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Skills Boost Arcade Facilitator Program 2025 Earned апр. 13, 2025 EDT
Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator Program 2024 Earned июля 17, 2024 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia September 2023 Earned янв. 28, 2024 EST
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned янв. 28, 2024 EST
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment Earned янв. 28, 2024 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia August 2023 Earned авг. 28, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia July 2023 Earned июля 28, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Arcade Facilitators 2023 Earned июля 6, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia June 2023 Earned июня 23, 2023 EDT
Create a Streaming Data Lake on Cloud Storage Earned июня 14, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Cloud security Earned июня 14, 2023 EDT
Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned июня 14, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Eventarc Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Cloud Storage Earned июня 11, 2023 EDT
Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs Earned июня 10, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Data with Google Cloud Earned июня 10, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Dataplex Earned июня 10, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Looker Earned июня 9, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia May 2023 Earned мая 30, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Data, ML and API Skills Earned мая 21, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Citizen Developer Skills Earned мая 21, 2023 EDT
Cloud Run Functions: 3 Ways Earned мая 20, 2023 EDT
App Building with AppSheet Earned мая 20, 2023 EDT
Get Started with API Gateway Earned мая 20, 2023 EDT
Streaming Analytics into BigQuery Earned мая 19, 2023 EDT
Build an SAP Landing Zone on Google Cloud Earned мая 17, 2023 EDT
Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets Earned апр. 27, 2023 EDT
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Console Earned апр. 27, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia April 2023 Earned апр. 25, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED Create Conversational AI Agents with Dialogflow CX Earned апр. 24, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Data Exploration with Looker, BigQuery and Sheets Earned апр. 21, 2023 EDT
Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets Earned апр. 21, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud Earned апр. 20, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Managing Resources and Data in the Cloud Earned апр. 19, 2023 EDT
Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources Earned апр. 19, 2023 EDT
NetApp: Build, Protect and Govern your Data Infrastructure On Google Cloud Earned апр. 16, 2023 EDT
Cloud Hero DevOps Skills Earned марта 31, 2023 EDT
ML API Skills Earned марта 31, 2023 EDT
Cloud Hero BigQuery Skills Earned марта 30, 2023 EDT
Cloud Hero Infra Skills Earned марта 30, 2023 EDT
Terraform Init: An infrastructure challenge Earned марта 29, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia March 2023 Earned марта 25, 2023 EDT
Data Without the Degree [Arcade] Earned марта 19, 2023 EDT
Beep Bop Boop: A chatbot challenge [Arcade] Earned марта 6, 2023 EST
Certification Replay [Arcade] Earned февр. 26, 2023 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia February 2023 Earned февр. 20, 2023 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned февр. 18, 2023 EST
Better Together: A Google Cloud Partners Challenge Earned февр. 11, 2023 EST
Retail Tech Earned февр. 4, 2023 EST
The Google Cloud Fly Cup Earned янв. 28, 2023 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia January 2023 Earned янв. 24, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Blue Challenge (A) Earned янв. 22, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Red Challenge (A) Earned янв. 14, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Yellow Challenge (A) Earned янв. 11, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Green Challenge (A) Earned янв. 2, 2023 EST
Holiday Challenge: DLP and CDF Earned дек. 21, 2022 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia December 2022 Earned дек. 17, 2022 EST
Sports Data Challenge Earned дек. 16, 2022 EST
MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud Earned дек. 15, 2022 EST
Holiday Challenge: Automation with CI/CD Pipelines Earned дек. 13, 2022 EST
Migrating Virtual Machines Earned дек. 1, 2022 EST
Cloud Hero: Serverless ML Earned нояб. 22, 2022 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia November 2022 Earned нояб. 21, 2022 EST
Cloud Run Hackathon Pre-Sales Workshop Earned нояб. 18, 2022 EST
Intro to Infrastructure Earned нояб. 8, 2022 EST
No Code November 2022 - Apps Scripts Earned нояб. 5, 2022 EDT
No code november 2022 Earned нояб. 2, 2022 EDT
Halloween 2022 Challenge Earned окт. 31, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 4: Firecrackers and Firebase Earned окт. 27, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 3: Flowers and Flutter Earned окт. 25, 2022 EDT
Intro to BigQuery: Analytics & Machine Learning Earned окт. 24, 2022 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia October 2022 Earned окт. 24, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 2: Lanterns and Looker Earned окт. 24, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 1: Rangoli and Google Sheets Earned окт. 23, 2022 EDT
Vertex AI Earned окт. 20, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout: Next Edition Earned окт. 1, 2022 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia September 2022 Earned сент. 26, 2022 EDT
GO! A startup & growth mindset challenge Earned сент. 23, 2022 EDT
Data Science on Google Cloud Earned сент. 14, 2022 EDT
Flutter Development Earned сент. 13, 2022 EDT
Manage Data Models in Looker Earned сент. 10, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 11 (10/10) Earned сент. 9, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure Earned сент. 5, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 10 (9/10) Earned сент. 3, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 9 (8/10) Earned авг. 31, 2022 EDT
