PCA study notes
- Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture PCA notes on requirements analysis, the Well-Architected Framework, availability and DR design, network, storage, compute and data processing choices, AI services, migration planning and the four case studies. 25%
- Managing and provisioning infrastructure PCA notes on hybrid and multicloud network configuration, load balancers and network security, storage configuration and lifecycle, compute provisioning, GKE and serverless, and ML workflows and AI APIs on the Agent Platform. 17.5%
- Designing for security and compliance PCA notes on IAM, the resource hierarchy, organization policy, encryption and Cloud KMS, secrets, VPC Service Controls, secure access, supply chain security, AI security, regulation and audit logging. 17.5%
- Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes PCA notes on SDLC and CI/CD, troubleshooting and root cause analysis, testing strategy, service catalogs, disaster recovery, stakeholder and change management, skills readiness, cost and CapEx versus OpEx, and business continuity. 15%
- Managing implementation PCA notes on advising development and operations teams, deployment tooling, Apigee and API management, testing frameworks, migration tooling, Gemini Cloud Assist, and programmatic access with gcloud, Cloud Code, emulators, Terraform and client libraries. 12.5%
- Ensuring solution and operations reliability PCA notes on the operational excellence pillar, Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Trace and Profiler, alerting, SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, release management, incident support, quality control, and chaos, penetration and load testing. 12.5%