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Google Cloud Digital Leader Training Professional Certificate

Gain foundational literacy in cloud & digital transformation. Increase your cloud confidence so you can speak with colleagues in technical cloud roles and contribute to informed cloud-related business decisions.

Instructor: Google Cloud Training

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3 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

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4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

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3 course series

Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise

4.8

(2,962 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Recall fundamental cloud terminology.
Identify Google Cloud products and solutions that support digital transformation.
Explain how cloud technology and data can be leveraged to innovate within organizations.
Identify key change patterns and Google Cloud products for infrastructure and application modernization.

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Professional Certificate - 3 course series

The Cloud Digital Leader training consists of a course series designed to give you foundational knowledge about cloud technology and data. This training also offers an overview of Google Cloud products and services that enable organizations’ digital transformation. This training will empower you and your team(s) to contribute to cloud-related business initiatives across your organization.

This training builds knowledge in these areas:

General cloud knowledge
General Google Cloud knowledge
Google Cloud products and services
Digital transformation, data, and AI/ML
Modernizing company IT infrastructure and applications

Applied Learning Project

Students will have an opportunity to validate their knowledge gained throughout each of the courses with practice and graded assessments at the end of each module and for each course. Practice and graded assessments are used to validate and demonstrate learning outcomes.

Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

Course 12 hours

What you'll learn

Explain why and how the cloud revolutionizes businesses.
Explain general cloud concepts.
Discuss the benefits and tradeoffs of using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Infrastructure

Category: Digital Transformation

Category: Software As A Service

Category: Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)

Category: Cloud Computing

Category: Operating Expense

Category: Hybrid Cloud Computing

Category: Cloud Services

Category: Business Transformation

Category: Technology Strategies

Category: Platform As A Service (PaaS)

Category: Public Cloud

Category: Multi-Cloud

Category: Google Cloud Platform

Category: Cloud Security

Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud

Course 21 hour

What you'll learn

Examine the value of data and how it affects customer experiences.
Explore the different Google Cloud data management solutions that are available.
Learn about the ways Google Cloud products have made data more useful and accessible to a workforce.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Google Cloud Platform

Category: Data Governance

Category: Business Intelligence

Category: Data Transformation

Category: Cloud Storage

Category: Data Processing

Category: Data Management

Category: Data-Driven Decision-Making

Category: Data Warehousing

Category: Business Transformation

Category: Data Strategy

Category: Data Migration

Category: Digital Transformation

Category: Analytics

Category: Big Data

Category: Database Systems

Category: Real Time Data

Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud

Course 35 minutes

What you'll learn

Understand the role that cloud modernization and migration plays in an organization's digital transformation.
Examine available options to run compute workloads in the cloud.
Explore the advantages of using containers, serverless computing, and APIs in application modernization.
Learn about the business reasons to choose hybrid or multi-cloud strategies, and how GKE Enterprise can help support these strategies.