Study Buddy - 2022 Earned авг. 29, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 8 (7/10) Earned авг. 24, 2022 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia August 2022 Earned авг. 22, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 7 Earned авг. 17, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 6 (5/10) Earned авг. 9, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 5 (4/10) Earned авг. 4, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 2, 1/10 Earned авг. 4, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 3 (2/10) Earned авг. 4, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 4 (3/10) Earned июля 23, 2022 EDT
Data Catalog Fundamentals Earned июля 7, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge: Data & Database Engineering Skills Earned июля 6, 2022 EDT
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned июля 4, 2022 EDT
DevOps Essentials Earned июля 3, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Machine Learning Engineering Skills Earned июля 2, 2022 EDT
Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure Earned июля 1, 2022 EDT
Cloud Healthcare API Earned июля 1, 2022 EDT
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud Earned июля 1, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning Earned июля 1, 2022 EDT
Workspace: Add-ons Earned июля 1, 2022 EDT
Cloud Logging Earned июля 1, 2022 EDT
Scientific Data Processing Earned июня 30, 2022 EDT
Cloud SQL Earned июня 30, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud Earned июня 30, 2022 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned июня 29, 2022 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned июня 29, 2022 EDT
Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery Earned июня 29, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Sports Data Analysis Skills Earned июня 29, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Marketing Analysts Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Deploy & Develop Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge: Data Analyst Skills Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
Intro to ML: Image Processing Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
Cloud Development Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned июня 27, 2022 EDT
Machine Learning APIs Earned июня 27, 2022 EDT
Intro to ML: Language Processing Earned июня 27, 2022 EDT
Build Apps & Websites with Firebase Earned июня 27, 2022 EDT
Google Developer Essentials Earned июня 27, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine Earned июня 26, 2022 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned июня 25, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI Earned июня 25, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite Earned июня 25, 2022 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned июня 8, 2022 EDT
Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Earned июня 8, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned июня 6, 2022 EDT
Build a Website on Google Cloud Earned июня 6, 2022 EDT
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Earned июня 6, 2022 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Earned июня 5, 2022 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned июня 1, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Language, Speech, Text, & Translation with Google Cloud APIs Earned мая 31, 2022 EDT
Measure Site Reliability using Cloud Operations Suite Earned мая 30, 2022 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned мая 29, 2022 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2022 EDT
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey Earned мая 26, 2022 EDT
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned мая 26, 2022 EDT
Developing Data Models with LookML Earned мая 26, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Earned мая 25, 2022 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals Earned мая 24, 2022 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia May 2022 Earned мая 23, 2022 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Earned мая 23, 2022 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned мая 20, 2022 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned мая 20, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Applied Data: Blockchain Earned мая 20, 2022 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned мая 19, 2022 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned мая 19, 2022 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned мая 19, 2022 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned мая 19, 2022 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned мая 19, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned мая 18, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned мая 18, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned мая 17, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned мая 17, 2022 EDT
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage Earned мая 16, 2022 EDT
Website on Google Cloud Earned мая 14, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned мая 13, 2022 EDT
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud Earned мая 13, 2022 EDT
Develop your Google Cloud Network Earned мая 13, 2022 EDT
Cloud Engineering Earned мая 12, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned мая 12, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned мая 11, 2022 EDT
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Earned мая 10, 2022 EDT
Workspace: Integrations for Data Earned мая 10, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned мая 7, 2022 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Earned мая 7, 2022 EDT
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned мая 7, 2022 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud Earned мая 7, 2022 EDT
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker Earned мая 6, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned мая 6, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned мая 4, 2022 EDT
Understanding LookML in Looker Earned мая 2, 2022 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned апр. 23, 2022 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned апр. 23, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Earned апр. 22, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Earned апр. 22, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned апр. 19, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned апр. 19, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure Earned апр. 18, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Earned апр. 18, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned апр. 18, 2022 EDT
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network Earned апр. 12, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned марта 29, 2022 EDT

