Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Architect Journey

Module 01 - Understanding the Professional Cloud Architect Certification

Objectives: Establish basic knowledge about the certification exam and eliminate any confusion or misunderstandings about the process and nature of the exam itself

• Position the Professional Cloud Architect certification among the offerings
• Distinguish between Associate and Professional
• Provide guidance between Professional Cloud Architect and Associate Cloud Engineer
• Describe how the exam is administered and the exam rules
• Provide general advice about taking the exam

Module 02 - Sample Case Studies

Objectives: In-depth review of the case studies provided for exam preparation.

• MountKirk Games
• Dress4Win
• TerramEarth

Module 03 - Designing and Implementing

Objectives: Tips and examples covering design and implementation skills that could be tested on the exam.

• Review the layered model from Design and Process
• Provide exam tips focused on business and technical design
• Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements
• Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
• Design network, storage, and compute resources
• Creating a migration plan
• Envisioning future solution improvements
• Resources for learning more about designing and planning
• Configuring network topologies
• Configuring individual storage systems
• Configuring compute systems
• Resources for learning more about managing and provisioning
• Designing for security
• Designing for legal compliance
• Resources for learning more about security and compliance

Module 04 - Optimizing and Operating

Objectives: Tips and examples covering business processes, technical, optimization for security, performance, cost, and ongoing operations and reliability.

• Analyzing and defining technical processes
• Analyzing and defining business processes
• Resources for learning more about analyzing and optimizing processes
• Designing for security
• Designing for legal compliance
• Resources for learning more about security and compliance
• Advising development/operation teams to ensure successful deployment of the solution
• Resources for learning more about managing implementation
• Easy buttons
• Playbooks
• Developing a resilient culture
• Resources for learning more about ensuring reliability

Module 05 - Next Steps

Objectives: Highlight learning resources.

• Present Qwiklabs Challenge Quest for the Professional CA
• Identify Instructor Led Training courses and what they cover that will be helpful based on skills that might be on the exam
• Connect candidates to individual Qwiklabs, and to Coursera individual courses and specializations
• Review/feedback of course

Module 06 - Sample Exam Questions

Topics: Breakdown of topics covered Objectives: BReakdown of module learning objectives

• Knowledge and experience with GCP, equivalent to GCP Architecting Infrastructure
• Knowledge of cloud solutions, equivalent to GCP Design and Process
• Industry experience with cloud computing

• Position the Professional Cloud Architect Certification
• Provide information, tips, and advice for taking the exam
• Review sample case studies
• Review each section of the exam covering highest-level concepts sufficient to build confidence in what is known by the candidate and indicate skill gaps/areas of study not known by the candidate
• Connect candidates to appropriate target learning