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Published inSep 2023

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ISBN-139781805123705

Edition1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

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Dr. Logan Song

Achieving Cloud Certifications

Yes! You have completed all the chapters of the book!

After a full exploration of the three clouds of AWS, GCP, and Azure, it’s time for us to integrate our knowledge and skills, which is the goal of Part 4 of the book – achieving cloud certifications and developing a successful cloud career.

First things first – we will explore cloud certifications in this chapter, as outlined here:

Reviewing cloud certification roadmaps for AWS, Azure, and GCP
Developing strategies to crack the cloud certification exams
Practicing and analyzing sample questions for some certification exams

Achieving cloud certifications is a very important step of your cloud learning journey, and the process of preparing, taking, and passing the certification exams provides a great opportunity for you to review the contents in the book, integrate them, and comprehend the clouds systematically.

Reviewing the certification roadmaps

Let’s look at the certification map for each of the three clouds.

AWS cloud certifications

The certification roadmap for AWS consists of three levels:

At the foundation level is the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification – this is designed for individuals who have a basic understanding of AWS services and want to demonstrate their essential knowledge of the AWS cloud.
At the middle level are the AWS Cloud Associate certifications – these include Solutions Architect Associate, Developer Associate, and SysOps Administrator Associate. This level of certification is designed for individuals who have a good understanding of AWS services and want to demonstrate their associate-level knowledge and skills in the AWS cloud in the areas of solution design, application development, and service deployment/management/operations.
At the top level are the AWS Cloud Professional certifications – these include Solutions...

Developing cloud certification strategies

The general certification strategy is to divide and conquer. For each exam, have a full understanding of the certification exam scope and requirements, and practice as much as you can. To help you prepare for the certification exams, we have collected some practice questions at different levels for the three clouds, along with an analysis of the questions.

We recommend you follow the following steps to prepare for a cloud certification exam:

Read the official certification exam guides.
Review the chapters in this book that relate to the exam.
Complete the hands-on labs in this book that relate to the exam.
Study the related practice questions in this chapter.

For each cloud, starting from the foundation level, complete the exams, one by one.

Cloud certification exam practice questions

While we cannot cover all the certification exam questions, we have chosen the following certifications:

Google Cloud Digital Leader
Google Cloud Associate Engineer
Google Cloud Professional Security Engineer
AWS Cloud Practitioner
AWS Data Analytics
Microsoft Azure AI Foundations
Microsoft Azure AI Engineer

For each of the preceding certifications, we have listed some practice questions, answers, and analytics. For each question in the following sections, please fully understand what it is asking and, out of all the answers provided, why the right answer is right, and the wrong answers are wrong, and make sure you comprehend the analytics of each question.

Google Cloud Digital Leader certification

A data science team is designing a Google Cloud service to serve a company’s customers worldwide as soon as possible. However, some data is required to be in a specific geographic area. Which...

JencoBank case study

Questions 8–10 are based on the following case study, which is sourced from a Google Cloud architect case:

https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/guides/cloud-architect/casestudy-jencomart

Company overview

JencoBank is a global bank with over 10,000 branches in 16 countries. One of the company’s core values is excellent customer service. In addition, they recently introduced an environmental policy to reduce their carbon output by 50% over the next 5 years.

Company background

JencoBank started as a local bank in 1931 and has grown into one of the world’s leading brands, known for great value and customer service. Over time, the company transitioned from only physical branches to a branch-and-online hybrid model, with 25% of sales online. Currently, JencoBank has little presence in Asia but considers that market key for future growth.

Solution concept

JencoBank wants to migrate several critical applications to the...

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed the cloud certification roadmaps, briefly discussed the certification exam-taking strategies, and provided practice questions and analysis for seven certification exams in GCP, AWS, and Azure. Practice, practice, practice – that is the best way of preparing for any certification exams.

In the next chapter, we will discuss cloud career development.

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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