How I can study GCP Data Engineer Certificate in 2021? Study Review
Get GCP Date Engineer Certificate in 30 days and show my study know-how.
If you want to read Korean, move the page here
The acquisition of a certificate, the last condition for completing the Google Machine Learning Boot Camp, was completed.
Originally, I had acquired the Tensorflow Developer Certificate, so the certificate acquisition would have already been completed, but I wanted to dig more into my data engineer career with personal greed, so I studied additional GCP data engineer certification, and I got the result today.
(I have posted tensorflow certificate review, but it is written with Korean.)
I leave a post to record how I registered for the test, prepared it, and the difficulty level of the test questions.
1. Register the exam
You can register the test on this link, and you can register all types of cloud certificate tests provided by Google.
Create an account, select and pay for the test, and the original cost of the test is known as $200, but the cost is discounted during the Covid-19, so you can even get a chance to take the test at $120.
Test dates can be selected before payment, and test times can be selected every 15 minutes during the day.
I chose 11 a.m. and took the test for two hours.
2. Preparing the Test
Learning has been prepared in a total of three ways, and may be slightly different from those who generally prepare for the GCP test in Google Search.
The preparation period for the test was a total of 30 days, and since I was still a job seeker, I wanted to solve it as soon as possible rather than preparing for months over several days.
It can be seen as the most common basic lecture for Google data engineers and consists of a total of six courses.
At the end of the lecture, it provides very important 25 practical practice questions and to understand the pattern of the problem well.
It provides a lot of practice questions to obtain GCP data engineer and machine learning developer certificates, and is free.
Recapcha appears for every 5 questions, so it’s a little cumbersome, but why don’t we offer the questions for free?
The answer to the question provided here is often very different from the answer people say, and at that time, you have to follow people’s one.
Many of the questions I solved during the test overlapped almost the same as the questions I solved here, and the question of unclear answers seemed to have been correct when I followed people’s answers.
If possible, please try to solve all the 240 questions provided here. If you are preparing for the test, there are quite a few situations that are applied slightly here.
If you purchase this book with Kindle (i.e., e-book), and register it on the website, Willy, at the end of the book (you will write authentication codes in the book), you can use practice problem in that page.
If you solve the whole questions without looking at the contents of the book (which overlaps with the contents of the Coursera anyway), the test preparation is completed.
3. Taking GCP Data Engineer Exam
The test began at 11 a.m. on November 2, and a test supervisor remotely checks my room.
(Turn on the computer webcam and scan my room slowly.)
But it’s a little annoying because I’m told to clean up things that could be cheating on my desk (I met a strict supervisor), so the test plans was to start at 11 o’clock, but I cleaned up my desk for 30 minutes and took the test.
The total problem is 50 questions, and the test will be taken for 2 hours.
Once again, it felt like I had randomly selected and solved 50 questions with the questions I solved above, and I felt like I had seen almost all of them except for a few questions.
Thanks to this, I did well on the test and cleaned my desk afterwards.
(Thank you GCP for forcing me to clean up my study environment)
The certificate is still before it arrives by e-mail, but when it is received, it will be added to this post.
4. Review
Among the numerous cloud services provided by GCP, such as data pipeline connection, structured and unstructured data processing, and appropriate GCP services, machine learning models and data storage utilization, the test questions will be provided.
There are probably many questions that can be solved immediately if you are a data engineer developer, but I am still a job seeker, and there are quite a few things you have to study than you think.
It is recommended to those who have at least three years of experience in field and more than one year of GCP service experience, but I felt it is no problem to take some who just study machine learning for 2 ~ 3 months.
I think I was able to finish on November 2nd by diligently moving after taking the Tensorflow test in September.
I should take this opportunity to acquire GCP ML Certificate and take Coursera ML Ops lectures provided by deeplearning.ai.
