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Google Cloud Digital Leader

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 exam​s.

Shawn PowersCloud Computing & Linux

Updated July 2024

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Who This Course Is For

This course is designed for business professionals and aspiring leaders who need to understand how Google Cloud drives digital transformation without diving deep into technical coding.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Explaining how cloud technology revolutionizes business operations and drives digital transformation
  • Evaluating data management solutions like BigQuery and Cloud Spanner for various business cases
  • Identifying AI and machine learning opportunities to create value through Vertex AI and AutoML
  • Applying cloud computing models like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS to optimize total cost of ownership
  • Implementing trust and security principles to protect data and maintain regulatory compliance
  • Managing financial governance and operational excellence using Google Cloud’s cost-control tools

Course Curriculum

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AI and ML Fundamentals

Shawn PowersDuration: 52m14 videos

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  • Premium skill.Why Cloud Technology is Transforming Business53m · 12 videos
  • Premium skill.Fundamental Cloud Concepts1h 12m · 16 videos
  • Premium skill.Cloud Computing Models and Shared Responsibility46m · 12 videos
  • Premium skill.The Role of Data in Digital Transformation46m · 12 videos
  • Premium skill.Data Consolidation and Analytics46m · 16 videos
  • AI and ML FundamentalsFree52m · 14 videos
  • Premium skill.Google Cloud's AI and ML Solutions47m · 17 videos
  • Premium skill.Cloud Migration Terms and Methodologies45m · 11 videos
  • Premium skill.Modernizing Infrastructure in the Google Cloud49m · 13 videos
  • Premium skill.Modernizing Applications in the Google Cloud48m · 13 videos
  • Premium skill.Trust and Security in the Cloud54m · 15 videos
  • Premium skill.Google's Trust Infrastructure51m · 13 videos
  • Premium skill.Google Cloud's Trust Principles and Compliance46m · 12 videos
  • Premium skill.Financial Governance and Managing Cloud Costs48m · 11 videos
  • Premium skill.Operational Excellence and Reliability at Scale49m · 9 videos
  • Premium skill.Sustainability with Google Cloud45m · 9 videos
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Certification

Google Cloud Digital Leader

The Cloud Digital Leader certification validates the ability to articulate the capabilities of Google Cloud core products and services and explain how they benefit organizations. It is intended for anyone who wants to demonstrate knowledge of cloud c...

Exam CDLLevel Entry-LevelDifficulty BeginnerCost $99
Digital transformation with Google CloudExploring data transformation with Google CloudInnovating with Google Cloud artificial intelligenceModernizing infrastructure and applications with Google CloudTrust and security with Google CloudScaling with Google Cloud operations
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For IT leaders

What IT leaders need to know before assigning this course

Cloud adoption creates business pressure before every team is ready to evaluate services, risks, migration options, and cost tradeoffs in a shared language. IT Directors can assign this beginner Google Cloud Digital Leader training to DevOps, cloud-adjacent IT Practitioners, Team Leads, and technical stakeholders who need to explain Google Cloud capabilities without going deep into implementation. The course is a realistic onboarding investment: about 13 hours and 17 minutes per learner across cloud concepts, shared responsibility, data and AI, migration, modernization, security, compliance, cost governance, reliability, and sustainability. It also supports change management by helping teams identify skill gaps during cloud planning and connect training needs to vendor selection and migration readiness. CBT Nuggets Playlists can help Training Managers sequence this course for cloud onboarding, while Team Reporting helps IT leaders track completion and readiness across assigned learners.

Team Impact

How this training helps your team succeed

IT teams complete this training to make better cloud decisions before projects become expensive or risky. The course connects Google Cloud concepts to real planning scenarios, including migration readiness, vendor evaluation, data consolidation, AI/ML opportunities, trust, compliance, and cost governance.

  • Improve cloud planning conversations: Teams learn common terms for cloud models, shared responsibility, migration, infrastructure modernization, and application modernization.
  • Reduce vendor-selection risk: Training supports SWOT-style skill-gap analysis so leaders can evaluate whether the organization is ready to adopt a service or needs upskilling first.
  • Strengthen governance discussions: Learners cover security, Google Cloud trust principles, compliance, financial governance, cost management, reliability, and sustainability.
  • Align technical and business stakeholders: The course helps entry-level DevOps and cloud-adjacent roles explain how Google Cloud services can support business transformation.

After completion

Capabilities your team walks away with

Knowledge

  • How cloud technology changes business operations and digital transformation planning
  • Core cloud concepts, cloud computing models, and shared responsibility
  • The role of data consolidation, analytics, AI, and ML in modernization initiatives
  • Google Cloud approaches to trust, security, compliance, cost governance, reliability, and sustainability
  • Common terminology for cloud migration, infrastructure modernization, and application modernization

Ability

  • Describe Google Cloud capabilities in business and technical conversations
  • Connect cloud training needs to migration planning and vendor evaluation
  • Explain where data, analytics, AI, and ML may support organizational goals
  • Discuss cloud risks using shared responsibility, trust, compliance, and security concepts
  • Support team readiness for the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification path

Readiness check

Confirm prerequisite knowledge before training begins

A short placement assessment on the CBT Nuggets assessments platform measures whether a learner already has the foundation this course assumes. IT Directors use it to put the right people in the right training — and any learner can take it right now to make sure they'll get full value from day one.

  • Questions generated from this course's own video transcripts — what gets measured is exactly what gets taught
  • Instant, per-learner results that show whether the prerequisite foundation is in place
  • Results roll up into team readiness reporting, so training hours go where they change outcomes
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Google Cloud Digital Leader worth it?

Whether or not the Cloud Digital Leader certification is worth it for you and your career depends on a few things. First, your experience level at work – highly trained and experienced IT professionals won't benefit much from the entry-level cloud certification, but new IT or non-IT professionals will get a lot out of it. Also, it's best for people whose work includes using (or advocating for) cloud technologies to transform business decisions.

How much does the Cloud Digital Leader cost?

It costs $99 to attempt the Cloud Digital Leader exam. Google's Cloud Digital Leader exam is a 90-minute exam with 50-60 multiple choice questions related to digital transformation, Google cloud solutions, infrastructure modernization, and Google Cloud security and operations. There are no prerequisite exams or certs for the Cloud Digital Leader, and it's valid for three years from the date you pass the exam.

How difficult is the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam?

The Google Cloud Digital Leader has a reputation as one of the tougher certification exams for cloud service practitioner credentials. For brand-new IT professionals, or someone with no previous experience with cloud service management, the certification may be quite challenging. On the other hand, if you've worked with multiple cloud service providers before, or have hands-on experience with Google's suite of cloud tools and services, the exam will be mostly familiar territory.

Who should take this Cloud Digital Leader course?

Anyone who needs to quickly learn the Google Cloud suite of tools should take this course on using, managing and administering the Google Cloud. Maybe you're a project manager or administrator whose company is considering jumping into the cloud – you'll need a good understanding of Google's cloud storage and compute tools. Or maybe you're a new IT administrator – experienced with other clouds but never Google. This short course will get you up to speed.

Is this course and the Google Cloud Digital Leader good for beginners?

Yes, this Google Cloud Digital Leader course is excellent for beginners. It starts with non-technical aspects of traditional and cloud networks before exploring specific tools and services in the Google space. For technical and non-technical professionals alike, this course is an excellent way to learn everything you need to make good decisions about using Google Cloud, migrating to the Google Cloud, and planning new capabilities for your business.

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