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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Course Featured Google Cloud Essentials
In this introductory-level Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Google Cloud Essentials is the recommended first Quest for the Google Cloud learner - you will come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you ca…
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Lab Featured Creating a Virtual Machine
In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and understand zones, regions, and machine types. To preview, watch the short video Create a Virtual Machine, GCP Essentials.
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Lab Featured Getting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloud
In this hands-on lab you will learn how to connect to computing resources hosted on Google Cloud Platform, and how to use Cloud Shell and Cloud SDK gcloud commands. For a preview, watch the short video Get Started with Cloud Shell, GCP Essentials.
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Lab Featured Compute Engine: Qwik Start - Windows
Google Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. In this lab you create a Windows Server instance in the Google Compute Engine and access it with RDP. Watch a short preview, Launch a Windows Server Instance, GCP Essentials.
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Lab Featured Configure Secure RDP using a Windows Bastion Host: Challenge Lab
This is a Challenge Lab where you must complete a series of tasks within a limited time period. You will be asked to deploy the secure Windows machine that is not configured for external communication inside a new VPC subnet, then deploy the Microsoft Internet Information Server on that secure machine.
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Lab Featured Securing Virtual Machines using BeyondCorp Enterprise (BCE)
In this lab, you will learn how you can use Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) TCP forwarding to enable administrative access to VM instances that do not have external IP addresses or do not permit direct access over the internet.
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Lab Featured Configuring IAM Permissions with gCloud - Azure
In this lab introduces you will use the gcloud CLI tool to set up and configure command features of Cloud Identity and Access Management.
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Lab Featured Cloud IAM: Qwik Start
Google Cloud IAM unifies access control for Cloud Platform services into a single system to present a consistent set of operations. Watch the short video Manage Access Control with Google Cloud IAM.
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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 Deploy a Compute Instance with a Remote Startup Script: Challenge Lab
Configure a Linux Google Compute Engine instance that installs an Apache web server software using a remote startup script, then confirm that Apache has successfully installed.