Detailed Course Outline
Module 01: Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Topics:
- Why cloud technology is transforming business
- Fundamental cloud concepts
- Cloud computing models and shared responsibility
Objectives:
- Explain why and how the cloud is revolutionizing businesses.
- Explain general cloud concepts.
- Discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of using infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).
Module 02: Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Topics:
- The value of data
- Google Cloud data management solutions
- Making data useful and accessible
Objectives:
- Describe the intrinsic role that data plays in an organization's digital transformation.
- Determine which Google Cloud data management products are applicable to different business use cases.
- Discuss how smart analytics, business intelligence tools, and streaming analytics can add value in different business use cases.
Module 03: Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Topics:
- AI and ML fundamentals
- Google Cloud’s AI and ML solutions
Objectives:
- Discuss the main AI and ML concepts, and explain how ML can create business value.
- Discuss the range of Google Cloud AI and ML solutions and products available, and how to select the most appropriate solution for different business use cases.
- Explain how Google Cloud’s pre-trained API, AutoML, and custom AI/ML products can create business value
Module 04: Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Topics:
- Important cloud migration terms
- Modernizing infrastructure in the cloud
- Modernizing applications in the cloud
Objectives:
- Explain why modernization and migration to the cloud are important steps in an organization’s transformation journey, and how each application might have a different path.
- Discuss the options for and advantages of running compute workloads in the cloud.
- Discuss the advantages of using containers in application modernization.
- Discuss the advantages of serverless computing in application modernization.
- Explain the business value of application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Discuss the business reasons for choosing hybrid or multi-cloud strategies and how GKE Enterprise enables these strategies.
Module 05: Trust and Security with Google Cloud
Topics:
- Trust and security in the cloud
- Google’s trusted infrastructure
- Google Cloud’s trust principles and compliance
Objectives:
- Discuss fundamental cloud security concepts.
- Explain the business value of Google’s defense-in-depth multilayered approach to infrastructure security.
- Describe how Google Cloud earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud.
Module 06: Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Topics:
- Financial governance and managing cloud costs
- Operational excellence and reliability at scale
- Sustainability with Google Cloud
Objectives:
- Discuss how Google Cloud supports an organization's financial governance and ability to control their cloud costs.
- Discuss the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud.
- Discuss how Google Cloud helps organizations meet sustainability goals and reduce environmental impact.