Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud DevOps Engineer Professional Certificate

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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud DevOps Engineer Professional Certificate

Advance your career as an SRE & DevOps Engineer

Instructor: Google Cloud Training

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5 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.8

(2,633 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

5 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.8

(2,633 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud devops engineering role
Prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification exam
Techniques for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud guided by principles of SRE.
Understand the purpose and intent of the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification and its relationship to other Google Cloud certifications

Skills you'll gain

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Professional Certificate - 5 course series

This program provides the skills you need to advance your career as a data engineer and provides training to support your preparation for the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification. 87% of Google Cloud certified users feel more confident in their cloud skills.

You'll also have the opportunity to practice key job skills using Google Cloud to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage and learn from incidents. You will learn to apply SRE principles to a service, techniques for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance among other things.

Your journey to Google Cloud certification:

1) Complete the Coursera Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps Professional Certificate

2) Review other recommended learning resources for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification exam

3) Review the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam guide

4) Take the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer practice exam

5) Register for the Google Cloud certification exam (Can be taken remotely or at a test center)

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.

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Course 15 hours

What you'll learn

Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.
Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud
Explain how to create a basic infrastructure in Google Cloud
Select and use Google Cloud storage options

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform

Category: Cloud Services

Category: Virtual Machines

Category: Cloud Storage

Category: Cloud Infrastructure

Category: Identity and Access Management

Category: Application Deployment

Category: Generative AI

Category: Prompt Engineering

Category: Kubernetes

Category: NoSQL

Category: Network Infrastructure

Category: Scalability

Category: Cloud Computing

Category: Containerization

Category: Application Development

Developing a Google SRE Culture

Course 27 hours

What you'll learn

Discuss Google’s view on DevOps philosophy and the relationship between DevOps and SRE
Discuss the value SRE can provide to your IT operations
Articulate Google’s technical and cultural fundamentals of SRE
Assess your organization’s maturity level in adopting SRE

Skills you'll gain

Category: Site Reliability Engineering

Category: Service Level

Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making

Category: Automation

Category: Goal Setting

Category: CI/CD

Category: Change Management

Category: Safety Culture

Category: System Implementation

Category: Incident Management

Category: Performance Measurement

Category: Organizational Structure

Category: Culture Transformation

Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process

Course 38 hours

What you'll learn

Define application requirements and express as KPIs, SLOs, and SLIs.
Build microservice applications and architect cloud and hybrid networks.
Choose appropriate Google Cloud storage and deployment services.
Secure cloud applications, data, and infrastructure, and monitor service levels.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform

Category: Application Deployment

Category: DevOps

Category: Cloud Infrastructure

Category: Microservices

Category: Cloud Computing Architecture

Category: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Category: Restful API

Category: Service Level

Category: Cloud Storage

Category: Kubernetes

Category: Cloud Security

Category: CI/CD

Category: Disaster Recovery

Category: Cloud Applications

Category: Site Reliability Engineering

Category: Cloud Computing

Category: Service Level Agreement

Category: Network Architecture

Category: API Design

Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud

Course 47 hours

What you'll learn

Explain the purpose and capabilities of Google Cloud Observability.
Implement monitoring for multiple cloud projects.
Create effective monitoring dashboards and alerts.Create alerting policies, uptime checks and alerts.
Explain how to collect logs using Cloud Logging and export for further analysis

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform

Category: System Monitoring

Category: Identity and Access Management

Category: Continuous Monitoring

Category: Data Access

Category: Application Performance Management

Category: Cloud Management

Category: Query Languages

Category: Cloud Security

Category: Event Monitoring

Category: Performance Tuning

Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine

Course 56 hours

What you'll learn

Discuss the differences among Google Cloud compute platforms.
Discuss the components and architecture of Kubernetes.
Identify how Google manages Kubernetes orchestration.
Create and manage Google Kubernetes Engine clusters by using the Google Cloud console and gcloud/kubectl commands.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Kubernetes

Category: Containerization

Category: Application Deployment

Category: Google Cloud Platform

Category: Cloud Computing

Category: Command-Line Interface

Category: Continuous Delivery

Category: Cloud Management

Category: Cloud-Native Computing

Category: Identity and Access Management

Category: Cloud Infrastructure

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Frequently asked questions

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. A basic understanding of scripting is also helpful.

We strongly recommend you take these courses in order, beginning with Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure. This is especially important when completing the Qwiklabs activities, as these hands-on labs will build upon the work you complete in preceding courses.

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