Cloud Digital Leader training with Google Cloud

• How to identify Google Cloud products and solutions that support digital transformation.
• How cloud technology and data can be used to innovate within organizations.
• Ways organizations can innovate using Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions.
• Options for infrastructure and application modernization with Google Cloud.
• The fundamentals of cloud security, Google’s trusted infrastructure.
• How to optimize cloud costs and achieve operational excellence with Google Cloud.

• Traditional enterprise business decision makers
• All management levels leading product, projects, programs, operations, line of business, finance, people management, sales, marketing, and client management interested in how Google Cloud can support their business transformation
• Individuals reasonably new to cloud technology

• Knowledgeable about your own business products, services, and industry.
• No prior technical knowledge is required.

Module 1: Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Topics

• Why cloud technology is transforming business
• Fundamental cloud concepts
• Cloud computing models and shared responsibility

Objectives

• Explain why and how the cloud is revolutionizing businesses.
• Explain general cloud concepts.
• Discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of using infrastructure as a service (IaaS); platform as a service (PaaS); and software as a service (SaaS).

Module 2: Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud

Topics

• The value of data
• Google Cloud data management solutions
• Making data useful and accessible

Objectives

• Describe the intrinsic role that data plays in an organization’s digital transformation.
• Determine which Google Cloud data management products are applicable to different business use cases.
• Discuss how smart analytics, business intelligence tools, and streaming analytics
  can add value in different business use cases.

Module 3: Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence

Topics

• AI and ML fundamentals
• Google Cloud’s AI and ML solutions

Objectives

• Discuss the main AI and ML concepts, and explain how ML can create business value.
• Discuss the range of Google Cloud AI and ML solutions and products available, and how to select the most appropriate solution for different business use cases.
• Explain how Google Cloud’s pre-trained API, AutoML, and custom AI/ML products
  can create business value.

Module 4: Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud

Topics

• Important cloud migration terms
• Modernizing infrastructure in the cloud
• Modernizing applications in the cloud

Objectives

• Explain why modernization and migration to the cloud are important steps in an organization’s transformation journey, and how each application might have a different path.
• Discuss the options for and advantages of running compute workloads in the cloud.
• Discuss the advantages of using containers in application modernization.
• Discuss the advantages of serverless computing in application modernization.
• Explain the business value of application programming interfaces (APIs).
• Discuss the business reasons for choosing hybrid or multi-cloud strategies and how GKE Enterprise enables these strategies.

Module 5: Trust and Security with Google Cloud

Topics

• Trust and security in the cloud
• Google’s trusted infrastructure
• Google Cloud’s trust principles and compliance

Objectives

• Discuss fundamental cloud security concepts.
• Explain the business value of Google’s defense-in-depth multilayered approach to infrastructure security.
• Describe how Google Cloud earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud.

Module 6: Scaling with Google Cloud Operations

Topics

• Financial governance and managing cloud costs
• Operational excellence and reliability at scale
• Sustainability with Google Cloud

Objectives

• Discuss how Google Cloud supports an organization’s financial governance and ability to control their cloud costs.
• Discuss the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience
  in the cloud.
• Discuss how Google Cloud helps organizations meet sustainability goals and
  reduce environmental impact.