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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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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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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This quest introduces you to Vault and teaches you how to secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys to protect secrets and other sensitive data.
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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 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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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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With Connected Sheets, you can access, analyze, visualize, and share billions of rows of BigQuery data from your Google Sheets spreadsheet. In this skill badge you will learn how use Google Sheets, BigQuery, and bring it all together with Connected Sheets.
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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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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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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. This quest is the first quest of its kind, involving NetApp technology on Google Cloud. In this quest you will 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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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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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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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud.
The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.
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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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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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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.
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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. 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This quest of "Challenge Labs" gives the student preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification hands-on practice with common business/technology solutions using Google Cloud architectures. Challenge Labs do not provide the "cookbook" steps, but require solutions to be built with minimal guidance, across many Google Cloud technologies. All labs have activity tracking, and in order to earn this badge you must score 100% in each lab. This quest is not easy and will put your Google Cloud technology skills to the test! Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your knowledge and abilities, additional study, experience, and background in cloud architecture is recommended to prepare for this certification. Complete this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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This quest of hands-on labs 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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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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This Quest of hands-on labs introduces you to the fundamentals of no-code application development and the capabilities offered by Google Cloud's AppSheet. AppSheet helps in digitizing and automating manual or paper-based business processes to turn them into mobile and web apps.
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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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Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. In this quest you will learn how to create a Flutter app using generated template code. Be sure to tag #flutterfestival in your social posts!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Configure your Workplace: Google Workspace for IT Admins quest, where you will get try out the Admin role for Workspace and learn to provision Groups, manage applications, security, and manage Meet. 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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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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In this quest you will get hands-on experience writing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
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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 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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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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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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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions with Vertex AI course, where you will learn how to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, AutoML, and custom training services to train, evaluate, tune, explain, and deploy machine learning models. This skill badge course is for professional Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. 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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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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In this introductory level Quest you will gain practical experience on the fundamentals of sports data science using BigQuery. Start your journey by creating 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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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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Today’s cyber attacks are outpacing many organizations' defensive capabilities. With threats growing in volume and sophistication, organizations everywhere are being routinely compromised and held hostage by ransomware because they’re not equipped to combat the adversary. Join us for a self-guided hands-on workshop program on how to respond to common ransomware scenarios using instructional labs created by Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud. These labs illustrate and help you understand the critical steps security operations teams need to take in to investigate and respond to an attack.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the modern era. What was once science fiction has now finally become reality. Join this game and complete all the 4 labs as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn the badge so you can dedicate it to that one special woman in your life! Complete this badge and win 25$ worth Cloud Skills Boost credits! Access code:- iwd-2022
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The goal of DevOps is to combine software development and IT operations into a holistic set of strategies and practices. Want to learn more about how the relationship works? Join a team and challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges.
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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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These labs help you get started with cloud security basics. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with securing your cloud. Complete this game to earn the Level 1 game 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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These labs will challenge you to explore advanced cloud security scenarios. It’s OK to take a lab more than once to achieve a great score. Complete this game to earn the Level 3 game 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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These labs will give you a deeper understanding of security features in the cloud. These labs are a little more challenging. It’s OK to take a lab more than once to achieve a great score. Complete this game to earn the Level 2 game 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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Migrate MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Services quest, where you will learn how to migrate MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Services, including how to: connect to Cloud SQL instances using the Cloud Console and with different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service, and migrate MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs. 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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Apigee X quest, where you learn about the Apigee X architecture, how to provision an Apigee X organization within a Google Cloud project, the management of Apigee X using the Apigee API and UI, and the use of Cloud Armor and Apigee threat protection policies to protect your APIs. 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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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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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data plus track! "The Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer certification is associated with the highest paying salary in IT," according to the most recent Global Knowledge skills and salary report (published August 2021). Complete this game to earn the Data Plus game badge, and be eligible for a +bonus+ prize in the Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge. See "what's next" below for details and requirements; you’ll need to earn at least 2 additional challenge badges to qualify. You'll learn next-level data skills to add to your resume. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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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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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge security track! These eight labs give you the keys to understanding GCP's powerful security suite. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with securing your cloud. Complete this game to earn the Security game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four badges (see "what's next" below for more information).
Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge architecture track! These eight labs give you a blueprint of GCP's building blocks. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with another tool or service to add to your resume. Complete this game to earn the Architecture game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data track! These eight labs give you a deep dive into GCP's data universe. At the end of each lab, you'll have another in-demand skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Data game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge! These eight labs give you a quick hands-on introduction to eight different GCP tools and services. At the end of each lab, you'll have another skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Essentials game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of developing GCP applications in Java. The first labs will walk you through the basics of environment setup and application data storage with Cloud Datastore. Once you have a handle on the fundamentals, you will get hands-on practice deploying Java applications on Kubernetes and App Engine (the latter is the same framework that powers Snapchat!) With specialized bonus labs that teach user authentication and backend service development, this quest will give you practical experience so you can start developing robust Java applications straight away.
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Dataprep is Google's self-service data preparation tool built in collaboration with Alteryx. Learn the basics of cleaning and preparing data for analysis and visualization, all in the Google ecosystem. In this quest, you will learn how to connect Dataprep to your data in Cloud Storage and BigQuery, clean data using the interactive UI, profile the data, and publish your results back into the Google ecosystem. You will learn the basics of data transformation, including filtering values, reshaping the data, combining multiple datasets, deriving new values, and aggregating your dataset.
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This advanced-level quest offers hands-on practice with migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service. You will start with an introductory lab that briefly reviews how to get started with Cloud SQL for MySQL, including how to connect to Cloud SQL instances using the Cloud Console, then continue with two labs focused on migrating MySQL databases to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service. The quest ends with migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI quest, where you will learn about the features of Contact Center AI, including how to Build a virtual agent, Design conversation flows for your virtual agent; Add a phone gateway to your virtual agent; Use Dialogflow for troubleshooting; Review logs and debug your virtual agent. 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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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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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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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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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 third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.
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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 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 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. 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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This is the second of two Quests of hands-on labs 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 second Quest, covering chapter 9 through the end of the book, you extend the skills practiced in the first Quest, and run full-fledged machine learning jobs with state-of-the-art tools and real-world data sets, all using Google Cloud tools and services.
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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, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning at scale and how to employ the advanced ML infrastructure available on GCP.
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C# has powered Windows .NET application development for nearly two decades and Google Cloud is committed to supporting developers getting their .NET workloads up and running on Google Cloud. In this quest, you will learn how to run C# apps in Google Cloud, and specifically how to take your apps to the next level by interfacing them with the big data and machine learning APIs that are accessible now from C#. By enrolling in this quest you will see firsthand how seamlessly Google Cloud integrates with .NET workloads and what the possibilities are for leveraging big data and ML services in your own C# projects.
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Get Anthos Ready. This Google Kubernetes Engine-centric quest of best practice hands-on labs focuses on security at scale when deploying and managing production GKE environments -- specifically role-based access control, hardening, VPC networking, and binary authorization.
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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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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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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. For practice with BigQuery fundamentals (including working with the console and command line), complete the course titled BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts.
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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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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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In this quest, you will gain hands-on experience on several topics in Google Workspace Administration including security, provisioning users and groups, managing applications, and managing Google Meet.
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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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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. 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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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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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of developing GCP applications in Python. The first labs will walk you through the basics of environment setup and application data storage with Cloud Datastore. Once you have a handle on the fundamentals, you will get hands-on practice deploying Python applications on Kubernetes and App Engine (the latter is the same framework that powers Snapchat!) With specialized bonus labs that teach user authentication and backend service development, this quest will give you practical experience so you can start developing robust Python applications straight away.
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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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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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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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Google Cloud is committed to supporting Windows workloads in its frameworks and services. In this quest, you will get hands-on practice running Microsoft’s ASP.net (web app framework) on Google Cloud. ASP.NET is an open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based and internet-connected applications using the C# programming language.
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In this course you will learn how to use several BigQuery ML features to improve retail use cases. Predict the demand for bike rentals in NYC with demand forecasting, and see how to use BigQuery ML for a classification task that predicts the likelihood of a website visitor making a purchase.
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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 Google Cloud. 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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Apigee enables you to create APIs and manage them for the benefit of other developers who might need to use your software. Apigee Edge enables you to quickly expose backend services as APIs. These "API Products" offer different capabilities and levels of service, with consumption managed by Apigee. This Quest of hands-on labs gives you practice in using Apigee for API creation and management functionality when you decide to modernize an application backend.
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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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Blockchain and related technologies, such as distributed ledger and distributed apps, are becoming new value drivers and solution priorities in many industries. In this Quest you will gain hands-on experience with distributed ledger and the exploration of blockchain datasets in Google Cloud. This Quest brings the research and solution work of Google's Allen Day into self-paced labs for you to run and learn directly. Since this Quest utilizes advanced SQL in BigQuery, a SQL-in-BigQuery refresher lab is at the start. The final lab is an advanced challenge-style lab in which there are elements where you are not provided the answer but must solve it for yourself.
