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How I could achieve the Google Cloud Certification Challenge?

Antonio Cachuan
Towards Data Science
6 min readNov 5, 2019

After following the 12 weeks of preparation recommended by Google, I passed the exam for Associate Cloud Engineer, here is what I’ve learned that could help you.

This story began 3 months ago when I was like every day checking my Linkedin feed and I saw a post from Google Cloud about the Certification Challenge. The first time I read I was considering getting a cloud specialization and was wondering which of the three main competitors should I.

Why did I choose Google Cloud?

First, at that time the decision wasn’t technically since I didn’t have deep experience in Azure, AWS or GCP just basic projects in Azure and some steps in Big Data products from GCP. My first impressions about GCP and their products organization were it feels clean, simple and easy to understand (UX) and important to complement a clean console UI.

Big Data and ML products in GCP [maelfabien]

During that time I also recalled to my mind all the Google products that I use daily (youtube, google assistant, photos, etc.) and how well worked and to resume all I found this phrase from Wired:

This is what makes Google…

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Antonio Cachuan
Antonio Cachuan

Written by Antonio Cachuan

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer (2x GCP). When code meets data, success is assured 🧡. Happy to share code and ideas 💡 linkedin.com/in/antoniocachuan/

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