WHICH GCP CERTIFICATION IS BEST?
The techies who are looking for “Which GCP certification is best?”, first you should know what are the certifications are in Google Cloud Platform. The Certification levels are as follows
- Foundational
- Associate
- Professional
This article helps you to take a decision on which certification level preferably you can do. So let’s get into understanding more about these certification levels first. Many people who learning or working in Google Cloud Platform may have a clear idea of GCP services or products, but they have the main query that “which GCP certification is best for me?”. For understanding this, let’s understand the roles & its responsibilities of each certification level. Even though you already know about GCP major services and have knowledge on managing GCP resources, still it is essential to understand what role you are going to play if you complete the certification. So let’s see the roles and experience for each certification level one by one individual.
Foundational
This certification level states that the candidates need not have any hands-on experience in the cloud project and they can be fresher also. The result of completing this certification helps you to join any google cloud project in Level-1(L1) support and called as Cloud Digital Leader. So this certification makes you get into entry-level of any cloud project. Other than that there is no special feature in this certification.
Associate
This certification level requires a minimum of 6 months of working experience on any Google Cloud Project or relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from an Institution. Also, a minimum of 1+ years of experience in any technology in the IT industry is required. The result of completing this certification leads you to join any google cloud project in Level-2(L2) support. So this certification helps you to get into a cloud project for the Administration part. The roles of this Associate Cloud Engineer will be deploying applications on google cloud infrastructure, also monitoring GCP resources, and managing GCP projects. The ACE should be involved in planning, implementing, deploying & configuring all google cloud platform services.
Professional
This certification level requires a minimum of 1 year of working experience on any Google Cloud Project or relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution. Also, a minimum of 2 years experience in any technology in the IT industry is required. The result of completing this certification leads you to join any google cloud project in Level-3(L3) support. So this certification helps you to get into a cloud project for the Architect position. Professional Level Certification consists of multiple categories of certification for the engineers. They are as follows
- Professional Cloud Architect
- Professional Cloud Developer
- Professional Data Engineer
- Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- Professional Cloud Network Engineer
- Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- Professional Collaboration Engineer
1. Professional Cloud Architect
The roles of a Cloud Architect are designing & planing a cloud solution architecture, managing & provisioning the cloud solution infrastructure, designing for security & compliance, analyzing & optimizing technical & business processes, Managing implementations of cloud architecture. Also, the Architect should ensure the cloud solutions & its operations reliability of the cloud infrastructure. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
2. Professional Cloud Developer
The roles of a Professional Cloud Developer are designing, building, testing, and deploying highly scalable applications with a high availability model by integrating Google Cloud services. Also managing application performance by google cloud monitoring services. They should ensure reliable cloud-native applications.
People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
3. Professional Data Engineer
The roles of a Professional Data Engineer are designing, building & operating data processing systems, and operating machine learning models. Also, they should ensure the quality of data processing solutions mainly. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
4. Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
The roles of a Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer are designing, building & implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service, implementing service monitoring strategies, managing service incidents, optimizing service performance, and applying site reliability engineering principles to the service. Also, they should ensure the successful delivery of development and operations to the clients from the Google Cloud Platform Services. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
5. Professional Cloud Security Engineer
The roles of a Professional Cloud Security Engineer are configuring network security, configuring access within the client’s cloud network environment, managing network operations within the client’s cloud infrastructure. Also, they should ensure client data protection and client compliance for their cloud infrastructure solutions. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
6. Professional Cloud Network Engineer
The roles of Professional Cloud Network Engineer are planning, designing, and implement GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Network and Configuring other network services such as cloud DNS, cloud load balancer. Also implementing hybrid interconnectivity and implementing network security for client’s cloud infrastructure. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
7. Professional Machine Learning Engineer
The roles of a Professional Machine Learning Engineer are framing ML problems, architecting ML solutions, designing data preparation and processing systems, developing ML models, automating & orchestrating ML pipelines, monitoring, optimizing, and maintaining ML solutions. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
8. Professional Collaboration Engineer
The roles of Professional Collaboration Engineer are planning and implementing Google Workspace authorization and accessing, then Managing user, resource, and Shared Drive lifecycles, Managing mail, Controlling and configuring Google Workspace services, Configuring and managing endpoint access, Monitoring organizational operations, and should be aware of advance Google Workspace adoption and collaboration always. People who are looking for this certification should be eligible for the above roles or should have relevant hands-on experience by any Real-Time Project-based Hands-on Training from a reputed Institution.
So coming to the conclusion here who all are interested to do GCP certification first level they can complete the Associate Cloud Engineer Certification and then you can go to the next level which is Professional Cloud Architect Certification or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer. Also, you can do the professional certification based on your relevant experience in the IT industry. Let’s take an example, if you had a good experience in network & security then you can go for Professional Cloud Network Engineer or Cloud Security Engineer. Same way if you are a developer you can do Profession Cloud Developer Certification.
I believe this blog gives you better clarity on GCP certification.
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