Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner certification — Requirements & Free Practice

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Google Cloud associate certification for individuals who secure and manage data on Google Cloud.

Licensing authority: Google, LLC

Initial by examination

Eligibility: The exam page states no prerequisites. To participate in the Google Cloud Certification Program, candidates must be at least 18 and must not reside or ordinarily reside in Cuba, Crimea, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Belarus, Donetsk People’s Republic, or Luhansk People’s Republic; participation also must not otherwise be prohibited by applicable export controls or sanctions programs.
Result: Google validates a passing exam score before awarding the digital certification.

Examination outline

Data Preparation and Ingestion (30%)
- Prepare and process data
- Extract and load data into appropriate Google Cloud storage systems
Data Analysis and Presentation (27%)
- Identify data trends, patterns, and insights by using BigQuery and Jupyter notebooks
- Visualize data and create dashboards in Looker given business requirements
- Define, train, evaluate, and use ML models
Data Pipeline Orchestration (18%)
- Design and implement simple data pipelines
- Schedule, automate, and monitor basic data processing tasks
Data Management (25%)
- Configure access control and governance
- Configure lifecycle management
- Identify high availability and disaster recovery strategies for data in Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL
- Apply security measures and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations

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