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Google offers many professional certifications - for IT and non-IT people, GCP and G Suite. Your territory needs more people certified all across the board to help business thrive, to multiply our investments and to rely less on vendors.
Oh, and also to give your career a boost.
Why your client needs you to get certified
Why your client needs you to get certified
Google is a managed service, with a small team servicing potentially hundreds of thousands of people, so why bother?
Developers are in dire need. You outsource a lot of development, and great careers can be built on solid skills in this space. Indications, a portfolio of past projects and certifications are all ways to make a name for yourself in this space
Architects are needed as well. Without them, territories are hostage to companies telling them what to buy and how to deploy resources on GCP. These project decisions are not taken by the global team.
If data is the oil of the oil of the future, data engineers run the oil rigs.
There are other certifications that may be less applicable, but interesting to you nevertheless.
Why you should think about getting certified
Why you should think about getting certified
Accountants have certifications. Project managers and scrum masters have certifications. Technical professions have ... a lot of jargon usually.
Certifications are standardized and instantly recognized, inside and outside of PwC.
Certifications are challenging, that makes them fun. Okay - they are fun in the beginning and when you pass.
Certifications challenge you to go as deep as possible on a certain topic. That is very rewarding by itself.
All of this is not limited to Google, of course. Almost all software providers offer certifications and accreditations - Workday, Salesforce, from the big cloud providers to classic networking gear makers. Some have only one or two, others have 50 levels. Some expire rapidly, some need to be done in seminars, some are expensive.
The certifications
The certifications
Google Cloud offers 9 different certifications at the moment, you can find them here. One "starting" or associate certification ("Associate Cloud Engineer"), 7 professional certifications (Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, Data Engineer, Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, Cloud Network Engineer, Collaboration Engineer) and one "User certification" for G Suite.
The "G Suite user" and the "Professional Cloud Engineer" certifications are G Suite specific, the rest are GCP specific.
In terms of difficulty, the Cloud Architect exam is considered difficult because of its breadth ("a mile wide, an inch deep"). I have heard Cloud Network Engineer is considered the most difficult of all. Since networking is the area I have always avoided, I will probably stay clear of that...!
A 10th certification for business consultants is in the works. You can register online already, but there is no material available on how to prepare for the exam.
I hope that was inspiring - it actually doesn't matter what you do. Learning something new is always rewarding in its own right. Thank you for reading!
Published 2020-06-04 by Holger Matthies.Modified 2020-06-09 by Holger Matthies.
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