Module 1: Defining the expected Service

• • Describe users in terms of roles and personas.
• • Evaluate KPIs using SLOs and SLIs.
• • Determine the quality of application requirements using SMART criteria.

Module 2: Microservices design and architecture

• • Decompose monolithic applications into microservices.
• • Recognize appropriate microservice boundaries.
• • Design consistent, standard RESTful service APIs.
• • Identify the 12-factor best practices for implementing services.

Module 3: DevOps Automation

• • Discuss the automation of service deployment using CI/CD pipelines.
• • Explain how to leverage Cloud Source Repositories for source and version control.
• • Automate builds with Cloud Build and build triggers.
• • Manage container images with Container Registry.

Module 4: Choosing Storage solutions

• • Identify the use cases for :
• • Spanner.
• • Cloud SQL.
• • Firestore.
• • Memorystore.

Module 5: Google Cloud and hybrid network architecture

• • Discuss the design of VPC networks to optimize for cost, security, and performance.
• • Describe how global and regional load balancers provide access to services.
• • Connect networks using peering and VPNs.
• • Define hybrid networks between Google Cloud and on-premises data centers using Cloud Interconnect.

Module 6: Deploying applications to Google Cloud

• • Choose the appropriate Google Cloud deployment service for your applications.
• • Configure scalable, resilient infrastructure using Instance Templates and Groups.
• • Orchestrate microservice deployments using Kubernetes and GKE.
• • Leverage App Engine for a completely automated platform as a service (PaaS).

Module 7: Designing reliable systems

• • Discuss the design of services to meet requirements for availability, durability, and scalability.
• • Identify the failures to be avoided to implement a fault-tolerant system.

Module 8: Security

• • Identify the best practices for designing secure systems.
• • Discuss the use of organizational policies and folders to simplify cloud governance.
• • Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged for access management.
• • Identify Google Cloud services that can be leveraged to mitigate DDoS attacks.

Module 9: Maintenance and Monitoring

• • Discuss different ways to manage new service versions.
• • Describe how to forecast, monitor, and optimize service costs.
• • Observe if your services are meeting their SLOs using Cloud Monitoring and Dashboards.
• • Use Uptime Checks to determine service availability.
• • Respond to service outages using Cloud Monitoring Alerts.