Week 12— Why cloud technology is transforming business · Google Cloud products, services, and solutions · Scaling with Google Cloud operations · Trust and security with Google Cloud
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Why cloud technology is transforming business
This domain covers how cloud computing changes business models, cost structures and innovation cycles, and why organisations migrate to Google Cloud. The exam tests it through scenario questions contrasting on-premises versus cloud economics, Google Cloud's global infrastructure, and specific products like Compute Engine, BigQuery and Vertex AI, asking you to identify the business benefit rather than configure anything.
📅 Days 80–84🎯 ~21 questions/day⚖ 6% of exam- ✓Distinguishing CapEx versus OpEx models and how pay-as-you-go pricing shifts IT budgeting
- ✓Mapping Google Cloud products such as BigQuery, GKE and Vertex AI to business outcomes
- ✓Explaining Google Cloud's global regions, zones and edge network as availability and latency advantages
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Google Cloud products, services, and solutions
This domain covers the Google Cloud product portfolio: compute, storage, databases, networking, data analytics, and AI/ML, plus how each maps to business needs. The exam tests this through scenario questions asking which Google Cloud service best fits a stated requirement, cost, or workload, rather than deep configuration detail.
📅 Days 80–84🎯 ~10 questions/day⚖ 12% of exam- ✓Selecting Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, or App Engine for a given workload
- ✓Choosing among Cloud Storage classes, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and BigQuery by use case
- ✓Identifying networking services like VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN
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Scaling with Google Cloud operations
This domain covers how Google Cloud keeps workloads running and observable: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, budgets and quotas, autoscaling, and SLOs. The exam tests it through scenario questions where you pick the right tool for cost control, capacity, or troubleshooting, and distinguish operational services from deployment or security ones.
📅 Days 80–84🎯 ~2 questions/day⚖ 13% of exam- ✓Selecting Cloud Monitoring alerting policies, uptime checks and dashboards for workload health
- ✓Using Cloud Logging, log sinks and Log Router to route and retain logs
- ✓Applying budgets, alerts and quotas to control cost and prevent resource exhaustion
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Trust and security with Google Cloud
This domain covers Google Cloud's shared responsibility model, IAM, encryption, and compliance tooling, and accounts for roughly 12% of the Cloud Digital Leader exam. Questions are scenario-based: you choose the right Google Cloud security control, identity mechanism, or governance tool for a stated business or regulatory need, rather than configuring products hands-on.
📅 Days 80–84🎯 ~10 questions/day⚖ 12% of exam- ✓Applying the shared responsibility model to Google Cloud versus customer-controlled security duties
- ✓Choosing IAM roles, service accounts, and least-privilege policies for a given access scenario
- ✓Selecting encryption options: default Google-managed keys, CMEK via Cloud KMS, or CSEK