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Google Professional Cloud Architect - The Complete Guide (Udemy.com)

Become a Certified Google Cloud Architect! Learn how to design and build modern cloud apps like a pro.

Created by: Memi Lavi

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • What is the cloud and what it's good for
  • Basic terminology of the cloud: Regions, Zones, etc.
  • Fundamentals of Google Cloud - Projects, Cloud Shell, Budgets and more
  • Working with the Console
  • Compute Services - Virtual Machines, App Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Functions and more
  • Networking - VPC, Subnets, Firewall rules, Load balancers and more
  • Data Store - Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, BigTable, Cloud Storage, Memorystore and more
  • Messaging - Pub/Sub, Eventarc
  • Identity management with Cloud IAM and Identity Platform
  • Implementing security in the cloud
  • Designing disaster recovery strategy
  • Managing costs
  • Architecting applications in the cloud
  • Migrating from on-premise to the cloud

How it compares

Against the other 848 rated Udemy courses in IT Certifications on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 28% of them
  • Reviews750#344 of 849 by number of reviews
  • Length17.1 hourslonger than 77% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 79% of them

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Course Description

Learn Google Cloud from a certified, experienced Google Cloud Architect, and become a certified Google Cloud Architect.


Google Cloud is one of the most popular public clouds in the industry, and it gets bigger and bigger by the day. Thousands of organizations, from all sizes and shapes, are moving to the cloud, and being able to work with it is one of the most important skills for every developer, architect, or IT admin.

And this course does just that.

If you'll take this course, you'll become a Certified Google Professional Cloud Architect.

Being a certified Google Architect comes with a lot of perks: You'll gain worldwide recognition of your skills, you'll find it much easier to land jobs, you'll join the experts cloud community, and lots more.

We start from the very basics - what is the cloud and what it's good for - and go to the most advanced concepts such as Organization Policy, Cost management, and lots more.

By the end of this course you'll be familiar with the most important services in Google Cloud, and also some real hidden gems known only to the few (Metadata services, for instance), and you'll be able to work with Google Cloud and design and build modern cloud apps, utilizing the most up-to-date cloud services.

Here is a partial list of what we'll talk about in this course:

- What is the cloud

- Google Cloud vs other clouds

- The Console

- Compute - Virtual Machines, App Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions and more

- Networking - VPC, Subnets, Firewall rules, Load balancers and more

- Data Services - Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Memorystore, BigTable, Cloud Storage and more

- Messaging - Pub/Sub, Eventarc

- Identity management with Cloud IAM and Identity Platform

- Logging and Monitoring

- Implementing security in the cloud

- Cost Management

- Disaster Recovery (DR)

And lots and lots more...

Now, to make sure that this course is the best Google Cloud course out there, I've decided to make it a little bit different.

Instead of going through the various services of Google Cloud, talking about each one and perhaps even doing a demo - this course takes a different approach.

We're going to build, together, a full blown modern cloud system on Google Cloud.

Together, we're going to build the Readit website, a fictional bookstore that's built in Google Cloud.

We're going to begin with the very basics - take a code and put it on a virtual machine in the cloud.

And then we're going to add more compute elements, add networking, databases, messaging, monitoring, security, and even DR! (Take a look at the video preview - you can see there the architecture diagram of the system at the beginning, and how it looks like when we're done with it. Worth watching...)

And when we're done - you'll be able to say that you've built a complete system in Google Cloud!

This is something you can show future employers and clients, and explain them how the system is designed, and what are the reasons it's built like this.

Now, don't worry about the code. Everything it going to be provided to you.

The system is built using .NET and nodeJS, but you don't have to be familiar with these languages, you just better have some development knowledge.

There is no other course like this!

This is the only Google Cloud course that takes you step-by-step towards a complete, full blown system in the cloud. At the end of it - you can definitely call yourself Google Cloud Expert.

And the course will not just help you become an expert in Google Cloud, it will also help you get the Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification.

After learning about the services in the cloud, you'll find a special section explaining about the certification process, and how to prepare for it. We'll cover the exam structure, question types, exam length, room preparation, time allocation and lots more.

And after that - you'll have a change to take a practice test, simulating the questions you'll actually have in the real exam. This will greatly help you in preparing for the exam.


But that's not all...

At the end of this course, you'll be able to download the Google Cloud Architecture Summary, a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that summarizes what we've learned in the course, and that will help you design great Google Cloud apps.

This summary is an extremely handy doc to use when designing apps in Google Cloud. I use it and it helps me a lot - and so should you...


This course takes you from the absolute basics of Google Cloud to the most advanced topics, known only to few. Completing this course will give you all the knowledge required for designing modern, robust, secure and reliable cloud systems, and, as a bonus, will put you in a great position when looking for your next job.

