The article gives an overview of Google Cloud Preparation for Cloud Digital Leader Exam and shares tips to pass the exam. It starts with an introduction of digital transformation with Google Cloud, which offers open infrastructure, open standard, open source, collaboration, and trusted cloud. It highlights the difference between CapEx and OpEx. The article then discusses various types of data and storage places, and how to migrate data with managed services. It further explains analytics in data and AI, and cloud products for AI and ML. The article also covers modernizing infrastructure with microservices, serverless computing, and potential drawbacks of rehosting legacy apps to the cloud. It gives five key security principles and observability tools for designing highly available applications on the cloud. Lastly, it explains different levels of support and their benefits.
Google Cloud provides digital infrastructure to support CapEx to OpEx model, which means on-premises have their own servers while in Cloud you only pay for what you use. Google Cloud's key advantages include open infrastructure, open standard, open source, collaboration, and trusted cloud.
The article explains various types of data such as structured, semi-structured and unstructured and different storage places such as databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Managed services such as Datastream and DMS Database Migration service are used for migrating data. The article further explains analytics in data and AI and cloud products for AI and ML such as Pre-trained APIs and AutoML.
The article also covers modernizing infrastructure with microservices, serverless computing, and potential drawbacks of rehosting legacy apps to the cloud.
It gives five key security principles for designing highly secured applications on the cloud, such as zero trust, least privilege, privilege access, security by default and security posture.
The observability tools discussed in the article are Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Trace, Profiler, and Error Reporting.
Different levels of support for Google Cloud include Basic, Standard, Enhanced, and Premium support.