Certification Study Groups are weekly events over 6 weeks designed for people who want to prepare for a Google Cloud certification. Join this Study Group to learn more and prepare for the Professional Data Engineer certification.

The Certification Study Group offers:

6 live sessions to go through certification content and exam questions.

Online community where you can ask questions and share your knowledge.

Video courses and hands-on training on Cloud Skills Boost, Google Cloud training platform.

If you want to learn more about other Google Cloud training opportunities offered by Google Developer Groups, please visit this page: gdg.community.dev/road-to-google-dev-certification/

There will be a 2-week break for Google Cloud NEXT and the day after Labor Day. The exact schedule is as follows:
WEEK 1: Aug 1
WEEK 2: Aug 8
WEEK 3: Aug 15
WEEK 4: Aug 22
---2 WEEK BREAK---
WEEK 5: Sept 12
WEEK 6 Sept 19

Cloud Skills Boost (formerly known as Qwiklabs) is Google Cloud training platform which includes hands-on labs and video courses to learn more about Google Cloud and prepare for certifications.

Attendees will be able to get free access to the platform for 3 calendar months only if they RSVP to this event. Access will be granted in the month the event is taking place in and will be granted within 1-2 working days.

Suggested prerequisite knowledge:

IAM and using resource hierarchy

Service Accounts, Cloud Identity, Group, and Directory Sync

BeyondCorp Zero-trust network mode and identity aware proxy

Network-based security and VPC structures

How to protect data with DLPAPI, tokenizing, encrypting and managing keys etc.

Prerequisite labs and courses for Certification Study Group in Cloud Skills Boost:

Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam

Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals

Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud : Core Services