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[Former Community Member]

Dear GCP Team,

Issue resolved.

[Sakeador]

Hello,

I don't think this course is direct copyright infringement, it's just 4 models of possible questions, you can find in Udemy +10K courses similar to it, check it out:

[Former Community Member]

Hi Sakeador, one of my friend took this course and mentioned that he got exactly same questions from this course. He completed his official exam in 25min and passed without much efforts. Around 95%+ questions were exactly same word-by-word along with option sequence. Rest were new. Hence, it's essential to remove such content leaking courses. 

As a proof you can read review comments on it's course page.

[AndrewB]

@carrie can you take a look?

[carrie · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much for providing this information - these courses were flagged by other users as well, and I have reported them to the certification operations team (who will in turn report the infringements directly to Udemy).

I would definitely recommend leveraging the learning paths and content related to each certification at cloud.google.com/certification - most paths can be completed on Google Cloud Skills Boost, but we also have (official and approved) content available on Coursera and Pluralsight that is linked from that page. 

[Sakeador]

Hello @carrie,

Just out of curiosity, how many of the 10,000 courses violate this policy? Because if this is what you're going to do, you're going to have a lot of work at Udemy. And let me ask another question: how many thousands of possible randomized questions are there for the same Associate Cloud Engineer version 2023 exam? Isn't it strange that in just 4 tests of 50 questions you can cover up to 95% of all the possible questions that are created for this test?

Honestly, without intending to offend, I believe that this post has an intention behind it to generate publicity for the course, and I base it on 3 reasons:
1. The profile of the creator of the post is of recent creation, it is only necessary to see how many posts and answers he has previously written to it (none more).
2. The commented course had 503 students yesterday at 11:34 PM on 01-30-2023 and today, after more than 24 hours since this post was published, coincidentally the course has been sold to another 352 new students, in just 24 hours .

3. As I said in my previous post, there are more than 10,000 Associate Cloud Engineer test courses at Udemy and in all of them you can find similar questions copied from the original test, from version 2020 to 2023. What is the point of focusing specifically on this course?

@AndrewB  With all my love, zero hate, I'm writing this to try to help you out. I appreciate your work and all the effort you have invested in the Google Cloud Community since the beginning, which is why I have dedicated my little spare time to writing this answer.

Happy 2023 companions!

[carrie]

Hi Sakeador,

The content on Udemy is not provided by Google Cloud - I am unsure how the course creator captured the questions, or if all of the questions that they have put into their "course" were stolen from the current version of the exam. The Cloud Certification team does run regular content sweeps and reports content that violates the terms and conditions of the program to Udemy - but the certification team does appreciate direct flags here, as it may help them to catch bad content sooner.

As to why the Udemy content is being flagged: it is in direct violation of the exam terms and conditions, specifically this:

3. Confidential Information. The content of the Exam, including questions, answers, or any communication, oral or written, regarding or related to the Exam is Google’s confidential information ("Confidential Information"). You will not disclose or transmit Confidential Information to any other person. You may use Exam content only for the purpose of taking the Exam to demonstrate your knowledge and skill in the content area assessed by the Exam. You may not use Exam content for any other purpose, including publishing, copying, selling, posting, downloading or transmitting any Exam content, in whole or in part, by any means for any purpose.

You can read more about the exam terms and conditions here: https://cloud.google.com/certification/terms

[Sakeador]

Yeah,

I agree with you @carrie . But again,  there are hundred of courses like this in the same situation of direct violation of the exam terms and conditions at Udemy. Just take a look and you will see, it's not the only one. I just wanted to clarify that point.

Just to let you know.

Best regards.

[Sakeador]

I got it!

Thank you very much!!