Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey

After completing the Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey course, students will be able to:

• Describe the domains covered on the Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification exam.
• Identify gaps in their knowledge and skills for each domain and create a study plan.

This course is intended for Cloud Network Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Cloud Security Engineers who want to prepare to take the Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification exam.
 

3+ years industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud.
 

PCNE certification

• Role of a Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Introduction to a sample infrastructure scenario that is used throughout the course
• Certification process

Designing, planning, and prototyping a Google Cloud Network - Within the context of the sample scenario:

• Describe how Load Balancing will be used for general users accessing resources from the internet as well as internal users accessing from private connected networks.
• Describe how Cloud CDN, Armor and NAT will be configured and the benefits they will provide, and used and how Cloud DNS will be integrated with an on-premise DNS system.
• Describe how packet mirroring will be used for periodic network forensic audit.

Implementing a VPC - Within the context of the sample scenario:

• Assuming Kubernetes clusters will be used in all the networks, describe how IP addresses will be distributed among them.
• Describe the sort of interconnections will be added between Google Cloud and external environments and how the routing will be configured for them.
• Describe how the network will be secured with firewall rules and VPC Service Controls

Configuring network services - Within the context of the sample scenario:

• Describe how Load Balancing will be used for general users accessing resources from the internet as well as internal users accessing from private connected networks.
• Describe how Cloud CDN, Armor and NAT will be configured and the benefits they will provide, and used and how Cloud DNS will be integrated with an on-premise DNS system.
• Describe how packet mirroring will be used for periodic network forensic audit.

Implementing hybrid connectivity - Within the context of the sample scenario:

• Describe the details of the VPN and Interconnect links between Google Cloud VPCs and on-premise or other cloud networks.

Managing, monitoring, and optimizing network operations - Within the context of the sample scenario:

• Describe the network troubleshooting and debugging process.
• Describe the troubleshooting process using Cloud Logging and Monitoring and Network Intelligence Center.

Your next steps

• Based on domain knowledge deficiencies noted after answering the diagnostic questions, construct a weekly study plan.