How many credits to complete a course like Machine Learning Engineer

[xinirnix]

Hello, I want to start the Machine Learning Engineer course. I thought it was free, but I have to buy credits.

Deciding how to proceed by buying a monthly plan or buy credits separately. 

So it would be nice to know how many credits are needed to complete a course like that.

I also see people are sharing credits. How does this work?

Thank you, Klaas Engels

[kc3 · Accepted solution]

I did a quick tally because I am interested in the ML certification myself. It is about 270 credits, for doing each lab once. If you repeat a lab, you pay for that again. Do not buy individual credits for doing the course, that would be a very bad deal. 

Since it will take some time to do the course (200 hours of material), you can start slowly and collect the credits over time. 

1.) Subscribe to the Arcade, they send out credits in a monthly newsletter.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/the-arcade-with-google-cloud-game-helps...

2.) You can also become an innovator which will give you credits for labs.

https://cloud.google.com/innovators

3.) See this post on how to ask for study credits in the forum:

Re: [Read Me] Guidelines for Qwiklabs/Skills Boost... - Google Cloud Community

[xinirnix]

Thank you. Very clear and I followed all steps. Let's start with my first Lab.