Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification Guide A Comprehensive Study Guide to Google Cloud Concepts and Technologies
Gain the expertise needed for the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification with the help of industry insights, effective testing strategies, and exam questions designed to help you make informed tech decisions aligned with business goalsKey FeaturesLearn about data management, AI, monetization, sec...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham, England :
Packt Publishing
[2024]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009807525306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part 1: Introduction to Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
- Chapter 1: Cloud Computing Fundamentals - An Introduction to Digital Transformation
- An introduction to data centers
- The why behind digital transformation
- Infrastructure flexibility
- Ease of R&
- D
- Measurable innovation
- Global collaboration
- Customer value
- Agility
- Benefits of digital transformation
- Modernize infrastructure
- Manage data
- Gain insight
- Break down team silos
- Solve business problems
- Realize cost savings
- Hypothetical case study - Acme Inc.
- Summary
- Chapter 2: The Shift to Public Cloud
- The value of adopting public cloud
- Flexibility
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Elasticity
- Agility
- Cost
- The impact of cloud adoption on finance teams
- Private, public, or hybrid?
- An introduction to networks
- Public cloud with Google Cloud
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Understanding the Different Cloud Computing Models
- Introducing cloud hosting models and the shared responsibility model
- Comparing and contrasting IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- IaaS
- PaaS
- SaaS
- Going beyond IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Containers and CaaS
- Functions and FaaS
- Summary
- Part 2: Innovating with Data and Google Cloud
- Chapter 4: The Role of Data in Digital Transformation
- The role of data in digital transformation
- The farmer's journey - digitally transformed
- The importance of data-driven culture
- Making better decisions
- Improving productivity and efficiency
- Identifying new opportunities
- Gaining a competitive advantage
- The impact of the cloud on data
- Increased scalability and flexibility
- Improved data security
- Reduced costs
- Improved collaboration
- Increased innovation
- Summary.
- Chapter 5: Google Cloud Solutions for Data Management
- Understanding the data journey
- Acme e-commerce - case study
- Exploring types of data
- Elaborating on Google Cloud solutions for data management
- Data pipelines
- Data lakes
- Data warehouses
- Business intelligence tools
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on Google Cloud
- AI overview and Google's contribution
- Considerations when building AI models
- Defining the problem
- Collecting the datasets
- Preparing the data
- Select the model and train it
- Evaluating the model
- Deploying the model
- Monitoring the model
- Google Cloud solutions for ML and AI
- Vertex AI and its associated services
- ML APIs
- AI business solutions
- Generative AI
- PaLM for text
- PaLM for chat
- Chirp for speech
- Imagen for text to image
- The embeddings API for text to image
- Codey
- Google AI Studio
- Gemini
- Summary
- Part 3: Infrastructure and Platform Modernization
- Chapter 7: Modernizing IT Infrastructure with Google Cloud
- The challenges with legacy infrastructure in the modern world
- Acme Inc. - buying servers
- The value of modernizing infrastructure with cloud technologies
- Agility
- Scalability
- Resilience
- Security
- The differences between hybrid and multi-cloud
- The evolution of computing from VMs to containers to serverless
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Modernizing Applications with Google Cloud
- The evolution of application development
- Acme Inc-development case study
- The benefits of cloud-native application development
- Google Cloud solutions for hosting applications
- Google Compute Engine (GCE)
- Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE)
- Sole-tenant nodes
- Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Cloud Run
- Artifact Registry
- Cloud Build
- App Engine
- Cloud Functions
- Summary
- Chapter 9: The Value of APIs.
- An introduction to APIs
- The value of APIs
- Creating new products, services, and monetization streams
- Improving the client experience
- Quick and easy interoperability between cloud systems
- Building for scale and resiliency
- Full life cycle API management with Google Cloud
- Discoverability and community
- Insights
- Reliability
- Summary
- Part 4: Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations
- Chapter 10: Google Cloud's Approach to Security
- Security fundamentals
- Understanding challenges and threats to data
- Overview of the shared responsibility model
- The benefits and differentiators of Google Cloud
- Security Command Center
- Cloud Armor
- Chronicle SIEM
- Chronicle SOAR
- Mandiant incident response and threat awareness
- Controlling and managing cloud resources
- IAM and resource hierarchies
- Operations
- Summary
- Chapter 11: IT Operations in the Cloud
- Service availability - on-premises versus cloud
- Overview of DevOps
- SRE and how it applies to business
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Resource Monitoring and Application Performance Management on Google Cloud
- Downtime and its impact on business
- Customer satisfaction and trust
- Improved operational efficiency
- Resilience
- Cloud operations - monitoring, logging, and observability
- Google Cloud tools for resource monitoring and maintenance
- Summary
- Part 5: Practice Exam Questions
- Chapter 13: Sample Questions: Exam Preparation
- Part 1 - 20-question "pop quiz" - digital transformation on Google Cloud
- Part 2 - 60-question "product quiz" - data, infrastructure, AppMod, Security, and CloudOps
- Part 3 - 20 situational questions - questions from all sections
- Scenario 1 - E-Commerce
- Scenario 2 - Healthcare
- Key
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Index
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