- Good luck to everyone taking this exam!
- Skimmed through documents mentioned in https://medium.com/@earlg3/google-cloud-architect-exam-study-materials-5ab327b62bc8
- It is a good idea to take the practice exam https://cloud.google.com/certification/practice-exam/cloud-architect. It will give a taste of what the real exam feel like in a lighter fashion. There are right answers given after the exam. I found it is worth the time.
- If you have more time, might be a good idea to watch the Google Cloud Next 2017: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqI8RuUibiH8sMb1ExIw0lAR
- IMHO Comparing to the AWS certification exams, it feels like harder than the associate exams but easier than the professional level exams. AWS exams have been designed to have more matching answers, it is a matter to choose what matches most.
- Case studies: All the case studies except JencoMart are on my exam. Dress4win got 6 or 7. Please note I have found some question is very generic, not entirely related to the case study.
- Highlights on the exam:
- Know resources that are global vs regional vs zonal
- Storage: https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/. A number of questions on how to pick one given the workload described in the scenario. The decision tree is used by numerous talks in Google Cloud Next 2017.
- Test environment and test strategy in the cloud vs on premise: A number of questions, a bit of common sense, chose the most logical one.
- Deployment:
- deploy and rollback strategy used in AppEngine, GKE as well managed instances group in compute engine.
- Canary, BlueGreen, A/B test.
- Networking: how HTTPS load balancing works, VPN use cases
- Security Scanner: 1 question
- Storage Transfer service vs gsutil, when to use each.
- Migration: such as how to migrate MySQL server from on premise into the cloud
- Containers: use them whenever "cloud native" is needed
- Troubleshooting:
- how to trouble shoot slow service
- how to investigate when something went wrong on an instance https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-instances
- Troubleshoot an app engine issue with python code
- StackDriver: A number of questions. Should what each one can do.
- Logging
- https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/
- Know what logging agent does.
- Monitoring
- https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/uptime-checks/
- Know what monitoring agent does.
- Tracing
- Debug
- Error Reporting
- Logging
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