Google - Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Duration

Duration:

Only 4 Days

Method

Method:

Classroom / Online / Hybrid

Next date

Next date:

30/9/2024 (Monday)

Overview

On this accelerated Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer course, you’ll learn how to implement development operations that can balance service reliability and delivery speed. This certification spans key technical job functions and assesses advanced skills in design, implementation, and management.

In just 4 days, you’ll build knowledge and the skills to use Google Cloud Platform, in order to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage and learn from incidents. You’ll also learn how to:

  • Apply site reliability engineering principles to a service
  • Optimise service performance and implement service monitoring strategies
  • Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for a service

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the Google Cloud DevOps Engineer exam, and achieve your certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get access to official courseware, learn certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Benefits

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:

  • Intensive group instruction
  • One-on-one instruction attention
  • Hands-on labs
  • Lab partner and group exercises
  • Question and answer drills
  • Independent study

Curriculum

Section 1: Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service

  • Module 1: Balance change, velocity, and reliability of the service
  • Module 2: Manage the service life cycle
  • Module 3: Ensure healthy communication and collaboration for operations

Section 2: Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service

  • Module 1: Design CI/CD pipelines
  • Module 2: Implement CI/CD pipelines
  • Module 3: Manage configuration and secrets
  • Module 4: Manage infrastructure as code
  • Module 5: Deploy CI/CD tooling
  • Module 6: Manage different development environments (e.g. staging and production)
  • Module 7: Secure the deployment pipeline

Section 3: Implementing service monitoring strategies

  • Module 1: Manage application logs
  • Module 2: Manage application metrics with Stackdriver Monitoring
  • Module 3: Manage Stackdriver Monitoring platform
  • Module 4: Manage Stackdriver Logging platform
  • Module 5: Implement logging and monitoring access controls 

Section 4: Optimising service performance

  • Module 1: Identify service performance issues
  • Module 2: Debug application code
  • Module 3: Optimise resource utilisation

Section 5: Managing service incidents

  • Module 1: Coordinate roles and implement communication channels during a service
  • Module 2: Investigate incident symptoms impacting users
  • Module 3: Mitigate incident impact on users
  • Module 4: Resolve issues (e.g., Cloud Build, Jenkins
  • Module 5: Document issue in a postmortem

Exam Track

As part of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

Google Cloud DevOps Engineer exam

  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Format: Multiple-choice
  • Language: English
  • Exam format: Multiple-choice and multiple-select

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

  • Accommodation *
  • Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
  • On-site exams **
  • Exam vouchers **
  • Practice tests **
  • Certification Guarantee ***
  • Courseware
  • Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
  • 24-hour lab access
  • Digital courseware **
  • * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
  • ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
  • *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

Before attending this accelerated course, Google recommend you have at least 3 years of experience, including a minimum of 1 year of experience in managing solutions on GCP.

Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.

Reviews

Here's the Firebrand Training review section. Since 2001 we've trained exactly 134561 students and asked them all to review our Accelerated Learning. Currently, 95.77% have said Firebrand exceeded their expectations.

Read reviews from recent accelerated courses below or visit Firebrand Stories for written and video interviews from our alumni.


"Great teacher, highly recommended GCP instructor. Really enjoyed my week."
Neil Goodridge. (6/6/2023 (Tuesday) to 9/6/2023 (Friday))

"A professionally-led course using Microsoft certified materials plus trainers'' own experiences and demos to supplement microsofts own"
Paul Wallace. (15/7/2024 (Monday) to 17/7/2024 (Wednesday))

"Effective training course, I absolutely prefer classroom training and full focus for a course like this. Instructor was good at adding knowledge and engaging the group in interesting discussions."
BL, Norstat. (3/7/2024 (Wednesday) to 5/7/2024 (Friday))

"Very good trainer. Has a lot of experience and knows the ISO27001 content and questions for the certification. He managed to make the training as interactive as possible."
Andrea Lancelot, PwC. (3/7/2024 (Wednesday) to 5/7/2024 (Friday))

"Interactive sessions, I enjoyed the training and I thought very interesting. The instructor is good at catching the intention. We could benefit from the experience of the instructor to get real-life examples and he is responding to all our questions"
Amine Maazouz, PwC Belgium. (3/7/2024 (Wednesday) to 5/7/2024 (Friday))

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