Google Cloud Certifications
Achieving Google Cloud Platform certifications will open up career opportunities in the growing field of cloud computing as more organisations transition their services and operations into the cloud.
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Validate your Google Cloud platform skills and experience with GCP Foundation, Associate and Professional Certifications.
Demonstrate that you can assist your organisation's transformation by leveraging Google cloud technologies. Exhibit the cloud expertise across Google Cloud infrastructure, architecture, cloud application development and data engineering, machine learning and AI.
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Why become certified in GCP?
Google fundamentals Certification, Cloud Digital Leader represents a broad introduction to Cloud concepts, GCP technologies and the use cases upon which business transform their services leveraging cloud technologies.
Cloud Digital Leader is an excellent introductory certification for technical and non-technical professionals alike.
Google Associate certification, Cloud Engineer is aimed at technical professionals with an IT support/IT engineering background who are responsible for planning, deploying, configuring, managing, monitoring and troubleshooting a GCP Cloud environment.
Google Professional Certifications have a broad audience of IT specialists focusing on Design and architecture, networking, Security, DevOps, Application Development, Data Engineering and Machine learning/AI. Professional level certifications validate advanced skills in these respective specialisms.
GCP certifications explained
Foundation
Demonstrate a broad introductory knowledge of cloud concepts and GCP products, services and tools.
Cloud Digital Leader
A Cloud Digital Leader can articulate the capabilities of Google Cloud core products and services and how they benefit organizations. They can also describe common business use cases and how cloud solutions support an enterprise.
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Associate
Demonstrate fundamental skills to deploy, manage and monitor Google cloud services
Cloud Engineer
An Associate Cloud Engineer deploys applications, monitors operations, and manages enterprise solutions. This individual is able to use Google Cloud Console and the command-line interface to perform common platform-based tasks to maintain one or more deployed solutions that leverage Google-managed or self-managed services on Google Cloud.
Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Prepare with GCPAGCP - Architecting with Google Compute Engine - 3 days
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GCPPACEE - Google Cloud Platform: Preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer Examination - 1 day
Professional
Exhibit advanced skills in design, implementation and management of Google Cloud products.
Cloud Architect
A Professional Cloud Architect enables organizations to leverage Google Cloud technologies. With a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud Platform, this individual can design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives.
Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Prepare with GCPAGCP - Architecting with Google Compute Engine - 3 days
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Prepare with GCPADP - Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process - 2 days
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Prepare with GCPPPCAE - Preparing for the Professional Cloud Architect Examination - 1 day
Cloud Database Engineer
A Professional Cloud Database Engineer is a database professional with two years of Google Cloud experience and five years of overall database and IT experience. The Professional Cloud Database Engineer designs, creates, manages, and troubleshoots Google Cloud databases used by applications to store and retrieve data. The Professional Cloud Database Engineer should be comfortable translating business and technical requirements into scalable and cost-effective database solutions.
Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Cloud Developer
A Professional Cloud Developer builds scalable and highly available applications using Google-recommended practices and tools. This individual has experience with cloud-native applications, developer tools, managed services, and next-generation databases. A Professional Cloud Developer also has proficiency with at least one general-purpose programming language and is skilled at producing meaningful metrics and logs to debug and trace code.
Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Prepare with GCPDA - Developing Applications with Google Cloud - 3 days
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Prepare with GCPAGKE - Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine - 3 days
Data Engineer
A Professional Data Engineer enables data-driven decision making by collecting, transforming, and publishing data. A Data Engineer should be able to design, build, operationalize, secure, and monitor data processing systems with a particular emphasis on security and compliance; scalability and efficiency; reliability and fidelity; and flexibility and portability. A Data Engineer should also be able to leverage, deploy, and continuously train pre-existing machine learning models.
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Prepare with GCPDEGP - Data Engineering on Google Cloud - 4 days
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Prepare with GCPFBDML - Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals - 1 day
Cloud DevOps Engineer
A Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer is responsible for efficient development operations that can balance service reliability and delivery speed. They are skilled at using Google Cloud Platform to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage and learn from incidents.
