GCP Professional ML Engineer Certification Study Notes

BigQuery ML

• CREATE MODEL directly in BigQuery using SQL — no data export required
• Supported model types: LINEAR_REG, LOGISTIC_REG, KMEANS, MATRIX_FACTORIZATION, BOOSTED_TREE_CLASSIFIER, AUTOML_CLASSIFIER, DNN_CLASSIFIER
• ML.PREDICT for batch inference on BigQuery tables
• ML.EVALUATE to compute model metrics
• Ideal when data already lives in BigQuery and team has SQL expertise

Vertex AI AutoML

• AutoML Tabular (classification, regression), Image, Text, Video
• No custom training code — upload dataset, configure target, train
• Uses Neural Architecture Search under the hood
• Export to TFLite, Edge TPU, TF SavedModel, or deploy to Vertex AI Endpoint

Pre-Built APIs (No Training)