Do you have a New Year’s resolution to improve your career prospects? There’s still time to register for a free Google Cloud Skills Boost to help you on your way to becoming a certified Professional Cloud Developer. According to third-party IT training firm Global Knowledge, two Google Cloud Certified Professional certifications topped its list of the highest-paid IT certifications in 2021.
Register anytime between now and the end of January for the Cloud Developer Skills Boost, and you’ll have 30 days of free access to complete the challenge.
This proposed learning path to the Professional Cloud Developer certification consists of nine activities, starting with Google Cloud infrastructure fundamentals, and continuing on to application development in the cloud, security, monitoring and troubleshooting, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Firebase and more. The journey consists of on-demand courses, skill badges, links to further resources, and finally, the Professional Cloud Developer certification.
For example, once you’ve completed the Google Cloud Fundamentals, Core Infrastructure class, in person or on-demand, you can take the three-day Designing Applications with Google Cloud class, where you’ll learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that integrate managed services from Google Cloud, including Cloud Client Libraries, the Cloud SDK, and Firebase SDKs, an overview of your storage options, and best practices for using Datastore and Cloud Storage.
We’re also thrilled to announce that one of the most popular trainings in the Cloud Developer path, Application Development with Cloud Run, will be available on-demand in the very near future, in addition to via live instruction. This is a great chance to get up to speed on this fully-managed, serverless compute platform at your own pace. Cloud Run marries the goodness of serverless and containers, and is fast becoming one of the most powerful ways to build and run a true cloud-native application.
Moving down the proposed learning path, you can show off your Google Cloud chops with Skills Badges that you can display as part of your Google Developer Profile alongside your membership in the Google Cloud Innovators program, on social media, and on your resumé. There are a wide variety of interesting Skills Badges for cloud developers like the Serverless Cloud Run Development Quest, or Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud, and many of them take just a couple of hours to complete.
With these classes under your belt and Skills Badges on your profile, you’ll be in a good place to start preparing for the Professional Cloud Developer certification exam, using the proposed exam guide and sample questions to show the way. Here’s to earning your certification in 2022, and to a great future!
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