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<!DOCTYPE FL_Course SYSTEM "https://www.flane.de/dtd/fl_course095.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://portal.flane.ch/css/xml-course.xsl"?><course productid="36078" language="en" source="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-course/google-gcpmle" lastchanged="2025-07-29T12:18:45+02:00" parent="https://portal.flane.ch/swisscom/en/xml-courses"><title>Preparing for Professional Machine Learning Engineer</title><productcode>GCPMLE</productcode><vendorcode>GO</vendorcode><vendorname>Google</vendorname><fullproductcode>GO-GCPMLE</fullproductcode><version>1.0</version><objective>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;List the domains covered on the Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE) certification exam.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify resources and learning assets available to develop your knowledge and skills.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Create a study plan to prepare for the PMLE certification exam.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</objective><audience>&lt;p&gt;Googlers, partners, and customers&lt;/p&gt;</audience><contents>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introduction&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Architecting low-code AI solutions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Collaborating within and across teams to manage data and models&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Scaling prototypes into ML models&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Serving ML models&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Automating and orchestrating ML pipelines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Monitoring ML Solutions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Your next steps&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</contents><outline>&lt;h5&gt;Module 01 Architecting low-code AI solutions&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ira needs to understand customer segments using BigQuery and a clustering model.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sasha needs to predict customer value using AutoML Cymbal Retail&amp;rsquo;s customer dataset.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Taylor needs to build a conversational AI assistant for customers using Vertex AI Agent Builder and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Review and study planning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify your level of knowledge in developing and implementing BigQuery ML and AutoML machine learning solutions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to select appropriate ML APIs, prepare data effectively, and build custom models using AutoML.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 02 Collaborating within and across teams to manage data and models&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use Google Cloud&amp;#039;s products and Cymbal Retail&amp;#039;s rich data to design a model to predict which high-value customers are likely to stop purchasing (also known as customer churn).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Answer diagnostic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Review the information and plan your study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify your level of knowledge in exploring, preprocessing, and managing organization-wide data.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify your level of knowledge in addressing privacy implications and leveraging tools like Vertex AI Feature Store.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to prototype models using Jupyter notebooks on Google Cloud.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to select appropriate backends, implement security best practices, and integrate with code repositories.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 03 Scaling prototypes into ML models&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use Google Cloud&amp;#039;s products and Cymbal Retail&amp;#039;s rich data to build and scale customer churn prototype into a production-ready model&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Answer diagnostic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Review the information and plan your study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify your level of knowledge in scaling ML prototypes into production-ready models&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify your level of knowledge in selecting appropriate ML frameworks, model architectures, and modeling techniques based on interpretability requirements.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to train models effectively, including organizing and ingesting training data on Google Cloud.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skill needed to utilize distributed training techniques, perform hyperparameter tuning, and troubleshoot training failures.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 04 Serving ML models&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use Google Cloud&amp;#039;s products and Cymbal Retail&amp;#039;s rich data to deploy a customer churn model and use it in production for inference.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Answer diagnostic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Review the information and plan your study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the level of knowledge needed to effectively serve models in production.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the level of knowledge needed to select between batch and online inference, utilize various serving frameworks, organize a model registry, and conduct A/B testing for model optimization.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to scale online model serving, including leveraging Vertex AI Feature Store.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to manage public and private endpoints, choose appropriate hardware, optimize serving backends for throughput, and fine-tune models for optimal performance in production.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 05 Automating and orchestrating ML pipelines&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use Google Cloud&amp;rsquo;s products to orchestrate the entire machine learning pipeline for seamless execution and continuous improvement with customer churn.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Answer diagnostic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Review the information and plan your study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the level of knowledge needed to develop and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the level of knowledge needed to validate data and model, consistent preprocessing, hosting options, component identification, parameterization, triggering mechanisms, compute needs, orchestration strategies.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to automate model retraining, including establishing retraining policies.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to implement CI/CD model deployment, and track and audit metadata (model artifacts, versions, data lineage).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 06 Monitoring ML Solutions&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Use Google Cloud&amp;rsquo;s products to ensure the customer churn model remains robust, reliable, and aligned with Google&amp;rsquo;s Responsible AI principles.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Answer diagnostic questions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Review the information and plan your study.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Identify the level of knowledge needed to assess and mitigate risks in ML solutions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify the level of knowledge needed to build secure ML systems, align with responsible AI practices, evaluate solution readiness, and utilize model explainability on Vertex AI.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to monitor, test, and troubleshoot ML solutions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Determine the skills needed to establish continuous evaluation metrics, monitor for training-serving skew and feature drift, compare model performance against baselines, and investigate common training and serving errors.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lecture&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diagnostic questions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quiz&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h5&gt;Module 07 Your next steps&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Topics&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A sample study plan for the exam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to register for the exam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Objectives&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Review a sample study plan for the exam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Learn how to register for the exam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h6&gt;Activities&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create your study plan for the exam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Identify a date to take the exam based upon your plan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Register for the exam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</outline><objective_plain>- List the domains covered on the Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE) certification exam.
- Identify gaps in your knowledge and skills for each domain.
- Identify resources and learning assets available to develop your knowledge and skills.
- Create a study plan to prepare for the PMLE certification exam.</objective_plain><audience_plain>Googlers, partners, and customers</audience_plain><contents_plain>- Introduction
- Architecting low-code AI solutions
- Collaborating within and across teams to manage data and models
- Scaling prototypes into ML models
- Serving ML models
- Automating and orchestrating ML pipelines
- Monitoring ML Solutions
- Your next steps</contents_plain><outline_plain>Module 01 Architecting low-code AI solutions

