Course Overview
This course helps learners prepare for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer (PCSE) Certification exam. Learners will be exposed to and engage with exam topics through a series of lectures, diagnostic questions, and knowledge checks. After completing this course, learners will have a personalized workbook that will guide them through the rest of their certification readiness journey.
Who should attend
Customers, Partners, and Googlers
Course Objectives
- Describe the domains covered on the Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification exam.
- Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain and create a study plan.
Outline: Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey (PYPCSEJ)
Introduction
Welcome to Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey
Configuring Access Within a Cloud Solution Environment
Learn how to set up the Organization, Folder, and Project hierarchy. Explore Organization policies and defining service accounts, groups, and custom IAM roles and binding custom or predefined roles to users, groups, and service accounts.
Configuring Network Security
Learn how to define VPC architecture for the Organization to ensure appropriate resource isolation, firewall rules to control/restrict traffic flow into and out of these VPCs, and private IP connectivity to resources in VPCs.
Ensuring Data Protection
Learn how to define DLP and VPC service controls process for the Organization as well as the Encryption and key management scheme.
Managing Operations in a Cloud Environment
Learn about automating Google Cloud security features into the organizational CICD flow and utilizing Logging and Monitoring for security forensics and alerting.
Ensuring Compliance
Explore organizational security design considerations to satisfy specific compliance/regulatory requirements (SOC2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA).
Your Next Steps
Course review and next steps in your PCSE Journey.