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Google Cloud Platform Certification resources.

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Common Resources

These references are useful across all certifications.

Published Title/Link Author
2022/11 FAQs on Google Cloud (GCP) Certifications Sathish VJ
2021/11 End to End Process of Booking/scheduling your Google Cloud exam to Sharing your result Ramesh Rajini
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
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
GCP Certification training Intellipaat

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
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/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices
Kubernetes - enterprise multitenancy https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/enterprise-multitenancy
Kubernetes - scalable clusters https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/scalability
Kubernetes - upgrading clusters https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/upgrading-clusters
Kubernetes - building containers https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-building-containers
Kubernetes - operating containers https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-operating-containers
Kubernetes - running cost-optimized applications on GKE https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-running-cost-effective-kubernetes-applications-on-gke
Kubernetes https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/your-guide-kubernetes-best-practices
Kubernetes https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/kubernetes-best-practices
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
VPC Service Controls for enterprises https://cloud.google.com/solutions/vpc-service-controls-enterprise-best-practices
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

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Maintaining Exam Integrity

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  • 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.