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Harshad Ranganathan

Member since 2016

Silver League

1250 points
Introduction to AI Agent Workflow Earned Mar 19, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks Earned May 18, 2020 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned May 15, 2020 EDT
Anthos: Service Mesh Earned Apr 24, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned Jun 14, 2019 EDT
Digital Media Earned Mar 25, 2016 EDT
Big Data on AWS Earned Mar 25, 2016 EDT
Websites & Web Apps Earned Mar 25, 2016 EDT

Master Google Cloud skills through hands-on labs and friendly competition! Cloud Hero challenges you to conquer a series of Cloud Skills Boost labs, putting your newfound knowledge to practice. Earn points for completing labs accurately, and rack up bonus points for speed. The leaderboard lets you see how you stack up against your peers – can you rise to the top? Remember to click "End" after finishing each lab to claim your well-deserved points.

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The move to Google® Cloud public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. Palo Alto Networks® offers innovative and comprehensive protection as you adopt public cloud services. The Palo Alto Networks solutions complement the native Google Cloud security toolset, including network, host and cloud-native security delivered through APIs for comprehensive protection. In this Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall running in Google Cloud. You will gain practical experience that you can apply to improve visibility and security for your applications and workloads.

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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. 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 intermediate-level quest is unique among Qwiklabs quests. These labs have been curated to give operators hands-on practice with Anthos—a new, open application modernization platform on GCP. Anthos enables you to build and manage modern hybrid applications. Tasks include: installing service mesh, collecting telemetry, and securing your microservices with service mesh policies. This quest is composed of labs targeted to teach you everything you need to know to introduce service mesh, and Anthos, into your next hybrid cloud project.

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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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AWS provides a set of on-demand storage, archive, transcoding, and streaming services for businesses that are running photo, video, and file storage applications in the cloud. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with foundational services for digital media on AWS.

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Scientists, developers, and other technologists from many different industries are taking advantage of AWS to perform big data analytics and meet the challenges of the increasing volume, variety, and velocity of digital information. AWS offers a portfolio of cloud computing services to help you manage big data by reducing costs, scaling to meet demand, and increasing the speed of innovation. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with foundational services for Big Data.

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AWS offers services that provide businesses with a flexible, highly scalable, and low-cost way to deliver their websites and web applications. In this quest, you’ll learn to work with foundational services for marketing websites on AWS.

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