Official Google Cloud Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer: Study Guide......Page 3
Contents at a Glance......Page 13
Contents......Page 15
Introduction......Page 23
Assessment Test......Page 34
Answers to Assessment Test......Page 39
Chapter 1 Overview of Google Cloud Platform......Page 41
Types of Cloud Services......Page 42
Compute Resources......Page 43
Storage......Page 44
Networking......Page 47
Rent Instead of Own Resources......Page 48
Elastic Resource Allocation......Page 49
Exam Essentials......Page 50
Review Questions......Page 51
Chapter 2 Google Cloud Computing Services......Page 55
Computing Components of Google Cloud Platform......Page 56
Computing Resources......Page 57
Storage Resources......Page 61
Databases......Page 63
Networking Services......Page 66
Development Tools......Page 68
Management Tools......Page 69
Specialized Services......Page 70
Exam Essentials......Page 71
Review Questions......Page 74
Chapter 3 Projects, Service Accounts, and Billing......Page 79
GCP Resource Hierarchy......Page 80
Organization Policies......Page 83
Managing Projects......Page 85
Roles in GCP......Page 87
Granting Roles to Identities......Page 89
Service Accounts......Page 90
Billing Accounts......Page 91
Billing Budgets and Alerts......Page 93
Exporting Billing Data......Page 94
Enabling APIs......Page 96
Provisioning Stackdriver Workspaces......Page 98
Exam Essentials......Page 100
Review Questions......Page 101
Chapter 4 Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud......Page 107
Virtual Machine Images......Page 108
Virtual Machines Are Contained in Projects......Page 111
Virtual Machines Run in a Zone and Region......Page 112
Users Need Privileges to Create Virtual Machines......Page 113
Preemptible Virtual Machines......Page 114
Custom Machine Types......Page 116
Structure of an App Engine Application......Page 117
App Engine Standard and Flexible Environments......Page 118
Use Cases for App Engine......Page 120
Kubernetes Engine......Page 121
Kubernetes Cluster Architecture......Page 122
Kubernetes High Availability......Page 123
Cloud Functions Execution Environment......Page 124
Summary......Page 125
Exam Essentials......Page 126
Review Questions......Page 127
Chapter 5 Computing with Compute Engine Virtual Machines......Page 131
Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines with the Console......Page 132
Main Virtual Machine Configuration Details......Page 135
Additional Configuration Details......Page 137
Installing Cloud SDK......Page 143
Example Installation on Ubuntu Linux......Page 144
Creating a Virtual Machine with Cloud SDK......Page 145
Creating a Virtual Machine with Cloud Shell......Page 146
Starting and Stopping Instances......Page 147
Network Access to Virtual Machines......Page 148
Monitoring a Virtual Machine......Page 149
Guidelines for Planning, Deploying, and Managing Virtual Machines......Page 151
Exam Essentials......Page 152
Review Questions......Page 153
Chapter 6 Managing Virtual Machines......Page 157
Managing Single Virtual Machine Instances in the Console......Page 158
Managing a Single Virtual Machine Instance with Cloud Shell and the Command Line......Page 170
Creating and Removing Instance Groups and Templates......Page 174
Guidelines for Managing Virtual Machines......Page 177
Exam Essentials......Page 178
Review Questions......Page 180
Chapter 7 Computing with Kubernetes......Page 185
Kubernetes Cluster Architecture......Page 186
Kubernetes Objects......Page 187
Deploying Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud Console......Page 189
Deploying Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud Shell and Cloud SDK......Page 193
Deploying Application Pods......Page 194
Monitoring Kubernetes......Page 197
Exam Essentials......Page 208
Review Questions......Page 210
Chapter 8 Managing Kubernetes Clusters......Page 215
Viewing the Status of Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud Console......Page 216
Viewing the Status of Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell......Page 224
Adding, Modifying, and Removing Nodes with Cloud Console......Page 230
Adding, Modifying, and Removing with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell......Page 231
Adding, Modifying, and Removing Pods with Cloud Console......Page 232
Adding, Modifying, and Removing Pods with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell......Page 235
Adding, Modifying, and Removing Services with Cloud Console......Page 236
Adding, Modifying, and Removing Services with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell......Page 238
Viewing the Image Repository and Image Details with Cloud Console......Page 239
Viewing the Image Repository and Image Details with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell......Page 242
Exam Essentials......Page 243
Review Questions......Page 244
Chapter 9 Computing with App Engine......Page 249
App Engine Components......Page 250
Deploying an App Using Cloud Shell and SDK......Page 251
Scaling App Engine Applications......Page 255
Splitting Traffic between App Engine Versions......Page 257
Exam Essentials......Page 258
Review Questions......Page 260
Chapter 10 Computing with Cloud Functions......Page 265
Introduction to Cloud Functions......Page 266
Runtime Environments......Page 267
Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Storage Events Using Cloud Console......Page 269
Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Storage Events Using gcloud Commands......Page 271
Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Pub/Sub Events Using Cloud Console......Page 273
Summary......Page 274
Exam Essentials......Page 275
Review Questions......Page 277
Chapter 11 Planning Storage in the Cloud......Page 281
Types of Storage Systems......Page 282
Cache......Page 283
Persistent Storage......Page 285
