Google Cloud Digital Cloud Leader Certification Crash Course

Name: Google Cloud Digital Cloud Leader Certification Crash Course
Rating: 4.3 (1298 reviews)

Learn about Digital Transformation with GCP and get certified in Google Cloud Digital Transformation!

Created byJoseph Holbrook

Last updated 8/2025

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What you'll learn

How to pass the Google Cloud Digital Leader the First Time!
Learn about the Business Merits of Google Cloud
Learn about the Google Cloud Services for Compute, Storage, Networking, DevOps, Big Data and Machine Learning
Learn about the Exam Objectives

Course content

5 sections • 76 lectures • 6h 21m total length

Course PreReqs0:57
Understand that this fundamentals, one-on-one course, has no technical prerequisites, and use the GCP free tier while practicing exercises and reviewing questions to pass the exam.
Introduction to Course and Course Content Downloads3:42
Select the link below for Course Download Materials.
Additional practice questions available on Udemy and TechCommanders.
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GCP Certification Path Overview3:54
Explore the Google Cloud certification path and exam overview, focusing on the foundational digital leader cert, scenario-based questions, cloud migration, and how Kubernetes engine and compute engine fit together.
What are the Cloud Digital Leader Exam Objectives?2:37

Section Overview - General Cloud Knowledge0:43
Domain Objectives0:30
Explore domain objectives for the Google Cloud digital cloud leader exam by covering basic cloud technologies, service models, procurement, and financial concepts like CapEx and ROI.
Intro to Cloud Computing8:59
Essential Characteristics of Cloud Computing6:22
Cloud Service Models7:28
Deployment Models5:40
Multitenancy3:24
Resiliency5:37
Learn how resiliency drives dependability in cloud services by implementing redundancy across regions and zones, leveraging load balancing, instance groups, autoscaling, and health checks to achieve high availability.
Replication3:31
Orchestration3:22
What is Chargeback3:15
What is Vendor Lock In?3:42
Understanding Cloud Standards2:31
What is Capex and Opex?3:52
TCO and ROI11:06
Business Enablers3:17
Discover how cloud adoption accelerates time to market, reduces IT staffing and infrastructure costs, and enables flexible business models and on-demand resources.
Section Summary2:44
Learn cloud fundamentals with NIST five characteristics, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and private to public deployment models, plus benefits, hybrid cloud concepts, and open standards to prevent vendor lock-in.
Section Review Questions2:39

Section Overview - General Cloud Knowledge1:09
Domain Objectives1:57
Identify how Google Cloud meets compliance requirements (PCI, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley), navigate the Google Cloud resource hierarchy, optimize costs, understand regions and zones, and compare free and paid support options.
GCP Overview9:34
Cloud Infrastructure9:47
Cloud Hierarchy10:03
Demo - Projects4:44
Whiteboard - Projects6:15
GCP Services3:09
Demo - Services Overview9:16
Pricing Calculator2:24
Demo - Pricing Calculator10:20
Billing Models and Discounts12:19
Compliance1:11
Explore how to navigate Google Cloud compliance resources, including HIPAA, Fedramp, PCI, Basel II, and GDPR, and use the compliance offering site, compliance reports manager, and GDPR resource center.
Compliance Resource Manager2:52
Navigate the compliance reports manager to view audit reports, certificates, and vendor risk assessments by region, and access CSR STAR programs and Sea Star reports for Google Cloud and Workspace.
Support Options6:03
SLA's6:45
Google Cloud Framework and Maturity Model11:23
Accessing GCP Cloud1:06
Demo - Access GCP9:01
Section Summary2:44
Section Review Questions1:43

GCP Products and Services0:38
Domain Objectives1:06
Core Services2:44
Google Compute Engine, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and Bare Metal4:56
Compute Storage and Disk Options7:25
App Engine, Google Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run9:53
Google Kubernetes Engine6:50
Demo - Compute Services12:43
Explore Google Cloud compute options—Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and VMware Engine—and see how they enable virtual machines, clusters, and scalable deployments.
Container Registry5:11
Cost and performance tradeoffs of scale to zero4:37
Explore scale to zero for container workloads on google cloud, leveraging cloud run's minimum instances to balance cost and latency for non-latency sensitive apps.
Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, BigQuery9:44
Database offerings5:38
Vision API, AI , TPUs5:53
Discover Google Cloud AI and ML options, from Vision API and Vertex AI (formerly AI Platform and ML Engine) to TensorFlow, Tensor Processing Units, and TensorFlow Cloud, with AutoML upcoming.
Pre Trained Models4:14
Data ingestion options7:37
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)5:39
Understand the software development life cycle as a best-practice framework for designing, developing, testing, and deploying software on Google Cloud with security and resilience.
Visibility and alerting offerings4:14
Learn how cloud operations provides hybrid monitoring and management for Google Cloud, offering logging, tracing, error reporting, and profiling from the console, with dashboards, health checks, and uptime checks.
Identify data migration options2:52
Compute Migration Options3:06
Explore how Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine enables non-disruptive VM migrations from on prem or AWS or Azure, with background data transfers and VMware integration via Google Cloud Marketplace.
Whiteboard Migrations4:23
Application Modernization5:43
Define Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)1:31
Connectivity option based on networking and security requirements7:11
Whiteboard Connectivity6:01
IAM and Security9:05
Whiteboard - Cloud Architecture8:52
Section Summary3:11
Section Review Questions4:45

Requirements

Willingness to learn and allocate time to prepare for the Accreditation

Description

Join in on this course that covers in detail the Certification that can get you started with Digital Transformation quickly.

The Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification is Google's entry level certification at the time of writing.

I am really excited by this certification since the certification brings Google to the same table as AWS/Azure when it comes to entry level certifications.

Get Certified as a Digital Transformation Leader from Google!

The Google Cloud Platform Cloud Digital Leader Certification is targeted towards business professionals such as marketers, C Level and sales teams.

A Cloud Digital Leader can articulate the capabilities of Google Cloud core products and services and how they benefit organizations. The Cloud Digital Leader can also describe common business use cases and how cloud solutions support an enterprise.

You will find that after the course you will fully understand how to perform the following tasks or have the proper discussions:

Explain what cloud technology is and the top reasons the cloud era is revolutionizing business
Craft an ideal transformation challenge for your organization
Identify components of a security program to build into your transformation journey
Build a business case and summary page for your overall transformation project using the templates provided

The Cloud Digital Leader exam is job-role agnostic and does not require hands-on experience with Google Cloud.

The Cloud Digital Leader exam assesses your knowledge in three areas stated by GCP:

General cloud knowledge
General Google Cloud knowledge
Google Cloud products and services

The course has these exam objectives fully covered.

Every module has review questions that are covered as a review before the module closeouts.
A full mock exam practice pool is also included.
Lets work together and get your certified in Google's Latest Cloud Certification and become a Digital Leader!

Course Downloads included!

Course Presentation
FREE Course Practice Question Ebook
Lab Practice Exercises
Resource Links
Infographics

Who this course is for:

Anyone wanting to learn more about Google Cloud!
Anyone New to the Cloud!
Business Owners/Executives that want to understand the Business Use Cases for Google Cloud
Anyone wanting to become a Google Cloud Certification Professional!
Anyone who wants practice questions, test tips and full coverage of the exam

Google Cloud Digital Cloud Leader Certification Crash Course

What you'll learn

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Course content

Course Intro4 lectures • 11min

General Cloud Knowledge18 lectures • 1hr 19min

General Google Cloud Knowledge21 lectures • 2hr 4min

GCP Products and Services28 lectures • 2hr 36min

Course Closeout and Practice Test5 lectures • 12min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: