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    Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Developer Professional Certificate

    Developer Best Practices on Google Cloud

    Google Cloud Training
    Hansel Miranda

    Instructors: Google Cloud Training

    Instructors

    Google Cloud Training
    Google Cloud Training
    Google Cloud
    1,775 Courses•3,163,502 learners
    Hansel Miranda
    Hansel Miranda
    Google Cloud
    1 Course•599 learners

    12,458 already enrolled

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    8 course series
    Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
    4.7

    (448 reviews)

    Intermediate level
    Some related experience required
    2 months
    at 5 hours a week
    Flexible schedule
    Learn at your own pace
    8 course series
    Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
    4.7

    (448 reviews)

    Intermediate level
    Some related experience required
    2 months
    at 5 hours a week
    Flexible schedule
    Learn at your own pace
    • About
    • Outcomes
    • Courses
    • Testimonials

    What you'll learn

    • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.

    • Learn the skills needed to be successful in a cloud developer engineering role.

    • Choose among and use application deployment environments on Google Cloud: App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine.

    • Techniques for monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud

    Skills you'll gain

    • Cloud API
    • Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)
    • Authentications
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Identity and Access Management
    • Generative AI
    • Data Storage
    • Cloud Development
    • Application Deployment
    • Cloud Infrastructure
    • Cloud Computing
    • Application Development

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    Prepare for a career as a Application Developer / Engineer

    • Receive professional-level training from Google Cloud
    • Demonstrate your technical proficiency
    • Earn an employer-recognized certificate from Google Cloud
    • Prepare for an industry certification exam
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    42,053
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    Professional Certificate - 8 course series

    A Cloud Developer designs, builds, analyzes, and maintains cloud-native applications. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the Cloud Developer role. Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Developer certification to take the next steps on your professional journey.

    Applied Learning Project

    This specialization 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 Cloud products, which are used and configured within Qwiklabs. You can expect to gain practical hands-on experience with the concepts explained throughout the modules.

    A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

    A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

    Course 1•30 minutes

    What you'll learn

    • Learn about the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment, and learn how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.

    • Learn about Google Cloud projects, and identify common misconceptions about them. Learn about the API library, and examine its chief features.

    • Learn how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services

    • Learn about primitive roles, and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users.

    Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

    Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

    Course 2•5 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud products and services.

    • Define how infrastructure is organized and controlled in Google Cloud

    • Explain how to create a basic infrastructure in Google Cloud

    • Select and use Google Cloud storage options

    Skills you'll gain

    Category: Cloud Platforms
    Cloud Platforms
    Category: Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform
    Category: Cloud Storage
    Cloud Storage
    Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations

    Developing Applications with Google Cloud: Foundations

    Course 3•7 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Discuss best practices for application development in the cloud.

    • Understand how to choose the appropriate data storage option for application use cases.

    • Use authentication and authorization to secure an application.

    • Describe use cases for the different Google Cloud compute options used for running applications.

    Service Orchestration and Choreography on Google Cloud

    Service Orchestration and Choreography on Google Cloud

    Course 4•2 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Describe the benefits and challenges of microservices-based architectures.

    • Describe the advantages of event-driven applications.

    • Identify the strengths of orchestration and choreography.

    • Use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to coordinate a microservices application on Google Cloud.

    Developing Applications with Cloud Run Functions on Google Cloud

    Developing Applications with Cloud Run Functions on Google Cloud

    Course 5•5 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Recognize the benefits of and use cases for Cloud Run functions in modern application development.

    • Understand how to build, test and deploy Cloud Run functions.

    • Secure and connect Cloud Run functions to resources, and cloud databases.

    • Use best practices with functions.

    Skills you'll gain

    Category: Build and package applications into container images.
    Build and package applications into container images.
    Category: Fundamentals of Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine.
    Fundamentals of Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine.
    Category: Containers and container images.
    Containers and container images.
    Category: Create test and secure containers.
    Create test and secure containers.
    Developing Containerized Applications on Google Cloud

    Developing Containerized Applications on Google Cloud

    Course 6•5 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Define containers, container images, and package applications into container images.

    • Identify best practices used to create, test, and secure containers.

    • Understand the basics of Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine.

    Developing Applications with Cloud Run on Google Cloud: Fundamentals

    Developing Applications with Cloud Run on Google Cloud: Fundamentals

    Course 7•4 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Understand the fundamentals of Cloud Run that include the resource model, container lifecycle, and autoscaling.

    • Develop and test applications locally before deploying to Cloud Run.

    • Use service identity and IAM with Cloud Run.

    • Integrate Cloud Run applications with Google Cloud services.

    Skills you'll gain

    Category: Google Compute Engine
    Google Compute Engine
    Category: Google App Engine (GAE)
    Google App Engine (GAE)
    Category: Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform
    Category: Cloud Computing
    Cloud Computing
    Integrating Applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro on Google Cloud

    Integrating Applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro on Google Cloud

    Course 8•2 hours

    What you'll learn

    • Discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models.

    • Access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code.

    • Test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.

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    Instructors

    Google Cloud Training
    Google Cloud Training
    Google Cloud
    1,775 Courses•3,163,502 learners
    Hansel Miranda
    Hansel Miranda
    Google Cloud
    1 Course•599 learners

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    Frequently asked questions

    To get the most benefit from this course, participants should have the following prerequisites: • Completed Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals or have equivalent experience • Working knowledge of Node.js • Basic proficiency with command-line tools and Linux operating system environments

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

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