# Google Cloud Platform certification exam resources

A collection of case studies, white papers, articles, books, and other resources to help prepare you for a Google Cloud Platform certification or two.

* [Cloud Certification Forum on Google Cloud Connect](https://www.cloudconnect.goog/community/partners/training-credentials/cloud-certification-forum)
* [Deconstructing a Customer Case: Cloud Architect Exam](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Lz_rr26YL8enV6SzRWTVRyWm8/view) - Customer case analysis on JencoMart, MountKirk Games, Dress4Win and TerramEarth
* [Cloud Architect Practice Exam](https://cloud.google.com/certification/practice-exam/cloud-architect)
* [Qwiklabs GCP Quest](https://google.qwiklabs.com/catalog?locale=en)

If you interested in a particular topic, a good place to start is the [Tutorials and Solutions](https://cloud.google.com/docs/tutorials) section of `cloud.google.com`. Search by keyword or browse around. Otherwise, I've currated some of the articles I think would be helpful and added them to the lists below.

## General

* [Building Scalable and Resilient Web Applications on Google Cloud Platform](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/scalable-and-resilient-apps)
* [Site Reliability Engineering, e-book](https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html)
* [How to Design a Disaster Recovery Plan](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-a-disaster-recovery-plan)
* [Microservices Architecture on Google App Engine](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/microservices-on-app-engine)
* [Best Practices for Enterprise Organizations](https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations)
* [A developer’s toolkit for building great applications on GCP](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/12/a-developers-toolkit-for-building-great-applications-on-GCP.html)
* [Distributed Load Testing Using Kubernetes](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/distributed-load-testing-using-kubernetes)

## Security

* [Google Cloud Platform Security](https://cloud.google.com/security/)
* [Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview](https://cloud.google.com/security/security-design/)
* [Encryption at Rest in Google Cloud Platform](https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/default-encryption/)

## Case studies & solutions

* [How to Lift-and-Shift a Line of Business Application onto Google Cloud Platform, pdf](https://cloud.google.com/files/Lift-and-Shift-onto-Google-Cloud.pdf)
* [How we built a brand new bank on GCP and Cloud Spanner: Shine](https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/how-shine-built-bank-on-gcp-and-cloud-spanner.html)
* [Quizlet Tests Cloud Spanner — The Most Sophisticated Cloud Database](https://quizlet.com/blog/quizlet-cloud-spanner)
* [Part 1 – The Evernote Service and our options to migrate to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-1-evernote-service-options-migrate-google-cloud-platform-gcp/)
* [Part 2 – Protecting Customer Data on GCP](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-2-protecting-customer-data-gcp/)
* [Part 3 – The Evernote Architecture in GCP and our Technical Transformation](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-3-evernote-architecture-gcp-technical-transformation/)
* [Part 4 – Planning and Executing the Migration](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-4-planning-executing-migration/)
* [Part 5 – Conclusion and Future](https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-5-conclusion-future/)

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