# Technical Documentation: sathishvj/awesome-gcp-certifications

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# Awesome GCP Certifications [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

# Contents


### Foundational
* [Cloud Digital Leader](cloud-digital-leader.md)
* [Generative AI Leader](generative-ai-leader.md)

### Associate
* [Associate Cloud Engineer](associate-cloud-engineer.md)
* [Associate Data Practitioner](associate-data-practitioner.md)
* [Associate Google Workspace Administrator](associate-google-workspace-administrator.md)

### Professional
* [Professional Cloud Architect](professional-cloud-architect.md)
* [Professional Cloud Database Engineer](professional-cloud-database-engineer.md)
* [Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer](professional-cloud-devops-engineer.md)
* [Professional Cloud Developer](professional-cloud-developer.md)
* [Professional Cloud Network Engineer](professional-cloud-network-engineer.md)
* [Professional Cloud Security Engineer](professional-cloud-security-engineer.md)
* [Professional Cloud Security Operations Engineer](professional-cloud-security-operations-engineer.md)
* [Professional Data Engineer](professional-data-engineer.md)
* [Professional Machine Learning Engineer](professional-machine-learning-engineer.md)
* [Professional Workspace Administrator](professional-workspace-administrator.md)
- [Fellow Hybrid Multi-cloud](fellow-hybrid-multi-cloud.md)

### Resources
- [Common Resources For All Certifications](#Common-Resources)
- [Miscellaneous References](#Miscellaneous-References)
- [Best Practices](#Best-Practices)
- [Contributing](#Contributing)
- [Maintaining Exam Integrity](#Maintaining-Exam-Integrity)

## Discontinued Exams
- [Looker Business Analyst](looker-business-analyst.md)
- [Looker LookML Developer](looker-lookml-developer.md)
- [GSuite - Discontinued!](gsuite.md)
- [Apigee Certified API Engineer - Discontinued!](apigee-certified-api-engineer.md)

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### Common Resources

These references are useful across all certifications.

| Published | Title/Link | Author |
| :---:         |     :---      |          :--- |
| 2022/11 | [FAQs on Google Cloud (GCP) Certifications](https://medium.com/@sathishvj/faqs-on-google-cloud-gcp-certifications-6676d07c9725) | Sathish VJ |
| 2021/11 | [End to End Process of Booking/scheduling your Google Cloud exam to Sharing your result](https://rameshrajini.medium.com/end-to-end-process-of-booking-scheduling-your-google-cloud-exam-to-sharing-your-result-aaac60bc6d1e) | Ramesh Rajini |
| 2020/09 | [Passing and Failing GCP Certification Exams](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/passing-failing-google-cloud-certification-exams-bernd-nordhausen/) | Bernd Nordhausen |
| 2020/03 | [Getting all the 10/10 GCP certificates – how do I start? Part 1/X](https://gcpfellow.com/2020/03/14/getting-all-the-10-10-gcp-certificates-how-do-i-start-part-1-x/) | Konrad Clapa |
| 2020/02 | [AwesomeGCP Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIGDDqu5DzlaaC4XzXj_4-A) | Sathish VJ |
| | [Architecture Center](https://cloud.google.com/architecture) | Google Cloud |
| | [TechDevGuide - Cloud Computing ](https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/paths/cloud/) | Google |
| | [GCP Certification](https://cloud.google.com/certification/) | GCP Docs |
| | [FAQs - GCP Certification](https://cloud.google.com/certification/faqs/) | Frequently Asked Questions |
| | [Solve With Google Cloud - Tutorials](https://cloud.google.com/docs/tutorials) | GCP Docs |
| | [Google Cloud Solutions](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/) | GCP Docs |
| | [Google Cloud Products and Solutions in 4 words](https://github.com/gregsramblings/google-cloud-4-words) | Greg Wilson |
| | [GCP Building Blocks - A Glossary of GCP Terms](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-8vSS5rNOWmxVQWmTaWus7V5uZvgWZKY-Nl4bYMWDbk) | |
| | [FREE codes for Qwiklabs](https://medium.com/@sathishvj/qwiklabs-free-codes-gcp-and-aws-e40f3855ffdb) | Sathish VJ |
| | [FAQs on GCP Certification Exams](https://medium.com/@sathishvj/frequently-asked-follow-up-questions-on-google-cloud-gcp-certifications-438e1addb91d) | Sathish VJ |
| | [Grace's Flowcharts](https://grumpygrace.dev/posts/gcp-flowcharts/) | Grace |
| | [GCP Essentials - Staying in Touch](https://medium.com/google-cloud/gcp-essentials-staying-in-touch-43764ec9fa0a) | Alexis MP |
| | [Google Cloud on Medium](https://medium.com/google-cloud) | |
| | [Community Tutorials](https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/) | |
| | [CodeLabs/cloud](https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=Cloud) | developers.google |
| | [Google Cloud Training - Classroom Schedule](https://cloud.google.com/training/courses) | various trainers |
| | [Google Cloud Training - Course Listing and Contents](https://google.qwiklabs.com/catalog?format%5B%5D=courses&utm_source=cloud-dot-google&utm_medium=website&per_page=50) | QwikLabs |
| | [Google Cloud Whitepapers](https://cloud.google.com/whitepapers/) | Google |
| | [GCP Blog](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp) | Google |
| | [GCP Data Analytics Blog](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics) | Google |
| 2019/01 | [On Passing All Google Cloud Certifications](https://medium.com/@sathishvj/on-passing-all-google-cloud-certifications-54b2cc1e428c) | Sathish VJ |
| 2018/10 | [Google Cloud - Jumpstart, Tutorials & Community!](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-cloud-jumpstart-tutorials-community-david-das-neves/) | David das Neves |
| | [Pluralsight courses on GCP](https://app.pluralsight.com/profile/author/google-cloud) | Google Cloud |
| | [Coursera courses on GCP](https://www.coursera.org/search?query=google%20cloud&) | Google Cloud |
| | [Cloud Minute - 1 minute videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIivdWyY5sqIij_cgINUHZDMnGjVx3rxi) | Google Cloud |
| | [github GCP code repo](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform) | Google Cloud |
| | [GCP Certification training](https://intellipaat.com/google-cloud-certification-architect-training/) | Intellipaat |

