Dan Sullivan - Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Study Guide : Study Guide

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for Katherine

I have been fortunate to work again with professionals from Waterside Productions and Wiley to create this study guide.

Carole Jelen, vice president of Waterside Productions, and Jim Minatel, associate publisher at John Wiley & Sons, led the effort to continue to create Google Cloud certification guides. It was a pleasure to work with Kristi Bennett, Melissa Burlock, Saravanan Dakshinamurthy, and Pete Gaughan, who managed the revision process and made this project go more smoothly than I expected.

I am especially grateful to Ammett Williams and Mark Grand for their deep knowledge of Google Cloud and the thorough technical review they provided of the second edition of this book. Their input has significantly improved the explanation of multiple topics. Thanks to Valerie Parham-Thompson for her technical review of the first edition of this book.

My sons, James and Nicholas, both technology writers themselves, were my first readers and helped me get the original manuscript across the finish line. Katherine, my wife and partner in so many ventures, was again key to completing yet another project.

Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan is a principal engineer specializing in cloud architecture, data architecture, and data analytics. Dan is the author of the Official Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide (Sybex, 2019), Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Study Guide (Sybex, 2019), and NoSQL for Mere Mortals (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015). He is an online instructor with numerous Google Cloud training courses on Udemy, including Google Cloud Professional Architect: Get Certified, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer: Get Certified, and Google Cloud Associate Engineer: Get Certified. He is also the author of several LinkedIn Learning courses on databases, data science, and machine learning.

Ammett Williams is a very simple and sometimes avid daydreamer who has more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry. He has a strong inclination to help others learn and challenge themselves with a lot of experience gained as a team leader. Ammett has started the platform called Start Cloud Now with the aim to inspire others along their IT career path. Ammett holds several IT certifications, including CCIE #43569, CISSP, AWS, and a few Google Cloud professional level certs. Ammett can be found online on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/ammett and is also a developer relations engineer at Google.

Mark Grand has over 30 years of experience in software development and architecture. The author of eight books on software architecture and Java, he has deep experience in distributed applications, the Java ecosystem, and database design. He has worked with Java since before 1.0. He can translate English to SQL. Mark is also a GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect.

The application development areas that Mark has been involved with include social media, analytics, what-if analysis, e-commerce, security, machine learning, blockchain, EDI translation, data warehouse, big data, BPM internals, and database internals.

Mark's areas of domain expertise include retail, travel, shipping, credit card processing, healthcare, facilities management, accounting, advertising, and bioinformatics. Companies that Mark has worked with include JFrog, IBM, HP, InComm, AutoZone, Whole Foods, Home Depot, TSYS, Macys, Deloitte, Oracle, Young & Rubicam, and Bridge2 Solutions.