Course Details
Course Details
What You'll Learn
This course prepares you for the Associate certification exam, covering all official exam domains and their approximate weightings:
Domain 1 Section 1: Setting up a cloud solution environment (20%)
- Setting up cloud projects and accounts: resource hierarchy, org policies, IAM roles, Cloud Identity users/groups, API enablement
- Assessing quotas and requesting increases; verifying product availability across regions/zones
- Configuring Cloud Asset Inventory and using Gemini Cloud Assist to analyze resources
- Configuring Workforce Identity Federation and setting up cloud networking
- Managing billing configuration: billing accounts, linking projects, budgets/alerts, billing exports
Domain 2 Section 2: Planning and implementing a cloud solution (30%)
- Planning and implementing compute resources: choosing Compute Engine/GKE/Cloud Run/serverless, launching instances, managed instance groups, GKE cluster deployment, GPUs/TPUs
- Planning and implementing storage and data solutions: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable, Cloud Storage classes, data loading, multi-region redundancy
- Planning and implementing networking resources: VPC/subnets, firewall rules and Cloud NGFW policies, network connectivity (VPN/Peering/Interconnect), load balancers, network service tiers
- Planning and implementing resources using tooling: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Config Connector, Helm) and AI-assisted planning (Gemini CLI, Gemini Cloud Assist, Application Design Center)
Domain 3 Section 3: Ensuring the successful operation of a cloud solution (30%)
- Managing compute resources: Compute Engine instances, snapshots/images, GKE node pools and Kubernetes resources, Pod autoscaling, Cloud Run deployments and traffic splitting
- Managing storage and data solutions: securing Cloud Storage objects, lifecycle policies, querying data instances, backup/restore, cost estimation, CMEK
- Managing networking resources: resizing subnets, static IPs, custom routes, Cloud DNS and Cloud NAT, firewall/NGFW policy management
- Monitoring and logging: Cloud Monitoring alerts and custom metrics, audit logs, log routers/analytics, diagnostic tools (Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler), Ops Agent, Gemini Cloud Assist and Active Assist for monitoring
Domain 4 Section 4: Configuring access and security (20%)
- Managing IAM: viewing/creating IAM policies, role inheritance in the Organization hierarchy, custom IAM roles
- Managing service accounts: creation, minimum-permission IAM policies, assigning to resources, impersonation, short-lived credentials
- Using Google Cloud service accounts with GKE applications
- Provisioning Workload Identity Federation
Course Info
Promotion Code
Your will get 10% discount voucher for 2nd course onwards if you write us a Google review.
Minimum Entry Requirement
Knowledge and Skills
- Able to operate using computer functions
- Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)
Attitude
- Positive Learning Attitude
- Enthusiastic Learner
Experience
- Minimum of 1 year of working experience.
Target Age Group: 18-65 years old
Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement
Software:
TBD
Hardware: Window or Mac Laptops
Job Roles
Job Roles
- Cloud Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- DevOps Engineer
- IT Manager
- Solutions Architect
- Network Engineer
- Software Developer
- Data Engineer
- Security Engineer
- Technical Support Engineer
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Application Developer
- IT Consultant
- Cloud Consultant
- Cloud Architect
Trainers
Trainers
Saeid is co-founder of Skymics Sdn Bhd. He has 8 years of experience in the field of IoT (Internet of Things) and Information Technology. He is a certified IBM IoT Practitioner and instructor, and a Certified Citizen Data Scientist Train-The-Trainer. He has been co-inventor of 3 inventions during the last 4 years.
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Customer Reviews (7)
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Well organised course with clear objectives. The step-by-step approach made it easy to follow. (Posted on 08/06/2026)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Good course materials Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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Well organised course with clear objectives. The step-by-step approach made it easy to follow. (Posted on 05/06/2025)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Would attend again Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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Excellent delivery and good balance between theory and practice. Learned a lot in a short time. (Posted on 26/05/2025)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Great learning experience Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The course materials were detailed and easy to reference afterwards. Great value for money. (Posted on 07/05/2025)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Engaging trainer Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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The course content was comprehensive and up to date. The practical exercises were the best part. (Posted on 16/08/2024)1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment
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