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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.

Learn How to Enroll

 

Difficulty Level: INTERMEDIATE
 
Estimated Learning Time: 5 Months - Approximately 3 hours of study a week
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Skills You Will Gain

Information Engineering

Google Cloud

Bigquery

Tensorflow

Cloud Computing

Google Cloud Platform

About this Professional Certificate

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!

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)

What you will 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.

 

Courses in this Professional Certificate

Course

 

1

Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals

This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.


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2

Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud

The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment.This is the first course of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud course.


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3

Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud

Data pipelines typically fall under one of the Extra-Load, Extract-Load-Transform or Extract-Transform-Load paradigms. This course describes which paradigm should be used and when for batch data. Furthermore, this course covers several technologies on Google Cloud for data transformation including BigQuery, executing Spark on Dataproc, pipeline graphs in Cloud Data Fusion and serverless data processing with Dataflow. Learners will get hands-on experience building data pipeline components on Google Cloud using Qwiklabs.


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4

Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud

Processing streaming data is becoming increasingly popular as streaming enables businesses to get real-time metrics on business operations. This course covers how to build streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud. Pub/Sub is described for handling incoming streaming data. The course also covers how to apply aggregations and transformations to streaming data using Dataflow, and how to store processed records to BigQuery or Cloud Bigtable for analysis. Learners will get hands-on experience building streaming data pipeline components on Google Cloud using QwikLabs.


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5

Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on GCP

Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability of businesses to extract insights from their data. This course covers several ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud depending on the level of customization required. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions using Vertex AI. Learners will get hands-on experience building machine learning models on Google Cloud using QwikLabs.


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6

Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam

The purpose of this course is to help those who are qualified develop confidence to attempt the exam, and to help those not yet qualified to develop their own plan for preparation.