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- Which one? GCP Cloud Data Engineer & Cloud Architect - Why? They are required by Google to be a partner. - How many attempts? One each. - Was it useful

- Which one? GCP Cloud Data Engineer & Cloud Architect - Why? They are required by Google to be a partner. - How many attempts? One each. - Was it useful Yes. The exam wasn't, but the study and preparation that goes into passing the exam is helpful. It exposed me to tools that I didn't normally use in my job and the CDE exam in particular informed me on the important distinctions between all of the GCP tools available (there are a lot of overlaps between tools) - How did you prepare? Google helped create Coursera courses, so I took those. Plus taking the practice exam and using a sandbox account to reenforce my learning. The GCP exams are all about memorization of nitty-gritty details. You will be presented with a case study for a solution, and all of the solutions will work, but there's a obvious best solution if you know the details of the tools available.

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Someone replied here, but by the time I drafted a reply, the comment was deleted, but I felt the information was important so I'll post it below. > To me, that's the definition of an unhelpful exam. I am curious that these new knowledge-based certifications aren't the new "Java certified associate" exams (which could not be more useless). This is a case where the devil is in the details though. For example, GCP has five major database offerings: Bigtable, Data/Firestore, Spanner, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. Knowing which one best applies to which situation is a pretty important aspect of being an architect. You can't just use "high level" knowledge here, because Bigtable and Firestore are both NoSQL databases, while Cloud SQL, BQ, and Spanner are relational. They are each optimized for specific workloads and picking the right solution involves knowing how each is optimized. Using these services is relatively easy. The documentation is fairly comprehensive and Google offers sample applications for use as a jumping off point. This applies across the GCP landscape. Lots of services have 70-80% functionality overlap with another, so choosing the right one for a particular situation involves understanding the appropriate use cases for each, and this information is what is covered in the exam materials.

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Someone replied here, but by the time I drafted a reply, the comment was deleted, but I felt the information was important so I'll post it below. > To me, that's the definition of an unhelpful exam. I am curious that these new knowledge-based certifications aren't the new "Java certified associate" exams (which could not be more useless). This is a case where the devil is in the details though. For example, GCP has five major database offerings: Bigtable, Data/Firestore, Spanner, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. Knowing which one best applies to which situation is a pretty important aspect of being an architect. You can't just use "high level" knowledge here, because Bigtable and Firestore are both NoSQL databases, while Cloud SQL, BQ, and Spanner are relational. They are each optimized for specific workloads and picking the right solution involves knowing how each is optimized. Using these services is relatively easy. The documentation is fairly comprehensive and Google offers sample applications for use as a jumping off point. This applies across the GCP landscape. Lots of services have 70-80% functionality overlap with another, so choosing the right one for a particular situation involves understanding the appropriate use cases for each, and this information is what is covered in the exam materials.