Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

by Dan Sullivan

Sybex's proven Study Guide format teaches Google Cloud Architect job skills and prepares you for this important new Cloud exam . The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is the essential resource for anyone preparing for this highly sought-after, professional-level certification. Clear and accurate chapters cover 100% of exam objectives—helping you gain the knowledge and confidence to succeed on exam day. A pre-book assessment quiz helps you evaluate your skills, while chapter review questions emphasize critical points of learning. Detailed explanations of crucial topics include analyzing and defining technical and business processes, migration planning, and designing storage systems, networks, and compute resources. Written by Dan Sullivan—a well-known author and software architect specializing in analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing—this invaluable study guide includes access to the Sybex interactive online learning environment, which includes complete practice tests, electronic flash cards, a searchable glossary, and more. Providing services suitable for a wide range of applications, particularly in high-growth areas of analytics and machine learning, Google Cloud is rapidly gaining market share in the cloud computing world. Organizations are seeking certified IT professionals with the ability to deploy and operate infrastructure, services, and networks in the Google Cloud. Take your career to the next level by validating your skills and earning certification. The Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide is a must-have for IT professionals preparing for certification to deploy and manage Google cloud services.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Computer Science, Architecture

320 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2019

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Reviews

[Sebastian]

Largely outdated at this point, but still useful to review some material before bed.

[Mehdi Hasan]

It has covered a wide range of services offered by Google Cloud Platform. The discussion are detailed. Along with explanations of GCP services, Dan has discussed how to choose right technical tool for different business scenarios. Readers would suppose to be benefited by understanding how does the design decisions has been made. I would suggest this book to the software engineers who would like to groom themselves as an architect. In other words, this book will help you to think like an architect - the basic principles.

[Adrian Hesketh]

So good to be able to read a guide for the exam instead of watching videos.

Even though it's a book about Google services to pass an exam, there's an overview of a lot of good basic knowledge in the book, which is one of the reasons I think that cloud certification is often one of the highest returning investments an engineer can make.

[Tihana Britvic]

I really liked it. Have been studying a while for the exam and this is the first source with a very clear and simple explanation of networking solution.
Would like some more relevant/harder questions to the exam, but I guess Whizlabs will take care of that part.

[Prateek Jain]

Best book for the GCP PCA exam, alone book with sample exams is sufficient

[Miguel Veliz]

A really useful book

[R]

Significant contribution to me passing my certification

[Francois D’Agostini]

The book is great to get a high level overview of what a proper cloud architect is expected to do. Outside of just preparing for the exam, I learned good tips and details on activities related to cloud migration, carve outs and other enterprise level activities an architect is facing.

As part of the certification, it is nice to have a lot of sample questions. While this is in no way a guarantee to validate the exam, it does its job of preparing you to it

highly recommended from my POV

[George Hipp]

This book is now legacy, due to the updated exam. It is well written and works well with the Coursera Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Architect courses. The book and courses together enabled a passing grade on the certification test to become a Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect. All together it took about 4 months, but could be completed faster if more time was dedicated.

If you are looking for resource for GCP certification, I would recommend.

[Aulon]

Overall, a good high-level description of GCP services. A couple of things that would've made it better:
1. Since the CPA exam contains questions from 1 of the 4 business cases, it would help if they were organized in a chapter with a description of the architectural choices.
2. Reduce verbose sentences.
3. Provide a table summary of the differences between services
4. Include Practice Exams in the book

[Kian.ting]

Good exam preparation material, not sure if the questions mirror the same difficulty as the ones we will be getting in the exam though?