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Professional Machine Learning Engineer Certification Learning Path

A Machine Learning Engineer designs, builds, productionizes, optimizes, operates, and maintains ML systems.

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This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the ML Engineer role. Once you complete the path, check out the Google Cloud Machine Learning Engineer certification to take the next steps in your professional journey.

You can follow this learning path at your own pace but other learning options are available which give you the opportunity to earn a no-cost certification exam voucher. If you’re interested in a hybrid learning approach visit Partner Certification Academy

The upcoming version of the Professional Machine Learning Engineer exam launching on October 1 will cover tasks related to generative AI, including building AI solutions using Model Garden and Vertex AI Agent Builder, and evaluating generative AI solutions. Here are some courses to help you prepare Generative AI for Business Leaders and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
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01

Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud

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access_time 8 hours
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This course introduces the AI and machine learning (ML) offerings on Google Cloud that build both predictive and generative AI projects. It explores the technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI life cycle, encompassing AI foundations, development, and solutions....

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Launching into Machine Learning

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access_time 17 hours
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The course begins with a discussion about data: how to improve data quality and perform exploratory data analysis. We describe Vertex AI AutoML and how to build, train, and deploy an ML model without writing a single line of code....

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Build, Train and Deploy ML Models with Keras on Google Cloud

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access_time 15 hours 30 minutes
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This course covers building ML models with TensorFlow and Keras, improving the accuracy of ML models and writing ML models for scaled use.

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Feature Engineering

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access_time 24 hours
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This course explores the benefits of using Vertex AI Feature Store, how to improve the accuracy of ML models, and how to find which data columns make the most useful features. This course also includes content and labs on feature...

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05

Machine Learning in the Enterprise

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access_time 32 hours
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This course takes a real-world approach to the ML Workflow through a case study. An ML team faces several ML business requirements and use cases. The team must understand the tools required for data management and governance and consider the...

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Production Machine Learning Systems

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access_time 16 hours
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This course covers how to implement the various flavors of production ML systems— static, dynamic, and continuous training; static and dynamic inference; and batch and online processing. You delve into TensorFlow abstraction levels, the various options for doing distributed training,...

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Computer Vision Fundamentals with Google Cloud

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access_time 8 hours
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This course describes different types of computer vision use cases and then highlights different machine learning strategies for solving these use cases. The strategies vary from experimenting with pre-built ML models through pre-built ML APIs and AutoML Vision to building...

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Natural Language Processing on Google Cloud

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access_time 8 hours
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This course introduces the products and solutions to solve NLP problems on Google Cloud. Additionally, it explores the processes, techniques, and tools to develop an NLP project with neural networks by using Vertex AI and TensorFlow.

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Recommendation Systems on Google Cloud

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access_time 8 hours
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In this course, you apply your knowledge of classification models and embeddings to build a ML pipeline that functions as a recommendation engine. This is the fifth and final course of the Advanced Machine Learning on Google Cloud series.

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Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started

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access_time 8 hours
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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine...

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Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Manage Features

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access_time 8 hours
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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Learners...

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ML Pipelines on Google Cloud

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access_time 2 hours 15 minutes
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In this course, you will be learning from ML Engineers and Trainers who work with the state-of-the-art development of ML pipelines here at Google Cloud. The first few modules will cover about TensorFlow Extended (or TFX), which is Google’s production...

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Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud

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access_time 6 hours 30 minutes
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and...

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Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI

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access_time 8 hours 15 minutes
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions with Vertex AI course, where you will learn how to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, AutoML, and custom training services to train, evaluate, tune, explain,...

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