A 4-week journey to master your role with AI-powered tools and strategic workflows.
This roadmap integrates the core topics of the certification. To pass the exam within your first month, focus on the weekly learning goals below.
Goal: Set the tone, create initial excitement, and preload key resources.
| Activity | Tool | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🧠 My AI Command Center | NotebookLM | Learn how to centralize and query role-specific documents. Set up a personal knowledge hub. |
| 💌 Welcome Email & Avatar Sprint | Gemini (Chat + Image) | Practice prompting to create a fun intro email and Material 3–style avatar. |
Goal: Understand the landscape, define your trajectory, and absorb cloud/domain knowledge.
Understand core concepts of AI, ML, foundation models, and prompt engineering.
| Activity | Tool | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🎓 Gen-AI Leader Study Guide | NotebookLM | Leverage Audio Summaries, Question Generation, and Flashcards to create a simple study guide for the Gen-AI Leader certification |
| 🗺️ 30–60–90 Plan on a Page | Gemini + Docs | Learn to convert role inputs into a concise onboarding roadmap. |
| 📚 Cloud Glossary + Flashcards | Gemini | Learn how to leverage Gemini 2.5 Pro to create a simple HTML page that serves as a glossary for cloud terms |
Goal: Build systems for outbound communication, ongoing learning, and task summaries.
Learn Google's offerings like Vertex AI, Gemini, and NotebookLM and how they enable AI solutions.
| Activity | Tool | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 💎 Gemini Email Gem | Gems | Leverage your sent emails to create a simple email gem that can be used to send emails that sound just like you |
| 📝 Weekly Updates Gem | Gems | Learn to translate raw notes into clean Markdown and TL;DR summaries with structure. |
| 📊 Live Status Column | Sheets + Gemini | Learn to embed AI formulas in Sheets. Auto-generate task status. |
| 🤖 Research-Bot Builder | NotebookLM & Gemini | Leverage Gemini to source information rich content from the web, and then use NotebookLM to fast track learning |
Goal: Explore tools for dashboards, experimentation, and app-building from spreadsheets.
Articulate how Gen AI can transform business functions and how to build a successful strategy.
| Activity | Tool | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 📈 Channel Effectiveness Page | Manus / Genspark | Get first hand experience with Agentic AI, crafting the right prompt to generate insightful dashboards on public data |
| 📱 Spreadsheet-to-Mini-App | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Learn to convert spreadsheet data into a simple app for better searchability & actionability |
| 🌡️ Creative-Temperature Test | GenAI Studio | Learn how temperature affects AI output. Run tone experiments. |
Goal: Cement what you’ve learned and explore multi-modal knowledge reuse.
Recognize best practices for implementing secure, responsible, and transformational AI solutions.
| Activity | Tool | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ✍️ Cloud Copywriting Gem | Gems | Leverage existing gems, tailored to your usecase to create marketing ready copy in minutes |
| 📄 Google Docs Smart Summary | @AIsummary (Google Docs) | Learn to quickly summarize long documents in-place using @AIsummary |
| 🎧 Audio Summary Generator | Gemini + Text-to-Speech | Learn to convert key points into a 1-minute audio clip using Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| 🔮 Future: Audio Summary | (Upcoming Docs Feature) | Will enable users to generate narrated summaries directly within Docs. |