My experience with GCP PCA exam

50 questions in 2hrs. No pass percentage is mentioned. Result is in Pass for Fail. Official result comes in 7-10 days.

I passed the exam and and I believe my experience can be helpful to other people as well.

What I followed and what can be topics/sub-topics which are of importance

1. Go through the qwiklabs courses for GCP PCA . Do hands on labs multiple times in order to understand the concepts. The exam tests your understanding from the overall cloud architecture perspective, if you have architected solutions on any other public clouds it will definitely help.
2. You should be aware of the services provided and how and when to be used, placed along with study from reference architectures. Below is what i had gone through
3. Understand usage of BQ, BT, Cloud Firestore, Cloud dataflow, dataprep, datalab, pubsub, memcache , cloud SQL , failover replica and read replica
4. Understand when to use cloud interconnect, partner interconnect, Cloud VPN, S2S VPN, cloud router 
5. Go through articles on gaming, IOT devices setup 
6. CSEK, VPC Service Control, Encryption
7. Storage transfer scenarios and usage
8. Billing, logging, monitoring, trace, debug.
9. Difference between App Engine Flex and Std
10. GKE and its usage , commands to setup, update, resize cluster, horizontal pod scaler
11. Load balancer options and how its used with Cloud armor
12. Storage classes and lifecycle management
13. CDN and cache/hit ratio
14. Jenkins, Cloud Build and CI/CD tools , how they work, understanding of git repository.
15. IAm roles and least privilege concepts and usage / what to use when ?
16. Understand case studies well in advance and map services with existing infra. Focus on business requirements and technical requirements.
17. Cloud Console commands (gsutil and gcloud usage) 

What links can be helpful for preparation

• https://grumpygrace.dev/posts/gcp-flowcharts/
• Designing a Connected Vehicle Platform on Cloud IoT Core https://cloud.google.com/solutions/designing-connected-vehicle-platform
• Gaming Articles https://cloud.google.com/solutions/gaming/dedicated-game-server-migration-guide
• https://levelup.gitconnected.com/about-google-cloud-architect-professional-certification-5096bca3134a
• https://cloud.google.com/vpc-service-controls/docs/overview
• https://medium.com/@afegbuaismaila/choosing-the-right-google-cloud-platform-gcp-database-c517cfe0e593
• https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/partitioned-tables
• https://cloud.google.com/solutions/automated-network-deployment-multicloud
• https://cloud.google.com/solutions/reliable-task-scheduling-compute-engine
• https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/high-availability#normal
• https://cloud.google.com/solutions/architecture/optimized-large-scale-analytics-ingestion
• https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/the-appengine-environments
• Practice tests from Sarat Gutha (Udemy) and Whizlabs also helped