- Cloud Storage. Life cycle management policies. All courses cover this.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/lifecycle - VPC, VPN, Peer Gateways. In general, brush up your general networking knowledge.
- IAM. In answering IAM related questions, a suggestion … Given all the possible predefined/curated roles, it is difficult to know whether a particular role actually exists or is made up. My assumption usually was that if they have mentioned it, it probably exists and now figure out if it seems right. There is no guarantee that a policy/role they mention in the options actually exist, but I assumed it to simplify my life.
- Networking. Various options to connect between cloud and on-premises.
- Data Loss Prevention API. Is there a way to automatically scrub/sanitize private customer data in, say, logs.
https://cloud.google.com/dlp/ - Stackdriver. Know this well. Including the custom installed monitoring agent.
https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/ - Cloud Armor, Security Scanning, Jenkins, Spinnaker, cloud identity aware proxy, cloud sql proxy, cloud launcher (vs deployment manager), etc. Would be good to know in general what these are even if you don’t go in-depth.
- Networking. Firewall, network tags. This is taught in the various courses.
https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/add-remove-network-tags - Data prep vs Datalab. Which is used for what? Doing just one lab on Qwiklabs will give you enough knowledge.
- Cloud Spanner.
- Cloud SQL. K̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶C̶l̶o̶u̶d̶ ̶S̶Q̶L̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶r̶t̶s̶ ̶M̶y̶S̶Q̶L̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶P̶o̶s̶t̶g̶r̶e̶S̶Q̶L̶.̶ ̶O̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶S̶Q̶L̶ ̶d̶a̶t̶a̶b̶a̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶r̶e̶q̶u̶i̶r̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶s̶t̶o̶m̶ ̶i̶n̶s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶.̶ This has changed — https://cloud.google.com/sql-server/. Cloud SQL supports MySQL, Postgres, and SQLServer. GCP is constantly updating their solutions and offerings, so check the docs when you are preparing.
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/ - Cloud Storage. Know the storage class options — standard (regional and multiregional), nearline, coldline. T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶s̶.̶ (There is also an ice cold storage now — https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/whats-cooler-than-being-cool-ice-cold-archive-storage) https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes
- Questions on the exam are much longer than in the coursera or linux academy courses. You need to practice taking the exam for 2 full hours and reading the longwinded questions and answer options. Don’t get bored or distracted because you’ve been practising with the shorter straightforward questions in some of the courses or practice tests.
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