Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certification Guide

The Professional Cloud Architect certification validates your ability to design and plan cloud solutions on GCP.

Exam Overview

Aspect	Details
Duration	2 hours
Questions	50-60 questions
Format	Multiple choice, case studies
Cost	$200 USD

Exam Domains

Designing and Planning (24%)

• Solution infrastructure
• Network design

Managing Implementation (15%)

• Migration planning
• Solution deployment

Ensuring Reliability (18%)

• Reliability engineering
• Operations processes

Security and Compliance (20%)

• Security design
• Compliance requirements

Analyzing and Optimizing (23%)

• Business processes
• Technical processes

Architecture Patterns

GCP Multi-Region Architecture:
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Cloud Load Balancing           │
└──────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
                   │
      ┌────────────┴────────────┐
      │                         │
      ▼                         ▼
┌───────────┐             ┌───────────┐
│us-central1│             │ eu-west1  │
│ ┌───────┐ │             │ ┌───────┐ │
│ │  GKE  │ │             │ │  GKE  │ │
│ └───────┘ │             │ └───────┘ │
│ ┌───────┐ │             │ ┌───────┐ │
│ │Spanner│◄┼─────────────┼─┤Spanner│ │
│ └───────┘ │             │ └───────┘ │
└───────────┘             └───────────┘

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