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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate

Developer Best Practices on Google Cloud

Instructors: Google Cloud Training

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8 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.7

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Intermediate level

Some related experience required

Flexible schedule

8 weeks at 5 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

Earn a Certificate

With paid plans

8 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.7

(528 reviews)

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

Flexible schedule

8 weeks at 5 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

Earn a Certificate

With paid plans

What you'll learn

Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.
Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud developer engineering role.
Choose among and use application deployment environments on Google Cloud: App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine.
Techniques for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud

Skills you'll gain

Tools you'll learn

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Taught in English

29 practice exercises

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Professional Certificate - 8 course series

A Cloud Developer designs, builds, analyzes, and maintains cloud-native applications. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Developer role. Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Developer certification to take the next steps on your professional journey.

Applied Learning Project

This specialization 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 products, which are used and configured within Qwiklabs. You can expect to gain practical hands-on experience with the concepts explained throughout the modules.

A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

Course 130 minutes

What you'll learn

Learn about the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment, and learn how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.
Learn about Google Cloud projects, and identify common misconceptions about them. Learn about the API library, and examine its chief features.
Learn how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services
Learn about primitive roles, and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users.

Skills you'll gain

User Accounts, Cloud API, Cloud Platforms, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Services, Cloud Storage, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Google Cloud Platform, and Application Programming Interface (API)

Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Course 25 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

Google Cloud Platform, Serverless Computing, Cloud Storage, Cloud Services, Identity and Access Management, Application Deployment, Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, Virtual Machines, Prompt Engineering, Application Development, Cloud Computing, Scalability, Generative AI Agents, Network Infrastructure, and Containerization

Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations

Course 37 hours

What you'll learn

Discuss best practices for application development in the cloud.
Understand how to choose the appropriate data storage option for application use cases.
Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.
Describe use cases for the different Google Cloud compute options used for running applications.

Skills you'll gain

Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Applications, Containerization, Authentications, Data Storage, CI/CD, Cloud Storage, Application Performance Management, Authorization (Computing), Cloud API, Application Development, Performance Tuning, Generative AI, Application Deployment, Identity and Access Management, and Computer Programming Tools

Service Orchestration and Choreography on Google Cloud

Course 42 hours

What you'll learn

Describe the benefits and challenges of microservices-based architectures.
Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.
Identify the strengths of orchestration and choreography.
Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.

Skills you'll gain

Microservices, Google Cloud Platform, Event-Driven Programming, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Scalability, Cloud Development, Serverless Computing, Systems Architecture, and Software Architecture

Developing Applications with Cloud Run Functions on Google Cloud

Course 55 hours

What you'll learn

Recognize the benefits of and use cases for Cloud Run functions in modern application development.
Understand how to build, test and deploy Cloud Run functions.
Secure and connect Cloud Run functions to resources, and cloud databases.
Use best practices with functions.

Skills you'll gain

Serverless Computing, Cloud Development, Identity and Access Management, Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, Cloud Security, Scalability, Cloud Applications, Application Deployment, Cloud API, Event-Driven Programming, and Operational Databases

Developing Containerized Applications on Google Cloud

Course 65 hours

What you'll learn

Define containers, container images, and package applications into container images.
Identify best practices used to create, test, and secure containers.
Understand the basics of Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Skills you'll gain

Containerization, Docker (Software), CI/CD, Kubernetes, Application Deployment, Cloud Applications, Cloud Development, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure Security, and Serverless Computing

Developing Applications with Cloud Run on Google Cloud: Fundamentals

Course 74 hours

What you'll learn

Understand the fundamentals of Cloud Run that include the resource model, container lifecycle, and autoscaling.
Develop and test applications locally before deploying to Cloud Run.
Use service identity and IAM with Cloud Run.
Integrate Cloud Run applications with Google Cloud services.

Skills you'll gain

Cloud Applications, Identity and Access Management, Application Development, Cloud Services, Serverless Computing, Cloud-Based Integration, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Security, Containerization, Scalability, and Application Deployment

Integrating Applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro on Google Cloud

Course 82 hours

What you'll learn

Discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models.
Access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code.
Test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.

Skills you'll gain

Application Development, Google Gemini, Application Programming Interface (API), Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Multimodal Prompts, Cloud API, and LLM Application

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Frequently asked questions

To get the most benefit from this course, participants should have the following prerequisites: • Completed Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals or have equivalent experience • Working knowledge of Node.js • Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments

We strongly recommend you take these courses in order, beginning with Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals. This is especially important when completing the Google Qwiklabs projects, 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.