Topics


- Ira needs to understand customer segments using BigQuery and a clustering model.
- Sasha needs to predict customer value using AutoML Cymbal Retail’s customer dataset.
- Taylor needs to build a conversational AI assistant for customers using Vertex AI Agent Builder and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Diagnostic questions
- Review and study planning
Objectives


- Identify your level of knowledge in developing and implementing BigQuery ML and AutoML machine learning solutions.
- Determine the skills needed to select appropriate ML APIs, prepare data effectively, and build custom models using AutoML.
Activities


- Lecture
- Diagnostic questions
- Quiz
Module 02 Collaborating within and across teams to manage data and models

Topics


- Use Google Cloud's products and Cymbal Retail's rich data to design a model to predict which high-value customers are likely to stop purchasing (also known as customer churn).
- Answer diagnostic questions.
- Review the information and plan your study.
Objectives


- Identify your level of knowledge in exploring, preprocessing, and managing organization-wide data.
- Identify your level of knowledge in addressing privacy implications and leveraging tools like Vertex AI Feature Store.
- Determine the skills needed to prototype models using Jupyter notebooks on Google Cloud.
- Determine the skills needed to select appropriate backends, implement security best practices, and integrate with code repositories.
Activities


- Lecture
- Diagnostic questions
- Quiz
Module 03 Scaling prototypes into ML models

Topics


- Use Google Cloud's products and Cymbal Retail's rich data to build and scale customer churn prototype into a production-ready model
- Answer diagnostic questions.
- Review the information and plan your study.
Objectives


- Identify your level of knowledge in scaling ML prototypes into production-ready models
- Identify your level of knowledge in selecting appropriate ML frameworks, model architectures, and modeling techniques based on interpretability requirements.
- Determine the skills needed to train models effectively, including organizing and ingesting training data on Google Cloud.
- Determine the skill needed to utilize distributed training techniques, perform hyperparameter tuning, and troubleshoot training failures.
Activities


- Lecture
- Diagnostic questions
- Quiz
Module 04 Serving ML models

Topics


- Use Google Cloud's products and Cymbal Retail's rich data to deploy a customer churn model and use it in production for inference.
- Answer diagnostic questions.
- Review the information and plan your study.
Objectives


- Identify the level of knowledge needed to effectively serve models in production.
- Identify the level of knowledge needed to select between batch and online inference, utilize various serving frameworks, organize a model registry, and conduct A/B testing for model optimization.
- Determine the skills needed to scale online model serving, including leveraging Vertex AI Feature Store.
- Determine the skills needed to manage public and private endpoints, choose appropriate hardware, optimize serving backends for throughput, and fine-tune models for optimal performance in production.
Activities


- Lecture
- Diagnostic questions
- Quiz
Module 05 Automating and orchestrating ML pipelines

Topics


- Use Google Cloud’s products to orchestrate the entire machine learning pipeline for seamless execution and continuous improvement with customer churn.
- Answer diagnostic questions.
- Review the information and plan your study.
Objectives


- Identify the level of knowledge needed to develop and maintain end-to-end ML pipelines.
- Identify the level of knowledge needed to validate data and model, consistent preprocessing, hosting options, component identification, parameterization, triggering mechanisms, compute needs, orchestration strategies.
- Determine the skills needed to automate model retraining, including establishing retraining policies.
- Determine the skills needed to implement CI/CD model deployment, and track and audit metadata (model artifacts, versions, data lineage).
Activities


- Lecture
- Diagnostic questions
- Quiz
Module 06 Monitoring ML Solutions

Topics


- Use Google Cloud’s products to ensure the customer churn model remains robust, reliable, and aligned with Google’s Responsible AI principles.
- Answer diagnostic questions.
- Review the information and plan your study.
Objectives


- Identify the level of knowledge needed to assess and mitigate risks in ML solutions.
- Identify the level of knowledge needed to build secure ML systems, align with responsible AI practices, evaluate solution readiness, and utilize model explainability on Vertex AI.
- Determine the skills needed to monitor, test, and troubleshoot ML solutions.
- Determine the skills needed to establish continuous evaluation metrics, monitor for training-serving skew and feature drift, compare model performance against baselines, and investigate common training and serving errors.
Activities


- Lecture
- Diagnostic questions
- Quiz
Module 07 Your next steps

Topics


- A sample study plan for the exam
- How to register for the exam
Objectives


- Review a sample study plan for the exam
- Learn how to register for the exam
Activities


- Create your study plan for the exam
- Identify a date to take the exam based upon your plan
- Register for the exam</outline_plain><duration unit="d" days="1">1 day</duration><pricelist><price country="DE" currency="EUR">650.00</price><price country="AT" currency="EUR">650.00</price><price country="SE" currency="EUR">650.00</price><price country="SI" currency="EUR">650.00</price><price country="FR" currency="EUR">790.00</price><price country="IT" currency="EUR">650.00</price><price country="CH" currency="CHF">650.00</price></pricelist><miles/></course>