Awesome GCP Certifications

Contents

• Common Resources For All Certifications
• Miscellaneous References
• Best Practices
• Associate Cloud Engineer
• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Professional Cloud Developer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Professional Data Engineer
• Professional Collaboration Engineer
• Professional Machine Learning Engineer
• Fellow Hybrid Multi-cloud
• GSuite
• Apigee Certified API Engineer
• Contributing
• Maintaining Exam Integrity

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Common Resources

These references are useful across all certifications.

Published	Title/Link	Author
2020/09	Passing and Failing GCP Certification Exams	Bernd Nordhausen
2020/03	Getting all the 10/10 GCP certificates – how do I start? Part 1/X	Konrad Clapa
2020/02	AwesomeGCP Channel	Sathish VJ
	Architecture Center	Google Cloud
	TechDevGuide - Cloud Computing	Google
	GCP Certification	GCP Docs
	FAQs - GCP Certification	Frequently Asked Questions
	Cloud Solutions Architecture Reference	GCP Docs
	Solve With Google Cloud - Tutorials	GCP Docs
	Google Cloud Solutions	GCP Docs
	Google Cloud Products and Solutions in 4 words	Greg Wilson
	GCP Building Blocks - A Glossary of GCP Terms
	FREE codes for Qwiklabs	Sathish VJ
	FAQs on GCP Certification Exams	Sathish VJ
	Grace's Flowcharts	Grace
	GCP Essentials - Staying in Touch	Alexis MP
	Google Cloud on Medium
	Community Tutorials
	CodeLabs/cloud	developers.google
	Google Cloud Training - Classroom Schedule	various trainers
	Google Cloud Training - Course Listing and Contents	QwikLabs
	Google Cloud Whitepapers	Google
	GCP Blog	Google
	GCP Data Analytics Blog	Google
2019/01	On Passing All Google Cloud Certifications	Sathish VJ
2018/10	Google Cloud - Jumpstart, Tutorials & Community!	David das Neves
	Pluralsight courses on GCP	Google Cloud
	Coursera courses on GCP	Google Cloud
	Cloud Minute - 1 minute videos	Google Cloud
	github GCP code repo	Google Cloud

Miscellaneous References

Published	Title/Link	Author
	Official Icons and Sample Diagrams	Google Cloud
	Weekly Newsletter	Zdenko Hrček
	Forum for certified people (invite only)
	Google Cloud Certified Credential Holder Directory (voluntary list)
	Directory of Google Developer Experts (GDE) for Cloud
2019/04	Google Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer	Sathish VJ

