Foundations

Exam guide§1

How Google Cloud is put together before any workload runs: the resource hierarchy, projects, billing, identity, and the tooling you touch everything with.

Topics to cover

• What Google Cloud is: the ecosystem, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS continuum, global infrastructure
• Resource hierarchy: organization → folders → projects → resources; org policies
• Projects: creating, enabling APIs, quotas and quota increases
• Billing: billing accounts, linking projects, budgets + alerts, billing export to BigQuery
• Cloud Identity: users and groups (manual and automated)
• Interfaces & gcloud: Console, Cloud Shell, gcloud setup/configurations, client libraries, mobile app
• Cloud Marketplace: pre-built solutions, deployment configs (Terraform/Deployment Manager), billing and licensing
• Regions and zones; verifying product availability per location