This program provides the skills you need to advance your career in cloud architecture and provides a pathway to earn the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. You'll deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services, and you'll gain real world experience through hands-on Qwiklabs projects that you can share with potential employers.
You'll also have the opportunity to practice key job skills, including case analysis, identifying technical watchpoints, and developing proposed solutions. Test your basic abilities with Activity Tracking Challenge Labs. For learners looking to get certified, this program will provide sample questions similar to those on the exam, including solutions and practice exam quizzes that simulate the exam-taking experience.
Upon successful completion of this program, you will earn a certificate of completion to share with your professional network and potential employers. If you'd like to earn your Google Cloud certification, you will need to register for and pass the certification exam. Please note that this program helps equip you with the skills you need to take the certification exam, but the certification and certification fee is not included in the cost of this training program.
Applied Learning Project
This professional certificate incorporates hands-on labs using our Qwiklabs platform.
These hands on components will let you apply the skills you learn in the video lectures. Projects will incorporate topics such as Google Cloud Platform products, which are used and configured within Qwiklabs. You can expect to gain practical hands-on experience with the concepts explained throughout the modules.
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This Professional Certificate is designed to be completed in one and a half months at 5 hours per week.
Proficiency with with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments and systems operations experience (including deploying and managing applications, either on-premises or in a public cloud environment) is helpful in understanding the technologies covered.
We strongly recommend you take these courses in order, beginning with Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals. This is especially important when completing the Qwiklabs activities, as these hands-on labs build upon the work you complete in preceding courses.
This course is completely online, so there’s no need to show up to a classroom in person. You can access your lectures, readings and assignments anytime and anywhere via the web or your mobile device.
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