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Google Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide
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Google Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

by Patrick Haggerty
August 2026
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
11h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

The Google Professional Cloud Architect certification demonstrates a competency in designing, developing, and deploying a secure, scalable, and robust Google Cloud architecture built to satisfy your organization's needs. The certification looks good on your resume, but more importantly, it gives you the confidence you need to be a working Google Cloud architect.

In this book by Google trainer Patrick Haggerty, you'll learn how core Google Cloud services work and how best to apply them. With a good study plan, plenty of practice, and a strategy for approaching the certification exam, you'll be prepared for success on the day of the test. But more importantly, you'll have all the knowledge you need to become a good, solid cloud architect.

With this guide, you'll learn how to:

  • Design a best practices cloud architecture to meet and exceed organizational needs
  • Provision and manage core infrastructure designed for security and compliance
  • Optimize technical and business processes
  • Manage the cloud resources your organization depends on
  • Ensure operational reliability and high availability
  • Select services to solve organizational problems while optimizing for functionality, cost, performance, security, fault tolerance, and high availability

Patrick Haggerty has worked as a professional trainer and consultant for more than 30 years. He spends most of his days working for ROI Training and Google, helping people learn to leverage Google Cloud.

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