Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
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What you'll learn
Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.
Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud
Explain how to create a basic infrastructure in Google Cloud
Select and use Google Cloud storage options
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There are 9 modules in this course
This section welcomes learners to the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course, and provides an overview of the course structure and goals.
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1 video
This section identifies some of the key benefits of using Google Cloud. It's here that we introduce the components of the Google network infrastructure, and explore the differences between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).
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7 videos1 assignment
This section explores how resources get organized with projects, and how access to those resources gets shared with the right part of a workforce through a tool called Identity and Access Management (IAM). It's also in this section that we identify different ways to interact with Google Cloud.
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6 videos1 assignment1 app item
This section of the course explores how Google Compute Engine works, with a focus on virtual networking.
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7 videos1 assignment1 app item
This section of the course showcases five core Google Cloud storage products: Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Firestore.
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8 videos1 assignment1 app item
This section of the course explores containers and how they can be managed with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.
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3 videos1 assignment
The focus of this section of the course is developing applications in the cloud. It's here that we'll explore Cloud Run and Cloud Functions.
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2 videos1 assignment1 app item
This section looks at generative AI tools, how they work. We'll explore how to combine Google Cloud knowledge with prompt engineering to improve Gemini responses.
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1 video1 assignment
In this final section, we review what was presented in this course and discuss the next steps to continue your cloud learning journey.
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1 video1 reading
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LF
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Reviewed on Jan 28, 2017
Great course to introduce the specialization. It could be more robust, but it does the job and you are also provided with links for documents that will help you build on what you learn in the course.
SV
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Reviewed on Feb 14, 2018
This was one of the best learning I had. Very simple and easy way to do the labs and understand the concepts. Even though the content is around fundamentals, it helps to remember the terminologies.
KF
5
Reviewed on Apr 6, 2019
It is an awesome course that let's you understand all (almost all) features of GCP. That was awesome to me as a software engineer to know better how the infrastructure can be configurable/developed.
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