Google Cloud Architect Professional Certificate
Advanced 64 hours English Professional CertificateFREE
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The only official Coursera path co-built by Google Cloud — recognised as the canonical preparation for the Professional Cloud Architect exam.
What you'll learn
Design a Google Cloud solution architecture end-to-end
Choose appropriate compute, storage and networking services
Apply Google Cloud security best practices
Build resilient, scalable, observable systems
Manage and migrate workloads to Google Cloud
Use Terraform and Deployment Manager for IaC
Prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Architect exam
This course includes
64h
On-demand video
40+
Qwiklabs hands-on
20+
Graded quizzes
Yes
Certificate
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Syllabus· 6 courses · 19+ lessons
- GCP regions, zones and projects
- Compute Engine, GKE, App Engine, Functions
- Cloud Storage and databases overview
- IAM and resource hierarchy
- Networking and load balancing
- Interconnect and Cloud VPN
- Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore
- Operations suite (logging, monitoring, tracing)
- Cost management
- Managed instance groups and autoscaling
- Cloud DNS, CDN, Armor
- Deployment Manager and Terraform
- Designing for resilience
- SRE practices and SLOs
- Capacity and performance planning
- Kubernetes fundamentals on GKE
- GKE workloads, networking, security
- Cloud Architect case studies
- Practice exam
Instructor
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Google Cloud Training
Google Cloud official curriculum team
2.5M learners60+ courses 4.7 instructor rating
Google Cloud Training builds and maintains the official preparation content for Google Cloud certifications. This Professional Certificate is the authoritative path to the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect exam.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of cloud or systems experience recommended
- Comfortable with Linux command line
- Some networking and security fundamentals
- 8–10 hours per week for 2–3 months
Who this course is for
- Engineers targeting the Google Cloud Professional Architect exam
- Solutions architects moving onto GCP
- Senior developers and DevOps leads
- AWS/Azure architects cross-training on GCP
About this provider
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Coursera
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Frequently asked questions
AWS SA Pro has a longer reputation as the hardest cloud cert. GCP Architect is comparable in difficulty and scenario-style questions but slightly shorter. Pick based on your target employer's cloud.
Yes — it consistently appears on lists of highest-paying IT certs ($150K+ median). Especially valuable at Google partners and ML-heavy shops.
Recommended but not required. ACE covers operational fundamentals; Architect covers design. If you have 1+ years on GCP you can skip ACE.
64 hours of content + hands-on labs. Most learners need 3–4 months part-time before sitting the exam.
Google Cloud Skills Boost has the same content free (no Coursera certificate). Pair with the Dan Sullivan exam-prep book for highest pass rates.