You're reading from Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Certification and Implementation Guide Master the deployment, management, and monitoring of Google Cloud solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232713

Length 606 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Wojciech Marusiak

Agnieszka Koziorowska

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Overview of Google Cloud Platform and Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

2. Chapter 1: Associate Cloud Engineer Certification Essentials FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals

4. Part 2:Configuring and Implementing Google Cloud

5. Chapter 3: Planning and Managing GCP Resources

6. Chapter 4: Implementing Compute Solutions – Google Compute Engine

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Compute Solutions – Google Kubernetes Engine (Part 1)

8. Chapter 6: Implementing Compute Solutions – Google Kubernetes Engine (Part 2)

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Compute Solutions – Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and Infrastructure as Code

10. Chapter 8: Configuring and Implementing Data Storage Solutions

11. Chapter 9: Configuring and Implementing Networking Components

12. Part 3:Data Analytics, Security, Operations, and Cost Estimation in Google Cloud

13. Chapter 10: Data Processing Services in Google Cloud

14. Chapter 11: Monitoring, Logging, and Estimating Costs in GCP

15. Chapter 12: Implementing Identity and Security in Google Cloud

16. Mock Test 1

Answers

17. Mock Test 2

Answers

18. Index

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