Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide

Introduction xxiAssessment Test xxxiiChapter 1 Overview of Google Cloud Platform 1Types of Cloud Services 2Compute Resources 3Storage 4Networking 7Specialized Services 8Cloud Computing vs. Data Center Computing 8Rent Instead of Own Resources 8Pay-as-You-Go-for-What-You-Use Model 9Elastic Resource Allocation 9Specialized Services 10Exam Essentials 10Review Questions 11Chapter 2 Google Cloud Computing Services 15Computing Components of Google Cloud Platform 16Computing Resources 17Storage Components of Google Cloud Platform 21Storage Resources 21Databases 23Networking Components of Google Cloud Platform 26Networking Services 26Identity Management 28Development Tools 28Additional Components of Google Cloud Platform 29Management Tools 29Specialized Services 30Exam Essentials 31Review Questions 34Chapter 3 Projects, Service Accounts, and Billing 39How GCP Organizes Projects and Accounts 40GCP Resource Hierarchy 40Organization Policies 43Managing Projects 45Roles and Identities 47Roles in GCP 47Granting Roles to Identities 49Service Accounts 50Billing 51Billing Accounts 51Billing Budgets and Alerts 53Exporting Billing Data 54Enabling APIs 56Provisioning Stackdriver Workspaces 58Exam Essentials 60Review Questions 61Chapter 4 Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud 67Compute Engine 68Virtual Machine Images 68Virtual Machines Are Contained in Projects 71Virtual Machines Run in a Zone and Region 72Users Need Privileges to Create Virtual Machines 73Preemptible Virtual Machines 74Custom Machine Types 76Use Cases for Compute Engine Virtual Machines 77App Engine 77Structure of an App Engine Application 77App Engine Standard and Flexible Environments 78Use Cases for App Engine 80Kubernetes Engine 81Kubernetes Functionality 82Kubernetes Cluster Architecture 82Kubernetes High Availability 83Kubernetes Engine Use Cases 84Cloud Functions 84Cloud Functions Execution Environment 84Cloud Functions Use Cases 85Summary 85Exam Essentials 86Review Questions 87Chapter 5 Computing with Compute Engine Virtual Machines 91Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines with the Console 92Main Virtual Machine Configuration Details 95Additional Configuration Details 97Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines with Cloud SDK 103Installing Cloud SDK 103Cloud SDK on Mac OS 104Example Installation on Ubuntu Linux 104Creating a Virtual Machine with Cloud SDK 105Creating a Virtual Machine with Cloud Shell 106Basic Virtual Machine Management 107Starting and Stopping Instances 107Network Access to Virtual Machines 108Monitoring a Virtual Machine 109Cost of Virtual Machines 111Guidelines for Planning, Deploying, and Managing Virtual Machines 111Summary 112Exam Essentials 112Review Questions 113Chapter 6 Managing Virtual Machines 117Managing Single Virtual Machine Instances 118Managing Single Virtual Machine Instances in the Console 118Managing a Single Virtual Machine Instance with Cloud Shell and the Command Line 130Introduction to Instance Groups 134Creating and Removing Instance Groups and Templates 134Instance Groups Load Balancing and Autoscaling 137Guidelines for Managing Virtual Machines 137Summary 138Exam Essentials 138Review Questions 140Chapter 7 Computing with Kubernetes 145Introduction to Kubernetes Engine 146Kubernetes Cluster Architecture 146Kubernetes Objects 147Deploying Kubernetes Clusters 149Deploying Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud Console 149Deploying Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud Shell and Cloud SDK 153Deploying Application Pods 154Monitoring Kubernetes 157Summary 168Exam Essentials 168Review Questions 170Chapter 8 Managing Kubernetes Clusters 175Viewing the Status of a Kubernetes Cluster 176Viewing the Status of Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud Console 176Viewing the Status of Kubernetes Clusters Using Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell 184Adding, Modifying, and Removing Nodes 190Adding, Modifying, and Removing Nodes with Cloud Console 190Adding, Modifying, and Removing with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell 191Adding, Modifying, and Removing Pods 192Adding, Modifying, and Removing Pods with Cloud Console 192Adding, Modifying, and Removing Pods with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell 195Adding, Modifying, and Removing Services 196Adding, Modifying, and Removing Services with Cloud Console 196Adding, Modifying, and Removing Services with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell 198Viewing the Image Repository and Image Details 199Viewing the Image Repository and Image Details with Cloud Console 199Viewing the Image Repository and Image Details with Cloud SDK and Cloud Shell 202Summary 203Exam Essentials 203Review Questions 204Chapter 9 Computing with App Engine 209App Engine Components 210Deploying an App Engine Application 211Deploying an App Using Cloud Shell and SDK 211Scaling App Engine Applications 215Splitting Traffic between App Engine Versions 217Summary 218Exam Essentials 218Review Questions 220Chapter 10 Computing with Cloud Functions 225Introduction to Cloud Functions 226Events, Triggers, and Functions 227Runtime Environments 227Cloud Functions Receiving Events from Cloud Storage 229Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Storage Events Using Cloud Console 229Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Storage Events Using gcloud Commands 231Cloud Functions Receiving Events from Pub/Sub 233Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Pub/Sub Events