Why This Cheat Sheet Matters for PCA
This cheat sheet covers the most important Cloud Architecture concepts tested on the PCA (Cloud Architect) certification exam. It contains 1 sections with 6 key points. Use this as a quick-reference guide during your final review sessions.
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Key Patterns
- Microservices: Cloud Run or GKE for containerized services.
- Event-driven: Pub/Sub + Cloud Functions/Cloud Run.
- Data pipeline: Pub/Sub → Dataflow → BigQuery.
- Hybrid cloud: Anthos for GKE on-premises + GCP.
- Global load balancing: HTTPS LB distributes traffic across regions.
- High availability: multi-zone MIGs with regional load balancers.
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Google Cloud Service Quick Reference
GCP organises services around Compute (GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions), Storage (Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, Filestore), Databases (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, BigQuery), and Networking (VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Interconnect). Knowing which service fits each use case is essential for passing GCP exams.