Firebrand's training for Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

Overview

On this accelerated Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer course, you’ll learn the skills to become a professional data engineer. You’ll build knowledge on how to design and build data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), as well as enable data-driven decision making by collecting, transforming and publishing data.

In just 3 days, you'll build your data processing systems so that they focus on security, compliance, reliability and flexibility. You'll also learn how to:

Leverage, deploy and continuously train pre-existing machine learning models
Design for data and application portability to meet current and future business requirements
Operationalise machine learning models

At the end of your course, you'll sit the official exam and achieve your Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer certification. Get your certification at twice the speed through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology.

Audience

If you're an experienced developer responsible for managing big data transformations, this course is ideal for you.

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Four reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

You'll be trained and certified faster. Learn more on this 5-day accelerated course. You'll get at least 12 hours a day of quality learning time in a distraction-free environment
Your course is all-inclusive. One simple price covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals – so you can focus on learning
Pass first time or train again for free. Your expert instructor will deliver our unique accelerated learning methods, allowing you to learn faster and be in the best possible position to pass first time. In the unlikely event that you don't, it's covered by your Certification Guarantee
Study with an award-winning training provider. We've won the Learning and Performance Institute's "Training Company of the Year" three times. Firebrand is your fastest way to learn, with 134.561 students saving more than one million hours since 2001

Benefits

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Curriculum

Part A:

Module 1- Introducing Google Cloud Platform
Module 2- Compute and Storage Fundamentals
Module 3- Data Analytics on the Cloud
Module 4- Scaling Data Analysis
Module 5- Machine Learning
Module 6- Data Processing Architectures
Module 7- Summary

Part B:

Module 1- Google Cloud Dataproc Overview
Module 2- Running Dataproc Jobs
Module 3- Integrating Dataproc with Google Cloud Platform
Module 4- Making Sense of Unstructured Data with Google's Machine Learning APIs
Module 5- Serverless data analysis with BigQuery
Module 6- Serverless, autoscaling data pipelines with Dataflow
Module 7- Getting started with Machine Learning
Module 8- Building ML models with Tensorflow
Module 9- Scaling ML models with CloudML
Module 10- Feature Engineering
Module 11- Architecture of streaming analytics pipeline
Module 12- Ingesting Variable Volumes
Module 13- Implementing streaming pipelines
Module 14- Streaming analytics and dashboards
Module 15- High throughput and low-latency with Bigtable

Part C:

Module 1- Understanding the Professional Data Engineer Certification
Module 2- Sample case studies for Professional Data Engineer exam
Module 3- Designing and Building Review
Module 4- Analyzing and Modelling Review
Module 5- Reliability, Policy and Security Review

Exam Track

As part of your accelerated course, you'll sit the following exam:

Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer exam

Format: Multiple choice/multiple select
Duration: 2 hours
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese
Domains:

Design data processing systems
Build and operationalising data processing systems
Operationalising machine learning methods
Ensure solution quality

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

There are no formal prerequisites for this course. However, Google recommends you have:

At least three years of industry experience, including one or more years of designing and managing solutions using GCP
One years' experience in one or more of the following:

A common query language such as SQL Extract
Data modelling
Machine learning
A common programming language such as Python.

Are you ready to get certified in record time?

We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.

Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

If you have any doubts as to whether you meet the pre-requisites please call 89 88 66 05 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants, who can help you with a training plan.

Reviews

We've currently trained 134.561 students in 12 years. We asked them all to review our Accelerated Learning. Currently,
95,34% have said Firebrand exceeded their expectations:

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

"Effective way to gain certification. Would highly recommend to colleagues. Great location. Comfortable environment. Good food."
Nigel Hodges, Pyrus Consulting. (21/5/2024 (Tuesday) to 24/5/2024 (Friday))

"Very good Resources within the E-Book, Mixed with the Lessons, it is also has good Labs to get hands on Practice and put the theory somewhere practical to get full learning experience, with very high standard explanation throughout the lectures. 10/10!"
Rhys Thomas, Nokia. (7/5/2024 (Tuesday) to 10/5/2024 (Friday))

Course Dates

Start	Finish	Status	Location
26/8/2024 (Monday)	30/8/2024 (Friday)	Finished - Leave feedback	-

10/2/2025 (Monday)	14/2/2025 (Friday)	Limited availability	Nationwide
24/3/2025 (Monday)	28/3/2025 (Friday)	Open	Nationwide
5/5/2025 (Monday)	9/5/2025 (Friday)	Open	Nationwide
16/6/2025 (Monday)	20/6/2025 (Friday)	Open	Nationwide

Google - Firebrand's training for Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer