Only 5 days
Classroom
11/03/2025 (Tuesday)
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.
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
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.
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.
Benefits
Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training
- Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
- You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
- Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
- Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
- You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
- You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
- You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals
*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
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