| Objective | Chapter |
| Section 1: Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture | |
| 1.1 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business requirements | 1, 2 |
| 1.2 Designing a solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements | 2, 3 |
| 1.3 Designing network, storage, and compute resources | 4 |
| 1.4 Creating a migration plan (i.e., documents and architectural diagrams) | 12 |
| 1.5 Envisioning future solution improvements | 2 |
| Section 2: Managing and provisioning solutions infrastructure | |
| 2.1 Configuring network topologies | 6 |
| 2.2 Configuring individual storage systems | 5 |
| 2.3 Configuring compute systems | 4 |
| Section 3: Designing for security and compliance | |
| 3.1 Designing for security | 7 |
| 3.2 Designing for compliance | 7 |
| Section 4: Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes | |
| 4.1 Analyzing and defining technical processes | 9 |
| 4.2 Analyzing and defining business processes | 10 |
| 4.3 Developing procedures to ensure reliability of solutions in production (e.g., chaos engineering, penetration testing) | 8 |
| Section 5: Managing implementation | |
| 5.1 Advising development/operations team(s) to ensure successful deployment of the solution | 11 |
| 5.2 Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically | 11 |
| Section 6: Ensuring solutions and operations reliability | |
| 6.1 Monitoring/logging/profiling/alerting solution | 8 |
| 6.2 Deployment and release management | 8 |
| 6.3 Assisting with support of deployed solutions | 8 |
| 6.4 Evaluating quality control measures | 8 |
