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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) Prep
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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) Prep

Exam-focused preparation covering all six PCA domains and the four official case studies
Created byAseem Mankotia
Last updated 8/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Translate business goals and technical constraints from a case study into a correct GCP architecture
  • Select the right compute service (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions) for a given scenario
  • Design VPC topologies including Shared VPC, hybrid connectivity, and multi-region high availability
  • Choose the correct storage/data service (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, BigQuery, Firestore) for scale and consistency requirements
  • Design IAM, resource hierarchy, and Organization Policy controls following least privilege
  • Apply encryption (CMEK/CSEK), VPC Service Controls, Cloud Armor, and Cloud DLP to meet compliance requirements
  • Recommend CI/CD, testing, and change-management processes aligned to organizational constraints
  • Evaluate build-vs-buy and cost optimization trade-offs using TCO reasoning

Course content

12 sections • 12 lectures

  • Cloud Architecture Design Fundamentals & The Four Case Studies16:32

Requirements

  • 3+ years of general industry experience, including 1+ year designing and managing solutions on Google Cloud (Google's recommended background)
  • Working familiarity with Compute Engine, GKE, VPC networking, IAM, and Cloud Storage
  • Completion of an Associate Cloud Engineer-level course or equivalent hands-on GCP experience
  • Basic understanding of relational and NoSQL data models
  • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and Linux command-line usage
  • No coding project is required, but comfort reading Terraform/YAML configuration is helpful

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect is the flagship credential for cloud architects, solution architects, and senior engineers who design enterprise-grade solutions on GCP. Taught by Aseem Mankotia, this course is built around the reality that the PCA exam is scenario- and case-study-driven: it tests whether you can translate business goals and technical constraints into the correct Google Cloud architecture, not whether you can recite service definitions. Every chapter maps directly to an official exam-guide domain and works through real architectural decisions using exact Google Cloud product names.

A major focus of this course is the four official published case studies — EHR Healthcare, Helicopter Racing League, Mountkirk Games, and TerramEarth. You will work through each company's business goals, technical requirements, and executive statements, then apply that context to compute selection, network design, migration planning, security controls, cost optimization, and reliability engineering. Read-and-understand labs throughout the course build architectural judgment rather than console-clicking skills, reflecting how the real exam actually tests candidates.

Aseem Mankotia structures this course for candidates who already have hands-on GCP experience and want a direct, no-fluff path through the exam-guide domains, common traps, and case-study-specific gotchas. The final chapter is a full timed exam simulation with a 120-minute pacing strategy across all domains. This course is intended as exam-focused preparation; always verify current pricing, the latest exam guide, and case study text on Google Cloud's official certification pages before your exam date.

AI content disclosure: This course was produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools. Lecture narration is AI-voice generated, and lecture scripts, slides, and practice questions were drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and curated by the instructor for technical accuracy and alignment with the official Professional Cloud Architect exam guide.

Who this course is for:

  • Cloud architects and solution architects preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect exam
  • Senior cloud engineers and technical leads who design and manage solutions on Google Cloud
  • Associate Cloud Engineer-certified professionals ready to step up to the Professional Architect level
  • Practitioners who want to master GCP architecture decisions across compute, networking, storage, security, and reliability

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