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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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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions. 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 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; building machine learning models using BigQuery ML; and using Cloud Composer to copy data across multiple locations. 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 Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications 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 the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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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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 fundamental-level course, you will learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite running on Google Kubernetes Engine, 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. The labs in this course 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 course. Additional lab experience with the labs in the Baseline - Infrastructure course will also be useful. Looking for a hands-on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this course to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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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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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 quest 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, Networking Fundamentals in the Google Cloud will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.
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Want to learn the core SQL and visualization skills of a Data Analyst? Interested in how to write queries that scale to petabyte-size datasets? Take the BigQuery for Analyst Quest and learn how to query, ingest, optimize, visualize, and even build machine learning models in SQL inside of BigQuery.
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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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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. 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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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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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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This advanced-level Quest builds on its predecessor Quest, and offers hands-on practice on the more advanced data integration features available in Cloud Data Fusion, while sharing best practices to build more robust, reusable, dynamic pipelines. Learners get to try out the data lineage feature as well to derive interesting insights into their data’s history.
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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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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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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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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.
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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 Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language 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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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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Organizations around the world rely on Apache Kafka to integrate existing systems in real time and build a new class of event streaming applications that unlock new business opportunities. Google and Confluent are in a partnership to deliver the best event streaming service based on Apache Kafka and to build event driven applications and big data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. In this game, you will first learn how to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka. You will then perform hand-on labs on the different functionalities of the Confluent Platform including deploying and running Apache Kafka on GKE and developing a Streaming Microservices Application.
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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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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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Containerized applications have changed the game and are here to stay. With Kubernetes, you can orchestrate containers with ease, and integration with the Google Cloud Platform is seamless. In this advanced-level quest, you will be exposed to a wide range of Kubernetes use cases and will get hands-on practice architecting solutions over the course of 8 labs. From building Slackbots with NodeJS, to deploying game servers on clusters, to running the Cloud Vision API, Kubernetes Solutions will show you first-hand how agile and powerful this container orchestration system is.
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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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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 quest, 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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Farming is a dominant sector, employing half of the labor force in India. Recent innovations have led to higher yield seeds and improved soil analyses, but access to new tech is challenging for small farmers. That’s where AgroStar’s multilingual mobile app comes in, connecting a million farmers in the cloud with agronomy, data science, and analytics - and running on Google Cloud. You can master key GCP tools the team is currently using to improve response times by 85% and support knowledge center updates for 1 million mobile devices in near real time - even building a discussion platform in 3 weeks. This game is part of the Work & Play series - understanding how you can apply GCP tools to help solve real-world problems.
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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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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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This quest offers hands-on practice with Cloud Data Fusion, a cloud-native, code-free, data integration platform. ETL Developers, Data Engineers and Analysts can greatly benefit from the pre-built transformations and connectors to build and deploy their pipelines without worrying about writing code. This Quest starts with a quickstart lab that familiarises learners with the Cloud Data Fusion UI. Learners then get to try running batch and realtime pipelines as well as using the built-in Wrangler plugin to perform some interesting transformations on data.
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Google Cloud’s four step structured Cloud Migration Path Methodology provides a defined and repeatable path for users to follow when migrating and modernizing Virtual Machines. In this quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google’s current solution set for VM assessment, planning, migration, and modernization. You will start by analyzing your lab environment and building assessment reports with CloudPhysics and StratoZone, then build a landing zone within Google Cloud leveraging Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code templates, next you will manually transform a two-tier application into a cloud-native workload running on Kubernetes, and finally, transform a VM workload into Kubernetes with Migrate for Anthos and migrate a VM between cloud environments.
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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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The Google Cloud Platform provides many different frameworks and options to fit your application’s needs. In this introductory-level quest, you will get plenty of hands-on practice deploying sample applications on Google App Engine. You will also dive into other web application frameworks like Firebase, Wordpress, and Node.js and see firsthand how they can be integrated with Google Cloud.
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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 quest, 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? 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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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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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.
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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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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 quest 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! 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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Get started with Go (Golang) by reviewing Go code, and then creating and deploying simple Go apps on Google Cloud. Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build fast, reliable, and efficient software at scale. Go runs native on Google Cloud, and is fully supported on Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions. Go is a compiled language and is faster and more efficient than interpreted languages. As a result, Go requires no installed runtime like Node, Python, or JDK to execute.
