Why Capable Engineers Fail Professional Cloud Architect
The Architect exam fails people who know the products well. The reason is almost never knowledge — it is how they read the question.
August 12, 20264 min read
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What we learn from studying how these exams are written, and from the mistakes people make preparing for them.
Hands-On Practice Beats Video Courses (And the Data Is Not Close)
Why watching someone else configure a load balancer produces almost no retention, and what to do with your study time instead.
July 28, 20264 min read
How to Read a Cloud Exam Question
Cloud exam questions are written carefully. Learning to read them is a distinct skill worth practising separately from the material.
July 14, 20264 min read
Five IAM Mistakes That Appear on Every Google Cloud Exam
IAM is the highest-yield topic in the programme. These five misunderstandings account for a large share of the marks people lose.
June 30, 20264 min read
Choosing a Database on Google Cloud: A Decision Tree
Database selection questions appear on almost every Google Cloud exam. Here is a decision tree that answers most of them.
June 16, 20264 min read
Grounding or Fine-Tuning? The Question Every AI Exam Asks
When a generative model gives a wrong answer, the fix depends entirely on why it was wrong. Here is the framework.
May 29, 20264 min read