Google Associate Cloud Engineer: Google Cloud Platform Ecosystem
Explore Google Cloud Platform and its services like Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, and Cloud Functions. Learn account setup, console navigation, billing, budgets, and pricing.
Skill level
IntermediateTime to complete
Approx. 1 hourCertificate of completion
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About this course
Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud services that provides reliable and highly scalable cloud computing services that help its users store data, build, test, and deploy apps. It provides computing services for backend, mobile and web solutions using the internet. You'll begin with exploring Google Cloud Platform and the various Google Cloud services available matching them to business needs, such as Virtual Machines, Kubernetes and Cloud Functions. You'll learn how to create a GCP account and navigate the console, create a billing account, establish budgets and alerts, setup billing exports, link accounts to Google Cloud projects and use the GCP pricing calculator. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification.
Learning objectives
- Discover the key concepts covered in this course
- Describe google cloud platform (gcp)
- Identify the different services available with google cloud
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