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Google Cloud AlloyDB: Design & Operate Databases

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Google Cloud AlloyDB: Design & Operate Databases

This course is part of Exam Prep: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer Specialization

Instructor: Whizlabs Instructor

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2 modules

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6 hours to complete

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2 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Design scalable, highly available, and reliable AlloyDB database architectures
Optimize database performance, cost, and operations for PostgreSQL workloads on Google Cloud
Deploy, manage, and monitor AlloyDB environments for real-world applications

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There are 2 modules in this course

Build practical skills to design, optimize, and manage high-performance relational databases using Google Cloud AlloyDB. This course introduces AlloyDB fundamentals, including its PostgreSQL compatibility and support for hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads.

You will learn how to analyze database capacity and usage patterns, design highly available and resilient database architectures, and implement secure connectivity and access management strategies. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and backup and recovery techniques to ensure database reliability and operational continuity. In addition, you will explore how to optimize database cost and performance, automate database operations, and design data migration strategies for moving workloads to AlloyDB. Through hands-on demonstrations, you will evaluate machine configurations, compare deployment strategies, monitor database metrics, and perform backup and restore operations. By the end of this course, you will be able to design, deploy, and manage production-ready AlloyDB databases using Google Cloud best practices. Who should take this course? Cloud engineers, database administrators, DevOps professionals, developers, and solution architects working with relational databases and cloud-native applications.

Module details

Welcome to Week 1 of the course. This week focuses on understanding the architecture and reliability foundations of Google Cloud AlloyDB. You will begin by exploring how to plan database capacity and usage for AlloyDB workloads and understand the concept of HTAP (Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing) databases. You will also learn how to evaluate high availability and disaster recovery strategies to ensure database resilience. Additionally, this week covers how applications connect to AlloyDB databases, along with important database connectivity and access management considerations. You will also explore how to evaluate appropriate database solutions available on Google Cloud. Finally, you will learn how to configure database monitoring and troubleshooting mechanisms and design backup and recovery solutions to ensure database reliability and operational stability. By the end of this week, you will understand how to design reliable AlloyDB database architectures in Google Cloud environments.

What's included

8 videos3 readings2 assignments

8 videosTotal 44 minutes

Effectively Planning Database Capacity and Usage with AlloyDB6 minutes
HTAP Database - Overview4 minutes
Evaluate Database High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options5 minutes
Determine How Applications Will Connect To The Database5 minutes
Evaluate Appropriate Database Solutions on Google Cloud6 minutes
Determine Database Connectivity And Access Management Considerations4 minutes
Configure Database Monitoring And Troubleshooting Options8 minutes
Design Database Backup & Recovery Solutions7 minutes

3 readingsTotal 50 minutes

Specialization Course Introduction10 minutes
Welcome to the Course20 minutes
AlloyDB: Architecture and Reliability on Google Cloud - Course Overview20 minutes

2 assignmentsTotal 85 minutes

AlloyDB: Architecture and Reliability on Google Cloud - Graded Assessment50 minutes
Database Architecture and Reliability - Practice Assessment35 minutes

Welcome to Week 2 of the course. This week focuses on optimizing and scaling AlloyDB databases to support real-world application workloads. You will begin by learning how to optimize database cost and performance in Google Cloud and explore solutions to automate database management tasks. Next, you will learn how to design and implement database migration strategies and deploy scalable and highly available AlloyDB databases. The week also includes practical demonstrations where you will explore machine configuration options, deployment strategies, monitoring database metrics, and performing backup and restore operations in AlloyDB. By the end of this week, you will understand how to optimize, scale, and manage AlloyDB databases efficiently in Google Cloud environments.

What's included

8 videos2 readings2 assignments

8 videosTotal 42 minutes

Optimize Database Cost And Performance In Google Cloud8 minutes
Determine Solutions To Automate Database Tasks4 minutes
Design and Implement Data Migration6 minutes
Deploy Scalable and Highly Available AlloyDB Database5 minutes
Demo: Evaluating Different Machine Configuration in AlloyDB5 minutes
Demo: Evaluating Between Basic and Highly Available Deployment Strategies6 minutes
Demo: Monitoring Database Metrics in AlloyDB3 minutes
Demo: Backup and Restore in AlloyDB5 minutes