Object Storage......Page 287
Storage Types When Planning a Storage Solution......Page 293
Relational: Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, and BigQuery......Page 294
NoSQL: Datastore, Cloud Firestore, and Bigtable......Page 301
Choosing a Storage Solution: Guidelines to Consider......Page 308
Summary......Page 309
Exam Essentials......Page 310
Review Questions......Page 311
Chapter 12 Deploying Storage in Google Cloud Platform......Page 315
Creating and Connecting to a MySQL Instance......Page 316
Creating a Database, Loading Data, and Querying Data......Page 318
Backing Up MySQL in Cloud SQL......Page 319
Adding Data to a Datastore Database......Page 323
Backing Up Datastore......Page 324
Estimating the Cost of Queries in BigQuery......Page 325
Viewing Jobs in BigQuery......Page 326
Deploying and Managing Cloud Spanner......Page 328
Deploying and Managing Cloud Pub/Sub......Page 332
Deploying and Managing Cloud Bigtable......Page 335
Deploying and Managing Cloud Dataproc......Page 338
Managing Cloud Storage......Page 342
Summary......Page 343
Exam Essentials......Page 344
Review Questions......Page 345
Chapter 13 Loading Data into Storage......Page 349
Loading and Moving Data to Cloud Storage Using the Console......Page 350
Loading and Moving Data to Cloud Storage Using the Command Line......Page 354
Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud SQL......Page 355
Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Datastore......Page 359
Importing and Exporting Data: BigQuery......Page 360
Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Spanner......Page 365
Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Bigtable......Page 367
Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Dataproc......Page 369
Streaming Data to Cloud Pub/Sub......Page 370
Summary......Page 371
Exam Essentials......Page 372
Review Questions......Page 373
Chapter 14 Networking in the Cloud: Virtual Private Clouds and Virtual Private Networks......Page 377
Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with Cloud Console......Page 378
Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with gcloud......Page 382
Creating a Shared Virtual Private Cloud Using gcloud......Page 383
Deploying Compute Engine with a Custom Network......Page 384
Structure of Firewall Rules......Page 387
Creating Firewall Rules Using Cloud Console......Page 388
Creating Firewall Rules Using gcloud......Page 390
Creating a Virtual Private Network Using Cloud Console......Page 391
Creating a Virtual Private Network Using gcloud......Page 394
Exam Essentials......Page 395
Review Questions......Page 397
Chapter 15 Networking in the Cloud: DNS, Load Balancing, and IP Addressing......Page 401
Creating DNS Managed Zones Using Cloud Console......Page 402
Creating a DNS Managed Zones Using gcloud......Page 406
Types of Load Balancers......Page 407
Configuring Load Balancers using Cloud Console......Page 408
Configuring Load Balancers using gcloud......Page 414
Reserving IP Addresses......Page 415
Summary......Page 417
Exam Essentials......Page 418
Review Questions......Page 419
Chapter 16 Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager......Page 423
Browsing Cloud Launcher and Viewing Solutions......Page 424
Deploying Cloud Launcher Solutions......Page 430
Deployment Manager Configuration Files......Page 434
Deployment Manager Template Files......Page 437
Summary......Page 438
Exam Essentials......Page 439
Review Questions......Page 440
Chapter 17 Configuring Access and Security......Page 445
Viewing Account Identity and Access Management Assignments......Page 446
Assigning Identity and Access Management Roles to Accounts and Groups......Page 448
Defining Custom Identity and Access Management Roles......Page 451
Managing Service Accounts with Scopes......Page 454
Assigning a Service Account to a Virtual Machine Instance......Page 456
Viewing Audit Logs......Page 457
Exam Essentials......Page 458
Review Questions......Page 460
Chapter 18 Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating......Page 465
Monitoring with Stackdriver......Page 466
Creating Alerts Based on Resource Metrics......Page 467
Creating Custom Metrics......Page 477
Configuring Log Sinks......Page 478
Viewing and Filtering Logs......Page 481
Viewing Message Details......Page 484
Overview of Cloud Trace......Page 486
Overview of Cloud Debug......Page 488
Viewing Google Cloud Platform Status......Page 491
Using the Pricing Calculator......Page 493
Summary......Page 497
Exam Essentials......Page 498
Review Questions......Page 499
Appendix Answers to Review Questions......Page 503
Chapter 1: Overview of Google Cloud Platform......Page 504
Chapter 2: Google Cloud Computing Services......Page 506
Chapter 3: Projects, Service Accounts, and Billing......Page 508
Chapter 4: Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud......Page 510
Chapter 5: Computing with Compute Engine Virtual Machines......Page 512
Chapter 6: Managing Virtual Machines......Page 515
Chapter 7: Computing with Kubernetes......Page 517
Chapter 8: Managing Kubernetes Clusters......Page 519
Chapter 9: Computing with App Engine......Page 521
Chapter 10: Computing with Cloud Functions......Page 523
Chapter 11: Planning Storage in the Cloud......Page 525
Chapter 12: Deploying Storage in Google Cloud Platform......Page 527
Chapter 13: Loading Data into Storage......Page 530
Chapter 14: Networking in the Cloud Virtual Private Clouds and Virtual Private Networks......Page 532
Chapter 15: Networking in the Cloud: DNS, Load Balancing, and IP Addressing......Page 534
Chapter 16: Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager......Page 536
Chapter 17: Configuring Access and Security......Page 538
Chapter 18: Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating......Page 540
Index......Page 543
Advert......Page 558
EULA......Page 560