Transform your career and business by validating your skills in Google Cloud technology.

Getting Started with Google Cloud

Cloud technology is quickly becoming the heart of business operations with enterprise spending on cloud-based offerings growing faster than spending on traditional IT (Information Technology) offerings, according to Gartner.

Google provides you and your business with comprehensive cloud solutions so that you can drive organizational transformations that make an impact. By adopting Google Cloud your business will gain advantages such as flexibility in migrating, building, and optimizing apps across cloud environments, leveraging on the best-in-breed solutions, and meeting all regulatory and governance related requirements whilst at the same time minimizing drawbacks such as vendor locks in.

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As cloud adoption continues to rapidly grow so do the capabilities of what the technology can achieve, and the need for cloud computing skills that can take advantage of the latest cloud advancements. But business leaders are struggling to find skilled talent to take up jobs at the same pace that technology is moving globally. This has severely staggered growth, driving organizations to resort to reskill and upskill employees within the company.

Google Cloud Certifications

As cloud skills become increasingly vital, organizations across Malaysia are accelerating efforts to close the talent gap. According to the latest 2025 certification impact research by Google Cloud and Ipsos, certifications have become a strategic workforce development tool with tangible benefits:

• 7 in 10 leaders say that certified employees are more productive, allowing teams to operate more efficiently and deliver better outcomes.
• 8 in 10 hiring managers report that they prefer to recruit and hire professionals who hold cloud certifications, as it helps streamline the selection process and reduce hiring risks.
• 9 in 10 leaders state that certifications significantly increase their confidence in a candidate’s knowledge or technical ability, giving certified professionals a competitive edge.
• 75% of organizations observe that certified employees onboard faster, reducing ramp-up time and enabling quicker contributions to projects.
• 82% believe that certifications in cloud skills increase the likelihood that a project will be completed on time—emphasizing the practical, results-oriented value of certified talent.
• 61% rank certifications as the most important learning resource for cloud skills development, above other forms of training or learning tools.

These findings reaffirm that Google Cloud certifications, including the Professional Cloud Developer, are more than just credentials—they’re enablers of real business outcomes and career mobility.

• Google Cloud certified professionals have the real-world cloud skills businesses need.
• Organizations modernize faster and increase business impact with certified individuals.
• Certifications help with promotions, raises, and career changes.

What are the benefits of getting Google Cloud certified?

Cloud Developer learning path

A Cloud Developer builds scalable and highly available cloud applications using Google Cloud and tools that leverage fully managed services. Their work may involve cloud-native applications, runtime environments, developer tools, and next-generation databases.

Professional Cloud Developers build scalable and highly available applications using Google-recommended practices and tools. They have experience with cloud-native applications, developer tools, managed services, and next-generation databases. Cloud Developers are also proficient with at least one general-purpose programming language and are skilled at producing meaningful metrics and logs to debug and trace code.

The Professional Cloud Developer exam assesses your ability to:

• Design highly scalable, available, reliable cloud-native applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications
• Integrate Google Cloud services
• Manage application performance monitoring

COURSE 1 : Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

In this course, you will learn about the computing and storage services available in Google Cloud, including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. This course also introduces important resource and policy management tools, such as the Resource Manager hierarchy and Cloud Identity and Access Management.

Switching to Google Cloud from another public cloud provider? Start with Google Cloud Fundamentals for those with experience in AWS or Azure.

COURSE 2: Developing Applications with Google Cloud Platform

Build cloud-native applications or redesign existing applications that will run on Google Cloud. In this course, you’ll use Google Cloud services and pre-trained machine learning APIs to build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud-native applications.

COURSE 3: Application Development with Cloud Run

Explore cloud-native application with Google Cloud run. This course introduces you to fundamentals, practices, capabilities and tools applicable to modern cloud-native application development. Learn how to design, implement, deploy, secure, manage, and scale new (greenfield) and existing (brownfield) applications on Google Cloud using Cloud Run.

COURSE 4: Getting started with Google Kubernetes Engine

Learn to containerize workloads in Docker containers, deploy them to Kubernetes clusters provided by Google Kubernetes Engine, and scale those workloads to handle increased traffic.

For a more comprehensive presentation of Kubernetes, try the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine training.

SKILL BADGE: Serverless Cloud Run Development

Learn how to build scalable containerized web apps using Cloud Run – a fully managed serverless platform. Complete this quest where you’ll have to solve fictitious business scenarios with serverless solutions for the opportunity to receive a Google Cloud skill badge.

SKILL BADGE: Serverless Firebase Development

Learn how to build serverless web apps, import data into a serverless database, and build Google Assistant applications using Firebase, Google’s backend-as-service (Bass) platform for creating mobile and web applications. Complete this quest for the opportunity to receive a Google Cloud skill badge.

SKILL BADGE: Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud

Get hands-on practice with Kubernetes by configuring Docker images and containers and deploying fully fledged Kubernetes Engine applications. Practice the skills needed for integrating container orchestration into your own workflow and get the chance to earn a skill badge upon completion.

Through Trainocate Malaysia’s Google Cloud Platform training and certification courses, we aim to remove both the barrier to growth and entry that occur when transitioning and adopting modern technology within your organization.

To take advantage of everything the latest cloud technology has to offer, organizations must be able to find people with the right combination of skills. When organizations invest in Google Cloud certifications for their employees, they cost-effectively create the skilled workforce they need to meaningfully transform their business with Google Cloud technology.

Check out when our next classes are and be on your way to getting Google Cloud Certified.

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