Google Career Certificates

Google IT Support

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 3 – 6 months

This online training program provides the skills you need for an introductory-level job in IT support, with no relevant experience required.

What You Will Learn

• Technical support fundamentals
• Computer networking
• Operating systems: Becoming a Power User
• System administration and IT infrastructure services
• IT security: Defense against the digital dark arts

How to Earn Credential

• You will earn this certificate by successfully completing the Google IT Support program.

Google Cybersecurity

Recommended Prior Experience: While there are no required prerequisites, it’s helpful for learners to be familiar with foundational cybersecurity concepts, skills, and tools. Supplemental content on these concepts is included within the certificate for learners who do not have this prior knowledge.
Length of Program: Online Anytime, 5 Months to Complete

Launch your career in Cloud Cybersecurity, build job-ready skills and must-have AI skills for an in-demand career. This certificate program prepares learners for entry-level roles in cloud cybersecurity. Get hands-on with Google Cloud tools like Cloud Shell, Cloud Storage, and Security Command Center, tackling real-world cybersecurity problems head-on. All content is crafted by seasoned Google experts in cloud and cybersecurity tech. Beyond training and labs, you’ll complete a capstone project and create work examples to showcase your new skills. This certificate builds on your existing foundational knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals (no degree needed), and we’ve even got you covered with optional refreshers on network security, threat analysis, SQL, and incident detection, as well the importance of integrating AI into your path forward.

What You Will Learn

• Analyze and apply cloud security principles in practical scenarios
• Execute effective incident response and recovery plans

Upon Completion Students Will

• Develop and implement risk management and compliance strategies
• Prepare for a successful career in cloud security

How to Earn Credential

• Follow and complete the Google Cybersecurity program
• Upon passing the exam, you will receive a Google Certificate

Google Analytics

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 3 – 6 months

This fully online program provides all the skills you need to find an entry-level job in the field of data analytics.

What You Will Learn

• Asking questions to make data-driven decisions
• Understanding data types and structures
• Preparing data for exploration
• Using data to solve problems
• Analyzing data to answer questions
• Sharing data through the art of visualization
• Using R programming to supercharge your analysis

How to Earn Credential

• You will earn this certificate by successfully completing the Google Analytics program.

Google Project Management

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 3 – 6 months

This fully online program provides the skills you need for an entry-level job in project management, with no relevant experience required.

What You Will Learn

• Estimate time and budgets
• Run effective meetings and manage stakeholders
• Identify and manage risks
• Apply Agile and Scrum frameworks
• Develop leadership skills and navigate team dynamics

How to Earn Credential

• You will earn this certificate by successfully completing the Google Project Management program.

Google User Experience (UX) Design

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience necessary
Length of Program: 3 – 6 months

Are you a creative person who would like to channel those talents in your career? In the UX Design program, you will design how people interact with websites. You will learn about human motivation so you can design websites that support user interests and meet their needs, while achieving the company’s goals for the website.

What You Will Learn

• Start the UX Design process by empathizing with the target audience for the website, defining their needs and desired outcomes, and developing the creative concept for the web design
• Develop personas, user stories, and user journey maps
• Conduct usability studies
• Create wireframes and low-fidelity prototypes
• Perform UX research and test early concepts
• Create high-fidelity designs and prototypes in Figma
• Create responsive web designs in Adobe XD
• Design for social good and prepare for jobs
• Build a professional portfolio

How to Earn Credential

• You will earn this certificate by successfully completing the Google User Experience (UX) Design program.

Google IT Automation with Python

Recommended Prior Experience: Advanced level, familiarity with basic IT concepts
Length of Program: 3 – 6 months

For learners familiar with basic IT concepts, this advanced program builds on those foundations to take your career to the next level.

What You Will Learn

• Python programming
• Using Python to interact with the operating system
• Introduction to Git and GitHub
• Troubleshooting and debugging techniques
• Configuration management and the cloud
• Automating real-world tasks with Python

How to Earn Credential

• You will earn this certificate by successfully completing the Google IT Automation with Python program.

