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Google Associate Cloud Engineer: Managing Google Cloud Storage

Store and retrieve objects in Google Cloud with Google Cloud Storage. Create and manage Cloud Storage buckets, use BigQuery for estimating storage and querying costs, and use Dataproc to review job status.

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  • Skill level

    Intermediate

  • Time to complete

    Approx. 1 hour

  • Certificate of completion

    Yes

About this course

Google Cloud Storage is a service for storing and retrieving your objects in Google Cloud. It can be used for serving web site content, archival and disaster recovery, and distributing large data objects. In this course, you'll begin by exploring how to list Cloud Storage buckets in a project and how to move objects between them. You'll learn to label and convert buckets, setup lifecycle management policies, and execute queries. Next, you'll examine how to use BigQuery to estimate storage and query costs, restore and back up an instance using Cloud SQL Data Management, and use the managed export and import service. Finally, you'll learn how to use Dataproc, the Dataflow monitoring interface, and BigQuery to review the status of jobs. 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
  • List the cloud storage buckets in a project
  • Move objects between cloud storage buckets

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May 1, 2024

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