4Configuring and operating compute and data

• 4.1Configuring compute and containers

  Understand Compute Engine machine types/MIGs/instance templates, GKE Autopilot/Standard with node pools/workloads, Cloud Run revisions and traffic splitting, and cost-efficient configuration with Spot VMs and committed-use discounts.

• 4.2Configuring data and operating/monitoring

  Understand configuring managed databases (Cloud SQL HA and read replicas, Spanner scaling), Cloud Storage lifecycle and access control, and operations via Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and alerts with SLO-based reliability management.