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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Data Engr Professional Certificate

Advance your career in data engineering

Instructor: Google Cloud Training

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Intermediate level

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4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Identify the purpose and value of the key Big Data and Machine Learning products in Google Cloud.
Employ BigQuery to carry out interactive data analysis.
Use Cloud SQL and Dataproc to migrate existing MySQL and Hadoop/Pig/Spark/Hive workloads to Google Cloud.
Choose between different data processing products on Google Cloud.

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Frequently asked questions

This Professional Certificate is designed to be completed in three and a half months at five hours per week.

One (1) year of experience with one or more of the following:

• A common query language such as SQL

• Extract, transform, load activities

• Data modeling

• Machine learning and/or statistics

• Programming in Python

We strongly recommend you take these courses in order, beginning with Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals. This is especially important when completing the Qwiklabs projects, as these hands-on labs build upon the work you complete in preceding courses.