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Now that you have found your seat as a Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator, it's time to claim your badge!

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for September! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands-on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the September badge.

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In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.

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In this course, you will learn the basic skills to implement secure and efficient DevSecOps practices on Google Cloud. You'll learn how to secure your development pipeline with Google Cloud services like Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Binary Authorization. This enables you to build, test, and deploy containerized applications with security controls throughout the CI/CD pipeline.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for August! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands-on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the August badge.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for July! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands-on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the July badge.

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Welcome to the Google Cloud Arcade Facilitators Program 2023. Congratulations on being one of the first Arcade Facilitators! Here is the first step towards being a Arcade Facilitator, earn the Facilitator badge! Complete this quest to get to the next steps of this program.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for June! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the May badge.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Create a Streaming Data Lake on Cloud Storage course, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Cloud Storage together to create a streaming data lake on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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There’s so much more to cloud security than making your passwords something other than “password”. As more and more businesses move their data and applications to the cloud, the importance of - and demand for - cloud security is growing exponentially. In fact, the demand for cloud security professionals is outpacing the supply: according to a report by Cybersecurity Ventures, there are roughly 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity positions around the world in 2023. Unlock your cloud security potential with hands-on experience in the Arcade - each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to a Google Cloud credential.

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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Monitoring in Google Cloud course, where you learn how to use Cloud Monitoring tools.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Eventarc skill badge course, where you use Eventarc to create event triggers for different resources including Pub/Sub topics and Cloud Storage buckets.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage quest, where you use Cloud Storage, IAM, and Dataplex together to create a secure data lake on Google Cloud.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Cloud Storage quest, where you learn how to create a Cloud Storage bucket, how to use the Cloud Storage command line, and how to use Bucket Lock to protect objects in a bucket. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs quest, where you learn how to use the Natural Language and Speech APIs in real-world settings.

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The demand for data skills is growing rapidly, and we want you to get some of that sweet knowledge! According to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute, the demand for data scientists and analysts is expected to grow by 150% by 2025. Data can be used to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can help businesses improve their operations, products, and services - which makes data career paths highly valuable. There are a lot of different aspects to data science, so it's important to start with the basics - and we’ve got you covered. Kickstart your data skills discovery and get hands-on experience in the Arcade, with labs that help you learn and earn your first Google Cloud credential. No experience required.

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Complete the introductory Get Started with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Dataplex assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Dataplex.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Looker quest, where you learn how to analyze, visualize, and curate data using Looker Studio and Looker. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for May! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the May badge.

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Demand for cloud-skilled workers is rising. According to a report by Indeed, cloud computing jobs are expected to grow 22% over the next five years, much faster than the average for all occupations. And demand for machine learning jobs is expected to grow 75%. Want to grow your skills and take advantage of the opportunity? Level up your tech skills and get hands-on experience in the Arcade, with labs that help you learn and earn your first Google Cloud credential. No experience required.

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Ever thought "I wish I had an app for this" ? Guess what - employers have, too. In fact, demand for citizen developers is expected to grow 300% by 2024 according to a Forrester report. Become the innovator companies want and need with the Arcade. Play now to get hands-on experience creating custom applications with Google Cloud's powerful data tools. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Run functions: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services. It tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, including the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with API Gateway quest, where you learn how to use API Gateway to deploy, secure, and manage APIs with a fully managed gateway. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Streaming Analytics into BigQuery quest, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow and BigQuery together to stream data for analytics. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This quest will teach you how to set up Google Cloud infrastructure to support a minimal SAP deployment. For this quest, you should read the document first, then take a quiz to test your knowledge, then continue on with the labs.

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Complete the Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets skill badge to demonstrate that you can use Connected Sheets to access, analyze, visualize, and share billions of rows of BigQuery data from your Google Sheets spreadsheet.

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Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Pub/Sub are all Google Cloud Platform services that can be used to store, process, and manage data. All three services can be used together to create a variety of data-driven applications. In this skill badge you will use Cloud Storage to store images, Cloud Functions to process the images, and Cloud Pub/Sub to send the images to another application.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for April! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the April badge.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Create Conversational AI Agents with Dialogflow CX quest, where you will learn how to create a conversational virtual agent, including how to: define intents and entities, use versions and environments, create conversational branching, and use IVR features. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Description: According to IDC, by 2026, 7 PB of data will be generated per second globally. But what you *do* with the data is what matters. Data is the heart of digital transformation and offers incredible opportunities for organizations to accelerate the most strategic business outcomes, like revenue and productivity. Want to grow your skills and take advantage of the opportunity? Play now to get hands-on experience with Google Cloud's powerful data tools. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Use Functions, Formulas and Charts in Google Sheets quest, where you analyze data with functions and visualize data using charts. In this intermediate-level quest, you learn to search, validate, format and display data. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide a detailed overview of concepts covering cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the course, learners will be able to articulate concepts around cloud computing, big data, and machine learning, and demonstrate some hands-on skills. This course is part of a series of courses called Google Cloud Computing Foundations. The courses should be completed in the following order: Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundation with Kubernetes This third course covers how to build secure networks, …

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More than 90% of IT leaders say they're looking to grow their cloud environments in the next several years, yet more than 80% of those same leaders identified a lack of skills as a barrier to growth. This means that tech skills (particularly cloud skills!) are in high demand. Want to grow your skills and take advantage of the opportunity? Play now to get hands-on experience with Google Cloud. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential. No experience required.

