Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud DevOps Engineer Certificate Online
Advance your devops engineer skills with GCP devops certification training that delves into using Google Cloud to build software delivery pipelines, optimize performance and ensure fast, reliable delivery.
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- Explore how to work with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and ready yourself for a cloud devops engineer role
- Learn how to apply Google SRE principles to monitor, troubleshoot and improve infrastructure and app performance in Google Cloud
- Add key job skills like full-stack monitoring and creating with Cloud Build to your Google Cloud Engineer certification preparation
- Plan and prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification exam
About the Preparing for Google Cloud Certification
If you’re looking to advance your career as an SRE and DevOps engineer, you’ve come to the right place. The Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud DevOps Engineer Professional Certificate is designed for cloud computing professionals looking to add to their skill set while they prepare for Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification.
Recognized and regarded as a ranking certification, the exam will assess your ability to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage and learn from incidents.
To help prepare you for the exam, the five online courses that comprise this Professional Certificate let you explore the key concepts and techniques of cloud DevOps. They also incorporate a variety of relevant topics, ranging from Google Cloud Platform to infrastructure design to full-stack monitoring.
Each course also includes an applied learning project using the Qwiklabs platform, enabling you to apply what you learn as you learn it.
So, if you’re looking to hone your skills and prepare for DevOps certification to advance your career, enroll in this Professional Certificate program now.
Required Google Cloud DevOps Engineer Certificate Courses
BEGINNER | Information Technology | Self-paced | 6 hours
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
BEGINNER | Business | Self-paced | 8 hours
In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.
ADVANCED | Information Technology | Self-paced | 8 hours
This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.
BEGINNER | Information Technology | Self-paced | 8 hours
This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud. Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.
INTERMEDIATE | Information Technology | Self-paced | 6 hours
Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.Complete This Certificate. Get College Credit.
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When you enroll in this self-paced certificate program, you decide how quickly you want to complete each of the courses in the specialization. To access the courses, you pay a small monthly cost of $35, so the total cost of your Professional Certificate depends on you. Plus, you can take a break or cancel your subscription anytime.
You can expect to spend 2-3 months complete the courses and hands-on projects to earn your certificate.
This intermediate-level course is best for those with proficiency in Linux OS and command-line tools, as well as experience in deploying and managing apps, including public cloud environments. You may find it helpful to also know the basics of scripting.
Share your certificate with your professional network to demonstrate that you've advanced your data engineering and cloud skills. Your certificate also puts you solidly on the path to continue preparing for the industry-leading Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification exam.
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