Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery & PCA exam prep
Launch Compute Engine VMs, use custom images and managed instance groups for autoscaling, and save big with preemptible / Spot VMs.
Deploy any container that listens on a port and let Cloud Run scale it to zero and back. Built on Knative — fully managed, request-based billing.
Run Kubernetes the Google way. Compare Standard mode (you manage nodes) vs Autopilot (Kubernetes without the existential dread — Google manages the nodes).
Store objects in GCS buckets across Standard, Nearline, Coldline and Archive classes. Use lifecycle rules and Storage Transfer Service for migration.
GCP VPCs are global. Configure subnets per region, firewall rules, Cloud NAT for private egress, and Shared VPC for multi-project networking.
Choose between Cloud SQL (managed MySQL/Postgres), Spanner (globally consistent relational at scale), and Firestore (serverless document DB).
BigQuery is a game-changer: serverless SQL analytics over petabytes. Learn partitioning + clustering for cost control and train models in-place with BigQuery ML.
Ingest events globally with Pub/Sub and process streaming or batch data with Dataflow (Apache Beam). The backbone of real-time analytics on GCP.
Defend apps with Cloud Armor (WAF + DDoS), store secrets in Secret Manager, and build data-exfiltration perimeters with VPC Service Controls.
Use the Google Cloud Operations suite: Monitoring dashboards + alerts, centralized Logging, distributed Trace, and Error Reporting.
Provision GCP with Terraform. Structure reusable modules, manage remote state in GCS, and run plan/apply in CI.
Train custom and AutoML models on Vertex AI, build reproducible ML pipelines, and deploy to managed endpoints.
Cut costs with Committed Use Discounts, preemptible/Spot VMs for fault-tolerant batch work, and budget alerts.
Design highly available systems with global HTTP(S) Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, and multi-region failover.
Build an end-to-end analytics platform: Pub/Sub → Dataflow → BigQuery → Looker Studio, served via Cloud Run, secured with IAM + VPC-SC, provisioned with Terraform.