Google Cloud Platform – Professional Cloud Developer Crash Course
Published by Pearson
Google Cloud certifications are in high demand and the number of opportunities for certified professionals are growing. Getting certified with Google Cloud Platforms’ New Professional Developer exam enables you to prove your skills and be one of the first to obtain this certification. Learn how to design, develop, and deploy applications that seamlessly integrate components from the Google Cloud ecosystem in order to prepare for the GCP Cloud Certification exam.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Learn the best practices for application development.
- Choose the appropriate data storage option for application data.
- Implement federated identity management.
- Develop applications on App Engine and other compute solutions.
- Integrate application components and data sources.
- Debug, trace, and monitor applications.
- Perform repeatable deployments with containers and deployment services.
- How to prepare for the GCP Professional Cloud Developer Certification Exam
- Create an account, and apply important first steps to securing that account
- Identify key services offered for compute, storage, database, and other solutions
- Prepare to take the GCP Professional Cloud Developer Exam which is a demanding exam that requires concise GCP experience and knowledge
This live event is for you because...
- You are a cloud developer writing applications that use GCP services such as App Engine, Cloud Functions, Kubenetes Engine or Compute Engine.
- Anyone who would like to study, prepare and pass the very challenging GCP Professional Cloud Developer Exam
- You are an aspiring Cloud Developer on GCP who is required to complete a GCP Certification
- You understand GCP services and how to apply them but need a refresher
- You need a concise approach to preparing for the exam.
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of general networking concepts, cloud computing, and multi-tier architectural design
Course Set-up
- Sign up for free GCP Tier
- Sign up for free GCP Codelabs
Recommended Preparation
- 6 months of using GCP or anyone who has watched: Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform LiveLessons
- Data Analytics and Machine Learning Fundamentals LiveLessons
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Day 1
The Basics
(30 Minutes)
- Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Developer Exam Basics
- Exam Objectives
- GCP Services Overview
Application Development
(45 minutes)
- Best Practices for Application Development with GCP
- Development Tools, creating Pipelines and Mainlines
- Google Cloud Client Libraries, Google Cloud SDK, and Google Firebase SDK
Choosing Services
(30 Minutes)
- Choosing a compute service to deploy your application on.
- Choosing the database and storage service for application services
- Choosing basic networking services such as load balancing
Break: 15 minutes
Executing Applications and Deploying on GCP
(45 Minutes)
- Deploying a containerized web application on Kubenetes Engine
- Deploying a microservices application on Cloud Functions
- Deploying a microservices application on App Engine
- Deploying services on Cloud DataStore
Deployment Scenarios
(30 Minutes)
- Blue/green deployments
- Traffic-splitting deployments
- Rolling deployments
- Canary deployments
API Management
(20 Minutes)
- Managing APIs with Google Cloud Endpoints
- API Security
- Apigee Need to Know
Using Cloud Storage
(15 Minutes)
- Best Practices for Using Google Cloud Storage
- Naming buckets for static websites and other uses
Review Day One (10 Minutes)
Review and Q/A
Day 2
Monitoring and Managing your Application
(30 Minutes)
- Debugging, Monitoring, and Tuning Performance with Google Stackdriver
Architecting Solutions
(30 Minutes)
- Re-architecting applications from local services to Google Cloud Platform
Building and Testing Applications
(45 Minutes)
- Building a continuous integration pipeline
- GCP Services Cloud Build, Container Registry, Cloud Source Repositories, etc)
- Developing unit tests for all code written
Break: 15 minutes
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
(15 Minutes)
- Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and service accounts
- User authentication by using Firebase Authentication
Writing Code and the considerations
(15 Minutes)
- Agile, DevOps
- Choosing Algorithm design
Integrating Google Cloud Platform Services
(15 Minutes)
- Integrating an application with Data and Storage services
- Integrating an application with Compute services.
- Integrating Google Cloud APIs with applications
GCP Cloud Developer Exam Preparation - Exam Preparation
(75 Minutes)
- Preparing for the exam.
- Practice Question Review
- Top Ten areas to focus on for the exam
Your Instructor
Joe Holbrook
Joe Holbrook has been in the IT field since 1993, when he was exposed to several HP-UX systems on board the US Navy flagship USS JFK. Over his career, he’s migrated from the Unix networking world to storage area networking (SAN) and then to enterprise cloud/virtualization and blockchain architectures while working for companies like HDS, 3PAR Data, Brocade, Dimension Data, EMC, Northrop Grumman, ViON, iBASIS, CheMatch.com, SAIC, and Siemens Nixdorf. Based in Jacksonville, FL, Joe is the owner of a new upstart learning blog, TechCommanders. He’s also a widely published course author and instructor for outlets such as O’Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, QuickStart, INE, and Udemy and has been a contract technical trainer for HPE (3PAR), Hitachi Data Systems, Training Associates, ITpreneurs, and Global Knowledge. Joe holds industry-leading certifications from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, VMware, CompTIA, HP 3PAR, Cloud Credential Council, Palo Alto Networks, and numerous other organizations. He’s also a dad, a blockchain and cryptocurrency geek, an ice hockey fan, and an avid fisherman.