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This challenge lab tests your skills and knowledge from the labs in the Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources quest. You should be familiar with the content of labs before attempting this lab.

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It’s no secret today that data is growing rapidly and considered the most critical asset of any organization. NetApp and Google Cloud play an instrumental role in enabling you to optimally store, protect and govern your data. With NetApp Cloud Manager and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP data storage technology that utilizes Google Cloud compute, storage and networking infrastructure, you can easily manage storage operations and meet the requirements of any workload. In this course, you get hands-on practice on using NetApp Cloud Manager and Cloud Volumes ONTAP and learn about the capabilities delivered such as multi-protocol data access, built-in storage efficiencies and data protection features, remote caching and more.

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Welcome Gamers! Learn to navigate that iterative journey efficiently and effectively using Google Cloud's operations tools!, all while having fun! Deploy a Kubernetes cluster along with a service using Terraform. You will compete to see who can finish the game with the highest score. Earn the points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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Welcome Gamers! Explore the power of machine learning by using multiple machine learning APIs together, all while having fun! Translate the text with the Translation API and analyze it with the Natural Language API. You will compete to see who can finish the game with the highest score. Earn the points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud! You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Earn points by completing the labs accurately and receive bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points.

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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud! You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points.

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Ready to start building your world - er - cloud infrastructure? With Terraform, you can manage infrastructure as code, saving time and ensuring consistency. In today’s game, you’ll use Terraform to build, change, provision, and destroy infrastructure in increasingly complex scenarios, and add a few new skills to your toolkit. Terraform init!

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for March! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the March badge.

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Data science is one of the most in-demand fields in the job market today. And for good reason:- data scientists use their skills to extract valuable insights from large data sets, used to make better decisions in a variety of industries. But what if you don't have a degree in data science? No degree, no problem. Play now to learn deep data skills with hands-on labs, from ramping up on tools like Google Sheets, to advanced data tasks with TensorFlow and Vertex AI.

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Chatbots are becoming increasingly popular, and for good reason. They can provide a number of benefits to both businesses and consumers, from automating customer service, to collecting feedback and providing a more convenient way to get the information you need. They can also be used to save time and money by automating tasks like scheduling appointments or ordering products. Interested in exploring how chatbots can make your job (or future job) easier? Or just want a peek behind the chatbot tech curtain? This is the game for you!

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Is getting Google Cloud Certified on your 2023 to-do list? Pick up a few new data engineer and cloud developer skills, part of each respective learning path. You'll work with TensorFlow, Kubernetes, and more. Then put your new skills to the test to finish out the game! Don't forget to claim your skill badge progress when you're done.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for February! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the February badge.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. This course is part of a series of courses called Google Cloud Computing Foundations. The courses should be completed in the following order: Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Kubernetes Engine Fundamentals This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, …

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Entering the world of cloud computing? You don't have to go alone. Google Cloud partners can help you skip the guesswork and get the most value out of Google Cloud. In today's game, you'll learn how to work with tools and tech from partners like Cisco, Redis, Apache, NetApp, Striim, and Datadog.

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Technology has transformed the retail industry, and the transformation is not stopping. Want to see how to take advantage of the latest tech in your business? (Or job, or future job?) Play now and explore how Google Cloud helps retailers build better - better data, better apps, and better businesses. You'll get hands-on experience with BigQuery ML, Looker, Terraform, and concepts like site reliability. Earn the badge and you'll add one more Arcade point to your collection. Good luck!

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Take your Google cloud skills to new heights by joining this learning challenge, brought to you in partnership with the Drone Racing League. The Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge, is a 3 stage developer focused competition to help boost cloud skills and drive innovation into the sport of Drone Racing, Using Google’s secure, reliable, and scalable cloud platform, participating developers will be able to utilize DRL’s race data, to predict race outcomes and provide tips and tricks to DRL Pilots to enhance their season performance, winning exclusive swag, prizes, and a chance to win an expenses-paid trip to the season finale of the DRL 2022-23 World Championship.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for January! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the January badge.

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New year, new skills! Add 23 (or so) new skills and techniques to your toolkit, while sampling certification-based learning paths. Whether you're thinking about Google Cloud's Data, DevOps or Networking certifications, or just exploring, this is the challenge to help you start your year strong.

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New year, new skills! Add 23 (or so) new skills and techniques to your toolkit, while sampling certification-based learning paths. Whether you're thinking about Google Cloud's Data, DevOps or Networking certifications, or just exploring, this is the challenge to help you start your year strong.

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New year, New skills! Add 23 (or so) new skills and techniques to your toolkit, while sampling certification-based learning paths. Whether you're thinking about Google Cloud's Data, DevOps or Networking certifications, or just exploring, this is the challenge to help you start your year strong.

