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January 14, 2025
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Advance your career in data engineering
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You should have basic proficiency with a common query language such as SQL; experience developing applications using common programming languages.
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Intermediate level
You should have basic proficiency with a common query language such as SQL; experience developing applications using common programming languages.
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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Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification was ranked #1 on Global Knowledge's list of 15 top-paying certifications in 2021! Enroll now to prepare!
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87% of Google Cloud certified users feel more confident in their cloud skills. This program provides the skills you need to advance your career and provides training to support your preparation for the industry-recognized Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification.
Here's what you have to do
1) Complete the Coursera Data Engineering Professional Certificate
2) Review other recommended resources for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification exam
3) Review the Professional Data Engineer exam guide
4) Complete Professional Data Engineer sample questions
5) Register for the Google Cloud certification exam (remotely or at a test center)
Applied Learning Project
This professional certificate incorporates hands-on labs using Qwiklabs platform.These hands on components will let you apply the skills you learn. Projects incorporate Google Cloud Platform products used within Qwiklabs. You will gain practical hands-on experience with the concepts explained throughout the modules.
Applied Learning Project
This Professional Certificate 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 BigQuery, which are used and configured within Qwiklabs. You can expect to gain practical hands-on experience with the concepts explained throughout the modules.
Identify the data-to-AI lifecycle on Google Cloud and the major products of big data and machine learning.
Design streaming pipelines with Dataflow and Pub/Sub and dDesign streaming pipelines with Dataflow and Pub/Sub.
Identify different options to build machine learning solutions on Google Cloud.
Describe a machine learning workflow and the key steps with Vertex AI and build a machine learning pipeline using AutoML.
Differentiate between data lakes and data warehouses.
Explore use-cases for each type of storage and the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud.
Discuss the role of a data engineer and the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations.
Examine why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment.
Review different methods of data loading: EL, ELT and ETL and when to use what
Run Hadoop on Dataproc, leverage Cloud Storage, and optimize Dataproc jobs
Build your data processing pipelines using Dataflow
Manage data pipelines with Data Fusion and Cloud Composer
Interpret use-cases for real-time streaming analytics.
Manage data events using the Pub/Sub asynchronous messaging service.
Write streaming pipelines and run transformations where necessary.
Interoperate Dataflow, BigQuery and Pub/Sub for real-time streaming and analysis
Differentiate between ML, AI and deep learning.
Discuss the use of ML API’s on unstructured data.
Execute BigQuery commands from notebooks.
Create ML models by using SQL syntax in BigQuery and without coding using Vertex AI AutoML.
List the domains covered on the Professional Data Engineer (PDE) certification exam.
Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain.
Add this credential to your LinkedIn profile, resume, or CV. Share it on social media and in your performance review.
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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.
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.
If you subscribed, you get a 7-day free trial during which you can cancel at no penalty. After that, we don’t give refunds, but you can cancel your subscription at any time. See our full refund policy.
Yes! To get started, click the course card that interests you and enroll. You can enroll and complete the course to earn a shareable certificate, or you can audit it to view the course materials for free. When you subscribe to a course that is part of a Certificate, you’re automatically subscribed to the full Certificate. Visit your learner dashboard to track your progress.
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