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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 AI Platform. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network course, where you will learn how to: Set IAM features with the gcloud CLI tool; deploy and scale a web app on Google Compute Engine; provision a Kubernetes cluster and break an application into microservices; perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform; view BigQuery logs inside Cloud Logging, and migrate a stand-alone PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL using a continuous Database Migration Service job. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this quest is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Stackdriver and Cloud Functions. By taking this quest, 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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This quest of hands-on labs 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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When it comes to hosting websites and web applications, you want a framework that’s robust, fast, and secure. By choosing the Google Cloud Platform, you will have all of those needs covered. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with GCPs key infrastructure and computing services for the web. From deploying your first web app, to integrating Cloud SQL with Ruby on Rails, to mapping the NYC subway system on App Engine, you will learn all the skills needed to harness GCPs web hosting power.
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We're almost through our 15 Day Challenge! Want a way to show off those new skills? Complete the Deploy to Kubernetes challenge in today's special, one-lab game
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In this quest you will use several tools available in Google Cloud to manipulate data and create a Google Map - map location details to find subway stations or a business; use geocoding and Apps Script to send an email of a map; visualize data on a customized map; and build a server-side proxy to create a map on a mobile device.
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Google Cloud is committed to supporting Windows workloads in its frameworks and services. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice running many of the popular Windows services on Google Cloud. For example, you will learn how to instantiate Microsoft SQL databases, cloud tools for Powershell on Google Cloud Platform frameworks.
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This is the second Quest in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This Quest is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Here you'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits, and taking advantage of committed use discounts. In the hands-on labs, you’ll practice using various tools to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.
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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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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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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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Organizations around the world rely on Apache Kafka to integrate existing systems in real time and build a new class of event streaming applications that unlock new business opportunities. Google and Confluent are in a partnership to deliver the best event streaming service based on Apache Kafka and to build event driven applications and big data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. In this Quest, you will first learn how to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka. You will then perform hand-on labs on the different functionalities of the Confluent Platform such as deploying and running Apache Kafka on GKE, building a Cloud Run Streaming Application with Apache Kafka on Anthos or developing a Streaming Microservices Application.
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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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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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This quest introduces you to Asylo (Greek for safe place), a developer framework and SDK for developing applications that run in trusted execution environments (TEEs).
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This quest is designed to teach you how to apply AWS Identity and Access Management, in concert with several other AWS Services, to address real-world application and service security management scenarios.
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Workspace (formerly G Suite) is Google's collaborative applications platform, delivered from Google Cloud. In this introductory-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Workspace’s core applications from a user perspective. Although there are many more applications and tool components to Workspace than are covered here, you will get experience with the primary apps: Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and a handful of others. Each lab can be completed in 10-15 minutes, but extra time is provided to allow self-directed free exploration of the applications.
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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge 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, and deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices. 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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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 advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications. This quest will teach you the practical skills needed for integrating container orchestration into your own workflow. 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 the Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud Quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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Complete the introductory Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: writing gcloud commands and using Cloud Shell, creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine, and configuring network and HTTP load balancers. 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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In this introductory-level Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Google Cloud Essentials is the recommended first Quest for the Google Cloud learner - you will come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you 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. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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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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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.
