This course teaches participants the following skills:
Design for high availability, scalability, and maintainability.
Integrate on-premises and cloud resources.
Identify ways to optimize resources and minimize cost.
Assess tradeoffs and make sound choices among Google Cloud Platform products.
Implement processes that minimize downtime, such as monitoring and alarming, unit and integration
testing, production resilience testing, and incident post-mortem analysis.
Implement policies that minimize security risks, such as auditing, separation of duties and least privilege.
Implement technologies and processes that assure business continuity in the event of a disaster.

Category	Type	Singapore Citizen		Permanent Residents(* with effect from 1 August 2017)
		Training Course and Certification	Certification Only	Training Course and Certification	Certification Only
Organisation-Sponsored	Non SMEs	Up to 70% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee	Up to 70% of the nett payable certification fees, capped at $500 per trainee	Up to 70% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee	Up to 70% of the nett payable certification fees, capped at $500 per trainee
	SMEs	Up to 90% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee		Up to 90% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee
	Professionals (40 years old and above)			Up to 70% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee
Self-Sponsored	Professionals	Up to 70% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee	Up to 70% of the nett payable certification fees, capped at $500 per trainee	Up to 70% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee	Up to 70% of the nett payable certification fees, capped at $500 per trainee
	Professionals (40 years old and above)	Up to 90% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $3,000 per trainee
	Students and/or Full Time National Service (NSF)	Up to 100% of the nett payable course and certification fees, capped at $2,500 per trainee	Up to 100% of the nett payable certification fees, capped at $500 per trainee	Not eligible
1) Professionals category includes displaced workers.2) This has been harmonised with SkillsFuture initiatives.*  CITREP+ funding does not support GST, VAT, registration fees, membership fees, rebates, renewal of certification, incentives, discounts or any training grant offered by any course providers or any other organisation in relation to the endorsed courses/certifications. ** For more details on CITREP+ funding support for students/NSF, please refer to CITREP+ Claim Application Guide.

This course is intended for the following participants:
• Cloud Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers
• Individuals using Google Cloud to create new solutions or to integrate existing systems, application
environments, and infrastructure, with a focus on Compute Engine

• Have basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments
• Have systems operations experience, including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises
or in a public cloud environment
• Have completed Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer

Course Outline

Module 1: Defining the Service

Module 2: Business-logic layer design

Module 3: Data layer design
• Network edge configuration.
• Network integration with other environments, including on premises and multi-cloud.
• Network configuration for data transfer within the service, including load balancing and network location.

Module 4: Network layer design
• Failure due to loss of resources.
• Scalable and resilient design.
• Strategies for coping with failure.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery, including restore strategy and data lifecycle management.
• Failure due to overload.

Module 5: Design for resiliency, scalability, and disaster recovery
• Identity access and auditing.
• Google Cloud Platform security.
• Network access control and firewalls.
• Protections against denial of service.
• Resource sharing and isolation.
• Data encryption and key management.

Module 6: Design for security
• Capacity planning.
• Pricing.

Module 7: Capacity planning and cost optimization
• Monitoring and alerting.
• Deployment.
• Incident response.

Module 8: Deployment, monitoring and alerting, and incident response