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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Data Engineer Professional Certificate
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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Data Engineer Professional Certificate

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.6

(7,033 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

1 month
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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What you'll learn

  • 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.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Tensorflow
Category: Bigquery
Category: Google Cloud Platform
Category: Cloud Computing

What you'll learn

  • 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.

What you'll learn

  • 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

What you'll learn

  • 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

What you'll learn

  • 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.

What you'll learn

  • List the domains covered on the Professional Data Engineer (PDE) certification exam.

  • Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain.

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