Google Cloud Certified Professional - Cloud Architect

Aug 31, 18

Synopsis

This blog post is a summary of my learning path and experience with https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-architect Exam.

Prior Experience

  1. You have an edge If you have prior AWS experience or have GCP work experience.
  2. You are hands on with design and implementation of large / medium scale infrastructure and devops projects

Reference Material

  1. Linux Academy course material - This is by far the most comprehensive material for certification prep https://linuxacademy.com/linux/training/course/name/google-cloud-platform-architect-essentials https://linuxacademy.com/linux/training/course/name/google-certified-professional-cloud-architect-part-2 https://linuxacademy.com/linux/training/course/name/google-certified-professional-cloud-architect-part3

  2. Google Case Studies About 50% of the questions will be based on 2 of the 4 case studies published by google. Read these case studies multiple times as you will get various scenario based questions from these case studies https://cloud.google.com/certification/guides/cloud-architect/#sample-case-study

  3. Free !! Mock readiness exam by google Take this couple of weeks prior to your exam date https://cloud.google.com/certification/practice-exam/cloud-architect