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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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Beginner level
No prior experience required
Flexible schedule
6 hours to complete
Learn at your own pace
95%
Most learners liked this course

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

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.

This section welcomes learners to the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course, and provides an overview of the course structure and goals.

What's included

1 video

1 video•Total 2 minutes
  • Course Introduction•2 minutes

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).

What's included

7 videos1 assignment

7 videos•Total 20 minutes
  • Cloud computing overview•3 minutes
  • IaaS and PaaS•2 minutes
  • The Google Cloud network•3 minutes
  • Environmental impact•2 minutes
  • Security•6 minutes
  • Open source ecosystems•1 minute
  • Pricing and billing•3 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
  • Quiz - Introducing Google Cloud•5 minutes

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.

What's included

5 videos1 assignment1 app item1 plugin

5 videos•Total 16 minutes
  • Google Cloud resource hierarchy•5 minutes
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)•4 minutes
  • Service accounts•2 minutes
  • Cloud Identity•1 minute
  • Interacting with Google Cloud•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
  • Quiz.•5 minutes
1 app item•Total 25 minutes
  • Getting Started with Cloud Marketplace•25 minutes
1 plugin•Total 15 minutes
  • Accessing and completing labs•15 minutes

This section of the course explores how Google Compute Engine works, with a focus on virtual networking.

What's included

7 videos1 assignment1 app item

7 videos•Total 19 minutes
  • Virtual Private Cloud networking•2 minutes
  • Compute Engine•4 minutes
  • Scaling virtual machines•1 minute
  • Important VPC compatibilities•2 minutes
  • Cloud Load Balancing•3 minutes
  • Cloud DNS and Cloud CDN•2 minutes
  • Connecting networks to Google VPC•6 minutes
1 assignment•Total 12 minutes
  • Quiz.•12 minutes
1 app item•Total 60 minutes
  • Getting Started with VPC Networking and Google Compute Engine•60 minutes

This section of the course showcases five core Google Cloud storage products: Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Firestore.

What's included

8 videos1 assignment1 app item

8 videos•Total 18 minutes
  • Google Cloud storage options•1 minute
  • Cloud Storage•4 minutes
  • Cloud Storage: Storage classes and data transfer•5 minutes
  • Cloud SQL•2 minutes
  • Spanner•1 minute
  • Firestore•1 minute
  • Bigtable•2 minutes
  • Comparing storage options•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz - Storage in the Cloud•6 minutes
1 app item•Total 50 minutes
  • Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL•50 minutes

This section of the course explores containers and how they can be managed with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

What's included

3 videos1 assignment

3 videos•Total 11 minutes
  • Introduction to containers•3 minutes
  • Kubernetes•5 minutes
  • Google Kubernetes Engine•3 minutes
1 assignment•Total 14 minutes
  • Quiz - Containers in the Cloud•14 minutes

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 Run functions.

What's included

2 videos1 assignment1 app item

2 videos•Total 6 minutes
  • Cloud Run•4 minutes
  • Development in the cloud•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
  • Quiz - Applications in the Cloud•6 minutes
1 app item•Total 45 minutes
  • Hello Cloud Run•45 minutes

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.

What's included

1 video1 assignment

1 video•Total 13 minutes
  • Prompt Engineering•13 minutes
1 assignment•Total 5 minutes
  • Quiz - Prompt Engineering•5 minutes

In this final section, we review what was presented in this course and discuss the next steps to continue your cloud learning journey.

What's included

1 video1 reading

1 video•Total 4 minutes
  • Course summary•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
  • Course resources•10 minutes

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Reviewed on Sep 11, 2019

Video content served as a great intro, but at times more detail was needed to complete tests with high scores. Consider adding more content in videos or links to articles with more info before tests.

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.

SK
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Reviewed on Feb 2, 2020

This is an excellent for a beginner to get an idea about google cloud platform. But, for an absolute beginner, I felt the course content fell short in some areas. Nevertheless, a very good course.

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