Google Cloud Digital Leader Practice Exam

The Google Cloud Digital Leader certification equips you with the knowledge and skills to guide your organization's successful digital transformation journey using Google Cloud technologies. 

Who should consider this Certification:

• IT leaders and decision-makers looking to leverage Google Cloud for business growth and innovation.
• Cloud architects and engineers seeking to broaden their Understandinging of cloud solutions and their impact on business strategy.
• Business professionals seeking to gain a deeper Understandinging of cloud technology and its potential to optimize processes and drive efficiency.
• Individuals seeking career advancement in cloud leadership roles within Google Cloud environments.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Articulate the benefits and value proposition of Google Cloud solutions for specific business needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for cloud migration and modernization.
• Develop and implement cloud adoption strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Evaluate and select appropriate Google Cloud products and services to address business challenges.
• Communicate the impact of cloud solutions on business operations and financial performance.
• Advocate for responsible and secure cloud adoption within the organization.

Exam Details:

• Format: Multiple-choice and multiple-select questions
• Time Limit: 2 hours
• Languages: English, Japanese
  
• Passing Score: Pass/Fail, typically around 70%

Course Outline

The Cloud Digital Leader exam assesses your knowledge in the following domain- 

Domain 1: Explain Digital Transformation with Google Cloud (approx 10% of the exam)

1.1 Learning how Cloud Technology is Transforming Business

• Definition of Terms: cloud, cloud technology, data, digital transformation, cloud-native, open source, open standard.
• Understanding the differences between cloud technology and traditional or on-premises technology.
• Understanding the benefits of cloud technology to a business’ digital transformation: this technology is scalable, flexible, agile, secure, cost-effective and offers strategic value.
• Understanding the primary benefits of on-premises infrastructure, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, and multicloud and differentiate between them.
• Understanding the main business transformation benefits of Google Cloud: intelligence, freedom, collaboration, trust, and sustainable technology.
• Understanding the implications and risks for organizations that do not adopt new technology.
• Understanding the drivers and challenges that lead organizations to undergo a digital transformation.
• Understanding the transformation cloud and how it accelerates an organization’s digital transformation through app and infrastructure modernization, data democratization, people connections, and trusted transactions.

1.2 Learning Fundamental Cloud Concepts

• Understanding how transitioning to a cloud infrastructure affects flexibility, scalability, reliability, elasticity, agility, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Apply these concepts to various business use cases.
• Understanding how an organization’s transition from an on-premises environment to the cloud shifts their capital expenditures (CapEx) to operational expenditures (OpEx), and how that affects their total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Understanding and identify when private, hybrid, or multicloud infrastructures best apply to different business use cases.
• Learning to define basic network infrastructure terminology, including: IP address; internet service provider (ISP); domain name server (DNS), regions, and zones; fiber optics; subsea cables; network edge data centers, latency; and bandwidth.
• Understanding how Google Cloud supports digital transformation with global infrastructure and data centers connected by a fast, reliable network.

1.3 Learning Cloud Computing Models and Shared Responsibility

• Define IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Understanding to Compare and contrast the benefits and tradeoffs of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS including total cost of ownership (TCO), flexibility, shared responsibilities, management level, and necessary staffing and technical expertise.
• Understanding computing model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) applies to various business scenarios and use cases.
• Understanding the cloud shared responsibility model. Compare which responsibilities are the cloud provider’s, and which responsibilities are the customer’s for on-premises and cloud computing models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

Domain 2: Explain Innovating with data and Google Cloud (approx 30% of the exam)

2.1 Understanding the role of data in digital transformation and the importance of a data-driven culture

• Learning how cloud technology enables data to be applied in new ways

2.2 Understanding to Identify common Google Cloud solutions for data management

• Learning to recognize examples of structured and unstructured data

2.3. Understanding to identify common Google Cloud solutions for smart analytics 

• Learning to articulate the business benefits of storing data in the cloud
• Learning to apply appropriate business use cases for databases, data warehouses, and data lakes 
• Learning the benefits of Google Cloud data products, including: Looker, BigQuery, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage

2.4. Understanding to identify Google Cloud’s solutions for machine learning and AI

• Learning to define artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) 
• Learning to Outline the importance of data quality in ML prediction accuracy
• Learning to describe Google Cloud’s differentiators with regard to AI and machine learning 
• Learning to recognize the ways customers can use Google Cloud’s AI and ML solutions to create business value

Domain 3: Explain Infrastructure and application modernization (approx 30% of the exam)

3.1 Understanding what modernizing IT infrastructure with Google Cloud means

• Learning why legacy infrastructure struggles to deliver modern services to customers 
• Learning the benefits of modernizing infrastructure with cloud technology
• Learning to differentiate between hybrid and multicloud infrastructures
• Learning to differentiate between virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing within business use cases 
• Learning to identify the Google Cloud solutions that help businesses modernize their infrastructure

3.2 Understanding modernizing applications with Google Cloud 

• Learning the business drivers for modernizing applications
• Learning the benefits of using cloud-native applications
• Learning to apply the appropriate change pattern to different business use cases
• Learning the benefits of Google Kubernetes Engine, Anthos, and App Engine for application development

3.3 Understanding the value of APIs 

• Learning how application programming interfaces (APIs) can modernize legacy systems
• Learning how APIs can create new business value 
• Learning the benefits of Apigee

Domain 4: Explain Google Cloud security and operations (approximately 30% of the exam)

4.1 Understanding financial governance in the cloud and Google Cloud's recommended best practices for effective cloud cost management 

• Learning how adopting cloud technology affects the total cost of ownership (TCO) 
• Learning to identify the cost management strategy needed in a given business scenario 

4.2 Understanding a cloud security approach and Google Cloud security benefits

• Learning to define fundamental cloud security terms, including privacy, availability, security, and control
• Learning what is meant by a shared responsibility model 
• Learning the security benefits of using Google Cloud
• Learning to Identify today's top cybersecurity challenges and threats to data privacy
• Learning to demonstrate how organizations can control and manage access to cloud resources

4.3 Explain how IT operations need to adapt to thrive in the cloud 

• Learning to differentiate service availability requirements in the cloud versus in on-premises environments
• Learning the operational challenges that DevOps solves
• Learning to apply the goals of site reliability engineering (SRE) to different business use cases 

4.4 Explain to identify Google Cloud solutions for cloud resource monitoring and application performance management 

• Learning the potential impact of unexpected or prolonged downtime
• Learning to define monitoring, logging, and observability within the context of cloud operations 
• Learning to identify the Google Cloud resource monitoring and maintenance tools.