This year I had a chance to participate in Packt Publishing book review process. Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification Guide: Build a solid foundation in Google Cloud Platform to achieve the most lucrative IT certification, 2nd Edition from authors Konrad Cłapa and Brian Gerrard with foreword from Yujun Liang.

Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification review itself is introduced in early stage of writing and continues until the book is released. Quite a new experience, especially that I’m not a big fan of reading books. But… I found it exciting testing code snippets, verifying flow and screenshot correctness during writing.

As a “thank you” I was invited to write couple words about myself and some greetings (book page 10). I was pleased to write something to public reader. Awesome!

I recommend #GCP #Professional #Cloud #Architect #Certification #Guide to everyone. I have experience with #AWS and #Azure, but wanted to enforce my knowledge on GCP and prepare for the #exam.

✔The layout of Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification chapters and flow of the book is well prepared, consistent and that makes it easier to follow, understand and most importantly remember.

❤Big Thank You goes to authors Konrad Cłapa, Google Cloud Certified Fellow and Brian Gerrard for making it a solid experience, despite of extensive book content (650+ pages).

✔Every exam aspect is touched upon and explained, with highlights of most important characteristics of services, security, governance, high availability and geo-distribution.

✔Links to official documentation at the end of chapters are nice shortcuts to dig deeper.

✔Detailed screenshots and step-by-step instructions feel like an expert is sitting with you when you learn.

💖I really liked comparisons of different kinds of services and scenarios for using them in a proper way.

🤓Everyone with some IT Pro skills should be able to understand and follow the book, but most importantly prepare for official GCP certification.