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not covered on the exam at all
Professional Cloud Architect (PCA)
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1: basics
high-level functionality and use-cases
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2: medium
basics + prerequisites, limitations, common IAM roles, ability to integrate with other services, most common architectures
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3: advanced
medium + being able to deploy, troubleshoot and manage
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4: expert
advanced + know every detail about the service in complex configurations - huge scale, HA, DR etc
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Recommended minimum knowldege level for PCAMy knowledge level (self-assesment)
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General
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Compliance 1: basics0: none
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EL vs ETL vs ELT0: none0: none
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REST APIs1: basics0: none
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Capex vs Opex2: medium0: none
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Migrating GCP Projects1: basics0: none
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Google Front End (GFE)1: basics0: none
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SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)1: basics0: none
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SLOs, SLIs, SLAs2: medium0: none
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Uptime checks1: basics0: none
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Compute Environment
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Compute Engine (GCE)3: advanced0: none
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Managing access to VMs (OS Login etc)2: medium0: none
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Persistent Disks3: advanced0: none
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GCE Instance Groups2: medium0: none
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Multi-NIC VMs1: basics0: none
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App Engine flexible environment2: medium0: none
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App Engine standard environment2: medium0: none
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Cloud GPUs1: basics0: none
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Migrate for Compute Engine1: basics0: none
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VMware Engine1: basics0: none
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Cloud Run2: medium0: none
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Cloud Functions2: medium0: none
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Bare Metal Solution1: basics0: none
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GCVE1: basics0: none
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Preemptible VMs2: medium0: none
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Sole-tenant Nodes2: medium0: none
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Local SSD1: basics0: none
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VM Manager1: basics0: none
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Sharing OS images across projects2: medium0: none
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VM Serial Console1: basics0: none
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Storage
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Cloud Storage3: advanced0: none
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GCS Bucket Locks1: basics0: none
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Cloud Filestore1: basics0: none
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Databases
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Cloud Bigtable2: medium0: none
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Cloud Firestore2: medium0: none
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Memorystore for Memcached1: basics0: none
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Memorystore for Redis1: basics0: none
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Cloud Spanner2: medium0: none
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Cloud SQL2: medium0: none
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Datastore2: medium0: none
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Database Migration Service1: basics0: none
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Datastream0: none0: none
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Dataplex0: none0: none
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Firebase1: basics0: none
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Migration
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BigQuery Data Transfer Service1: basics0: none
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Transfer Service2: medium0: none
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Migrate for Anthos1: basics0: none
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Migrate for Compute Engine1: basics0: none
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Transfer Appliance1: basics0: none
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Containers
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)3: advanced0: none
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Container Registry1: basics0: none
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Cloud Build1: basics0: none
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Cloud Deploy1: basics0: none
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Container Optimized OS1: basics0: none
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Workload Identity1: basics0: none
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GKE Sandbox0: none0: none
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Network Policies1: basics0: none
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Networking
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Cloud Armor2: medium0: none
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Cloud Domains1: basics0: none
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Cloud CDN2: medium0: none
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Cloud DNS1: basics0: none
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DNS Forwarding0: none0: none
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DNS Peering0: none0: none
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DNSSEC1: basics0: none
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Migrating to Cloud DNS0: none0: none
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Cloud Load Balancing2: medium0: none
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Cloud NAT2: medium0: none
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Hybrid Connectivity1: basics0: none
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Network Intelligence Center1: basics0: none
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Network Service Tiers1: basics0: none
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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)2: medium0: none
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Cloud Router2: medium0: none
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Cloud VPN2: medium0: none
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VPC Flow Logs1: basics0: none
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Firewall Insights1: basics0: none
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Network Connectivity Center1: basics0: none
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Cloud Interconnect1: basics0: none
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Direct / Carrier Peering1: basics0: none
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Network Service Tiers1: basics0: none
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Cloud Router2: medium0: none
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Network Intelligence Center1: basics0: none
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Packet Mirroring1: basics0: none