No other course covers this topic in such a comprehensive and thorough way. I've put all my 20+ years of experience with hundreds of clients in this course, and I'm sure you will greatly benefit from it.


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"One of the best classes in the world" - Kkvi1357

"One of the best courses I've done at Udemy - top among maybe 50-100" - Russ

"Memi is a true architect willing to get his hands dirty!" - Kevon

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Any person who is involved in Software Architecture & development, even system analysts, can benefit from this course.

That includes:

- Software Architects

- Junior developers

- Senior developers

- Architects

- Anyone who is interested in the cloud

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Instructor Details

Memi Lavi

Senior Software & Cloud Architect with more than 20 years of experience in the Software Industry.

In 2018 I founded my own software and cloud architecture boutique company, which grew 100s% every year, until it was sold a few years later to one of the largest IT companies in the country for millions of dollars.

Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Worked with all kinds of clients - govt. entities, start-ups, banks, telcos and more - designing the architecture of their systems and working closely with the development teams.

Frequent speaker in many tech conferences & meetups, and a real software enthusiast.

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Reviews

4.4

750 ratings on Udemy

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By Cedric Bijon on 5/20/2026

The course may need an update from the application use case (Net Core version is now obsolete) and can be frustrating to debug the code error, when we are expecting to focus on GCP architecture. Also Mac or Linux user can possibly struggle more as the exemple and videos are Windows OS oriented. But overall, with AI help and few more minutes/hours of digging all the blocking or error can be resolved.

By David Odoom on 10/7/2025

This instructor is so, so good. I'm blown away by how he makes such a technical subject so easy to assimilate. This must be one of the top 0.1% instructors on Udemy and I have bought over 200 courses over the years! I have not even finished the course, and I found myself looking for other courses created by him. I wish all courses were created by him :-). Only issue i have is the order-function application failing to compile to .net 8 or 6. I dont have .net dev experience so unable to fix it.

By Ivan Yakovlev on 3/20/2025

I've watched many courses on this topic. This is the very first one where the lector really understands and loves what he teaches. Despite several mistakes, the content is quite deep and well-explained. The practice test questions are too easy though, pale in comparison with the questions the real exam gives.

By Rajeev S on 1/11/2025

I recently passed the PCA exam and this course was my starting point without any GCP or public cloud experience. It especially helped to understand how different services fit together since the instructor builds a demo app using many GCP services. Coverage on GKE is less than ideal, so I had to read bit more about it online. After watching this course, I read a series of notes on Medium to refresh my knowledge and did lots of practice questions. Overall I would highly recommend this course as a starting point to prep for PCA exam. Also combine it with practice questions as much as possible.

By Negmat Mullodzhanov on 11/15/2024

I like how the concepts are being broken down and explained in very easy to understand terms. I also like the course flow - it is flowing logically and building on previously learned topics. The author has done a great job balancing theory and practice - explaining topics and then jumping into GCP UI and walking the students through the concepts just learned, thus solidifying our understanding.

By Chhaya Yadav on 11/3/2024

It was an awesome learning journey so far in this course. I am very excited to learn more interesting GCP concepts. The instructor is a wonderful teacher and explains concepts very well. Loved the course.

By Dr. Harald Goebel on 5/3/2024

Very concise yet informative! In always keeping an eye on the "big picture" but still pointing to the small technical quirks which appear during daily work with GCP and associated tools, the trainer manages to cover all important aspects of GCP from the architect point of view. The structure of the course is very well organised, and so are individual slide decks and presentations of activities in the GCP Console and tools. One of the best courses I've booked on udemy so far!

By Markus Ahrweiler on 4/19/2024

- Much repetition in the first place - does not show how to use ssl certificates - costs are not clearified How should i call myself an expert after this course, if i basically can't use this in practice, because the most important thing to host web apps is missing - ssl certificates I almost did learn all the stuff from looking 2 days into the console

By Piotr Gospodarczyk on 3/18/2024

There is something intrinsically unique about Memi’s courses. I keep coming back to his courses and he never disappoints! The course is precise, comprehensive and very hands on. It’s spiced with a lot of working knowledge based on real-world experiences. A lot of effective strategies, along with some clever hacks. I recommend it highly to both aspiring and seasoned architects. Thanks, Memi!

By K Ebara on 3/2/2024

Great hands-on course. I've mainly used Cloud Run for Web apps, but as I've started to use VertexAI I need to learn a wider range of GCP services. Explanations are simple, clear, and importantly, almost exactly the amount I want to watch. It's not too little nor too much. Hands-on parts are very nice too. Every section is straightforward and you can concentrate on learning how to use each GCP service. If I had taken this course earlier, the struggle with searching on gcloud SDK and setting up network configurations cloud be a much less burden.

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