How to pass the Google Certification Exams

Jirayut Nimsaeng (Dear)

CEO/Founder Opsta

GDG Cloud Bangkok Meetup @ Skooldio

September 27, 2019
 #whoami
● Jirayut Nimsaeng (Dear)
● Interested in Cloud and Open Source
● Agile Practitioner with DevOps Driven
● CEO and Founder Opsta

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 Why you should take Google Certified
• Gain industry recognition

• Validate your technical expertise

• Take your career to the next level

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 Overall

Professional Collaboration Engineer

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 Facts (September 27, 2019)
• Price: $125 for Associate Certifications
• Price: $200 for Professional Certifications
• Length: 2 hours
• Languages: English, [Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, ...]
• Exam format: Multiple choice and multiple select (only few)
• Where: taken in person at a test center
• Age: 18+ only
• Exam policy: offline, no mobile phone

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 Facts (September 27, 2019)
• Retake: payment everytime you retake
• 1st time: wait for 14 days
• 2nd time: wait for 60 days
• 3rd time: wait for 1 year
• Reschedule: must before 3 days and you get charged a rescheduling fee
• Recertify: every 2 years
• Result: know immediately after submitted. email confirm around 7-10 days
• Passing score: confidential

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 How to register for exam (1)
• Create or login account at
https://webassessor.com/wa.do?page=publicHome&branding=GOOGLECLOUD
• Register for an exam
• Choose Google Cloud Certification Exams you want

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 How to register for exam (2)
• Choose the Testing Centers

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 How to register for exam (3)
• Choose the date and time. Usually you can choose from 1 week ahead

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 How to register for exam (4)
• Pay with your credit card

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 HOW TO

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 Difference

Focus on hands-on Have both design

and hands-on

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 Read Exam Guide

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 Remember and understand sample case studies

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 Remember and understand sample case studies

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 Study Plan (1)
• If you have time (please)
• You will have multiple courses to complete
• If you put 2-3 hours per day you will finished
in 1-2 months for each program

https://www.coursera.org/search?indices%5Bprod_all_products%5D%5BrefinementList%5D%5Bpartners%5D%5B0%5D=Google%20Cloud&indices%5Bprod_all_products%5D%5BrefinementList%5D%5BentityTypeDescription%5D%5B0%5D=Certificates&indices%5Bpro
d_all_products%5D%5Bpage%5D=1&indices%5Bprod_all_products%5D%5Bconfigure%5D%5BclickAnalytics%5D=true&indices%5Bprod_all_products%5D%5Bconfigure%5D%5BhitsPerPage%5D=10&query=&configure%5BclickAnalytics%5D=true

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 Study Plan (2)
• https://google.qwiklabs.com
• If you want to quickly hands-on
• Choose the quest that related to
certification exam
• Each quest will have multiple labs

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 Study Plan (3)
• Try the real things

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 Practice Exam
• You should finished within 45 minutes
• Usually questions are very long

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 TIPS

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 GCP Overview
• IAM & Billing • Cloud Marketplace
• Compute • Cloud Deployment Manager
• Network, Firewall & Load Balancer
• GKE
• Cloud Storage
• App Engine
• Cloud Function
• Database & Big Data
• Machine Learning & AI
• Stackdriver

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 IAM
• https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/overview

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 Compute

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 Data

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 Cloud Storage

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 Network

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 Load Balancer

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 Some tips
• Skip if you stuck more than 2 minutes
• Mostly question is about applying not memorize
• You need at least 6 months experience on GCP real world usage
• Google document is the best deep drive explanation
• But don’t deep drive too much because you will out of examination

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 After Exam

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 After exam

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 Credential Holder Directory

https://googlecloudcertified.credential.net

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 QA

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