Google Business Intelligence Professional Certificate

Recommended Prior Experience: This program assumes prior knowledge of foundational analytical principles, skills, and tools. These include data types, data strategy, data integrity, data cleaning, data aggregation, data analysis, and best practices when information-sharing. It also requires an understanding of spreadsheets, databases and structured query language, programming concepts, data visualization, and dashboards.
Length of Program: 8 weeks

Business intelligence uses processes and tools to turn raw data into easy-to-understand, actionable information. Organizations rely on this information to make better strategic and operational business decisions. Organizations of all kinds need business intelligence professionals to organize, analyze, and report data to inform decision makers. Business intelligence jobs exist in varied industries, from technology to finance to entertainment. You will practice using tools and platforms including Google BigQuery, Google Dataflow, Google Sheets, Python, SQL, and Tableau.

What You Will Learn

• Design data visualizations that answer business questions
• Practice data modeling and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes that meet organizational goals
• Create dashboards that effectively communicate data insights to stakeholders

Upon Completion Students Will

• Have knowledge of concrete skills in business intelligence
• Complete a portfolio project to share with potential employers

How to Earn Credential

• Follow and complete the Google Business Intelligence Professional program
• Upon completion you will receive Google Certificate

Google AI Essentials

Recommended Prior Experience: No prior experience needed.
Length of Program: 2 weeks

Google AI Essentials is a self-paced course designed to help people across roles and industries get essential AI skills to boost their productivity. In this course you’ll learn how to use AI tools to generate ideas and content, how to help research, organize, and make more informed decisions, how to help speed up daily work tasks, like drafting email responses, and how to use AI responsibly by identifying AI’s potential biases and avoiding harm.

What You Will Learn

• Use AI tools effectively
• Understand potential harm of AI

Upon Completion Students Will

• Use AI tools to speed up daily work tasks
• Understand potential biases of AI

How to Earn Credential

• Follow and complete the Google AI Essentials program
• Upon completion you will receive Google Certificate

Google Cloud Certified Associate Engineer

Recommended Prior Experience: There are no prerequisites, but it is recommended to have 6+ months hands-on experience with Google Cloud.
Length of Program: Online Anytime, 5 Months to Complete

The course is designed to cover all the exam objectives and provide a complete understanding of all the concepts with its various learning resources. Google Cloud Certified Associate Engineer certification training authenticates the skills and expertise required to work on the Google Cloud console and the command-line interface and to maintain and scale deployed solutions that leverage services on Google Cloud.

What You Will Learn

• Set up a cloud solution environment
• Plan and configure a cloud solution
• Deploy and implement a cloud solution

Upon Completion Students Will

• Configure access and security
• Ensure the successful operation of a cloud solution

How to Earn Credential

• Follow and complete the Google Cloud Certified AE program
• Upon passing the exam, you will receive a Google Certificate

Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect

Recommended Prior Experience: There are no prerequisites for the exam, but it is recommended to have 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud.
Length of Program: Online Anytime, 5 Months to Complete

The course is designed to cover all the exam objectives and provide a complete understanding of all the concepts with its various learning resources. Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification training authenticates the skills and expertise required to design solutions using a mix of computer, storage, networking, and managed services. The design must satisfy both business and technical requirements.

What You Will Learn

• Design and plan a cloud solution architecture
• Analyze and optimizing technical and business processes
• Manage implementations of cloud architecture

Upon Completion Students Will

• Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure
• Ensure solution and operations reliability
• Design for security and compliance

How to Earn Credential

• Follow and complete the Google Cloud Certified PCA program
• Upon passing the exam, you will receive a Google Certificate

Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Recommended Prior Experience: This course is ideal for experienced Google Cloud users who want to take their machine-learning skills to the next level.
Length of Program: Online Anytime, 5 Months to Complete

The Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer course equips you with the skills to design, build, and deploy sophisticated machine learning models on Google Cloud. You’ll dive deep into key topics like framing ML problems, architecting scalable ML solutions, developing and optimizing models, automating end-to-end ML pipelines, and monitoring model performance.

What You Will Learn

• Design machine learning models
• Build machine learning models
• Deploy machine learning models on Google Cloud

Upon Completion Students Will

• Demonstrate an ability to use Google Cloud technologies to solve business problems using machine learning

How to Earn Credential

• Follow and complete the Google Cloud Certified PMLE program
• Upon passing the exam, you will receive a Google Certificate