### Miscellaneous References
| Published | Title/Link | Author |
| :---:         |     :---      |          :--- |
| | [Official Icons and Sample Diagrams](https://cloud.google.com/icons) | Google Cloud |
| | [Weekly Newsletter](https://www.gcpweekly.com/newsletter/) | Zdenko Hrček |
| | [Forum for certified people (invite only)](https://www.cloudconnectcommunity.com/ccc/ls/community/google-cloud-certifications) | |
| | [Google Cloud Certified Credential Holder Directory (voluntary list)](https://googlecloudcertified.credential.net/) | |
| | [Directory of Google Developer Experts (GDE) for Cloud](https://developers.google.com/community/experts/directory) | |
| 2019/04 | [Google Cloud Platform Authorized Trainer](https://medium.com/@sathishvj/google-cloud-platform-authorized-trainer-1b202f3eef61) | Sathish VJ |

### Best Practices
| Title | Link | 
| :---:         |     :---      |
| AI Hub Data Preprocesing | https://aihub.cloud.google.com/p/products%2F31bf71d8-d513-4926-92dc-23b2f913afce |
| Anthos Fleet Requirements | https://cloud.google.com/anthos/fleet-management/docs/fleet-concepts/best-practices |
| Anthos Migration Planning | https://cloud.google.com/migrate/anthos/docs/planning-best-practices |
| Apigee APIs | https://cloud.google.com/files/apigee/apigee-api-best-practices-ebook.pdf |
| Audit Logs | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-working-with-google-cloud-audit-logging |
| Audit Logs | https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/best-practices |
| AutoML Creating Training Data | https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/data-best-practices |
| AutoML Video Intelligence Object Tracking | https://cloud.google.com/video-intelligence/automl/object-tracking/docs/best-practices |
| AutoML | https://cloud.google.com/automl-tables/docs/data-best-practices |
| BigQuery Cost Optimization | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/cost-optimization-best-practices-for-bigquery |
| BigQuery Materialized Views | https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/materialized-views-best-practices |
| BigQuery Optimizing Query Performance | https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-performance-overview |
| BigQuery Optimizing Storage | https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/best-practices-storage |
| Build Speeding Up | https://cloud.google.com/cloud-build/docs/speeding-up-builds |
| Building Containers | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-building-containers |
| Cloud Functions | https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/bestpractices/tips |
| Cloud Router | https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/router/resources/best-practices |
| Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL | https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/best-practices |
| Cloud SQL | https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/best-practices |
| Compute Engine Region Selection | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-compute-engine-region-selection |
| Content Delivery | https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/best-practices |
| DNS | https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/best-practices-dns |
| Data Governance | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/principles-and-best-practices-for-data-governance-in-the-cloud |
| Dataproc | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/7-best-practices-for-running-cloud-dataproc-in-production |
| Datastore | https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/best-practices |
| Datastore | https://cloud.google.com/datastore/docs/cloud-datastore-best-practices |
| Deployment Manager Type Provider | https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/configuration/type-providers/best-practices-api |
| Deployment Manager | https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/best-practices |
| Deployment Manager | https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/best-practices?hl=zh-tw |
| Dialogflow | https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/docs/best-practices |
| Firestore | https://cloud.google.com/firestore/docs/best-practices |
| Floating IP Addresses | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-floating-ip-addresses |
| For Enterprise Organizaations | https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations |
| GSuite Sharing Documents | https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/perspectives/best-practices-for-sharing-documents-in-g-suite |
| Google Maps | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/15-google-maps-platform-best-practices |
| IAM and Billing | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-iam-and-billing-in-higher-education |
| IAM | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/iam-best-practice-guides-available-now |
| Identity - Password Management | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/best-practices-for-password-management-2019-edition |
| Identity Aware Proxy | https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/concepts-best-practices |
| Identity Federation | https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-federating |
| Jupyter Notebooks | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/best-practices-that-can-improve-the-life-of-any-developer-using-jupyter-notebooks |
| Kubernetes | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices |
| Kubernetes - enterprise multitenancy | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/enterprise-multitenancy |
| Kubernetes - scalable clusters | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/scalability |
| Kubernetes - upgrading clusters | https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/best-practices/upgrading-clusters |
| Kubernetes - building containers | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-building-containers |
