On-demand activities
Find the right on-demand learning activities for you. Labs are short learning activities that teach you a specific lesson by giving you direct, temporary, hands-on access to real cloud resources. Courses are longer activities, consisting of several modules made of videos, documents, hands-on labs and quizzes. Finally, quests are similar, but are usually shorter and contain only labs.
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Lab Featured APIs Explorer: Cloud SQL
In this lab, you will get hands-on practice with the Cloud SQL API and its associated methods by making calls through the APIs Explorer tool.
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Lab Featured Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Python
In this lab, you learn about Pub/Sub and how to create a topic and subscriber with a Python script, and then publish and view messages. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
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Lab Featured Speech to Text Transcription with the Cloud Speech API
The Cloud Speech API lets you do speech to text transcription from audio files in over 80 languages. In this hands-on lab you’ll record your own audio file and send it to the Speech API for transcription.
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Lab Featured A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs
In this first hands-on lab you will access the Google Cloud console and use these basic Google Cloud features: Projects, Resources, IAM Users, Roles, Permissions, and APIs.
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Lab Featured Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Cloud console. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
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Lab Featured Pub/Sub: Qwik Start - Command Line
This hands-on lab shows you how to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Google Cloud command line. Watch the short video Simplify Event Driven Processing with Cloud Pub/Sub.
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Lab Featured Creating a Persistent Disk
In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to create a persistent disk and use it on a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. You will also learn about zones, regions, and different disk types. Watch the short preview Create a Persistent Disk, GCP Essentials.
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Lab Featured Cloud Storage: Qwik Start - Cloud Console
This hands-on lab shows you how to perform basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the Google Cloud Console. Watch the short video Google Cloud Storage: Massive Scalability Plus More.
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Lab Featured Dataproc: Qwik Start - Command Line
This lab shows you how to create a Dataproc cluster, run a simple Apache Spark job in the cluster, and then modify the number of workers in the cluster using the command line. Watch these short videos, Dataproc: Qwik Start - Qwiklabs Preview and Run Spark and Hadoop Faster with Cloud Dataproc.
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Lab Featured Network Tiers - Optimizing Network Spend
In this lab, you create one VM in the premium network service tier (default) and one VM in the standard network service tier. Then you compare the latency and routes for each VM instance.