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New year, new skills! Add 23 (or so) new skills and techniques to your toolkit, while sampling certification-based learning paths. Whether you're thinking about Google Cloud's Data, DevOps or Networking certifications, or just exploring, this is the challenge to help you start your year strong.

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Put your data skills to the test! First you will learn to use the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to protect sensitive data. Then you will use Cloud Data Fusion to select the perfect books to gift your friends and family. Just kidding! No gifting advice, just teaching you different ways to process data, whether you are browsing a booklist, scrolling the internet, or optimizing your retail website to reach your year-end targets.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for December! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the December badge.

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GOOOOAALLL! Get practical experience on the fundamentals of sports data science no matter who you're cheering for in this week's matches. Use BigQuery ML to train advanced models to predict goals and evaluate performance. Complete labs to learn new skills and earn the badge. No prior experience needed!

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Discover the ease of an integrated multi-cloud database with data services that simplify database deployment and management. Get practical experience using MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud and unlock the power of a flexible document data model that makes data easier to work with in a global, scalable, fully-managed, and elastic service. Come expecting to learn, Building a Cloud Run application that leverages Atlas App Services to call Cloud Natural Language Processing and carry out sentiment analysis, Running a MongoDB Database in Kubernetes with StatefulSets and Ingesting New Datasets into BigQuery

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A CI/CD pipeline automates your software delivery process. That means it can build code, run tests, and deploy safely. Especially useful when some (or most!) of your team is enjoying a holiday. Learn how Google Cloud can help you automate your processes, just in time for a hot chocolate break.

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Welcome to Cloud Hero, Gamers! Click "Join this Game". To modify your player name or avatar, go to your My Account page at https://google.qwiklabs.com. Points are earned by completing the steps in the lab.... and bonus points are earned for speed! Be sure to complete each lab by selecting the END option to get the maximum points. Please respect the GCP resource quotas that have been allocated. Otherwise, you'll waste your Game time and gain fewer points.

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People have used machine learning to solve problems ranging from identifying clouds in satellite images to ensuring food safety and responding four times faster to customer emails. In this game, you'll get hands-on experience with advanced training and prediction solutions. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for November! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the November badge.

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Earn a Pre-Sales skill badge by completing the Cloud Run Hackathon Workshop. This Workshop is based on Cloud Run, where you will learn how to: 1. Build container image from source code by Cloud Build. 2. Deploy the microservice to Cloud Run continuously. 3. Monitor the microservice with Cloud Ops. A Pre-Sales skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your participation in a hands-on Pre-sales Workshop and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Welcome Gamers! You will compete to see who can finish the game with the highest score. Earn the points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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No-code development platforms allow programmers and non-programmers alike to build beautiful, useful apps. Complete labs to learn new skills and earn the badge. No experience needed!

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No-code development platforms allow programmers and non-programmers alike to build beautiful, useful apps. Complete labs to learn new skills and earn the badge. No experience needed!

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Moving to the cloud can be scary. You don’t have to do it alone! Google Cloud partners are here to help. Join the challenge and get hands-on experience with how the partner ecosystem can help clear the creepy fog and light your way.

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Why celebrate Diwali with firecrackers when you can use Firebase? Learn how to import data into a Firestore database, create a build pipeline with Cloud Build to automate deployments, and build a Google Assistant application. Earn the badge for an arcade point and get one step closer to your swag goal. (OK fine, firecrackers are fun too.)

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Are you feeling the festive vibes? Add some Flutter to your flowers when you join this game. Get hands-on experience with Flutter - Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Earn the badge for an arcade point and get one step closer to your swag goal. Bonus- You’ll also earn the Flutter Essentials badge! 

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Welcome Gamers! Today's game is all about experimenting with Big Query for Machine Learning! Use real life case studies to learn various concepts of BQML and have fun. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for October! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the October badge.

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Like lanterns on the streets of cities, Looker shines light on data to give deeper insights. Join this game to learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML. Earn the badge for an arcade point and get one step closer to your swag goal.

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When the edges are crisp, the pattern flows, the colors sparkle, and the symmetry is perfect… wait, are we talking about Rangoli or spreadsheets? See what beauty Google Sheets can bring to your monthly reports. Join the game to learn how to analyze data with functions and visualize data using charts.  Earn the badge for an arcade point and get one step closer to your swag goal.

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Welcome Gamers! Learn Google Cloud's Vertex AI, all while having fun! Vertex AI is Google Cloud's unified ML platform for solving your tough business problems. You will compete to see who can finish the game with the highest score. Earn the points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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Complete these 6 hands-on Google Cloud skills challenges by October 13th to earn a special digital badge, plus a no-cost e-copy of Priyanka Vergadia’s best selling Visualizing Google Cloud book!

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for September! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the September badge.

