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Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey

This course helps learners create a study plan for the PCNE (Professional Cloud Network Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

Objectives

In this course, participants will learn the following skills:
  • Describe the domains covered on the Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification exam.
  • Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain and create a study plan. 

Audience

This class is intended for the following audience:

  • Customers, Partners, Googlers.

Prerequisite

To get the most out of this course, participants should have:

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

Duration

1 day/8 hours

Investment

Check the next open public class in our enrollment page.
If you are interested in a private training class for your company, contact us.

Course Outline

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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