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How to prep for the New Google Certified Professional: MLE Exam
Is it the Professional ML Engineer Certification you’re working towards? Then surely — if you’re reading this in late 2023 or early 2024 — it’s hard to come across reliable sources. Why? Because the exam has changed in late November, both in terms of syllabus as well as expectations.
In this article we’ll keep it short and sweet, and dive into:
- What changed
- What stayed the same
- How to best prepare
- Final thoughts from my personal experience after passing my own exam in early December.
Let’s get started!
1. What’s New
The first change is the syllabus itself, albeit not a major one. Make sure you study the new syllabus thoroughly (we’ll get more into that in the how to prep section) and are confident with all the services listed there. There are also ‘tangential’ services that you should know about, but are not listed directly in the syllabus:
- Cloud Data Loss Prevention
- Cloud Data Fusion
- All the newest Google Pre-Trained APIs and AI solutions.
Wait — the last one is mentioned in the syllabus? Yes — however, don’t underestimate the level of knowledge for…









