Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey

- Customers, Partners, Googlers

After this course participants should be able to:

• Describe the purpose and benefits of the PCNE certification.
• Explain the certification process.
• Create a study plan for designing, planning, and prototyping a Google Cloud network.
• Explain the considerations involved in designing an overall network architecture.
• Identify considerations for designing a VPC, a hybrid or multi-cloud network, or an IP addressing plan for GKE.
• Determine the skills you need to develop to effectively design, plan, and prototype a Google Cloud network.
• Identify the tasks involved in configuring VPCs, configuring routing, and configuring and maintaining GKE clusters.
• Describe considerations for configuring firewalls and implementing VPC Service Controls.
• Determine the skills you need to develop related to implementing a VPC.
• Identify considerations involved in configuring load balancing
• Describe the scope of tasks to configure Cloud Armor policies, Cloud CDN, Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT, and network packet inspection.
• Describe how to configure Google Cloud Interconnect, a site-to-site IPsec VPN, and Cloud Router.
• Determine the skills you need to develop to ensure successful implementation of hybrid interconnectivity.
• Describe options for logging and monitoring with Google Cloud’s operations suite.
• Explain tasks involved in managing and maintaining security.
• Identify considerations for maintaining and troubleshooting connectivity issues, latency, and traffic flow.
• Create a weekly study plan.
• Set weekly study goals.
• Register for the Professional Cloud Network Engineer exam.
• Determine the skills you need to develop to manage and optimize network operations with Google Cloud.

Module 00 : PCNE certification

• Role of a Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Introduction to a sample infrastructure scenario that is used throughout the course
• Certification process
• Lecture

Module 01 Designing, planning, and prototyping a Google Cloud Network

• Describe how Load Balancing will be used for general users accessing resources from the internet as well as internal users accessing from private connected networks.
• Describe how Cloud CDN, Armor and NAT will be configured and the benefits they will provide, and used and how Cloud DNS will be integrated with an on-premise DNS system.
• Describe how packet mirroring will be used for periodic network forensic audit
• Lecture
• Diagnostic quiz (ungraded)
• Review diagnostic questions
• Knowledge check quiz (graded)
• Workbook exercise - creating your study plan

Module 02 Implementing a VPC

• Assuming Kubernetes clusters will be used in all the networks, describe how IP addresses will be distributed among them.
• Describe the sort of interconnections will be added between Google Cloud and external environments and how the routing will be configured for them.
• Describe how the network will be secured with firewall rules and VPC Service Controls
• Lecture
• Diagnostic quiz (ungraded)
• Review diagnostic questions
• Knowledge check quiz (graded)
• Workbook exercise - creating your study plan

Module 03 Configuring network services

• Describe how Load Balancing will be used for general users accessing resources from the internet as well as internal users accessing from private  connected networks.
• Describe how Cloud CDN, Armor and NAT will be configured and the benefits they will provide, and used and how Cloud DNS will be integrated with an on-premise  DNS system.
• Describe how packet mirroring will be used for periodic network forensic audit
• Lecture
• Diagnostic quiz (ungraded)
• Review diagnostic questions
• Knowledge check quiz (graded)
• Workbook exercise - creating your study plan

Module 04 Implementing hybrid connectivity

• Within the context of the sample scenario: describe the details of the VPN and Interconnect links between Google Cloud VPCs and on-premise or other cloud networks.
• Lecture
• Diagnostic quiz (ungraded)
• Review diagnostic questions
• Knowledge check quiz (graded)
• Workbook exercise - creating your study plan 

Module 05 Managing, monitoring, and optimizing network operations

• Describe the network troubleshooting and debugging process.
• Describe the troubleshooting process using Cloud Logging and Monitoring and Network Intelligence Center.
• Lecture
• Diagnostic quiz (ungraded)
• Review diagnostic questions
• Knowledge check quiz (graded)
• Workbook exercise - creating your study plan

Module 06 Your next steps

• Based on domain knowledge deficiencies noted after answering the diagnostic questions, construct a weekly study plan.
• Lecture

3+ years industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud

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• Official course book provided to participants.