GCP cloud — Study Path Agent

Chapter 1

GCP fundamentals: projects, billing, and IAM basics

1

GCP core concepts

2

Projects, billing, and IAM basics

3

Resource hierarchy and permissions

4

Cloud Console & gcloud basics

5

Pricing, budgets, and cost optimization

Chapter 2

Compute services on GCP (Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, GKE)

6

Compute Engine basics and instances

7

App Engine platform and scaling

8

Cloud Functions: event-driven serverless

9

Cloud Run: containerized workloads

10

GKE: Kubernetes Engine basics

11

Compute service comparison and patterns

Chapter 3

Storage & databases on GCP (Cloud Storage, SQL, NoSQL, Spanner, BigQuery)

12

Cloud Storage architecture and lifecycle

13

Cloud SQL vs Cloud Spanner vs Firestore

14

BigQuery fundamentals and workflows

15

Spanner for globally consistent OLTP

16

Firestore and NoSQL on GCP

17

Persistent disks, backups, and snapshots

Chapter 4

Networking on GCP (VPC, Load Balancing, CDN, Interconnect)

18

VPC fundamentals and networking design

19

Load balancing and auto-scaling

20

Content Delivery & Cloud CDN

21

Interconnect and private connectivity

22

Private Google Access and per-region networking

23

Networking best practices and security

Chapter 5

Security & IAM on GCP (IAM roles, Service Accounts, KMS, Cloud Armor)

24

IAM roles, permissions, and policy management

25

Service accounts and workload identities

26

VPC Service Controls and data security

27

Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) basics

28

Cloud Armor and protective tooling

29

Cloud Security & Compliance essentials

30

Audit logs, monitoring, and incident response

Chapter 6

Data & analytics on GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow/Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Looker Studio)

31

BigQuery fundamentals for analytics

32

Dataflow and Dataproc for data processing

33

Pub/Sub for streaming data

34

Looker Studio / Data Studio reporting

35

Data governance and data quality on GCP

Chapter 7

Migration & modernization on GCP (Migrate, Anthos, Transfer)

36

Migrate for Compute Engine: lift-and-shift

37

Serverless migration strategies

38

Anthos fundamentals and hybrid/multi-cloud

39

Cloud Transfer Service for data mobility