Professional Cloud Architect

The published domains and objectives for Professional Cloud Architect. Your missions come from these objectives, and your progress is recorded against them.

• 25%

  1

  Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

  • 1.1Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets business requirements
  • 1.2Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
  • 1.3Designing network, storage, and compute resources
  • 1.4Creating a migration plan
  • 1.5Envisioning future solution improvements

• 17.5%

  2

  Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure

  • 2.1Configuring network topologies
  • 2.2Configuring individual storage systems
  • 2.3Configuring compute systems
  • 2.4Leveraging Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for end-to-end ML workflows
  • 2.5Configuring prebuilt solutions or APIs with Agent Platform

• 17.5%

  3

  Designing for security and compliance

  • 3.1Designing for security
  • 3.2Designing for compliance

• 15%

  4

  Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

  • 4.1Analyzing and defining technical processes
  • 4.2Analyzing and defining business processes

• 12.5%

  5

  Managing implementation

  • 5.1Advising development and operation teams to ensure successful deployment
  • 5.2Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically

• 12.5%

  6

  Ensuring solution and operations excellence

  • 6.1Understanding operational excellence in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework
  • 6.2Familiarity with Google Cloud Observability solutions
  • 6.3Deployment and release management
  • 6.4Assisting with the support of deployed solutions
  • 6.5Evaluating quality control measures
  • 6.6Ensuring the reliability of solutions in production