Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey

This course helps you structure your preparation for the Professional Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

• Introduction
• Welcome to Preparing for the Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey.
• Designing and planning a Google Cloud Network
• Provide an overview of the Google Cloud features that Cymbal Bank will use.
• Implementing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks
• In this module, you review Cymbal Bank’s functional requirements, so you can implement their VPC network. In particular, you consider routing, GKE clusters, firewalls, and VPC service controls. You will edit your study plan to note the skills that you must develop to design and implement the VPC network.
• Configuring managed network services
• In this module, you review Cymbal Bank’s functional requirements, regarding network services, including load balancing, Cloud CDN, Google Cloud Armor, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, and packet mirroring. You will edit your study plan to note the skills that you must develop to design and implement these services.
• Implementing hybrid network interconnectivity
• In this module, you review Cymbal Bank’s functional requirements regarding hybrid interconnectivity. In particular, you consider Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN, and Cloud Router. You will edit your study plan to note the skills that you must develop to implement hybrid interconnectivity.
• Managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network operations
• In the module, you will Review Cymbal Bank’s logging and monitoring requirements. You will also consider troubleshooting and debugging, especially with regard to network traffic, latency, and connectivity. You will edit your study plan to note the skills that you must develop to design and implement logging and monitoring; perform effective troubleshooting; and manage and optimize network operations.
• Your next steps
• In this module, you will finish creating your study plan.