Google Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide

Preface

It’s an exciting time to work with computers. At this point, I’ve lived through a handful of major shifts in the computer world. I call it that, computer world, because I don’t know what else to call it. Is it IT? Is it computer science? Whatever computer world means to you, to me it means using computer technologies to solve problems for businesses. That’s what I get paid to do. Going back to the topic of major shifts, when the personal computer and apps like spreadsheets (all hail Lotus 1-2-3!) broke onto the scene, they changed the way businesses did business. When the internet came out, and people who couldn’t walk through your brick-and-mortar doors could instead reach out virtually, businesses literally evolved to use it, or they went the way of the dinosaurs. We are currently in just as fundamental a shift, the shift of IT services from on-prem data centers to the cloud, and once again, it’s evolve or die time, y’all, and I’m here to help you with that evolution.

Is This Book for You?

If you just picked this book up (literally or virtually), and you’re wondering if it’s for you, let me put it this way. There are two reasons I’d want to buy a book like this:

• First, if you know parts of Google Cloud fairly well and you want to fill in a few blanks to make yourself a more well-rounded cloud architect. In other words, you don’t care about certification as much as you want to know what Google thinks a cloud architect should know.

• Second, if you are in the process ...