Readiness checklist, fully current
The minimum signals a GCP foundation is production-ready, now including the 2026-era additions this deck covered.
Speaker notes
- Close by returning to the course's central discipline, repeated at the end of every chapter: a pre-flight checklist beats a vibe check, verify org policies (dry-run tested), IAM least-privilege (no stray keys), tested restores, budget alerts wired to real audiences, and observability coverage explicitly, rather than assuming they're fine because nothing has broken yet.
- This deck was built to be studied from directly, if a slide's speaker notes didn't fully answer a question you had, that's the one place worth cross-checking against the full written tutorial series, which carries the worked examples, real-world incident scenarios, and practice problems this deck compressed for speed.
- End on the exam-and-production dual framing this whole course holds: everything reviewed here, including the newest AI-assisted surfaces, is both a testable ACE exam domain and a real operational discipline a platform team actually needs, passing the exam and running current GCP well are the same underlying competence.
Deck map
01
GCP foundations, fully current
02
The exam itself, and how this deck maps to it
03
The project is the real unit of isolation
04
Organization, folders, projects, and now: standalone orgs
05
Org policies now ship with a dry-run mode
06
Five more day-zero considerations
07
Three metadata mechanisms, one exam trap
08
Cloud Identity: manual and SCIM-automated
09
Cloud Asset Inventory, Gemini Cloud Assist, and Workforce Identity Federation
10
A budget alerts, it never caps
11
gcloud, Cloud Shell, and the ADC trap
12
Five infrastructure tools, five different jobs
13
Gemini CLI sunset, Antigravity, and Application Design Center
14
Principal, permission, role, and policy
15
Predefined first, custom only for a documented gap
16
Impersonation over keys, by default now
17
Keys are now blocked by default
18
Workforce vs. Workload Identity Federation
19
Hyperdisk is now the default, not Persistent Disk
20
OS Login and VM Manager: fleet control by IAM, not by hand
21
Spot VMs, custom machine types, and managed instance groups
22
GPUs, TPUs, and a snapshot schedule nobody had tested
23
Autopilot bills per Pod, Standard bills per node
24
Cloud Run: revisions, traffic splitting, and instant rollback
25
The Agent Runtime: the newest exam addition
26
Cloud Workstations and managed notebooks
27
Choosing between GKE, Cloud Run, and the Agent Runtime
28
Cloud Storage plus three file-storage products
29
Choosing a managed database, still the same tree
30
The relational family and the NoSQL split
31
Two newer additions: Managed Kafka and Memorystore
32
CMEK, a fleet-wide view, and a rotation that locked out a replica
33
Custom-mode VPCs, Shared VPC, and non-transitive peering
34
Cloud NGFW: Secure Tags replace network tags
35
Load balancer choice and an asymmetric tier rule
36
Cloud VPN, Interconnect, DNS, and NAT
37
Resizing subnets, static IPs, and static routes
38
Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging, still the backbone
39
Trace, Profiler, and Query Insights: a narrowing sequence
40
Personalized Service Health, Active Assist, and Cloud Hub
41
The traps that recur across every domain
42
Quick-fire recall
43
Exam-day strategy
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Readiness checklist, fully current