Knox Hutchinson
Cloud Computing & DevOps
Google Cloud Training for IT Leaders and Cloud Admins
Train IT leaders and cloud admins on Google Cloud with Cloud Digital Leader and Associate Cloud Engineer courses covering cost governance, IAM, networking, and Kubernetes, so migrations start on a shared baseline.
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Courses
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Videos
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Where teams start
Most Popular Google Cloud Certifications
Training Managers usually assign Google Cloud Digital Leader first. It requires no coding, runs about 13 hours, and aligns business and IT on cost, risk, and strategy. Admins who will run GCP day to day then move to Associate Cloud Engineer.
Associate
Google ACE
This entry-level Google Associate Cloud Engineer training equips you with the skills to deploy, manage, and secure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources — ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. Learn how to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot GCP, making you a valuable asset to any organization leveraging cloud technology. This Google Cloud training can be used to onboard new cloud admins, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a Google Cloud reference resource.
Shawn Powers
Entry
Cloud Digital Leader Certification
This Google Cloud Digital Leader certification course helps you learn how cloud technology revolutionizes business. You'll dive deep into digital transformation, data management with BigQuery, and AI solutions like Vertex AI. You'll also gain a deep understanding of the shared responsibility model and cloud cost-management. This course prepares you to lead your organization’s modern, sustainable cloud strategy with confidence, and includes unlimited Google Cloud Digital Leader practice exams.
Shawn Powers
Capability ladder
Google Cloud Certifications by Level
The most popular Google Cloud courses at each certification level — from first credentials for new team members through expert and specialty tracks.
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Certification tier
Tier 1 — Entry Certifications
First credentials for new team members and cross-trained roles — the on-ramp before vendor specialization.
Entry
Cloud Digital Leader Certification
This Google Cloud Digital Leader certification course helps you learn how cloud technology revolutionizes business. You'll dive deep into digital transformation, data management with BigQuery, and AI solutions like Vertex AI. You'll also gain a deep understanding of the shared responsibility model and cloud cost-management. This course prepares you to lead your organization’s modern, sustainable cloud strategy with confidence, and includes unlimited Google Cloud Digital Leader practice exams.
Shawn Powers
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Certification tier
Tier 2 — Associate Certifications
Core role credentials — the level most teams standardize on for day-to-day operations.
Associate
Google ACE
This entry-level Google Associate Cloud Engineer training equips you with the skills to deploy, manage, and secure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources — ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. Learn how to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot GCP, making you a valuable asset to any organization leveraging cloud technology. This Google Cloud training can be used to onboard new cloud admins, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a Google Cloud reference resource.
Shawn Powers
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Newest Releases
The latest Google Cloud training added to the catalog — new courses land here within a day of publication.
Hands-on Google Cloud practice
Human-led training is the point: engineers practice real skills with expert guidance, not just video playback.
Why CBT Nuggets
How CBT Nuggets is different for Google Cloud teams
The platform features IT directors comparing training platforms ask about most often.
Taught by IT professionals
Google Cloud training your team learns from
Built and taught by engineers with decades of experience running real-world IT infrastructure — not crowdsourced contributors.
Scott Pletcher
Cloud Computing & Cloud Security
Trevor Sullivan
DevOps & Cloud Engineering
Team outcome
Faster ramp for new hires
Curated playlists and team assignments make onboarding repeatable instead of relying on ad hoc shadowing and tribal knowledge.
What the team gets: Scale your team, backfill a role, or standardize skills across distributed engineers.
Frequently asked questions about Google Cloud training
Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Google Cloud training for their team.
Who on our team should take each Google Cloud course?
Google Cloud Digital Leader suits IT Directors, Team Leads, business stakeholders, and IT professionals who are new to cloud, and it requires no coding. Google Associate Cloud Engineer is intermediate-level and fits cloud admins and professionals with about a year of cloud exposure who will manage GCP resources hands-on.
Which Google Cloud certifications does this training align to?
The two live courses align to the Google Cloud Digital Leader and Google Associate Cloud Engineer certifications. Google issues the certifications; CBT Nuggets prepares your team for them.
What order should a Training Manager assign the courses in?
Assign Cloud Digital Leader across the wider team first so everyone shares a vocabulary for computing models, migration approaches, data and AI use cases, and cost governance. Then assign Associate Cloud Engineer to the people who will create projects, set up Cloud Identity, deploy VMs and Kubernetes clusters, and configure firewalls.
How much time should we budget per learner?
Cloud Digital Leader takes about 13 hours across 16 skills, and most skills run under an hour, so it fits around production schedules. Associate Cloud Engineer goes deeper into daily operations and is best scheduled once the shared baseline is in place.
How does this training lower risk during a Google Cloud migration?
Associate Cloud Engineer addresses common early mistakes: misconfigured IAM and service accounts, overlapping VPC subnets, unmanaged billing, and Kubernetes clusters deployed before anyone understands them. It also covers logging, monitoring, and alerting so admins can spot problems before they become outages.
Can non-technical stakeholders take part in our cloud training plan?
Yes. Cloud Digital Leader is built for mixed teams and covers cloud strategy, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cost tradeoffs, BigQuery and Cloud Spanner use cases, Vertex AI and AutoML opportunities, and the security and regulatory considerations that shape cloud decisions, all without coding.
How can managers track completion for onboarding and audits?
Team reporting shows per-learner progress and completion with cohort and group views, so managers can confirm who has finished each Google Cloud course. Completion exports provide audit evidence that the people handling IAM, networking, and cost controls completed their assigned training.