Certified Go Language Professional

A Go language is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. To become a successful Go language professional you will be required to have practical as well as technical knowledge. The Vskills Certified Go language Professional will help you get all the required skills and knowledge.

Vskills Certified Go Language Professional

The Vskills Certified Go language Professional is designed for professionals and graduates wanting to excel in their chosen areas. It is also well suited for those who are already working and would like to take certification for further career progression. To add on, earning Vskills Go Language Professional Certification can help candidate differentiate in today’s competitive job market, broaden their employment opportunities by displaying their advanced skills, and result in higher earning potential.

Benefits of the Certification

• Job seekers looking to find employment in web development, or IT departments of various companies, students generally wanting to improve their skill set and make their CV stronger and existing employees looking for a better role can prove their employers the value of their skills through this certification.
• With this certification, you will be able to get job opportunities in big companies such as Google, Flipkart, TCS & Cognizant.

Vskills being India’s largest certification provider gives candidates access to top exams as well as provides after exam benefits. This includes:

• Become a Government Certified Professional.
• The Certification is valid for life.
• Candidates will get lifelong e-learning access.
• Access to free Practice Tests.

Test Details

• Exam Duration: 60 minutes
• Number  of questions: 50
• Maximum marks: 50
• Passing marks: 25 (50%).
• There is NO negative marking in this module
• It is an online examination

Course Outline

The Vskills Certified Go Language Professional covers the following topics:

Introduction

• Welcome to the World of Go!
• How to Write Go Code?
• Let’s Build a Rest API Client in Go!

Building Blocks in Go

• Packages, Variables, and Functions
• Flow Control
• Apply Your New Knowledge – Binary Search Algorithm
• Structs, Slices, and Maps
• Apply Your New Knowledge – Let’s Create a Set

Advanced Go Building Blocks

• Slicing Slices
• Methods and interfaces – Linked List Data Structure Implementation
• Concurrency in Go – goroutines
• Concurrency in Go – Channels
• Concurrency in Go – Select
• Errors and Troubleshooting
• A Tour into Go’s Packages
• Project Hydra –Write the First Piece of the Spaceship Web Server

Object-Oriented Patterns

• A Closer Look at Interfaces and Methods in Go I
• Factory Design Pattern in Go
• The Singleton Pattern
• Builder Pattern in Go

Mastering Go

• Syncs and Locks
• Timers and Tickers
• Channel Generators
• Pipelines –Build the Hydra chat System
• Pipelines – Build the Hydra Chat System (Continued)
• Go Laws of Reflection
• Reflection on Structs and Interfaces
• Hydra – Custom Configuration File Reader

Testing in Go

• Unit Testing in Go
• Benchmarking in Go
• Practices, Cross Compilation, and the Go Tool

Files and Go

• File Handling in Go
• Go and JSON Format
• Go and the XML Format
• Go and CSV Format

Go and Databases

• Go with MySQL
• Go with Mongodb
• Go with BoltDB
• Building Hydra’s Database Interface

Communications in Go

• TCP communication – Clients
• TCP Communication – Servers
• UDP Communications
• Protocol Buffers with Go
• Hydra Protocol Buffer Layer

Web Applications in Go

• Web Server Applications in Go
• Client and RESTful API Application in Go
• Hydra’s RESTful API
• Building the Hydra website – Templates
• Building the Hydra website – Backend
• Hydra Chat Portal
• Web Security

Preparatory Guide for Certified Go Language Professional

Preparing with the right resources is the key to clear any exam. Moreover, you need consistency and determination throughout your journey towards the exam. Further, you must follow a study pattern while learning from authentic and genuine resources. This Preparatory Guide will act as a bridge for your career advancements. Success can be achieved only with the right methodology and determination. Let’s discuss step by step-

Exam Objectives

It is vital to know the exam related details and topics. This will help candidates to easily start preparing for the exam. Also, for the Vskills Certified Go Language Professional, the exam topics to refer to are:

• Introduction
• Building Block in Go
• Advanced Go Building Blocks
• Object-Oriented Patterns
• Mastering Go
• Testing in Go
• Files and Go
• Go and Databases
• Communications in Go
• Web Applications in Go

Vskills E-Learning

For the Vskills Certified Go Language Professional examination, our team has provided online study material. Also, this online material is regularly updated. Furthermore, e-learning is bundled with hard copy material which helps candidates to improve and update the learning curve for superior and better opportunities.

Reference Books

To ease out your hunt for books we have provided a list of books which you can refer to:

• Go Programming Language, The (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan
• Go Programming Language Phrasebook, The (Developer’s Library) by David Chisnall

Evaluate yourself with Practice Test

After studying for the examination, it is important to practice sample papers. Practicing sample papers will help you analyze your weak areas and strengths. Moreover, you will be able to improve your answering skills that will result in saving a lot of time. So, make sure to find the best practice sources. Start preparing and get certified now!