west); across the globe, Google Cloud has regions in Australia, Singapore, India, the UK, Germany, and more. A full list of Google Cloud regions can be found here: https://packt.link/b9TVP.

Figure 7.2 – Google Cloud region locations

Figure 7.2 – Google Cloud region locations

At the time of writing, Google has a presence in more than 200 countries, with 29 regions, 88 zones, and 146 PoP or edge locations. As part of...

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