Hello, and welcome to "Google Cloud Digital Leader Exam Preparation". This course will help you develop the knowledge and skills required to pass the Digital Leader exam.

My name is Daniel Mease, and I am a trainer at Cloud Academy with over 20 years of software and web development experience.
The Cloud Digital Leader exam covers six main subject areas:

Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Trust and Security with Google Cloud
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations

This course has been designed to align closely with these published learning objectives. However, the information will not necessarily be presented in this exact order.

Now in the first part of the course, you will learn about cloud fundamentals. You will also get a general overview of GCP’s products and services.

Next, you will learn how to set up a working environment and how to add new resources (such as virtual machines, databases, and APIs). We also explain how to identify the associated costs, as well as how to optimize your spending.

After that, we cover security and reliability engineering. This will help ensure that your data remains protected and that your systems can quickly recover from any disruption.

The last section acts as a final review. It includes a glossary of terms that you need to be familiar with. There is a reading list of additional topics that you should review. And this covers any last-minute exam changes or any minor subjects that did not fit in anywhere else. And for the final step, there is a practice exam. Now this practice exam does not include any questions from the real exam. But it should give you a good idea of the kinds of questions you can expect.

So, if you are ready to learn about the exciting possibilities of Google Cloud Platform, then let's get started. And if you found this introduction helpful, don’t forget to give it a “thumbs up” before you go.

Google Cloud Digital Leader Exam Preparation - Introduction