Google Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

Chapter 2. Cloud Computing: What a Cloud Architect Does

A Note for Early Release Readers

With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form—the author’s raw and unedited content as they write—so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles.

This will be the 2nd chapter of the final book. Please note that the GitHub repo will be made active later on.

If you have comments about how we might improve the content and/or examples in this book, or if you notice missing material within this chapter, please reach out to the editor at [e-mail].

The other day, I was walking into my gym, in a t-shirt that read, “Cloud Architect - I do precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those with questionable knowledge.”

Yes, I have lots of geeky t-shirts; don’t judge.

A guy on his way out from the earlier class pointed at my shirt and said, “Meteorologists right? They always get the weather wrong.” Then he busted out laughing, clapped me on the shoulder, and walked out of the gym.

It took me entirely too long to figure out that he was talking about a whole other kind of cloud architect.

At the top of Google’s PCA certification page it reads, “Professional Cloud Architects enable organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud, they design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive ...