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Free flashcards for the Google Professional Cloud Architect: flip each card to reveal the definition. Built from the Google Cloud Architect glossary as a study aid, these are concept checks, not real exam questions.
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- Compute Engine
- Google Cloud's virtual machine service (infrastructure as a service) for running workloads on VMs.
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- A managed Kubernetes service for running containerised workloads with orchestration.
- Cloud Run
- A serverless service for running containers that scales automatically, including to zero.
- Cloud Functions
- An event-driven, serverless compute service for running small pieces of code in response to triggers.
- App Engine
- A managed platform-as-a-service for deploying applications without managing servers.
- Cloud Storage
- Object storage for unstructured data, organised into buckets with different storage classes.
- Storage class
- A Cloud Storage setting (standard, nearline, coldline, archive) trading storage cost against access frequency.
- Cloud SQL
- A managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server.
- Spanner
- A globally distributed, strongly consistent relational database that scales horizontally.
- Bigtable
- A wide-column NoSQL database for large-scale analytical and operational workloads.
- BigQuery
- A serverless, highly scalable data warehouse for analytics using SQL.
- Firestore
- A flexible, scalable document (NoSQL) database for application data.
- VPC
- Virtual Private Cloud: Google Cloud's software-defined network, which is global by design.
- Cloud Load Balancing
- A managed service that distributes traffic across instances, globally or regionally.
- Cloud CDN
- A content delivery network that caches content near users to reduce latency.
- Cloud Interconnect
- A service providing dedicated, private connectivity between on-premises networks and Google Cloud.
- IAM
- Identity and Access Management: controlling who can do what on which resources, designed for least privilege.
- Service account
- A special identity used by applications and VMs (rather than people) to authenticate to Google Cloud services.
- Cloud KMS
- Key Management Service for creating and managing cryptographic keys.
- Resource hierarchy
- The organisation, folders, projects and resources structure used to organise and govern Google Cloud.
- Project
- The basic Google Cloud organising unit that groups resources, billing and permissions.
- Cloud Monitoring
- A service for collecting metrics and building dashboards and alerts to observe systems.
- Cloud Logging
- A service for storing, searching and analysing log data across Google Cloud.
- RTO
- Recovery Time Objective: the maximum acceptable time to restore a system after an outage.
- RPO
- Recovery Point Objective: the maximum acceptable data loss, expressed as the age of the last recoverable data.