Capstone: End-to-End Cloud Architecture — Roadmap Step & Resources
Designing, provisioning and documenting a complete, production-style GCP architecture
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 3 days
- Roadmap: GCP Cloud Engineer
Before this step
Mini projects
- Design and deploy a highly available, cost-optimized, IaC-provisioned architecture for a realistic application
Interview questions
- Walk me through how you would architect a highly available, cost-efficient system on GCP for a new client.
Study resources
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification Course (CLF-C02) (Video) — Andrew Brown's (ExamPro) widely-used, comprehensive free course covering AWS fundamentals end to end.
- AWS Well-Architected Framework (Article) — AWS's own official framework, the primary reference for designing the capstone architecture.
- AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Full Course (2025) (Video) — A current, comprehensive 2.5-hour crash course covering Azure fundamentals end to end, aligned with the AZ-900 exam.
- Azure Well-Architected Framework (Article) — Microsoft's own official framework, the primary reference for the capstone architecture.
- Google Cloud Full Course for Beginners [2025] (Video) — A comprehensive, current 4-hour course covering GCP fundamentals from account setup through core services.
- Google Cloud Architecture Framework (Article) — Google Cloud's own official Architecture Framework, the primary reference for the capstone architecture.
Part of
- Certifications, Career and Capstone — section
- GCP Cloud Engineer roadmap — the full learning path