Chapter 4 of 6 · Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes
SDLC, CI/CD, testing, troubleshooting, service catalogs and disaster recovery, plus stakeholders, change, skills and cost.
- 4topics
- 16 minfast track
- 1diagrams and exhibits
- 15%of the exam
Topics in this chapter
Take them in order, or jump to the one you need.
- 1SDLC, CI/CD and TestingThe software lifecycle on Google Cloud: CI/CD with Cloud Build, Artifact Registry and Cloud Deploy, testing levels and safe…Diagram4 min
- 2Troubleshooting, Service Catalogs and Disaster RecoveryRoot cause analysis with Google Cloud tools, self-service provisioning from approved templates, and how to plan and then test…4 min
- 3Stakeholders, Change and Skills ReadinessBusiness processes for cloud architects: stakeholder management, change management, team skills readiness, decision-making…4 min
- 4Cost Optimization and Business ContinuityCapEx versus OpEx, committed use discounts, Spot VMs, BigQuery editions, budgets and recommendations, plus business continuity…4 min
About this chapter
What this chapter covers
This section is worth about 15 percent of the exam. It moves from products to the ways people and organizations work: how software is built and released, how failures are investigated and recovered from, and how decisions, change, skills and money are managed around a cloud program.
It covers technical processes (the software development lifecycle, CI/CD, troubleshooting and root cause analysis, testing and validation, service catalogs and provisioning, disaster recovery) and business processes (stakeholder management, change management, team skills readiness, decision making, customer success, CapEx and OpEx cost optimization and business continuity).
How the topics fit together
Questions here often have several technically valid options. The winner fits the organization: it ties release pace to reliability, measures savings before funding, involves the people affected, or recovers within the stated time at the lowest cost.
When an option adds a heavyweight approval board or a manual step and another option automates the same control, the automated one usually wins.
How to use these pages
Each topic page has the same shape, so you can skim for what you need.
- What it is: the idea in plain words.
- How it works: the mechanism, with tables and examples.
- What to remember for the exam: the facts to memorise and how questions are phrased.
- Common mistakes: the classic traps.
- Check yourself: three questions to test your understanding.
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