#GOOGLE SOLUTION ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION FREE#

The classes were provided in a variety of formats including video lectures, homework exercises, projects, discussion forums and most importantly, hands-on lab experience on the Google Cloud Platform via Qwiklabs.

#GOOGLE SOLUTION ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION FREE#

It’s free to access but if you pay for the courses, you will be able to get completion certificates which you can then display on your LinkedIn profile and show future employers that you have proactively picked up new skills or knowledge. I spent the next 6 months immersing myself in the Google Cloud syllabus on Coursera, which by the way is an amazing platform for online learning. Now I am not in any way suggesting that education should be (completely) free but I would imagine that cost is a big hurdle in getting started in learning for a lot of people. The best part of this is that a lot of the resources are available online and are free. This program was perfect for me because the resources were coming from one of the most recognizable and established names in technology.

Grow with Google was launched in 2017 and was an initiative to help equip people with the tools and trainings to attain skills that they need to get jobs or grow their businesses. I started my journey in cloud computing a year ago by enrolling in Google’s Grow with Google program. One of the most common question that I got over the last year when people found out that I was upskilling to transit to tech was “are you sure you are willing to give up whatever you have achieved before to start afresh in a completely new industry?”

Google solution architect certification