☁️ Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect - Exam-Prep

For cloud engineers, solution architects, and IT pros preparing for Google's PCA exam — design, deploy, secure, and operate robust, cost-effective Google Cloud architectures with confidence. The course is organized into 8 modules, ending with a final exam (pass mark 70%). It is independent, free exam-preparation training — not an official or accredited review course.

What you'll learn

• Designing and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
• Designing for Scalability, Reliability, and High Availability
• Managing and Provisioning the Cloud Solution Infrastructure
• Designing for Security and Compliance
• Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes
• Managing Implementations: Migration & CI/CD on Google Cloud
• Solution & Operations Excellence: Monitoring and SRE
• Case Studies, Trade-Offs, and Exam Strategy

Learning objectives

• Translate business and technical requirements into a Google Cloud solution architecture aligned with the Well-Architected Framework.
• Design scalable, reliable, and highly available systems using compute, storage, networking, and data services.
• Provision and configure infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code, deployment automation, and managed services.
• Apply security, identity, and compliance controls including IAM, encryption, VPC Service Controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Optimize technical and business processes for cost, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Plan and manage migrations, CI/CD pipelines, and the implementation of cloud architecture across teams.
• Ensure operational excellence through monitoring, logging, SRE practices, reliability, and disaster recovery.
• Analyze case-study scenarios and select trade-off-aware designs the way the real exam demands.