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Google Cloud Digital Leader Training Professional Certificate

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Google Cloud Digital Leader Training Professional Certificate

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Prepare for the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification exam with this program.

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from 4,849 reviews of courses in this program

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Recall fundamental cloud terminology.

  • Identify Google Cloud products and solutions that support digital transformation.

  • Explain how cloud technology and data can be leveraged to innovate within organizations.

  • Identify key change patterns and Google Cloud products for infrastructure and application modernization.

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Professional Certificate - 6 course series

Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Course 1, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain why and how the cloud revolutionizes businesses.

  • Explain general cloud concepts.

  • Discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Skills you'll gain

Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Software As A Service
Category: Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)
Category: Cloud Platforms
Category: Hybrid Cloud Computing
Category: Operating Expense
Category: Platform As A Service (PaaS)
Category: Public Cloud
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Multi-Cloud
Category: Cloud Security
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud

Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud

Course 2, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Explain how organizations unlock business value from data and differentiate between structured, semistructured, and unstructured data types.

  • Select the appropriate Google Cloud data management solution to meet specific organizational workloads.

  • Explain how to derive actionable business intelligence and evaluate the impact of real-time streaming analytics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: Data Governance
Category: Data Transformation
Category: Data Management
Category: Looker (Software)
Category: Data Storage
Category: Business Intelligence
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Analytics
Category: Big Data
Category: Database Systems
Category: Dataflow
Category: Real Time Data
Category: Data Processing
Category: Data Warehousing
Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making
Category: Governance

What you'll learn

  • Explore the fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI.

  • Identify the specific business problems machine learning can solve, along with the importance of high quality data and responsible AI practices.

  • Describe the four distinct paths to building machine learning models on Google Cloud, and the AI Hypercomputer architecture that supports them.

  • Examine the strategic tradeoffs around speed, differentiation, expertise, and effort required to choose the right AI solution for an organization.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Applied Machine Learning
Category: Data Quality
Category: Machine Learning
Category: Responsible AI
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Computer Vision
Category: AI literacy
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Data Ethics
Category: Model Training
Category: Cloud API
Category: Natural Language Processing

What you'll learn

  • Define cloud migration terminology and explain the value of shifting from traditional hardware to cloud computing models.

  • Explore the differences between virtual machine (VM), container, and serverless computing architectures.

  • Examine strategies for managing data and compute workloads across hybrid and multicloud distributed environments.

  • Compare traditional and modern cloud app development, and identify tools for rehosting legacy apps.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Serverless Computing
Category: Multi-Cloud
Category: Application Programming Interface (API)
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Containerization
Category: Hybrid Cloud Computing
Category: Kubernetes
Category: Digital Transformation
Category: Technology Strategies
Category: Business Transformation
Category: Cloud Deployment
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Trust and Security with Google Cloud

Trust and Security with Google Cloud

Course 5, 2 hours

What you'll learn

  • Identify fundamental security concepts.

  • Explore the business value of Google’s defense-in-depth multilayered approach to infrastructure security.

  • Learn how Google Cloud works to earn and maintain customer trust in the cloud.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Security
Category: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Threat Detection
Category: Data Security
Category: Authentications
Category: Security Controls
Category: Network Security
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Data Centers
Category: Cyber Governance
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Threat Management
Category: Public Cloud
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Data Storage
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations

Scaling with Google Cloud Operations

Course 6, 1 hour

What you'll learn

  • Learn how Google Cloud can help organizations manage cloud finances and costs.

  • Explore the basic concepts of modern cloud operations, reliability, and resilience.

  • Learn how Google Cloud helps organizations reach their sustainability goals and reduce their environmental impact.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cost Management
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Corporate Sustainability
Category: Site Reliability Engineering
Category: Budget Management
Category: Cost Control
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Cloud Infrastructure
Category: Operations
Category: Scalability
Category: Sustainable Business
Category: Cloud Platforms
Category: Cloud Management
Category: Operational Efficiency
Category: DevOps
Category: Operational Excellence
Category: Customer Support

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