GOOGLE CLOUD PROFESSIONAL

DATABASE ENGINEER
PREP NOTES BY
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 Helpful white papers
1- Cloud SQL 6- Memorystore
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer 2- Cloud Spanner 7- Database migration pt 1
Exam Prep Sheet by Ammett 3- Firestore 8- Database migration pt 2
4- BigTable 9- Oracle
References from Google docs and other sources.
5- Baremetal 10- Migrating Databases to
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managed services

IAM What it is Key points What you should know Review documents Video My experience
IAM which lets you manage 1- Best way to manage (use groups) 1- Permissions level necessary Cloud IAM overview Cloud IAM IAM general awareness
access control by defining who 2- Roles (primitive, predefined & custom)
(identity) has what access (role) 3- Roles necessary to do certain Best practices for identity
for which resource. functions (network, security, IAM, cloud
storage)

CIDR RFC- What it is Key points What you should know Review documents Video My experience
You can choose any private RFC 1- The difference between internal and 1- Be able to identify them. IP Addresses How to use Databases with
1918 external IP
1918 CIDR block for the primary Networking with IP Address private IP addresses
IP address range of the subnet
Cloud SQL Concepts of
networking
External IP What it is Key points What you should know Review documents My experience
These are routable on the public 1- Know the private ranges and public 1- Be able to identify them. Know the difference between
internet and allow you access to public and private IP addresses
the internet.
Subnet Types What it is Key points What you should know Subnets Video My experience
Subnets are used to separate 1- Default (automatically generated with 1- Custom is fully user controlled Create Custom Subnet General awareness
resources and control a project) they have default firewall rules 2- Avoid overlapping ranges
communication between tiers. and a subnet in every region 3- You can convert from auto to custom
Access can be controlled via 2- Auto-mode- automatically creates a (one way). Things can get affected.
routes and firewalls subnet in every region (the default subnet 4- You can increase range not decrease
is an auto mode subnet) IP range
10.128.0.0/9

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 Databases
Cloud SQL Cloud SQL for MySQL Cloud SQL for Cloud SQL for SQL Secure Cloud SQL Cloud SQL – Review documents
Choosing a load balanced
PostgreSQL Server Troubleshoot and
gcloud sql commands
operations High availability
replication
PITR
DR

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is parallel replication

Managed SQL database Cloud SQL fully-managed Cloud SQL fully-managed Cloud SQL fully-managed Security features of Cloud Operations of Cloud SQL gcloud sql instances promote-replica
service that support (MySQL, database service for MySQL database service for PostgreSQL database service for Microsoft SQL maintenance
PostgreSQL and SQL Server) SQL Service External read replicas
What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know Video
1- Use cases and features 1- How to migrate 1- How to migrate 1- How to migrate 1- Monitor, troubleshoot High availability with Cloud SQL
2- How to migrate to different 1- Cloud SQL Auth proxy
2- Configure high availability 2- Features 2- Features 2- Update, failover, promote) Cloud SQL for SQL server
3- Scaling secondary, read server versions (e.g. 2016, 2019 2- Encryption (Client side, 3- gcloud commands (gcloud sql
CMEK) Migrate MySQL to Cloud SQL
replicas, failover etc). Lab here instances patch, gcloud sql
3- VPC service controls, Cloud SQL Insights
4- Importing and exporting operations)
5- Monitoring 4- Private IP 4- Query insights My experience
Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Cloud SQL, is a hot topic. If you don’t
Cloud SQL Cloud SQL for MySQL Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Cloud SQL for SQL server Data residency Database observability know this in depth don’t do the exam
Set maintainance
Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner High Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner Security Cloud Bigtable Cloud Bigtable Security Review documents
Best practices spanner gaming DB
Availability Migration
Detect query performance
Query optimizer
Unmanaged instances
Spanner Import/export

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is Video

Fully managed relational Fully managed relational Options available to migrate to Security features of Spanner. This is a NoSQL database This is a NoSQL database offering Cloud spanner unlimited
database with unlimited scale database with unlimited scale cloud spanner. offering from Google from Google Cloud. Highly available deployments
Cloud. Scaling

What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know My experience
1- Use case for Spanner vs 1- Regional and multi-regional 1-Which option to use based on 1- When to use. 1- Know about NoSQL and 1- Security in bigtable Cloud Spanner appears. The trick is to
MySQL 2- Back up, PITR situation 2- Different template. use cases know when to use this instead of
2- Scaling 3- Scaling 2- Import /export section, 3- Introspection 2- Design Cloud SQL and how it really works. If
3-Schema Formats 3- key visualizer you don’t know this in depth don’t do
the exam
Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation
Cloud SQL Cloud Spanner backup Migration section Cloud SQL for SQL server Bigtable overview Customer-managed encryption
Set maintainance PITR keys (CMEK)

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 Databases
Oracle Oracle-baremetal Oracle-tools Firestore Firestore/ Datastore Memorystore Review documents
Memorystore
modes

