Google Professional Coursera Certificates

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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.

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.