Course Overview
TOPGoogle 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
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 11/18/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/20/24 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 01/13/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 03/10/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 05/27/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 07/21/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 09/22/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/24/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPIdentify 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
Outline
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This section welcomes learners to the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course, and provides an overview of the course structure and goals.
- 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).
- 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.
- This section of the course explores how Google Compute Engine works, with a focus on virtual networking.
- This section of the course showcases five core Google Cloud storage products: Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Firestore.
- This section of the course explores containers and how they can be managed with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.
- 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.
- 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.
- In this final section, we review what was presented in this course and discuss the next steps to continue your cloud learning journey.
Prerequisites
TOPNone
Who Should Attend
TOPIndividuals planning to deploy applications and create application environments on Google Cloud
- Systems operations professionals, solution architects getting started with Google Cloud, and developers.
- Executives and business decision makers evaluating the potential of Google Cloud to address their business needs.
