I.       Overview:

Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Certification Exam. Elaborates on the exam. Rehearses useful skills including exam question reasoning and case comprehension. Tips. Review of topics from the Infrastructure curriculum.

The purpose of this course is to help those who are qualified develop confidence to attempt the exam, and to help those not yet qualified to develop their own plan for preparation.

II.     Duration: 1 day

III. Objectives

This course teaches participants the following skills:

• Position the Professional Cloud Architect Certification
• Provide information, tips, and advice on taking the exam
• Review the sample case studies
• Review each section of the exam covering highest-level concepts sufficient to build confidence in what is known by the candidate and indicate skill gaps/areas of study if not known by the candidate
• Connect candidates to appropriate target learning.

IV. Intended Audience

This course is intended for the following participants:

• Cloud professionals who intend to take the Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

V.    Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, participants should:

• Knowledge and experience with GCP,equivalent to GCP Architecting Infrastructure
• Knowledge of cloud solutions,equivalent to GCP Design and Process
• Industry experience with cloud computing

VI. Outline

Module 1: Understanding the Professional Cloud Architect Certification

• Position the Professional Cloud Architect certification among the offerings
• Distinguish between Associate and Professional
• Provide guidance between Professional Cloud Architect and Associate Cloud Engineer
• Describe how the exam is administered and the exam rules
• Provide general advice about taking the exam

Module 2: Sample Case Studies

• MountKirk Games
• Dress4Win
• TerramEarth

Module 3: Designing and Implementing

• Review the layered model from Design and Process
• Provide exam tips focused on business and technical design
• Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements
• Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
• Design network, storage, and compute resources
• Creating a migration plan
• Envisioning future solution improvements
• Resources for learning more about designing and planning
• Configuring network topologies
• Configuring individual storage systems
• Configuring compute systems
• Resources for learning more about managing and provisioning
• Designing for security
• Designing for legal compliance
• Resources for learning more about security and compliance

Module 4: Optimizing and Operating

• Analyzing and defining technical processes
• Analyzing and defining business processes
• Resources for learning more about analyzing and optimizing processes
• Designing for security
• Designing for legal compliance
• Resources for learning more about security and compliance
• Advising development/operation teams to ensure successful deployment of the solution
• Resources for learning more about managing implementation
• Easy buttons
• Playbooks
• Developing a resilient culture
• Resources for learning more about ensuring reliability

Module 5: Next Steps

• Present Qwiklabs Challenge Quest for the Professional CA
• Identify Instructor Led Training courses and what they cover that will be helpful based on skills that might be on the exam
• Connect candidates to individual Qwiklabs, and to Coursera individual courses and specializations.
• Review/feedback of course