The course has been excellent with a very good introduction of the topics composing the module, going on depth regarding the aspects considered more important. Excellent as well all the six Labs composing the module and the corresponding Lab Reviews. I consider both very important for consolidating what explained in the Labs introduction and in the Labs Reviews done by the teacher. However my feeling is that a careful study of these topics entails the possibility to coming back to the Google Cloud Platform for repeating some steps already carried out during the Labs execution. Many aspects like Deployment Manager accessed via Marketplace-Jenkins or the Deployment Manager accessed from Infrastructure, or several sw tool like Apache, Git, Gradle, etc... met for the first time during the theory study or the Labs executions, sometimes need to be explored for a second time. Without leaving back the need to refresh, during the study of each module like during a Lab execution, to refresh some meanings like "Boot loader", "File system", "Kernel" and so on...Starting from this thought, I recommend to the Google courses organizers to give the student the fruitful opportunity to access again to the Google Cloud Platform for repeating, as reported above, some strategic steps already carried out during the Labs execution at the completion of each module or at the completion of the course at least. I highly recommend that approach. My last remark is due to the fact that, sometime, the translation of the Lab Reviews shows some typos, visible when the student chooses to display the spoken.

I have a problem with the Lab Automating the Infrastructure of networks using Terraform.

I folled this step by step but, when I have to use the command "terraform apply" even if the file mynetwork.tf was exactly how its explain in the Demo's Lab, I had an error with this json section:

resource "google_compute_network" "mynetwork" {

name = "mynetwork"

auto_create_subnetworks = true

}

The error was an invalid JSON input, I aready send an email with this error, in January 3rd, but I don't have anwser yet.

Even with that error, I recomended this Lab: I have so much fun with the videos and the others Labs

This course gives you a good practical knowledge of how VPC networks in GCP works. It has one of the best lab exercises where you'll create a vpc, subnets, firewall rules and explore how the connectivity works between resources in different zones, regions, networks, projects in VPC. One drawback is this course have very few quizzes, barely 6 questions. It would have been great if they had multiple quizzes which would test our understanding. However the labs are really great and would help you to gain a lot of practical knowledge on GCP services.

Good course, only thing that I see different is the quiz question "Which statement is true of Virtual Machine Instances in Google Compute Engine?": A VM in Compute Engine always maps to a single hardware computer in a rack -> this is true, I think I know this. "In compute Engine, a VM is networked service that simulates the features of a computer" -> according to wikipedia, the word "simulate" does not reflect what happens, it has to be "virtualizes", so this is wrong. The other two options are bogus.

Good course.

Unfortunately a lot of the content at the beginning overlaps with the first course (Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure) in this specialization (Architecting with Google Cloud Platform).

Further the sometimes very short video clips (seconds) are annoying and break my learning workflow, I prefer a less 'chopped' up content.

Overall good course, learned quite a bit of concepts.

Too many videos that were too short. Some of this was the disjointed nature between lecture presenter and lab presenter. Both would give a 12-14 second video setting up the lab. Not long enough to get used to what the speaker was saying, or really absorb the 3-4 seconds of actual information they were trying to convey. I would recommend you just drop the lab presenter's videos entirely.

Awesome learning experience of diving and learning to swim in GCP ocean. Labs are well written and well thought except GCP cloud shell takes hell lot of time in connecting your GCE instance. Overall I highly recommend this course to anyone who would like to step inside a world of google cloud computing. Happy Learning and Thank you Coursera for wonderful video and labs.

Good content, just the audio was so low compared to last course. Not blaming the guy, just jack up his mic sensitivity up next time. Good stuff though, the labs are really fun when they work LOL (I get this is a new technology though). So far enjoying these labs much much more than the labs in VMwareLearning and ITProTV, Pluralsight. Very great job, I appreciate it.

This course is pretty good if you are interested in the Networking perspective of things in GCP. Though a number of things are a recap from the Fundamentals part, however, I believe that the hands-on labs provide a much thorough practice and understanding of a number of functions/features. I thought it was great. Thank you! Best regards, Donat.

I like the course and it has good potential. However, comparing to the Course 1 ( GCP fundamentals:Core Infrastructure), it seems this course is still in a development stage because there are still quite a few improvements needed. For example, not supplemental links, Interactive transcript mismatched the video content...etc.

Well-prepared course delivery and material. Very clear explanation of concepts by the instructor. The only reason I didn't provide 5-star is because many of the contents are out of date. I understand that retaking the video might be a huge effort, but I suggest to provide at least a brief update as separate notes in the course.

I liked the content and the amount of practice in this course. I didn't like the time restrictions for the labs, they are sometimes short. I suggest an extend time button for extra 15 minutes. I also notice some small errors on the lab. The side bar navigation it doesn't keep an indentation, it could be another improve on that.

For Foundation course, there could have ben more Demo's instead of just pointing the candidates to do labs on their own. There are no tips and tricks or real world examples topics when explaining something. Course becomes very dry and makes it very difficult to understand considering someone is learning for the first time.

i had to repeat several labs and lessons multiple times because the completion is not registered. Weird thing after repeating and tagged completed, after a while several of the lessons and labs which previously tagged completed become incomplete and thus i had to repeat them several times.

1. Each module needs a better quiz that cover the main concepts or operations in the taught in the module.

2. In module 3, the second lab: Working with Vitrual Machines, there is no lab instruction on how to use the static external ip to verify the status of the minccraft server.

The course is very informative, and I would definitely recommend it to a friend. Alas there are irritating glitches in the platform, which causes loss of the lab progress, so eventually you may have to complete lab twice to make them count in the course grades.

The learning objective about the use of labels to allow access between instances needs some clarity and to stand out more during the video presentation. I was lost at the quiz time for this questions whereas the other questions I could recall from the video.

Provide a good understanding of GCP infrastructure basics through short video lectures and lab exercise. The lab exercises takes some time to get used to and at times, you get anxious because the timer is counting down and you are yet to complete your lab.

For the most part he course is great. There are however some small updates needed to the location of items (Firewall rules) and at times the course feels a bit superficial. That said this is a great intro course and I would highly recommend it!

Wish the videos are stringed together in topics instead of having one video per slide or intro. The cooldown timer is pretty annoying in breaking my concentration in learning the material. Also some explanation in voice are long winded.

Very useful course, but it could have been a bit more detailed by providing more advanced information. Nevertheless, it provided a useful explanation and examples that helped me understand how to manage networking and VMs in GCP.

It was good hands on experience. Got a good exposure to GCP. I suggest if materials can be provided for further study in future. Video often too fast moving, if the instructor slows down while explaining that will be too good.

Good. Would have loved to see more tooling and management with gsutil and gcloud. Very good pointing out caveats, but I think a few points were glossed over, such as the zone dependency of inferred instance discounting.

Good Introduction to GCP and course served its purpose to get in to the required nomenclature. Left scroll bar needs to be adjusted, hard to scroll and see the vedio at the same time. and lab time can be little longer.

This course is an excellent start for the people who want to step in the Cloud Domain. I learned a lot. Labs are designed in a very good way and give an experience like working in real-world which is a valuable thing.