Professional certificates are role-based and intended for seasoned cloud engineers who seek to prove their skills in designing and implementing cloud environments. There are currently six professional certificates. 

• Cloud Architect

  The Professional Google Cloud Platform Architect exam assesses your ability to

  • Design and plan a cloud solution architecture
  • Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure
  • Design for security and compliance
    Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
  • Manage implementations of cloud architecture
  • Ensure solution and operations reliability‍
  • Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.

• Cloud Developer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform Developer exam assesses your ability to:

• • Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications
  • Build and test applications
  • Deploy applications
  • Integrate Google Cloud services
  • Manage application performance monitoring
  • ‍Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.

• ‍‍‍Data Engineer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

• • Design data processing systems
  • Build and operationalize data processing systems
  • Operationalize machine learning models
  • Ensure solution quality
  • ‍Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.

• ‍Cloud DevOps Engineer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

• • Apply site reliability engineering principles to a service
  • Optimize service performance
  • Implement service monitoring strategies
  • Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for a service
  • Manage service incidents
  • Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.

• Cloud Security Engineer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform Security Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

1. 1. Configure access within a cloud solution environment
   2. Configure network security
   3. Ensure data protection
   4. Manage operations within a cloud solution environment
   5. Ensure compliance
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   6. Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.

• Cloud Network Engineer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform Cloud Network Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

• • Design, plan, and prototype a GCP Network
  • Implement a GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
    Configure network services
  • Implement hybrid inter connectivity
  • Implement network security
  • ‍Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.
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• Collaboration Engineer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform Collaboration Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

• • Plan and implement Google Workspace authorization and access
  • Manage user, resource, and Shared Drives lifecycles
  • Manage mail
  • Control and configure Google Workspace services
  • Configure and manage endpoint access
  • Monitor organizational operations
  • Advance Google Workspace adoption and collaboration
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  • Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) administration experience.
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• Machine Learning Engineer

The Professional Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

• • Frame ML problems
  • Architect ML solutions
  • Prepare and process data
  • Develop ML models
  • Automate & orchestrate ML pipelines
  • Monitor, optimize, and maintain ML solutions.
  • ‍Recommended Experience: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.