Google Professional Coursera Certificates

Information
This page contains information about the content of the Google Professional certificates. For links to the certificates plus information regarding possible credit equivalencies, see the Coursera page.

Data Analytics
This certificate is composed of the following 8 courses:
 * Foundations: Data, Data, Everywhere
 * Ask questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions
 * Prepare Data for Exploration
 * Process Data from Dirty to Clean
 * Analyze Data to Answer Questions
 * Share Data Through the Art of Visualization
 * Data Analysis with R Programming
 * Data Analytics Capstone: Complete a Case Study

IT Support Professional
Most of the contents in this certificate are very basic. Students with minor prior knowledge of technology have reported being able to obtain the certificate in one month or less. This certificate contains the following 5 courses:
 * Technical Support Fundamentals
 * The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking
 * Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User
 * System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services
 * IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts

Each course has multiple quizzes based on the videos in the course. There are also hands-on "labs" where the student must successfully complete various computer-related tasks on a remote computer based on a list of instructions. Early labs may be as simple as "create a folder" or "install Firefox", while later labs have more steps and become more complicated because of this.

Project Management
This certificate contains the following 6 courses:
 * Foundations of Project Management
 * Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project
 * Project Planning: Putting It All Together
 * Project Execution: Running the Project
 * Agile Project Management
 * Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World

UX Design
This certificate contains the following 7 courses:
 * Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design
 * Start the UX Design Process: Empathize, Define, and Ideate
 * Build Wireframes and Low-Fidelity Prototypes
 * Conduct UX Research and Test Early Concepts
 * Create High-Fidelity Designs and Prototypes in Figma
 * Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD
 * Design a User Experience for Social Good & Prepare for Jobs

This course relies heavily on peer graded assignments. You will have to complete 3 case studies, two mobile app designs, and two websites using Figma.com and Adobe XD. You'll then need to create a professional portfolio that includes your case studies and lastly, you'll be required to create a real website with a web based version of your portfolio on one of several hosting services like Wix.com.

Overall, nothing in the course is very hard and you are walked through step by step how to complete each item as it is intended for beginners with no experience, but it is not a course you can speed through all that much. It took nearly a full two weeks to complete the course dedicating 15-20 hours per week.

Tip: for the final website version of your portfolio, you may want to simply screenshot each powerpoint slide from your case studies and add them as a series of pictures to each case study page on the website. This will satisfy all elements of the rubric for that portion.