Google Cloud Digital Leader Training Professional Certificate

What is data science or cloud technology? What can it do to your business, your team and you?

This introductory course in digital transformation will teach you everything you need to know about cloud technology. This course explains the basics of cloud, data and digital transformation. The course also includes examples of companies that have used cloud technology to transform their businesses around the globe. This course gives an overview of the challenges and opportunities that companies face in digital transformation and aligns them to the Google Cloud solution pillars. Digital transformation doesn't mean using new technology. Organizations must be creative and have an open mind to innovation in order to transform. This course will help you learn best practices and how to do this.

Cloud technology alone is only a fraction of what a business can achieve. When it is combined with data, lots and lots of it, it has the potential to unlock true value and create new experiences and benefits for customers.

This course will teach you about data, the historical uses of data by companies, and why machine learning is so important. The course introduces students to technical concepts like structured and unstructured information. Data lakes, data warehouses, and database. This section covers the most popular and fastest-growing Google Cloud products related to data.

Many legacy applications and systems are used by traditional businesses. They often fail to deliver the speed and scale required to meet modern customer demands. Business leaders and IT decision-makers are constantly faced with the dilemma of whether to maintain legacy systems or invest in new products and services.

This course will discuss the issues of outdated IT infrastructures and how businesses can modernize them using cloud technology. The course begins with an overview of the various cloud computing options and their benefits, then moves on to application modernization and Application Programming Interfaces. This course will also cover a variety of Google Cloud solutions that can be used by businesses to help them develop and manage their systems. These include App Engine, Compute Engine and Apigee.

This course focuses on cost management, security and cloud operations. It explains how businesses can decide whether to have some or all of their infrastructure maintained by purchasing IT services through a cloud provider. It then explains how data security is managed by the cloud provider and the company, and outlines the defense-in depth security built into Google Cloud. It concludes by explaining how IT leaders and IT departments need to rethink IT resource control in the cloud. Finally, it explains how Google Cloud resource monitoring tools can help them maintain control over their cloud environment.