GSP340

Overview

In a challenge lab you’re given a scenario and a set of tasks. Instead of following step-by-step instructions, you will use the skills learned from the labs in the course to figure out how to complete the tasks on your own! An automated scoring system (shown on this page) will provide feedback on whether you have completed your tasks correctly.

When you take a challenge lab, you will not be taught new Google Cloud concepts. You are expected to extend your learned skills, like changing default values and reading and researching error messages to fix your own mistakes.

To score 100% you must successfully complete all tasks within the time period!

This lab is recommended for students enrolled in the Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge.

Setup

Before you click the Start Lab button

Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources are made available to you.

This hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.

To complete this lab, you need:

• Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).

Note: Use an Incognito (recommended) or private browser window to run this lab. This prevents conflicts between your personal account and the student account, which may cause extra charges incurred to your personal account.

• Time to complete the lab—remember, once you start, you cannot pause a lab.

Note: Use only the student account for this lab. If you use a different Google Cloud account, you may incur charges to that account. Note: Once the lab environment has been fully provisioned, the tasks will become visible. The tasks that are assigned to you are independent, so you are free to perform the tasks in any order you want.

Challenge scenario

You are part of an international public health organization which is tasked with developing a machine learning model to predict the daily case count for countries during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a junior member of the Data Science team you've been assigned to use your data warehousing skills to develop a table containing the features for the machine learning model.

You are expected to have the skills and knowledge for this task, so don't expect step-by-step guides to be provided.

Task 1

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.

Verify Task

Task 2

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.

Verify Task

Task 3

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.

Verify Task

Task 4

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.

Verify Task

Tips and tricks

• Tip 1. Remember that if you are instructed to create table you must exclude the United Kingdom (GBR), Brazil (BRA), Canada (CAN) and the United States (USA) data.
• Tip 2. If you are updating the schema for a BigQuery table you can use the console to add the columns and record elements or you can use the command line bqutility to update the schema by providing a JSON file with all of field definitions as explained in the BigQuery Standard SQL reference documentation.
• Tip 3. The covid19_ecdc table in the European Center for Disease Control COVID 19 public dataset contains a population column that you can use if you are populating the populationcolumn based on your task description.
• Tip 4. The country_names_area table from the Census Bureau International public dataset does not contain a three letter country code column, but you can join it to table provided in task description using the full text country_name column that exists in both tables.
• Tip 5. If you are updating the mobility record remember that you must select (and average) a number of records for each country and date combination so that you get a single average of each child column in the mobility record. You must join the resulting data to your working table using the same combination of country name and date that you used to group the source mobility records to ensure there is a unique mapping between the averaged source mobility table results and the records in your table that have a single entry for each country and date combination.
• TIP 6. The UNION option followed by the ALL keyword combines the results of two queries where each query lists distinct results without combining duplicate results that arise from the union into a single row.

Congratulations!

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This self-paced lab is part of the Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge. Completing this skill badge earns you the badge above, to recognize your achievement. Share your badge on your resume and social platforms, and announce your accomplishment using #GoogleCloudBadge.

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Manual Last Updated August 28, 2025

Lab Last Tested August 28, 2025

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