Exam Essentials

Understand how to navigate Cloud Console. Cloud Console is the graphical interface for working with GCP. You can create, configure, delete, and list VM instances from the Compute Engine area of the console.

Understand how to install Cloud SDK. Cloud SDK allows you to configure default environment variables, such as a preferred zone, and issue commands from the command line. If you use Cloud Shell, Cloud SDK is already installed.

Know how to create a VM in the console and at the command line. You can specify machine type, choose an image, and configure disks with the console. You can use commands at the command line to list and describe, and you can find the same information in the console. Understand when to use customized images and how to deprecate them. Images are copies of contents of a disk, and they are used to create VMs. Deprecated marks an image as no longer supported.

Understand why GPUs are used and how to attach them to a VM. GPUs are used for compute-intensive...