Using Cloud Console 233Deploying a Cloud Function for Cloud Pub/Sub Events Using gcloud Commands 234Summary 234Exam Essentials 235Review Questions 237Chapter 11 Planning Storage in the Cloud 241Types of Storage Systems 242Cache 243Persistent Storage 245Object Storage 247Storage Types When Planning a Storage Solution 253Storage Data Models 254Object: Cloud Storage 254Relational: Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, and BigQuery 254NoSQL: Datastore, Cloud Firestore, and Bigtable 261Choosing a Storage Solution: Guidelines to Consider 268Summary 269Exam Essentials 270Review Questions 271Chapter 12 Deploying Storage in Google Cloud Platform 275Deploying and Managing Cloud SQL 276Creating and Connecting to a MySQL Instance 276Creating a Database, Loading Data, and Querying Data 278Backing Up MySQL in Cloud SQL 279Deploying and Managing Datastore 283Adding Data to a Datastore Database 283Backing Up Datastore 284Deploying and Managing BigQuery 285Estimating the Cost of Queries in BigQuery 285Viewing Jobs in BigQuery 286Deploying and Managing Cloud Spanner 288Deploying and Managing Cloud Pub/Sub 292Deploying and Managing Cloud Bigtable 295Deploying and Managing Cloud Dataproc 298Managing Cloud Storage 302Summary 303Exam Essentials 304Review Questions 305Chapter 13 Loading Data into Storage 309Loading and Moving Data to Cloud Storage 310Loading and Moving Data to Cloud Storage Using the Console 310Loading and Moving Data to Cloud Storage Using the Command Line 314Importing and Exporting Data 315Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud SQL 315Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Datastore 319Importing and Exporting Data: BigQuery 320Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Spanner 325Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Bigtable 327Importing and Exporting Data: Cloud Dataproc 329Streaming Data to Cloud Pub/Sub 330Summary 331Exam Essentials 332Review Questions 333Chapter 14 Networking in the Cloud: Virtual Private Clouds and Virtual Private Networks 337Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with Subnets 338Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with Cloud Console 338Creating a Virtual Private Cloud with gcloud 342Creating a Shared Virtual Private Cloud Using gcloud 343Deploying Compute Engine with a Custom Network 344Creating Firewall Rules for a Virtual Private Cloud 347Structure of Firewall Rules 347Creating Firewall Rules Using Cloud Console 348Creating Firewall Rules Using gcloud 350Creating a Virtual Private Network 351Creating a Virtual Private Network Using Cloud Console 351Creating a Virtual Private Network Using gcloud 354Summary 355Exam Essentials 355Review Questions 357Chapter 15 Networking in the Cloud: DNS, Load Balancing, and IP Addressing 361Configuring Cloud DNS 362Creating DNS Managed Zones Using Cloud Console 362Creating a DNS Managed Zones Using gcloud 366Configuring Load Balancers 367Types of Load Balancers 367Configuring Load Balancers using Cloud Console 368Configuring Load Balancers using gcloud 374Managing IP Addresses 375Expanding CIDR Blocks 375Reserving IP Addresses 375Summary 377Exam Essentials 378Review Questions 379Chapter 16 Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager 383Deploying a Solution Using Cloud Launcher 384Browsing Cloud Launcher and Viewing Solutions 384Deploying Cloud Launcher Solutions 390Deploying an Application Using Deployment Manager 394Deployment Manager Configuration Files 394Deployment Manager Template Files 397Launching a Deployment Manager Template 398Summary 398Exam Essentials 399Review Questions 400Chapter 17 Configuring Access and Security 405Managing Identity and Access Management 406Viewing Account Identity and Access Management Assignments 406Assigning Identity and Access Management Roles to Accounts and Groups 408Defining Custom Identity and Access Management Roles 411Managing Service Accounts 414Managing Service Accounts with Scopes 414Assigning a Service Account to a Virtual Machine Instance 416Viewing Audit Logs 417Summary 418Exam Essentials 418Review Questions 420Chapter 18 Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating 425Monitoring with Stackdriver 426Creating Alerts Based on Resource Metrics 427Creating Custom Metrics 437Logging with Stackdriver 438Configuring Log Sinks 438Viewing and Filtering Logs 441Viewing Message Details 444Using Cloud Diagnostics 446Overview of Cloud Trace 446Overview of Cloud Debug 448Viewing Google Cloud Platform Status 451Using the Pricing Calculator 453Summary 457Exam Essentials 458Review Questions 459Appendix Answers to Review Questions 463Chapter 1: Overview of Google Cloud Platform 464Chapter 2: Google Cloud Computing Services 466Chapter 3: Projects, Service Accounts, and Billing 468Chapter 4: Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud 470Chapter 5: Computing with Compute Engine Virtual Machines 472Chapter 6: Managing Virtual Machines 475Chapter 7: Computing with Kubernetes 477Chapter 8: Managing Kubernetes Clusters 479Chapter 9: Computing with App Engine 481Chapter 10: Computing with Cloud Functions 483Chapter 11: Planning Storage in the Cloud 485Chapter 12: Deploying Storage in Google Cloud Platform 487Chapter 13: Loading Data into Storage 490Chapter 14: Networking in the Cloud Virtual Private Clouds and Virtual Private Networks 492Chapter 15: Networking in the Cloud: DNS, Load Balancing, and IP Addressing 494Chapter 16: Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager 496Chapter 17: Configuring Access and Security 498Chapter 18: Monitoring, Logging, and Cost Estimating 500Index 503