Certification Readiness Offer for Cloud Learn Attendees

[magdaj]

Hello Cloud Learn Attendees! Are you ready to start preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer or the Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification exams? We have great news for you!

We are introducing brand new Preparing for Your certification journey instructor-led training courses for the Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification tracks. As a Cloud Learn attendee you have an exclusive opportunity to attend either course free of charge. First come first served since the spots are limited.

Anyone who attends the training and completes all of the relevant Skill Badges will be eligible to receive the certification exam voucher free of charge! 

Now accepting signups. First come, first serve, limited seats available. Please register for only ONE of the classes listed below.

Region	Date	Class	Time	Registration Link
EMEA	Dec 13th	Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey	09:00-17:00 CET	Registration Link
EMEA	Dec 14th	Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey	09:00-17:00 CET	Registration Link
JAPAC	Dec 20th	Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey	08:30-16:30 IST	Registration Link
JAPAC	Dec 21st	Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey	08:30-16:30 IST	Registration Link
AMER	Dec 20th	Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey	09:00-17:00 CST	Registration Link
AMER	Dec 21st	Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey	09:00-17:00 CST	Registration Link

[danielfootc]

Yes they are still available. Suggest that you quickly download the materials before they are removed. Just a thought.

[ChiranjeeviV]

Now, I'll download. 

[Biswaranjan]

Hi Daniel,

It seems the course materials are no longer available. If you have downloaded, can you please share with me ?

[ChiranjeeviV]

Hi Biswaranjan, check the link https://googlecloud.qwiklabs.com/classrooms/11907/notes/

[Srinivasa_R]

FYI. getting access denied error while accessing the above url. 

[ChiranjeeviV]

Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey

[ChiranjeeviV]

Hi Srinivasa, not sure. Still It's working for me. Have you attended the session because it's accessible only for those who attended.

[Biswaranjan]

Thank you Chiranjeevi,

Do you have the link for ACE materials as well ?

[ChiranjeeviV]

No Biswaranjan

[Srinivasa_R]

any sessions for GCP Cloud Digital Leader / Professional Cloud Architect?

[danielfootc]

For digital leader you can try signing up in the link below. There's
another event on this couple of weeks back.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0paVe0SE0NeyVGwkWW0_5hGXXu2dr4cSd4s55Qlp5T8NvrA/viewform

There's no cloud architect cert offer this time round.

[Srinivasa_R]

Hi Daniel, It seems, there are no active registrations available for this. The session was held on 14th Dec 2021

[danielfootc]

I believe you can complete these four courses on your own online before a certain deadline(I think its end Jan 22). Understand these are free of cost. You just need to have Cloud Skills Boost Account(which is similar to Qwiklabs Account). You can sign up for the next session on 11th Jan (refer to the form for details). Once all the four courses are completed. Then, you should receive the $99 voucher to do the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam. Good luck.

[Srinivasa_R]

ok. Thank you Daniel. It seems, this one is for students. I will check it in next time registrations/fresh registrations.

[huu-nguyenm]

Hi Daniel,

I have not joined the Speaker Series info session on 02-Dec-2021, and did not attend kickoff certification info session. Yesterday, I have signed up by using your link above. To be eligible to receive $99 voucher, do I need to attend the next sessions in Jan-2022? Or only need to complete four courses as mentioned? Please advise

Thanks, Huu

[zoogler]

Hello are there plans to have more of these events soon?

[GeorgieB]

Hi! Does anyone have the quicklabs link to the Associate Cloud Engineer class?

[glen_yu]

If you check out the ACE Learning Path from the Google cert pages, they usually have a recommended set of courses and Qwiklabs to take that will help you prepare for it.

[GeorgieB]

Thank you very much Glen! Have a happy new year!

[kameshsingal]

Hey there,

Are there any sessions planned for cloud digital leader certifications as well? If so, can you please share details.

Thanks !

[ahmedtm01]

I have already completed the Quests (few months ago) which are required for free exam voucher. Now, do i have to take them again to get the exam voucher?

[Amitesh]

Imho, there is no harm is doing the Quests again. It will help you to revise the concepts. I had the same situation and I have completed the quests again. Also the instructors have suggested the same during the exam prep training.

[TuckWai]

Yeah, I also have the same doubt. I already asked Qwiklabs support, but the answer they gave is quite vague, but they mentioned about redeem the code first, I am not sure I am still eligible for it because I completed the quests prior to this event and I attended the whole session on Dec 20. Hope that it can be resolved, because it is quite discouraging if account with completed quests is not eligible for this campaign.

[Amitesh]

Even though I have completed the Quests again, the completion date did not change. So I am not sure how the concerned team is going to track who has completed the quests. 

@magdaj  Can you help us to clear the confusion here? 

[Kamelee]

Hey, it looks like I failed to activate Subscriptions and credits from the bit.ly/get-gcp-certified link for Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey on Dec 20th and Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey Dec 21st, is there any way to activate the lab for me?

[Amitesh]

If you are still looking for an option to get free learning credits, you can try   https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/cloud-learning-paths-22/register.html 

[smraider]

The quests for the PCNE are asking me for credits even though I entered the code to get the free training on the bit.ly link. I thought registering there would provide us the necessary credits for the free training.  Am I missing something?

[Amitesh]

If you are still looking for an option to get free learning credits, you can try   https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/cloud-learning-paths-22/register.html 

Google is taking all their efforts to provide training to everyone. We just need to look for such wonderful opportunities and grab it. 

[mplibunao]

Has anybody received their free voucher yet? 😁

Feeling anxious about not getting mine because during the training with the instructor, my account didn't initially have access to the lab and the instructor had to manually add my email.

Anyway, hoping to get it soon

[vchandra]

No, Not yet. Even i am waiting..

[Lukasz_K]

Have You (or anybody) received a voucher already? First week of February has passed and I haven't got mine...

[ahmedtm01]

not yet😑

[Lukasz_K]

I have a similar problem to you - I finished required badges before the course started. I've written a ticket to support yesterday, but still don't have any reply. Have you received your voucher finally? Do you have any info?

[Blitzer]

Hi Łukasz, I have completed the badges after the course and I'm also waiting for voucher. As far as I remember few people asked the same question during the training and the answer was that badges finished before the training will be also counted. 

[Biswaranjan]

Does anyone know, whom to reach out for the free exam vouchers ? The 2nd week of Feb is almost coming to an end !!

[Lukasz_K]

Support directed me to partnerkickstart.support@google.com, but they responded that they aren't responsible for our program and I have to wait few days for the answer from some mysterious another team. I've been waiting for 3 days - still no message... 

[self_babush]

I tried reaching cloud-training-ops@google.com  a couple of times,  but  no response . Maybe that wasn't the right channel. But then again there is no communication /updates from the group responsible for  the program.  Its pretty disappointing to see such bureaucratic traits  being manifested .

[jazzdup]

Same boat. I did receive a response from cloud-training-ops but it was only to cc-in 3 other people @Google by name... who didn't respond. I messaged them directly today  and currently waiting for a reply.

[Lukasz_K]

Let us know in case of any reply. I'm also trying to reach them every possible way, but still without effect

[vchandra]

I did receive my voucher codes last week. Either to wait or yours didn’t get tracked correctly (attendance or quests)