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