GCP200AGCE

Architecting with Google Compute Engine

This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine. This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You'll also learn how to deploy practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

Google Cloud
✓ Official training Google CloudLevel Intermediate⏱️ 3 days (21h)

What you will learn

  • Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
  • Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
  • Implement VPC networks and firewall rules
  • Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
  • Administer Identity and Access Management for resources
  • Implement data storage services in Google Cloud
  • Manage and examine billing of Google Cloud resources
  • Monitor resources using Google Cloud services
  • Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
  • Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services
  • Leverage managed services in Google Cloud

Prerequisites

  • Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure or have equivalent experience
  • Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
  • Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment

Target audience

  • Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers, Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine

Training Program

11 modules to master the fundamentals

Objectives
  • List the different ways of interacting with Google Cloud
  • Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
  • Create Cloud Storage buckets
  • Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
Activities

Lab: Console and Cloud Shell

Lab: Infrastructure Preview

Module quiz

Objectives
  • List the VPC objects in Google Cloud
  • Explore VPC Networking
  • Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT
Activities

Lab: VPC Networking

Lab: Implement Private Google Access and Cloud NAT

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Recall the CPU and memory options for virtual machines
  • Describe the disk options for virtual machines
  • Explain VM pricing and discounts
  • Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
Activities

Lab: Creating Virtual Machines

Lab: Working with Virtual Machines

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Describe the IAM resource hierarchy
  • Explain the different types of IAM roles
  • Recall the different types of IAM members
  • Implement access control for resources using IAM
Activities

Lab: Cloud IAM

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Differentiate between Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore and Cloud Bigtable
  • Choose a data storage service based on your requirements
  • Implement data storage services
Activities

Lab: Cloud Storage

Lab: Implementing Cloud SQL

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Describe the cloud resource manager hierarchy
  • Recognize how quotas protect Google Cloud customers
  • Organize resources using labels
  • Explain the behavior of budget alerts in Google Cloud
  • Examine billing data with BigQuery
Activities

Lab: Examining Billing Data with BigQuery

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Describe the services for monitoring, logging, error reporting, tracing, and debugging
  • Create charts, alerts, and uptime checks for resources with Cloud Monitoring
  • Identify and fix errors using Cloud Debugger
Activities

Lab: Resource Monitoring

Lab: Error Reporting and Debugging

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Recall the Google Cloud interconnect and peering services available to connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
  • Determine which Google Cloud interconnect or peering service to use in specific circumstances
  • Create and configure Google Cloud HA VPN
  • Recall when to use Shared VPC and when to use VPC Network Peering
Activities

Lab: Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Recall the various load balancing services
  • Determine which Google Cloud load balancer to use in specific circumstances
  • Describe autoscaling behavior
  • Configure load balancers and autoscaling
Activities

Lab: ILT Configure an HTTP Load Balancer with Autoscaling

Lab: Configuring an Internal Load Balancer

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Automate the deployment of Google Cloud services using Terraform
  • Outline the Google Cloud Marketplace
Activities

Lab: Automating the Deployment of Infrastructure Using Terraform

Module quiz

Objectives
  • Describe the managed services for data processing in Google Cloud
Activities

Module quiz

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Teaching Methods Used
  • Lectures / Theoretical Slides — Presentation of concepts using visual aids (PowerPoint, PDF).
  • Technical Demonstration (Demos) — The instructor performs a task or procedure while students observe.
  • Guided Labs — Guided practical exercises on software, hardware, or technical environments.
  • Quiz / MCQ — Quick knowledge check (paper-based or digital via tools like Kahoot/Klaxoon).
Evaluation and Monitoring System

The achievement of training objectives is evaluated at multiple levels to ensure quality:

  • Continuous Knowledge Assessment : Verification of knowledge throughout the training via participatory methods (quizzes, practical exercises, case studies) under instructor supervision.
  • Progress Measurement : Comparative self-assessment system including an initial diagnostic to determine the starting level, followed by a final evaluation to validate skills development.
  • Quality Evaluation : End-of-session satisfaction questionnaire to measure the relevance and effectiveness of the training as perceived by participants.

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