Course Overview
This course will familiarize you with Google Cloud's flexible infrastructure and platform services, with a specific focus on Compute Engine. This course uses a combination of lectures, demos, and hands-on labs to explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components like networks, systems, and application services. You'll also learn how to deploy practical solutions such as hybrid networking, customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
Who should attend
This course is intended for the following participants:
- Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers
 - Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine
 
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, participants should:
- Have completed Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (GCF-CI) or have equivalent experience
 - Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
 - Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment
 
Course Objectives
- Interact with the Google Cloud console and Cloud Shell
 - Deploy solutions using Google Cloud Marketplace
 - Implement VPC networks and firewall rules
 - Create and customize VM instances using Compute Engine
 - Administer Identity and Access Management for resources
 - Implement data storage services in Google Cloud
 - Manage and examine billing of Google Cloud resources
 - Monitor resources using Google Cloud services
 - Connect your infrastructure to Google Cloud
 - Configure load balancers and autoscaling for VM instances
 - Automate the deployment of Google Cloud infrastructure services
 - Leverage managed services in Google Cloud