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CloudFolks Quest 6 | Google Cloud Administration
Quest 6 Google Cloud Administration

Google Cloud Administration

Create. Configure. Secure. Monitor. Troubleshoot. Back up. Optimise.

An 8-hour practical masterclass where learners administer production-style Google Cloud resources through focused labs, recovery tasks, monitoring workflows, IAM control, networking, backup, and governance.

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9 Aug Starts 2026
8h Total duration
80% Hands-on practical
9 Focused modules
Learning Outcomes

What learners will be able to do after Quest 6.

Quest 6 is built for practical cloud administration. Learners do not just watch services being created. They configure, secure, monitor, break, troubleshoot, and recover a working Google Cloud environment.

01

Administer Projects

Manage projects, APIs, quotas, Cloud Shell, gcloud defaults, billing linkage, and project controls.

02

Control Access

Use IAM roles, service accounts, scoped permissions, inheritance, and least privilege access.

03

Operate VMs

Create, resize, recover, connect, secure, snapshot, and troubleshoot Compute Engine virtual machines.

04

Manage Networks

Build custom VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routes, NAT access, and private workload connectivity.

05

Protect Data

Configure Cloud Storage controls, lifecycle rules, snapshots, retention, restore workflows, and backups.

06

Build Resilience

Use instance templates, managed instance groups, health checks, autoscaling, and load balancing.

07

Observe And Fix

Use Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, dashboards, alerts, audit logs, and troubleshooting workflows.

08

Govern Resources

Apply budget alerts, labels, cleanup checks, security controls, and cost optimisation practices.

Eight-Hour Roadmap

The Quest 6 curriculum follows a real administration journey.

Each module focuses on an administrator action. The flow starts with setup and access, moves into compute and networking, then finishes with protection, monitoring, troubleshooting, governance, and an integrated scenario.

01

Project & Administration Setup

30 minutes
  • Resource hierarchy, project creation, billing linkage, and API controls.
  • Cloud Shell and gcloud CLI configuration with default project, region, and zone.
  • Inspect enabled services, quotas, limits, and basic project controls.
02

IAM Administration

60 minutes
  • Members, roles, permissions, custom roles, and IAM inheritance.
  • Service accounts, impersonation, key security, and least privilege.
  • Validate access boundaries through allowed and denied actions.
03

Compute Engine Administration

75 minutes
  • Create, start, stop, resize, label, tag, and delete VMs.
  • Manage disks, static IPs, metadata, startup scripts, and VM service accounts.
  • Diagnose failed SSH access and recover using snapshots and disks.
04

VPC Network Administration

75 minutes
  • Create custom VPCs, regional subnets, firewall rules, routes, and targets.
  • Configure Private Google Access, Cloud Router, Cloud NAT, and private egress.
  • Troubleshoot deliberately blocked connectivity and restore network flow.
05

Storage & Backup Administration

45 minutes
  • Configure bucket location, storage class, public access prevention, and versioning.
  • Use lifecycle rules, retention controls, CLI upload, download, and administration.
  • Schedule disk snapshots and restore resources from backup.
06

Instance Groups & Load Balancing

60 minutes
  • Create instance templates and managed instance groups.
  • Configure health checks, autohealing, autoscaling, and rolling updates.
  • Administer an external HTTP load balancer and troubleshoot backends.
07

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

60 minutes
  • Use Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Logs Explorer, and Cloud Audit Logs.
  • Install the Operations Agent and create dashboards, uptime checks, and alerts.
  • Diagnose a failed web service using metrics, logs, IAM, firewall, and routes.
08

Security, Cost & Governance

45 minutes
  • Review service account security, OS Login, Secret Manager, KMS, and audit logging.
  • Create budget alerts, labels, quota checks, and cleanup workflows.
  • Identify exposed resources, unused IPs, unused disks, and cost risks.
09

Integrated Administration Scenario

30 minutes
  • Build a production-style admin environment with bastion and private VMs.
  • Apply IAM, firewall, NAT, backup, monitoring, logging, and budget controls.
  • Review audit evidence and confirm the environment is recoverable and governed.
Final Lab

The final project proves learners can administer with confidence.

Learners complete one integrated administration scenario that connects access control, networking, VM operations, backup, monitoring, audit evidence, and cost governance into a single practical workflow.

Production-style administration lab

Administrator access flows through a bastion VM into private application VMs. Cloud NAT, disks, Operations Agent, snapshot schedules, IAM, logging, monitoring, and budgets work together as one controlled environment.

  • Configure scoped IAM access.
  • Build the custom VPC and subnets.
  • Deploy public and private VMs.
  • Apply firewall and NAT controls.

Teaching model

Quest 6 uses a practical learning rhythm: explain, demonstrate, break, troubleshoot, and recover. Every module is tied to a real administrator action instead of long product theory.

20% Focused explanation
60% Instructor-led lab
20% Troubleshooting review
  • Configure backup and recovery.
  • Create monitoring and alerting.
  • Review audit evidence.
  • Apply cost controls.
Who Should Attend

Built for administrators who need practical Google Cloud confidence.

This quest is designed for learners who already understand basic cloud concepts and want to build hands-on administration skills without beginner filler or developer distractions.

Cloud Administrators Move into Google Cloud administration with project, IAM, compute, network, storage, and governance practice.
System Administrators Translate Linux, Windows, VM, subnetting, and CLI fundamentals into real Google Cloud operations.
DevOps Engineers Learn the infrastructure controls needed to manage reliable cloud environments and troubleshoot production-style issues.
Cloud Learners Practice a structured admin path after learning basic cloud concepts, VMs, IP addressing, and command-line usage.
Ready to administer Google Cloud

Join Quest 6: Google Cloud Administration.

Create, configure, secure, monitor, troubleshoot, back up, and optimise Google Cloud resources through one focused 8-hour practical masterclass.

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