This year, resolve to become a certified Professional Cloud Developer – here’s how

Do you have a New Year’s resolution to improve your career prospects? Sign up here for 30 days no-cost access to Google Cloud Skills Boost to help you on your way to becoming a certified Professional Cloud Developer. According to third-party IT training firm Global Knowledge, two Google Cloud Certified Professional certifications topped its list of the highest-paid IT certifications in 2021. 

Once you register, you’ll have an opportunity to take the Cloud Developer learning path, which consists of on-demand labs and courses, coveringGoogle Cloud infrastructure fundamentals, application development in the cloud, security, monitoring and troubleshooting, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Firebase and more. Along the way, you’ll have an opportunity to earn skill badges to demonstrate your cloud knowledge and access resources to help you prepare for the Professional Cloud Developer certification.

For example, once you’ve completed the Google Cloud Fundamentals, Core Infrastructure course, in person or on-demand, you can take the Getting Started With Application Development course, where you’ll learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that integrate managed services from Google Cloud, including Cloud Client Libraries, the Cloud SDK, and Firebase SDKs, an overview of your storage options, and best practices for using Datastore and Cloud Storage.

We’re also thrilled to announce that one of the most popular trainings in the Cloud Developer path, Application Development with Cloud Run, is now available on-demand, in addition to via live instruction. This is a great chance to get up to speed on this fully-managed, serverless compute platform at your own pace. Cloud Run marries the goodness of serverless and containers, and is fast becoming one of the most powerful ways to build and run a true cloud-native application.

Moving down the proposed learning path, you can show off your Google Cloud chops with skill badges that you can display as part of your Google Developer Profile alongside your membership in the Google Cloud Innovators program, on social media, and on your resumé. There are a wide variety of interesting skills badge for cloud developers like the Serverless Cloud Run Development Quest, or Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud, and many of them take just a couple of hours to complete.

With these classes under your belt and Skills Badges on your profile, you’ll be in a good place to start preparing for the Professional Cloud Developer certification exam, using the proposed exam guide and sample questions to show the way. Here’s to earning your certification in 2022, and to a great future!