Best Practices

Title	Link
AI Hub Data Preprocesing	https://aihub.cloud.google.com/p/products%2F31bf71d8-d513-4926-92dc-23b2f913afce
Anthos Environ Requirements	https://cloud.google.com/anthos/multicluster-management/environs/best-practices
Anthos Migration Planning	https://cloud.google.com/migrate/anthos/docs/planning-best-practices
Apigee APIs	https://cloud.google.com/files/apigee/apigee-api-best-practices-ebook.pdf
Audit Logs	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-working-with-google-cloud-audit-logging
Audit Logs	https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/best-practices
AutoML Creating Training Data	https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/data-best-practices
AutoML Video Intelligence Object Tracking	https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/automl/object-tracking/docs/best-practices
AutoML	https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/data-best-practices
BigQuery Cost Optimization	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/cost-optimization-best-practices-for-bigquery
BigQuery Materialized Views	https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-best-practices
BigQuery Optimizing Query Performance	https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-performance-overview
BigQuery Optimizing Storage	https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-storage
Build Speeding Up	https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/speeding-up-builds
Building Containers	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-building-containers
Cloud Functions	https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/bestpractices/tips
Cloud Router	https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/router/resources/best-practices
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL	https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/best-practices
Cloud SQL	https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/best-practices
Compute Engine Region Selection	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-compute-engine-region-selection
Content Delivery	https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/best-practices
DNS	https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/best-practices-dns
Data Governance	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/principles-and-best-practices-for-data-governance-in-the-cloud
Dataproc	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/7-best-practices-for-running-cloud-dataproc-in-production
Datastore	https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/best-practices
Datastore	https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/cloud-datastore-best-practices
Deployment Manager Type Provider	https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/configuration/type-providers/best-practices-api
Deployment Manager	https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/best-practices
Deployment Manager	https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/best-practices?hl=zh-tw
Dialogflow	https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/docs/best-practices
Enterprise Multi-tenancy	https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/enterprise-multitenancy
Firestore	https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/best-practices
Floating IP Addresses	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-floating-ip-addresses
For Enterprise Organizaations	https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations
GSuite Sharing Documents	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/perspectives/best-practices-for-sharing-documents-in-g-suite
Google Maps	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/15-google-maps-platform-best-practices
IAM and Billing	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-iam-and-billing-in-higher-education
IAM	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/iam-best-practice-guides-available-now
Identity - Password Management	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-for-password-management-2019-edition
Identity Aware Proxy	https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/concepts-best-practices
Identity Federation	https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-federating
Jupyter Notebooks	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/best-practices-that-can-improve-the-life-of-any-developer-using-jupyter-notebooks
Kubernetes	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/your-guide-kubernetes-best-practices
Kubernetes	https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/kubernetes-best-practices
Kubernetes - running cost-optimized applications on GKE	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-running-cost-effective-kubernetes-applications-on-gke
Management Tools Client Libraries	https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/client-libraries-best-practices
Machine Learning - Performance and Cost Optimization	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/machine-learning/best-practices-for-ml-performance-cost
Machine Learning - Rules of ML	https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml
Media Translation	https://cloud.google.com/translate/media/docs/best-practices
Media Translation	https://cloud.google.com/translate/media/docs/best-practices?hl=tr
Memorystore for Redis Performance Tuning	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/performance-tuning-best-practices-for-memorystore-for-redis
Memorystore for Redis	https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/memory-management-best-practices
Microservice Performance	https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/microservice-performance
Migrating VMs	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-migrating-vm-to-compute-engine
Moving VMs	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/cloud-migration/tips-and-best-practices-for-moving-your-vms-to-compute-engine
MySQL Importing and Exporting Data	https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/import-export
Operating Containers	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-operating-containers
Optimizing Costs	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-optimizing-your-cloud-costs
Planning Accounts and Organizations	https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-planning
Preemptible VM Instances	https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-start-preemptible-instance
Running Active Directory	https://cloud.google.com/managed-microsoft-ad/docs/best-practices
SQL Server Instances	https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices
Secure IAM	https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/using-iam-securely
Security	https://cloud.google.com/security/best-practices
Service Accounts	https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts#best_practices
Spanner Bulk Loading	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/bulk-loading
Spanner Data Manipulation Language	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/dml-best-practices
Spanner SQL	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/sql-best-practices
Spanner Schema Design	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-design
Spanner	https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/best-practice-list
Speech API	https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/best-practices?hl=ru&refresh=1pli%3D1
Speech to Text	https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/best-practices
Storage	https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/best-practices
Storage - privacy and security	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-storage-best-practices-to-help-ensure-data-privacy-and-security
Storage - Request Rates	https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/request-rate#best-practices
Super Administrator Account	https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/super-admin-best-practices
Tightly Coupled HPC Apps	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-using-mpi-on-compute-engine
User Account, Authentication and Password Management	https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/12-best-practices-for-user-account
VPC design	https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-vpc-design
VPN	https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/vpn/resources/best-practices
VPN	https://cloud.google.com/vpn/docs/resources/best-practices
Working with Cloud Support	https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/best-practice

Contributing

• Please contribute to making this list really awesome, exhaustive, and up to date.
• Contributing to this list is easy: a pull request in this repo or you can also send me the info on LinkedIn or Twitter.
• Please provide details as required by that section. Links, author names, date published, which certification(s) does it apply to, etc.
• For book links, preferably send a search link with the book and author name. (Why? Using an amazon.com link assumes that all readers are in one country and using one book seller.)

Maintaining Exam Integrity

• Google takes the privacy of the exams very seriously.
• If and when you write notes, do not reveal details about the exam.
  • What questions were asked?
  • How many questions on each topic?
  • Anything that compromises the integrity of the exam.
• When one of my blog posts leaked some exam info, I was contacted by the Google Certifications Team.
• If you find any posts that I've listed which might be a concern, please let me and also the original authors know.