Before taking the Google Professional Cloud Architect exam, I recommend reading the documentation at the following links. This list contains many topics that were not covered anywhere else in the learning path.
- 5 best practices for Compute Engine cost optimization
- Use regional PDs for high availability services
- Batch messages in a publish request
- Establish 99.99% availability for Dedicated Interconnect (only read the "Requirements" section)
- Configure node affinity labels
- Retention policies and retention policy locks
- OS patch management (only read the overview)
- Introduction to the Organization Policy Service
- How VPC Service Controls reduces data exfiltration risks
- Use customer-managed encryption keys
- HIPAA Compliance on Google Cloud
- Properly tag your images
- Firebase Test Lab
- Anthos Service Mesh
- API Versioning
- Testing Basics
- Detecting and responding to Cloud Logging events in real-time
- Automatically apply VM configuration updates in a MIG (only read "Starting a basic rolling update" and "Configuring options for your update" sections)
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