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Brains? Check. Talent? Check. Growth mindset? We can help with that! It’s not just abilities and talent that bring success - but a growth mindset too. When you cultivate a growth mindset, you embrace obstacles, find opportunity in failure, and learn from mistakes. So whether you’re bootstrapping a startup or your personal career, come exercise your growth mindset muscles and explore a range of startup-focused tech. You’ll get hands-on experience with the tools people around the world use to get to the next stage of growth.

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This is the first of two Quests of hands-on labs is derived from the exercises from the book Data Science on Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition by Valliappa Lakshmanan, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. In this first Quest, covering up through chapter 8, you are given the opportunity to practice all aspects of ingestion, preparation, processing, querying, exploring and visualizing data sets using Google Cloud tools and services.

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Explore the fundamentals of Flutter application development in this hands-on quest! Within this quest, you will build a "Hello World" Flutter application, design a frontend for a shopping application, and learn how to connect your Flutter applications to backend services. Each lab in this quest utilizes a pre-provisioned development environment allowing minimal setup to get into the application code!

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Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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In this course you will learn how you to harness serious Google Cloud power and infrastructure. The hands-on labs will give you use cases and you will be tasked with implementing scaling practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From developing enterprise grade load balancing and autoscaling, to building continuous delivery pipelines, Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling your Infrastructure will teach you best practices for taking your Google Cloud projects to the next level.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Welcome to ACE Study Buddy 2022. Here’s your chance to excel in the cloud world. Join us for a one-month study session, during which we’ll dive deep into topics covered in the ACE certification exam study guide. Choose a team of your choice and make new study buddies who will help you learn new methods of learning and techniques to build confidence to ’ACE’ in the Cloud!

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for August! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Prepare for ACE and test your knowledge to earn the August badge.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each day unlocks a new cloud puzzle. Complete all five and you’ll earn the inaugural Google Cloud badge! Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.

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Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. You can still complete this course if you want to. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog (https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog). Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, understand, and manage all of their data. In this quest you will start small by learning how to search and tag data assets and metadata with Data Catalog. After learning how to build your own tag templates that map to BigQuery table data, you will learn how to build MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer to Data Catalog Connectors.

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These labs help you deep-dive into database and data engineering concepts and skills. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Obtain a competitive advantage through DevOps. DevOps is an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. In this course you will learn how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. DevOps Research and Assessment has joined Google Cloud. How does your team measure up? Take this five question multiple-choice quiz and find out!

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These labs help you get started with the skills you need to develop and train ML models. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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Machine Learning is one of the most innovative fields in technology, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, Google Cloud has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning at scale and how to employ the advanced ML infrastructure available on Google Cloud.

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Cloud Healthcare API bridges the gap between care systems and applications built on Google Cloud. By supporting standards-based data formats and protocols of existing healthcare technologies, Cloud Healthcare API connects your data to advanced Google Cloud capabilities, including streaming data processing with Cloud Dataflow, scalable analytics with BigQuery, and machine learning with Cloud Machine Learning Engine. In this Quest you will use the Cloud Healthcare API to ingest and process data in the industry standard FHIR, HL7v2 and DICOM formats, train a TensorFlow model for prediction with FHIR data, and also gain practice with de-identification of datasets.

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TensorFlow is an open source software library for high performance numerical computation that's great for writing models that can train and run on platforms ranging from your laptop to a fleet of servers in the Cloud to an edge device. This quest takes you beyond the basics of using predefined models and teaches you how to build, train and deploy your own on Google Cloud.

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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn how to harness serious Google Cloud computing power to run big data and machine learning jobs. The hands-on labs will give you use cases, and you will be tasked with implementing big data and machine learning practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From running Big Query analytics on tens of thousands of basketball games, to training TensorFlow image classifiers, you will quickly see why Google Cloud is the go-to platform for running big data and machine learning jobs.

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This course demonstrates the power of integrating Google Cloud services and tools with Workspace applications - like using Node.js to build a survey bot, the Natural Language API to recognize sentiment in a Google Doc, and building a chat bot with Apps Script.

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Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale. It can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs and, even better, analyze all that log data in real time. In this fundamental-level Quest, you learn how to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud. The labs in the Quest give you hands-on practice using Cloud Logging to maximize your learning experience and provide insight on how you can use Cloud Logging to your own Google Cloud environment.

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Big data, machine learning, and scientific data? It sounds like the perfect match. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with GCP services like Big Query, Dataproc, and Tensorflow by applying them to use cases that employ real-life, scientific data sets. By getting experience with tasks like earthquake data analysis and satellite image aggregation, Scientific Data Processing will expand your skill set in big data and machine learning so you can start tackling your own problems across a spectrum of scientific disciplines.

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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.

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In this quest, you will learn about Google Cloud’s IoT Core service and its integration with other services like GCS, Dataprep, Stackdriver and Firestore. The labs in this quest use simulator code to mimic IOT devices and the learning here should empower you to implement the same streaming pipeline with real world IoT devices.