| Kubernetes - operating containers | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-operating-containers |
| Kubernetes - running cost-optimized applications on GKE| https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-running-cost-effective-kubernetes-applications-on-gke |
| Kubernetes | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/your-guide-kubernetes-best-practices |
| Kubernetes | https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/kubernetes-best-practices |
| Management Tools Client Libraries | https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/client-libraries-best-practices |
| Machine Learning - Performance and Cost Optimization | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/machine-learning/best-practices-for-ml-performance-cost |
| Machine Learning - Rules of ML | https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-of-ml |
| Media Translation | https://cloud.google.com/translate/media/docs/best-practices |
| Media Translation | https://cloud.google.com/translate/media/docs/best-practices?hl=tr |
| Memorystore for Redis Performance Tuning | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/performance-tuning-best-practices-for-memorystore-for-redis |
| Memorystore for Redis | https://cloud.google.com/memorystore/docs/redis/memory-management-best-practices |
| Microservice Performance | https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/microservice-performance |
| Migrating VMs | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-migrating-vm-to-compute-engine |
| Moving VMs | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/cloud-migration/tips-and-best-practices-for-moving-your-vms-to-compute-engine |
| MySQL Importing and Exporting Data | https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/import-export |
| Operating Containers | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-operating-containers |
| Optimizing Costs | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/best-practices-for-optimizing-your-cloud-costs |
| Planning Accounts and Organizations | https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/best-practices-for-planning |
| Preemptible VM Instances | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-start-preemptible-instance |
| Running Active Directory | https://cloud.google.com/managed-microsoft-ad/docs/best-practices |
| SQL Server Instances | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/sql-server/best-practices |
| Secure IAM | https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/using-iam-securely |
| Security | https://cloud.google.com/security/best-practices |
| Service Accounts | https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/understanding-service-accounts#best_practices |
| Spanner Bulk Loading | https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/bulk-loading |
| Spanner Data Manipulation Language | https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/dml-best-practices |
| Spanner SQL | https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/sql-best-practices |
| Spanner Schema Design | https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-design |
| Spanner | https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/best-practice-list |
| Speech API | https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/best-practices?hl=ru&refresh=1pli%3D1 |
| Speech to Text | https://cloud.google.com/speech-to-text/docs/best-practices |
| Storage | https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/best-practices |
| Storage - privacy and security | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-storage-best-practices-to-help-ensure-data-privacy-and-security |
| Storage - Request Rates | https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/request-rate#best-practices |
| Super Administrator Account | https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/super-admin-best-practices |
| Tightly Coupled HPC Apps | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-for-using-mpi-on-compute-engine |
| User Account, Authentication and Password Management | https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/12-best-practices-for-user-account |
| VPC design | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/best-practices-vpc-design |
| VPC Service Controls for enterprises | https://cloud.google.com/solutions/vpc-service-controls-enterprise-best-practices |
| VPN | https://cloud.google.com/network-connectivity/docs/vpn/resources/best-practices |
| VPN | https://cloud.google.com/vpn/docs/resources/best-practices |
| Working with Cloud Support | https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/best-practice |

### Contributing
- Please contribute to making this list really awesome, exhaustive, and up to date.
- Contributing to this list is easy: a pull request in this repo or you can also send me the info on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathishvj/) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/sathishvj).
- Please provide details as required by that section.  Links, author names, date published, which certification(s) does it apply to, etc.
- For book links, preferably send a search link with the book and author name.  (Why? Using an amazon.com link assumes that all readers are in one country and using one book seller.)

### Maintaining Exam Integrity
- Google takes the privacy of the exams very seriously.
- If and when you write notes, do not reveal details about the exam.
	- What questions were asked?
	- How many questions on each topic?
	- Anything that compromises the integrity of the exam.
- When one of my blog posts leaked some exam info, I was contacted by the Google Certifications Team.
- If you find any posts that I've listed which might be a concern, please let me and also the original authors know.

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