CDL Outline - Cloud Digital Leader

Cloud Digital Leader (CDL) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Why cloud technology is revolutionizing business
Digital transformation with Google Cloud
Scale the innovation mindset
Define fundamental terms such as data, cloud technology, and digital transformation.
Use customer use cases to demonstrate how cloud technology is transforming businesses.
Recognize the Google Cloud solution areas and use cases for each.
Describe key principles that help to scale an innovation mindset across an organization.

The value of data
Data consolidation and analytics
Innovation with machine learning
Describe the role of data in digital transformation and the importance of a data-driven culture.
Identify common Google Cloud solutions for data management
Identify common Google Cloud solutions for smart analytics
Identify Google Cloud’s solutions for Machine Learning and AI

Modernizing IT infrastructure with Google Cloud
Modernizing applications with Google Cloud
The value of APIs
Describe the key benefits of infrastructure and application modernization with reference to cloud technology.
Differentiate between virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing.
Explain the Google Cloud solutions that help businesses to better manage their systems, such as App Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine.
Explain how Google Cloud solutions support app modernization and simplify API management.

Financial governance in the cloud
Security in the cloud
Monitoring cloud IT services and operations
Describe financial governance in the cloud and Google Cloud's recommended best practices for effective cloud cost management.
Define a shared responsibility model for optimal cloud security.
Explain how IT teams and business leaders can use principles from DevOps and SRE to increase cloud operational efficiency.
Identify Google Cloud solutions for cloud resource monitoring and application performance management.