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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.

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Want to build ML models in minutes instead of hours using just SQL? BigQuery ML democratizes machine learning by letting data analysts create, train, evaluate, and predict with machine learning models using existing SQL tools and skills. In this series of labs, you will experiment with different model types and learn what makes a good model.

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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery course, where you will gain practical experience on the fundamentals of sports data science using BigQuery, including how to create a soccer dataset in BigQuery by importing CSV and JSON files; harness the power of BigQuery with sophisticated SQL analytical concepts, including using BigQuery ML to train an expected goals model on the soccer event data, and evaluate the impressiveness of World Cup goals.

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These labs help you get started with the skills you need to analyze sports-related data. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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Want to turn your marketing data into insights and build dashboards? Bring all of your data into one place for large-scale analysis and model building. Get repeatable, scalable, and valuable insights into your data by learning how to query it and using BigQuery. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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In this introductory-level quest, you will learn the fundamentals of developing and deploying applications on the Google Cloud Platform. You will get hands-on experience with the Google App Engine framework by launching applications written in languages like Python, Ruby, and Java (just to name a few). You will see first-hand how straightforward and powerful GCP application frameworks are, and how easily they integrate with GCP database, data-loss prevention, and security services.

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Welcome to the Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge! These labs help you get started with data analysis skills. At the end of each lab, you’ll have hands-on experience with one or more of Google Cloud’s powerful data tools. Complete this game to earn a badge, and you’ll be one step closer to completing the challenge. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard!

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Using large scale computing power to recognize patterns and "read" images is one of the foundational technologies in AI, from self-driving cars to facial recognition. The Google Cloud Platform provides world class speed and accuracy via systems that can utilized by simply calling APIs. With these and a host of other APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to image processing by taking labs that will enable you to label images, detect faces and landmarks, as well as extract, analyze, and translate text from within images.

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Google Cloud Application Programming Interfaces are the mechanism to interact with Google Cloud Services programmatically. This quest will give you hands-on practice with a variety of GCP APIs, which you will learn through working with Google’s APIs Explorer, a tool that allows you to browse APIs and run their methods interactively. By learning how to transfer data between Cloud Storage buckets, deploy Compute Engine instances, configure Dataproc clusters and much more, Exploring APIs will show you how powerful APIs are and why they are used almost exclusively by proficient GCP users. Enroll in this quest today.

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The hands-on labs in this Quest are structured to give experienced app developers hands-on practice with the state-of-the-art developing applications in Google Cloud. The topics align with the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Certification. These labs follow the sequence of activities needed to create and deploy an app in Google Cloud from beginning to end. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, it is recommended that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.

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It's no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and Google Cloud has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, Google Cloud has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning APIs by taking labs like Detect Labels, Faces, and Landmarks in Images with the Cloud Vision API. Looking for a hands-on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? Enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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It’s no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to language processing by taking labs that will enable you to extract entities from text, and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis as well as use the Speech to Text API for transcription.

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Firebase is a backend-as-service (Bass) platform for creating mobile and web applications. In this quest you will learn to build serverless web apps, import data into a serverless database, and build a Google Assistant application with Firebase and its Google Cloud integrations. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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This introductory-level quest shows application developers how the Google Cloud ecosystem could help them build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud native applications. You learn how to develop and scale applications without setting up infrastructure, run data analytics, gain insights from data, and develop with pre-trained ML APIs to leverage machine learning even if you are not a Machine Learning expert. You will also experience seamless integration between various Google services and APIs to create intelligent apps.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine quest, where you learn about security at scale on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) including how to: migrate containers from virtual machines to Google Kubernetes Engine, restrict network connections in GKE using firewalls and Network Policies, use role-based access controls (RBAC) in GKE, use Binary Authorization for security controls of your images, secure applications in GKE using 3 access levels: host, network, Kubernetes API, and harden GKE cluster configurations. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI quest, where you will learn how to do the following using Explainable AI: build and deploy a model to an AI platform for serving (prediction), use the What-If Tool with an image recognition model, identify bias in mortgage data using the What-If Tool, and compare models using the What-If Tool to identify potential bias. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. These labs will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: architecting and building serverless web applications with Firebase, utilizing Firestore for database management, automating deployment processes using Cloud Build, and integrating Google Assistant functionality into your applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant quest, where you will learn how to build Google Assistant applications, including how to: create an Actions project, integrate Dialogflow with an Actions project, test your application with Actions simulator, build an Assistant application with flash cards template, integrate customer MP3 files with your Assistant application, add Cloud Translation API to your Assistant application, and use APIs and integrate them into your applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud course. This course is based on the series Get Cooking in Cloud, where you learn how to: Deploy a website on Cloud Run; Host a web app on Compute Engine; Create, deploy, and scale your website on Google Kubernetes Engine; Migrate from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture using Cloud Build. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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In this Quest, the experienced user of Google Cloud will learn how to describe and launch cloud resources with Terraform, an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. In these nine hands-on labs, you will work with example templates and understand how to launch a range of configurations, from simple servers, through full load-balanced applications.

