Cleared Google Associate Cloud Engineer and Google Professional Cloud Architect exams last week :)

Hey Hey .. hola acloud guru and friends of acloud guru.. as you can see i am estatic and why will i not.. 😉 .. i cleared few of the toughest exams out there phew.. 😉 ..

I cant thank enough, Mattias Andersson, you are my inspiration and I wouldn’t have done this without your guidance.

I will provide you guys more details of how to go about clearing those two exams but for now i will provide you two basic advice

1. You need to have the right study material

2. You cannot clear these exams by memorizing, you have to have to practice hands on and use google cloud platform as much as you can.

This is what I used to prepare for Google Cloud Engineer and this actually helped me prepare for Google Professional Cloud Architect:-

1. Acloud Guru – Introduction to Google Cloud Platform by Mattias Andersson – this is an excellent refresher, and I used it several times while preparing for Cloud Engineer and Cloud Architect

2. Acloud Guru – Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer by Mattias Andersson – make sure you follow every bit of advise given by Mattias, go through the last lecture where he provided a lot of useful trainings and materials – do that all

3. Coursera – there are excellent courses in coursera, I did all three specializations – Developing , Architecting and Data Engineering Specializations, and also did all hands on.. now you don’t need to do all of them, just follow what google recommends for the specific test.

4. Qwiklabs – I got myself a monthly subscription to learn the platform which I am still using

5. Udemy – Kasey Shah – Google Certified Cloud Engineer Associate Practice Exam – Different approach but great questions and explanations..

It took me close to 6 months to prepare for both the exams and that’s because I was working crazy hours in office but I did clear both these exams within 5 days in my winter break.

My Backgroud

I had no prior experience in GCP but I was an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate before I started looking at GCP – this should not matter to clear Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud architect exams

I do have other industry certificates from Microsoft as well with close to 14 years in IT.

Do shoot me any questions you have, and I’ll be more than happy to answer your questions.

Question to Anderson – how should i go about channelizing what i learned? Any word of advice

Thanks,

Anurag