From the course: Cloud Computing Careers and Certifications

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What are GCP certifications?

What are GCP certifications?

- [Instructor] Google Cloud has three levels of certifications. They have Foundational, Associate and Professional. I really recommend that no matter what your experience is with Google Cloud, you always start with the Foundational Cloud Digital Leader. And I get pushback sometimes from folks that have been working with really any cloud, but particularly Google Cloud going, you know, "I really don't need to take this. I can start at a higher level." And I will tell you that my experiences, particularly in the Google Cloud certifications, that is a bad approach and often leads to you having to take the exam more than once. The exams have a a certain flavor of the way they're written. And really, with the foundational certification for Google, this helps you to understand what the exam experience will be like, what the questions are like, and what the environment of exams in Google Cloud is like. So I highly recommend that you start with the Cloud Digital Leader. Now, where you go from…

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