Google Professional Cloud Architect Study Roadmap

Domain 1: Designing Solutions (Business requirements mapping, technical requirements analysis)

Domain 1: Infrastructure Design (Compute/storage/network solutions, migration planning)

Domain 2: Managing Infrastructure (Network topologies, VPC peering, Cloud Interconnect)

Domain 2: Storage and Compute (Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, GKE configurations, instance groups)

Domain 3: Security Design (IAM best practices, resource hierarchy, organizational policies)

Domain 3: Compliance (Data residency, audit logging, encryption at rest and in transit)

Domain 4: Analyzing Processes (Business process optimization, technical process improvement)

Domain 4: Cost Optimization (Committed use discounts, rightsizing, billing analysis)

Domain 5: Managing Implementation (CI/CD pipelines, development team guidance, APIs)

Domain 6: Solution Reliability (SLI/SLO/SLA definition, disaster recovery strategies)

Domain 6: Deployment and Support (Blue-green deployments, canary releases, support cases)

Full Review: Case studies, Architecture diagrams, Practice exams, Weak areas