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is Video

Oracle Database system on Solution for running Oracle RMAN NoSQL document oriented Native/Datastore modes Memorystore for Redis is a fully Run specialized workloads with
Google Cloud. workload on Google Cloud dataabse managed Redis service for Google Bare Metal Solution
Cloud
Get to know firestore
What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know
1- What type of data it supports Memorystore for redis
1- Bare metal 1- Components 1- RMAN 1- Native vs 1- How it works
2- How to migrate 2- Exports Datastoremode
3- Oracle tools 3. Offline persistence My experience
4-Oracle RAC
Documentation Documentation Documentation Working with Oracle on GCP is good
Bring new life to your Bare metal for Oracle firestore to know. Firestore options will pick
databases with an Oracle you up a point or two.
migration.
Datastream Datafusion Dataflow Cloud scheduler Cloud composer Persistent disk Review documents
Persistent disk
Cloud Composer

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is Video

Datastream is a serverless and Cloud Data Fusion is a fully Unified stream and batch data Cloud Scheduler you set up Cloud Composer is a fully Persistent disks are durable Optimizing Block Storage for
easy-to-use change data managed, cloud-native, processing that's serverless, scheduled units of work to be managed workflow network storage devices Workload Performance
capture (CDC) and replication enterprise data integration fast, and cost-effective. executed at defined times or orchestration service,
service. service for quickly building and regular intervals Cloud Composer is built on
managing data pipelines. the popular Apache Airflow
What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know
1- CDC 1- How it works 1- How it works 1- How it works 1- How to use it 1- Calculate IOPS
2- How to use datastrem 2- Disk types and sizes
Key Points Key Points Key Points Key Points My experience
Overview of data stream What is cloud fusion About dataflow Cloud scheduler All these option integrate with your
DB for data migration and more.
Know them.

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 General DMS Private IP

Query insights dashboard

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 Tools
Database Migration Actifio Go PG tools Vault Secret manager Mongro DB Atlast Review documents
Database migration part 1
Service
Database migration part 2
Secrets manager

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is Video

Simplify migrations to the Actifio GO is a Google Cloud Postgres tools Secrets manager from Store API keys, passwords, A fully managed, global cloud Introduction to DMS
cloud. Available now for backup and disaster recovery Hashicorp certificates, and other database from MongoDB What is Actifio GO
MySQL and PostgreSQL, with offering for Google Cloud and sensitive data.
HashiCorp vault on GCP
SQL Server and Oracle hybrid workloads.
migrations in preview Intro to DMS
What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know
1- Overview of Database 1-It’s use in backup and 1- Know general pg tools 1- How it works 1- How it works 1- How it works My experience
Migration Service recovery, DR. Both cloud and 2- pg-bouncer
on-prem. Knowledge of these various tools will
be helpful
Documentation Documentation Documentation
Actifio PG tools White paper
Actifio pdf
Scaling NoSQL RTO/RPO mysql AlloyDB

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is Video

Adjusting size of database provides a mechanism for DR is a subset of business is a simple SQL shell with input AlloyDB is a fully-managed,
based on needs storage and retrieval of data continuity planning. DR planning line editing capabilities PostgreSQL-compatible Choosing the right database
that is modelled in means begins with a business impact. database for demanding
other than the tabular relations transactional and Migrate and modernise apps with
used in relational databases. analytical workloads. Google Cloud databases

What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know
1- Scaling methods 1- NoSQL options 1- RTO 1- Simple commands
2- RPO
3- Options to achieve this
Documentation Key Points Key Points Key Points General My experience
Scaling methods 1- Database options Basics of DR planning mysql About AlloyDB Knowledge of these areas can be
helpful

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 Networking / general
VPC Peering VPC shared Cloud NAT Dedicated Interconnect Partner Connect Private Access types Review documents
Choosing a load balanced
Troubleshooting health
HTTPS logging
Kubernetes HTTP(s) LB ingress

What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is What it is Setting up HTTP Ingress LB

Allows internal IP Used to connect to a Allows virtual machine (VM) Use dedicated Interconnect to Use Google Cloud Private options Video
address connectivity across common VPC network. instances without external IP connect to Google's network Interconnect - Partner Cloud Load balancers
two Virtual Private Cloud Resources in those projects addresses and private (GKE) through a highly available, low (Partner Interconnect) to Cloud SQL for SQL server
(VPC) networks regardless can communicate with each clusters to connect to the latency connection. (10GB or connect to Google
of whether they belong to the other securely and efficiently Internet. higher) through a supported
same project or the same across project boundaries service provider. (from 50
organization using internal IPs. MB up) My experience
Key points Key points What you should know What you should know What you should know What you should know These networking elements play a
1- When to peer 1- Centralised management 1- How it works 1- Purpose of this connection 1- Best case use 1- Private Google Access part in connectivity to your database
2- What services you have 2- Firewall control Port allocations 2- Band width options 2- Min size 50MB 2- Private Service Access application.
access to 2- Use egress manner, help 3- Private Service Connect
system pull updates 4-VPC service controls
Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation Documentation
VPC Peering Shared VPC NAT Dedicated Interconnect Partner Interconnect

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 Thanks for reviewing.
Special note this exam is very challenging so go as deep as possible into all areas of each database type.

Please visit the official certification outline HERE

Official practice test HERE

ps. These are my notes and tips that helped me pass the Database exam in the beta version. Every area on the document represents a
topic that has a strong probability of appearing. Google may change the exam requirements at any time so always review the outline.
The knowledge is free it just cost me some time to put together. Please share with your network who may be interested in GCP
Database cert or need a quick refresher on database topics.
You can also check my other Google prep notes for the Security, Networking, Architect, Engineer, DevOps and Engineer exam HERE

Bonne Journée

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