Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Google Cloud Architecture

Start a career in cloud architecture. Design, develop, and manage solutions that contribute to achieving business goals.

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Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services
  • Maintaining network security
  • Interface with encryption keys
  • Security and access management
  • Allocation and revenues
  • Resource tracking
  • Implementing practical solutions
  • Working with Google Cloud Platform products
  • Using hands-on labs on the Qwiklabs platform
  • Understanding technical concepts and applying them at work

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Cloud Solutions Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Developers interested in creating new solutions using Google Cloud Platform
  • Developers interested in integrating existing systems and applications with Google Cloud Platform

Specialization – 5-lesson course series

As of June 12, 2020, the course name “Architecture from Google Cloud Platform” has been changed to “Architecture with Google Compute Engine.”

In this course, you will learn about the infrastructure and platform services offered by Google Cloud Platform. Through lectures, demonstrations, and labs, you will learn about various infrastructure components such as networks, systems, and application services. The course also covers the implementation of practical solutions, including:

  • Maintaining network security
  • Interface with encryption keys
  • Security and access management
  • Allocation and revenues
  • Resource tracking

Target audience:

  • Cloud Solutions Architects
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Developers interested in creating new solutions using Google Cloud Platform
  • Developers interested in integrating existing systems and applications with Google Cloud Platform

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Hands-on Learning Project

The course includes hands-on labs on the Qwiklabs platform. In the hands-on labs, you can use the skills you have gained in the video tutorials and experience them in practice. The topics in several projects include Google Cloud Platform products, which are used and reflected within Qwiklabs. Use the concepts presented in the modules to understand how to apply them in practice, and how you can leverage the knowledge in your future work.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Google Cloud Basics: Core Infrastructure

Course 1

Duration: 5 hours

Rating: 4.5 (706 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Understand the purpose and value system of Google’s cloud products and services
  • Understand how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud
  • Understand how to create basic infrastructure in Google Cloud
  • Choose and use Google Cloud storage options

Skills you will develop

  • Google Compute Engine
  • Google App Engine (GAE)
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Cloud computing

Essential cloud infrastructure: foundation

Course 2

Duration: 8 hours

Rating: 4.6 (218 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Use the Google Cloud Console and Cloud Shell
  • Use Google Cloud Marketplace to deploy solutions
  • Implement VPC network and firewall rules
  • Create and upgrade VM instances using Compute Engine

Skills you will develop

  • Google Compute Engine
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Cloud computing

Essential cloud infrastructure: core services

Course 3

Duration: 7 hours

Rating: 4.5 (166 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Manage resources through identity and access management
  • Implement Google cloud data storage services
  • Manage and monitor Google Cloud resource costs
  • Monitor resources using Google’s settings package

Skills you will develop

  • Load balancing
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Automatic additions

Flexible cloud infrastructure: scaling and automation

Course 4

Duration: 7 hours

Rating: 4.5 (109 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Connect infrastructure to Google’s cloud
  • Configure load balancers and automated options for VM instances
  • Adopt automated deployments for services on Google infrastructure
  • Take advantage of Google Cloud’s manual services

Skills you will develop

  • Google Compute Engine
  • Google Cloud Platform

Trusted cloud infrastructure: design and process

Course 5

Duration: 8 hours

Rating: 4.6 (80 ratings)

What you’ll learn

  • Apply a variety of tools such as questions, techniques, and design considerations
  • Objectively define application requirements as KPIs, SLOs, SLIs
  • Decompose application requirements and identify appropriate boundaries for microservices
  • Leverage Google Cloud Developer Tools to build automated deployment pipelines

Skills you will develop

  • Google Compute Engine
  • Virtual machine
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Network architecture