Pratik Shetti
Member since 2020
Member since 2020
Explore the essentials of database management with Google Cloud. Get practical experience with AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, and Cloud SQL. Learn to build data connectors, trace data lineage, and manage backups and performance tuning. Whether you're experienced or new to the cloud, you can get your hands on this latest Google Cloud Credential!
Earn the Introductory skill badge by completing the Cloud Speech API: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use speech related API tools to synthesise and transcribe speech.
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.
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.
Discover Generative AI and Language Learning through hands-on labs that push your Google Cloud skills further and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential that recognizes your ability to tackle real-world challenges.
Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for September Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the September Trivia Week 4 badge!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for September Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the September Trivia Week 1 badge!
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud course where you will learn how to use Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. You will interact with the Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, Cloud Run, and GKE. This course will teach you how to build continuous integration pipelines, store and secure artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, attest to the validity of approved releases. Additionally, you'll get hands-on experience deploying applications to both GKE and 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 skillbadge 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API quest, where you discover how to leverage the Cloud Vision API for various tasks, including extracting text from images.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API quest, where you learn how the API derives sentiment from text.
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.
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.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for August Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the August Trivia Week 4 badge!
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.
Sports are captivating, intense, and fast-paced—and with the latest technology, they’re better than ever. Start your run in the Arcade-athon and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential by gaining hands-on experience with Google Cloud's powerful tools and techniques that are transforming your favorite sports!
Earn a skill badge by completing the Secure BigLake Data quest, where you use IAM, BigQuery, BigLake, and Data Catalog within Dataplex to create and secure BigLake tables. 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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage quest, where you learn how APIs work in Google, and how to use the Cloud Storage API specifically. 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.
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.
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.
Learn about the fundamental features of Security Command Center on Google Cloud. Spend time in this course to understand assets, detection and compliance. Security Command Center is a key part of your Google Cloud security journey, complete these modules and quiz to earn a completion badge.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor Environments with Managed Service for Prometheus quest, where you learn Kubernetes Monitoring with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus. 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.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for August Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the August Trivia Week 3 badge!
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Using the Google Cloud Speech API quest, where you learn how create a Speech-to-Text API request, transcribe audio speech to text, and transcribe speech. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for August Week 2! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the August Trivia Week 2 badge!
From creating and optimizing ML models using BigQuery ML, deploying advanced chatbots with Dialogflow CX, to developing no-code chat apps using AppSheet, explore a series of challenges designed to enhance your Google Cloud skills and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
Earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential by gaining practical experience in app development and deployment on the Google Cloud Platform. Learn to build, manage, and scale applications while setting up development environments, storing data, and deploying apps. Perfect for you, even if you are new to the cloud!
Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating git repositories with Cloud Source Repositories, launching, managing, and scaling deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and architecting CI/CD pipelines that automate container image builds and deployments to GKE. 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.
Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Monitoring in Google Cloud course, where you learn how to use Cloud Monitoring tools.
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.
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.
Earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential by gaining hands-on experience with Google Cloud Functions. Learn to create and deploy serverless functions across various programming languages, including Node.js, .NET, PHP, Ruby, and Python. Ideal for everyone, even if you are new to the cloud!
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.
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.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for August Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the August Trivia Week 1 badge!
Earn a skill badge by completing the App Engine: 3 ways quest, where you learn how to use App Engine with Python, Go, and PHP. 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.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Pub/Sub quest, where you learn how to use Pub/Sub through the Cloud console, how Cloud Scheduler jobs can save you effort, and when Pub/Sub Lite can save you money on high-volume event ingestion. 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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud quest, where you learn how to work with VPC networks and load balancers 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.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Tag and Discover BigLake Data quest, where you use BigQuery, BigLake, and Data Catalog within Dataplex to create, tag, and discover BigLake tables. 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.
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.
As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud. 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.
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.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. 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.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute quest, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine. 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.
Complete the intermediate Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: managing deployments with kubectl, monitoring and debugging applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and continuous delivery techniques. 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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals course, where you learn how to configure IAM permission, orchestrate workloads using Kubernetes, host a web application using compute engine, and configure load balancing. 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.
Complete the introductory Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: image recognition, natural language processing, image generation using Google's powerful Gemini and Imagen models, deploying applications on the Vertex AI platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Qwiklabs Trivia for December 2023! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. This week, we're releasing a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the December week 1 badge!
This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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.
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.