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There are three types of GCP certifications:

Associate certification
This is focused on the fundamental skills of deploying, monitoring, and maintaining projects on Google Cloud and is ideal for newbies to the cloud.

Certificate Name: Associate Cloud Engineer

Professional certification
Professional certifications cover key technical job functions and assess advanced skills in design, implementation, and management and are ideal for individuals with some industry experience, preferably with the cloud.

Certificate Names:

• Professional Cloud Architect
• Professional Data Engineer
• Professional Cloud Developer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Professional Collaboration Engineer

User certification
The user certification is intended for individuals with experience using Google WorkSpace and determines an individual’s ability to use core collaboration tools.

Certification Name: Google WorkSpace Certification

The GCP Cloud Architect exam tests your ability to design and plan a cloud solution architecture, manage the cloud solution infrastructure, and optimize technical and business processes while ensuring the reliability of solutions and operations in a cloud environment.

Google Cloud certifications are a way to demonstrate your expertise in the industry. They help you establish your value to potential employers by comparing your skills to those of your peers.

To enroll in Google Cloud Platform Associate and Professional certification exams, you must be eighteen years old.

The Google Certified Architect exam has no such prerequisites. Administrators, solution architects, and operations managers with one to two years of experience will find this course particularly useful, as will those aiming to become cloud architects.

You have 14 days to retake the exam if you don’t pass the first time. If you fail a second time, you must wait 60 days before attempting it again. Wait a year before trying again if you fail on your third attempt.

The top-paying cloud certifications are:

• Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect – $139,529 (Source: Payscale)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate – $132,840 (Source: Payscale)
• AWS Certified Developer — Associate – $130,369 (Source: Payscale)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) certificates are valid for two years.

The Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification costs US$200.

You don’t need to be a Google Cloud partner for an exam. Anyone interested in taking it is free to do so.

Google adheres to the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s list of restricted countries. An acceptable form of identification showing residency in a non-embargoed country is required to take an online exam.

Exceptional circumstances may necessitate a full or partial refund. You may contact the test taker with valid supporting documentation if extenuating conditions.