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Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Prepare with GCPADP - Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process - 2 days
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Prepare with GCPLMOGC - Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud - 3 days
Cloud Security Engineer
A Professional Cloud Security Engineer enables organizations to design and implement a secure infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. Through an understanding of security best practices and industry security requirements, this individual designs, develops, and manages a secure infrastructure leveraging Google security technologies. The Cloud Security Professional should be proficient in all aspects of Cloud Security including managing identity and access management, defining organizational structure and policies, using Google technologies to provide data protection, configuring network security defenses, collecting and analyzing Google Cloud Platform logs, managing incident responses, and an understanding of regulatory concerns.
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Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Prepare with GCPNWGCP - Networking in Google Cloud - 2 days
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Prepare with GCPSECGCP - Security in Google Cloud - 3 days
Cloud Network Engineer
A Professional Cloud Network Engineer implements and manages network architectures in Google Cloud Platform. This individual has at least 1 year of hands-on experience working with Google Cloud Platform and may work on networking or cloud teams with architects who design the infrastructure. By leveraging experience implementing VPCs, hybrid connectivity, network services, and security for established network architectures, this individual ensures successful cloud implementations using the command line interface or the Google Cloud Platform Console.
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Prepare with GCPFCI - Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - 1 day
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Prepare with GCPNWGCP - Networking in Google Cloud - 2 days
Machine Learning Engineer
A Professional Machine Learning Engineer designs, builds, and productionizes ML models to solve business challenges using Google Cloud technologies and knowledge of proven ML models and techniques. The ML Engineer is proficient in all aspects of model architecture, data pipeline interaction, and metrics interpretation and needs familiarity with application development, infrastructure management, data engineering, and security.
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Prepare with GCPMLGC - Machine Learning on Google Cloud - 5 days
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GCP Certifications FAQs
What are the benefits of a GCP Certification?
Benefits for learners
Achieving Google Cloud Platform certifications will open up career opportunities in the growing field of cloud computing as more organisations transition their services and operations into the cloud.
According to the 2020 Google Cloud certification impact report. 87% of Google Cloud certified users feel more confident in cloud skills and More than 1 in 4 of Google Cloud certified individuals took on more responsibility or leadership roles at work.
GCP re-certification requirements foster continuous learning and development. Learners must demonstrate that they can stay current with the pace and cadence of developments in the Google Cloud Platform Technologies by re-sitting their original associate or professional exam every two years. This ensures that your skills remain relevant and competitive. Maintaining your GCP certification also provides you with access to resources, forums and events that provide networking and collaboration opportunities with fellow cloud professionals.
Benefits for businesses
Promoting the achievement of Google Certifications amongst your cloud professionals helps your organisation modernise faster. GCP certification not only validates employees technical understanding of Google Cloud Platform technologies but also evidences that the employee has an appreciation of the business use cases that GCP technologies support and underpin. This means that your Cloud professionals can quickly and effectively translate your evolving business needs into GCP Cloud based solutions.
Which roles use GCP?
Google Cloud platform technologies are used by a wide range of IT Professionals including systems/cloud Engineers and systems/Cloud Analysts; Software Developers; Systems and Enterprise Architects; DevOps and SRE Engineers; Security professionals; Data professionals including Data Engineers, Data Scientists and AI Developers.
What skills do I need before learning GCP?
Candidate pre-requisite skills depend on the role you are looking to certify upon within the Google Cloud Platform technology stack.
Those looking to achieve Cloud engineering, security or architecture associate or expert certifications will generally have a strong background in modern IT systems. Specifically, you will have experience with operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking.
Those looking Cloud application development associate level certifications must be able to program in an GCP Supported Language such as Python or Java and will have a general understanding cloud and of the software development lifecycle (Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles).
Candidates for GCP DevOps certification should possess some Cloud administration and development experience and have proven expertise in at least one of these areas. Candidates should also possess strong knowledge of version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles.
Data professionals looking to gain GCP data engineering, data science or AI Development credentials should all possess a fundamental knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform. and depending on the role, should have Experience of writing Python code to work with data and an understanding of core data principles and the key principles of data science (preparation of data, training ML models and using common ML libraries).
Do Google Cloud platform certifications expire?
Yes. Professional level certifications are valid for two years from the date of initial certification. Cloud Digital Leader and Associate Cloud Engineer certifications are valid for three years.
The re-certification process simply entails the candidate re-sitting their original examination within their recertification eligibility period (which starts 60 days before your certification expiry). You will receive notification when you are due to re-certify.