Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

by Dan Sullivan

Sybex Study Guides teach IT professionals the skills needed to perform a job well. With those skills plus insight on how a certification exam tests for those skills, an IT professional can be confident for the exam.
In Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide, readers get ready for this important exam from Google and master the skills they need to be prepared to tackle Google Cloud Architecture jobs. With 100% coverage of all exam objectives readers will
Designing for Business and Technical Requirements Designing Compute Resources Designing Storage Systems Designing Networks Designing Security and Legal Compliance Designing for Reliability Analyzing and Defining Technical Processes Analyzing and Defining Business Processes Development and Operations Migration Planning

Genres: Nonfiction, Computer Science, Technology, Architecture

302 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2019

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Reviews

[Sebastian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Largely outdated at this point, but still useful to review some material before bed.

[Mehdi Hasan · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Miguel Veliz · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really useful book

[Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Significant contribution to me passing my certification

[Francois D’Agostini · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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