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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.

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In this quest you will use a collection of Google APIs that are all related to language, and speech. You will use the Speech-to-Text API to transcribe an audio file into a text file, the Cloud Translation API to translate from one language to another, the Cloud Translation API to detect what language is being used and translate to a different language, the Natural Language API to classify text and analyze sentiment, and create synthetic speech.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Measure Site Reliability using Cloud Operations Suite quest, where you will learn how to set Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs); create logs-based metrics to capture to capture specific issues and address them; define alerts to notify Site Reliability Engineers of issues in production environment, and troubleshoot application issues with Cloud Trace, Debugger, Profiler, Monitoring and Logging. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This course helps learners prepare for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer (PCSE) Certification exam. Learners will be exposed to and engage with exam topics through a series of lectures, diagnostic questions, and knowledge checks. After completing this course, learners will have a personalized workbook that will guide them through the rest of their certification readiness journey.

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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.

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This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.

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Twelve years ago Lily started the Pet Theory chain of veterinary clinics, and has been expanding rapidly. Now, Pet Theory is experiencing some growing pains: their appointment scheduling system is not able to handle the increased load, customers aren't receiving lab results reliably through email and text, and veteranerians are spending more time with insurance companies than with their patients. Lily wants to build a cloud-based system that scales better than the legacy solution and doesn't require lots of ongoing maintenance. The team has decided to go with serverless technology. For the labs in the Google Cloud Run Serverless Quest, you will read through a fictitious business scenario in each lab and assist the characters in implementing a serverless solution. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google…

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Networking in Google cloud is a 6 part course series. Welcome to the first course of our six part course series, Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals.  This course provides a comprehensive overview of core networking concepts, including networking fundamentals, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and the sharing of VPC networks. Additionally, the course covers network logging and monitoring techniques. 

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for May! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Build your Data and BigQuery skills and test your knowledge to earn the May badge.

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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.

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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.

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Blockchain and related technologies, such as distributed ledger and distributed apps, are becoming new value drivers and solution priorities in many industries. In this course you will gain hands-on experience with distributed ledger and the exploration of blockchain datasets in Google Cloud. It brings the research and solution work of Google's Allen Day into self-paced labs for you to run and learn directly. Since this course uses advanced SQL in BigQuery, a SQL-in-BigQuery refresher lab is at the start.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other catalog offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataprep, to Cloud Composer, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation, too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Engineer Data in the Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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With Google Assistant part of over a billion consumer devices, this quest teaches you how to build practical Google Assistant applications integrated with Google Cloud services via APIs. Example apps will use the Dialogflow conversational suite and the Actions and Cloud Functions frameworks. You will build 5 different applications that explore useful and fun tools you can extend on your own. No hardware required! These labs use the cloud-based Google Assistant simulator environment for developing and testing, but if you do have your own device, such as a Google Home or a Google Hub, additional instructions are provided on how to deploy your apps to your own hardware.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

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In this quest you will learn about the four Google Cloud website architectures available to ensure that your website is available and scalable. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this Build a Website on Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge. This quest is based on the video series Get Cooking in Cloud.

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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM rols and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches. A skill badge is an exclusivedigital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: write SQL queries, query public tables, load sample data into BigQuery, troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery, and create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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For everyone using Google Cloud Platform for the first time, getting familar with gcloud, Google Cloud's command line, will help you get up to speed faster. In this quest, you'll learn how to install and configure Cloud SDK, then use gcloud to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, using BigQuery, and using gsutil to perform operations.

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This course demonstrates the power of integrating Google Cloud services and tools with Workspace applications. You will create direct connections to Google Cloud data sources using the BigQuery API, Apps Script, Sheets, and Slides to collect, analyze and present data.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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This Quest is most suitable for those working in a technology or finance role who are responsible for managing Google Cloud costs. You’ll learn how to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage billing access permissions. In the hands-on labs, you'll learn how to view your invoice, track your Google Cloud costs with Billing reports, analyze your billing data with BigQuery or Google Sheets, and create custom billing dashboards with Looker Studio. References made to links in the videos can be accessed in this Additional Resources document.

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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.

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In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.

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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.

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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.

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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This final course in the series reviews managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud further by earning Skill Badges.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.

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Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like Big Query, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

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Networking is a principle theme of cloud computing. It’s the underlying structure of Google Cloud, and it’s what connects all your resources and services to one another. This course will cover essential Google Cloud networking services and will give you hands-on practice with specialized tools for developing mature networks. From learning the ins-and-outs of VPCs, to creating enterprise-grade load balancers, Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.

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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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