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What is the primary benefit to a Google Cloud customer of using resources in several zones within a region?

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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This section welcomes learners to the Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course, and provides an overview of the course structure and goals.

Exercise 1: Course Introduction

This section identifies some of the key benefits of using Google Cloud. It's here that we introduce the components of the Google network infrastructure, and explore the differences between infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS).

Exercise 1: Cloud computing overview Exercise 2: IaaS and PaaS Exercise 3: The Google Cloud network Exercise 4: Environmental impact Exercise 5: Security Exercise 6: Open source ecosystems Exercise 7: Pricing and billing Exercise 8: Quiz Question 1

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This section explores how resources get organized with projects, and how access to those resources gets shared with the right part of a workforce through a tool called Identity and Access Management (IAM). It's also in this section that we identify different ways to interact with Google Cloud.

Exercise 1: Google Cloud resource hierarchy Exercise 2: Identity and Access Management (IAM)Exercise 3: Service accounts Exercise 4: Cloud Identity Exercise 5: Interacting with Google Cloud Exercise 6: GCPFUND CloudLauncher Exercise 7: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 8: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 9: Quiz Question 3

This section of the course explores how Google Compute Engine works, with a focus on virtual networking.

Exercise 1: Virtual Private Cloud networking Exercise 2: Compute Engine Exercise 3: Scaling virtual machines Exercise 4: Important VPC compatibilities Exercise 5: Cloud Load Balancing Exercise 6: Cloud DNS and Cloud CDN Exercise 7: Connecting networks to Google VPC Exercise 8: VPCandGCE Exercise 9: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 10: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 3 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 4 Exercise 13: Quiz Question 5

This section of the course showcases five core Google Cloud storage products: Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and Firestore.

Exercise 1: Google Cloud storage options Exercise 2: Cloud Storage Exercise 3: Cloud Storage: Storage classes and data transfer Exercise 4: Cloud SQL Exercise 5: Spanner Exercise 6: Firestore Exercise 7: Bigtable Exercise 8: Comparing storage options Exercise 9: GCPFUND StorageCloudSQL Exercise 10: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 11: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 12: Quiz Question 3

This section of the course explores containers and how they can be managed with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Exercise 1: Introduction to containers Exercise 2: Kubernetes Exercise 3: Google Kubernetes Engine Exercise 4: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 5: Quiz Question 2

The focus of this section of the course is developing applications in the cloud. It's here that we'll explore Cloud Run and Cloud Run functions.

Exercise 1: Cloud Run Exercise 2: Development in the cloud Exercise 3: APPDEV HelloCloudRun Exercise 4: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 5: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 6: Quiz Question 3

This section looks at generative AI tools, how they work. We'll explore how to combine Google Cloud knowledge with prompt engineering to improve Gemini responses.

Exercise 1: Prompt Engineering Exercise 2: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 3: Quiz Question 2 Exercise 4: Quiz Question 3 Exercise 5: Quiz Question 4

In this final section, we review what was presented in this course and discuss the next steps to continue your cloud learning journey.

Exercise 1: Course summary Exercise 2: Course resources