Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

by Dan Sullivan

An indispensable guide to the newest version of the Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification

The newly revised Second Edition of the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide delivers a proven and effective roadmap to success on the latest Professional Cloud Architect accreditation exam from Google. You'll learn the skills you need to excel on the test and in the field, with coverage of every exam objective and competency, including focus areas of the latest exam such as Kubernetes, Anthos, and multi-cloud architectures. The book explores the design, analysis, development, operations, and migration components of the job, with intuitively organized lessons that align with the real-world job responsibilities of a Google Cloud professional and with the PCA exam topics. Architects need more than the ability to recall facts about cloud services, they need to be able to reason about design decisions. This study guide is unique in how it helps you learn to think like an architect: understand requirements, assess constraints, choose appropriate architecture patterns, and consider the operational characteristics of the systems you design. Review questions and practice exams use scenario-based questions like those on the certification exam to build the test taking skills you will need.

In addition to comprehensive material on compute resources, storage systems, networks, security, legal and regulatory compliance, reliability design, technical and business processes, and more, you'll get:

The chance to begin or advance your career as an in-demand Google Cloud IT professional Invaluable opportunities to develop and practice the skills you'll need as a Google Cloud Architect Access to the Sybex online learning center, with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms The ideal resource for anyone preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect certification from Google, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide, 2nd Edition is also a must-read resource for aspiring and practicing cloud professionals seeking to expand or improve their technical skillset and improve their effectiveness in the field.

Genres: Nonfiction, Computer Science, Technology, Architecture

368 pages, Paperback

Published April 12, 2022

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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?