Google Cloud Digital Leader Cert Prep: 1 Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Explore the key benefits of digital transformation for enterprises to start modernizing your IT infrastructure with Google Cloud.

Introduction

• Executive introduction
• Course introduction

1. Why Cloud Technology Is Transforming Business

• Introduction
• Innovations, paradigm shifts, and digital transformation
• What is the cloud?
• The benefits of cloud computing
• Real-world examples: Why it’s critical to transform and embrace new technology
• Cloud eras
• Challenges that lead to a digital transformation
• Google transformation cloud
• The Google Cloud Adoption Framework
• Summary

2. Fundamental Cloud Concepts

• Introduction
• Total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Capital expenditures (CapEx) versus operating expenses (OpEx)
• Private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud strategies
• How a network supports digital transformation
• Network performance: Bandwidth and latency
• Google Cloud regions and zones
• Google’s edge network
• Summary

3. Cloud Computing Models and Shared Responsibility

• Introduction to cloud computing models and shared responsibility
• Cloud computing service models
• IaaS (infrastructure as a service)
• PaaS (platform as a service)
• SaaS (software as a service)
• Choosing a cloud computing model
• The shared responsibility model
• How the shared responsibility model works
• Summary

Conclusion

• Course summary