Google Cloud Digital Leader Training (Udacity)

Offered by Udacity, Google Cloud,
Google Cloud Digital Leader Training (Udacity)

Gain foundational literacy in cloud and digital transformation. The Cloud Digital Leader Training course consists of a series of lessons designed to give you foundational knowledge about cloud technology and data. This training also offers an overview of Google Cloud products and services that enable organizations’ digital transformation.

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The training prepares you for Google’s Cloud Digital Leader certification, which can empower you and your team(s) to contribute to cloud-related business initiatives across your organization. The Cloud Digital Leader certification assesses your knowledge in these areas:

  • Digital transformation with Google Cloud (~10% of the exam)
  • Innovating with data and Google Cloud (~30% of the exam)
  • Infrastructure and application modernization (~30% of the exam)
  • Google Cloud security and operations (~30% of the exam)

Gain foundational knowledge about cloud technology and data, which are concepts that have become increasingly important for companies around the world. These new skills will empower you and your team(s) with agility, scalabilty, and flexibility that enable optimized operations for your organization.

What you will learn

Introduction to Digital Transformation with Google Cloud

  • Define foundational terms such as cloud, data, and digital transformation
  • Explore examples of companies around the world that are using cloud technology to revolutionize their businesses
  • Overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey

Innovating with Data and Google Cloud

  • Learn what data is, historical ways companies have used it to make decisions, and why it is so critical for machine learning
  • Introduces technical concepts such as structured and unstructured data, database, data warehouse, and data lakes
  • Cover the most common and fastest growing Google Cloud products around data

Infrastructure and Application Modernization

  • Explore the challenges of an outdated IT infrastructure and how businesses can modernize it using cloud technology
  • Explore the different compute options available in the cloud and the benefits of each
  • Consider a range of Google Cloud solutions that can help businesses to better develop and manage their systems

Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations

  • Explore how businesses can choose to maintain some or none of their own infrastructure by purchasing IT services from a cloud provider
  • Explain how the responsibility of data security is shared between the cloud provider and the business
  • Explore the defense-in-depth security built into Google Cloud
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