SKILL BENCHMARK

GCP Architect: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure Competency (Intermediate Level)

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  • 23 questions
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The Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your comprehensive understanding of managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure using GCP services. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates competency in many areas of this domain with the knowledge and insights needed to make informed decisions about planning for implementation and cloud migrations.

Topics covered

  • assess the risks to an organization that is planning on making a migration to the cloud
  • describe the advantages of using Google Cloud Emulators in the process of application deployment to the cloud
  • describe the differences between and advantages of various development methodologies
  • describe the process of installing and using a Google Cloud emulator
  • describe the process of using Google Cloud Build to run unit tests
  • identify best practices for implementing both representational state transfer (REST) and remote procedure call (RPC)-based APIs
  • identify elements of networking and licensing that must be planned before migration
  • identify elements that will need to be in place in the cloud before other types of migration
  • identify potential sources of technical debt that may affect the progress of application development
  • identify potential virtual machine migration design decisions in Google Cloud
  • identify the key differences between and uses of automated testing types such as load, unit, and integration
  • identify the key differences between and uses of various automated testing frameworks
  • identify the similar tools and services available through other major cloud providers
  • identify the steps needed to fully assess workloads and their dependencies
  • identify the tools and positive outcomes of adopting a model that leverages the advantages of Google Cloud in new ways
  • identify tools and techniques used to migrate different types of applications to Google Cloud
  • identify tools and techniques used to migrate different types of data to Google Cloud
  • identify where an organization is in the continuum of cloud maturity phases
  • interact with the Google Cloud infrastructure using Google Cloud Shell
  • interact with the Google Cloud infrastructure using Google software development kit (SDK) tools such as gcloud, gsutil, and bq
  • recognize the different types of cloud migration available to achieve different business goals
  • use the Database Migration Service to migrate data from various databases into Cloud SQL
  • use the Google Cloud Maturity Assessment tool and outline the results