How did I pass in 4 google certifications in one month?
This past month I took the google associated, professional, architect, and machine learning engineer certifications, this post will be about some tips I can share with you guys.
First I gotta say there is no magic or shortcut, you actually need to study a lot!!!
But I have a few tips that can help you… so let’s start!
1- Don’t skip steps, make the associated, professional, and then the architect. The answers are not the same of course, but the style remains the same, so it’s best to start with the easiest one and get used to the style before going into the hard ones.
If you are here just for machine learning, I recommend you take at least the associated, because for machine learning you still need to know about all the GCP products.
2- READ THE STUDY GUIDE! I cannot stress this enough because I made this mistake the first time when I failed. Google certifications will demand you to know every part of the study guide, EVERY PART!
3- Do the recommended courses that are:
Associated
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Preparing for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer Exam
Professional
All the Associated courses plus:
Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with GCP
Building Batch Data Pipelines on GCP
Professional Cloud Architect
All the associated and professional courses plus:
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Exam
Machine Learning engineer
Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
These two courses below is a MUST do, they are really good for you professionally and also for the test:
Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform
Advanced Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform
I know it’s a lot of courses, but they cover everything you need to know, I passed all the certifications without studying anything else. And to be honest I’m a bit skeptical about cloud guru and Udemy because the official google material is crazy good and covers everything you need to know.
4- And in doubt, the right answer will be always the most serverless product or BigQuery, because BigQuery Google really loves BigQuery as a solution for anything!
5- Learn what differences which solutions, for example, let’s look at compute options:
So if you want a really serverless solution is Cloud Functions, App Engine Standard and Flex are still PaaS but with more options, Kubernetes is automated but way more customizable than the other two, and Compute engine is just infrastructure.
You need to do this for every service, but in case you are lazy I made an ugly one for myself here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18blMZ_jxXAzY-xa84GEQIOOYZ-PWkhPV9NSo3r6Xz7M/edit?usp=sharing
There is also this cheat sheet of google cloud in 4 words: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S9pfRLeHhfBZUQeiA3F-FjoCzlUl5BYN/view?usp=sharing
And Machine Learning concepts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13CHNt4rOzrU-UZ8kIf7Ip_sUyq7GcNoQ/view?usp=sharing
That’s about it, and just keep in mind that you have 2 hours to go through, and that is more than enough, I made mines in 1h and took 30 min to check everything. So keep cool and be calm.
