Google Cloud Certification list, benefits and salary

Google has evolved as one of the top players in Cloud Computing technology along with Amazon and Microsoft. Google Cloud is renowned for its analytics, machine learning, and cloud-native applications. There is an increasing demand for professionals with Google Cloud knowledge as more and more companies are using Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Certifications validates your knowledge on the Google Cloud Platform. Google offers four such certifications to evaluate and assess yourself.

Professional Cloud Developer

Googles newest certification is Professional Cloud Designer and is still a beta. This is intended for people who work on building scalable, highly available applications and tools to manage cloud services. Assess your ability in designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications, build and test applications, deploy applications, integrate Google Cloud Platform services and manage application performance monitoring.
Exam duration: 4 hours
Registration fee: $120 USD
Salary: The average annual pay for a Cloud Developer in U.S. is $130,909 USD while the range may vary from $86,500 to $207,500.

Associate Cloud Engineer

Associate Cloud Engineer is the basic cloud certification offered by Google. An Associate Cloud Engineer is the person who deploys applications, monitors operations, and manage enterprise solutions. The engineer performs platform-based tasks in the command-line interface to leverage Google-managed services.
Exam duration: 2 hours
Registration fee: $125 USD
Salary: The average annual pay for a Cloud Developer in U.S. is $126,094 USD while the range may vary from $67,500 to $177,500.

Professional Cloud Architect

A Professional Cloud Architect is an integral part of an organization in leveraging Google Cloud technologies. The Cloud Architect likely to design, develop, and manage robust, scalable, secure, dynamic and highly available cloud solutions to suit business requirements.
Exam duration: 2 hours
Registration fee: $200 USD
Salary: The average annual pay for a Cloud Developer in U.S. is $152,102 USD while the range may vary from $89,500 to $221,500.

Professional Data Engineer

A Professional Data Engineer is someone who takes business decisions/finds solutions by collecting, transforming and analyzing data. Data Engineer builds and maintain data structures, design data processing systems, analyze data, make reports out of the data and optimize business processes. He analyzes the data to get insight into business outcomes, build business strategies, better visual reports to aid decision-making and create machine learning models.
Exam duration: 2 hours
Registration fee: $200 USD
Salary: The is $130,964 USD while the range may vary from $49,000 to $250,000.