Qwiklabs Trivia May 2023
Earned May 23, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Citizen Developer Skills
Earned May 15, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Data, ML and API Skills
Earned May 13, 2023 EDT
Using Vault on Google Cloud
Earned May 6, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia April 2023
Earned Apr 25, 2023 EDT
Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets
Earned Apr 23, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Data Exploration with Looker, BigQuery and Sheets
Earned Apr 23, 2023 EDT
Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets
Earned Apr 23, 2023 EDT
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Command Line
Earned Apr 12, 2023 EDT
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Console
Earned Apr 12, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Managing Resources and Data in the Cloud
Earned Apr 12, 2023 EDT
Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources
Earned Apr 11, 2023 EDT
NetApp: Build, Protect and Govern your Data Infrastructure On Google Cloud
Earned Apr 8, 2023 EDT
Terraform Init: An infrastructure challenge
Earned Mar 23, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia March 2023
Earned Mar 21, 2023 EDT
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Data Without the Degree [Arcade]
Earned Mar 14, 2023 EDT
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Beep Bop Boop: A chatbot challenge [Arcade]
Earned Mar 3, 2023 EST
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Certification Replay [Arcade]
Earned Feb 22, 2023 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia February 2023
Earned Feb 21, 2023 EST
Better Together: A Google Cloud Partners Challenge
Earned Feb 9, 2023 EST
Retail Tech
Earned Feb 2, 2023 EST
The Google Cloud Fly Cup
Earned Jan 28, 2023 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia January 2023
Earned Jan 24, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Blue Challenge (A)
Earned Jan 22, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Red Challenge (A)
Earned Jan 13, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Yellow Challenge (A)
Earned Jan 5, 2023 EST
New Year, New Skills: Green Challenge (A)
Earned Jan 1, 2023 EST
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Dec 29, 2022 EST
Holiday Challenge: DLP and CDF
Earned Dec 20, 2022 EST
Sports Data Challenge
Earned Dec 16, 2022 EST
Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Dec 16, 2022 EST
Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery
Earned Dec 16, 2022 EST
MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud
Earned Dec 14, 2022 EST
Holiday Challenge: Automation with CI/CD Pipelines
Earned Dec 13, 2022 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia December 2022
Earned Dec 13, 2022 EST
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey
Earned Dec 7, 2022 EST
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Earned Dec 7, 2022 EST
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Earned Dec 7, 2022 EST
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Dec 7, 2022 EST
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Dec 7, 2022 EST
Qwiklabs Trivia November 2022
Earned Nov 24, 2022 EST
Cloud Architecture - Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned Nov 21, 2022 EST
Workspace: Integrations for Data
Earned Nov 7, 2022 EST
No Code November 2022 - Apps Scripts
Earned Nov 7, 2022 EST
Building No-Code AppSheet Apps
Earned Nov 2, 2022 EDT
No code november 2022
Earned Nov 2, 2022 EDT
Halloween 2022 Challenge
Earned Oct 31, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 4: Firecrackers and Firebase
Earned Oct 27, 2022 EDT
Flutter Essentials
Earned Oct 26, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 3: Flowers and Flutter
Earned Oct 26, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 2: Lanterns and Looker
Earned Oct 24, 2022 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia October 2022
Earned Oct 24, 2022 EDT
Diwali Game 1: Rangoli and Google Sheets
Earned Oct 23, 2022 EDT
GO! A startup & growth mindset challenge
Earned Sep 24, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 11 (10/10)
Earned Sep 9, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 10 (9/10)
Earned Sep 4, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 9 (8/10)
Earned Sep 1, 2022 EDT
Configure your Workplace: Google Workspace for IT Admins
Earned Aug 31, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 8 (7/10)
Earned Aug 25, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 7
Earned Aug 25, 2022 EDT
Creating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Earned Aug 25, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 6 (5/10)
Earned Aug 3, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 5 (4/10)
Earned Jul 27, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 4 (3/10)
Earned Jul 25, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 3 (2/10)
Earned Jul 25, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 2, 1/10
Earned Jul 25, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge: Data & Database Engineering Skills
Earned Jul 7, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Machine Learning Engineering Skills
Earned Jul 5, 2022 EDT
Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI
Earned Jul 5, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Sports Data Analysis Skills
Earned Jul 2, 2022 EDT
Sports Analytics: Pitch Perfect BigQuery
Earned Jul 2, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Data Challenge: Data Analyst Skills
Earned Jul 1, 2022 EDT
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR Game
Earned Mar 16, 2022 EDT
Womens Day: 2022
Earned Mar 9, 2022 EST
DevOps: A beautiful relationship
Earned Feb 11, 2022 EST
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Jan 20, 2022 EST
Learn to Earn Cloud Security Challenge: Level 1
Earned Jan 14, 2022 EST
Learn to Earn Cloud Security Challenge: Level 3
Earned Jan 13, 2022 EST
Learn to Earn Cloud Security Challenge: Level 2
Earned Jan 13, 2022 EST
Migrate MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service
Earned Jan 3, 2022 EST
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/CwrfuIjM%2B4x2OCbGNe9orLkQVPycEI8mLbdGhMFBZ%2B0%3D)
[DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks
Earned Jan 3, 2022 EST
Deploy and Manage Apigee X
Earned Dec 14, 2021 EST
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/wwGqG64Yt6I9sIdca%2FP9D3rXEyISvE9Q0nNOKpVfOws%3D)
[DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Nov 8, 2021 EST
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data+
Earned Oct 7, 2021 EDT
Data Science on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 7, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Security
Earned Sep 21, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Architecture
Earned Sep 19, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data
Earned Sep 19, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Essentials
Earned Sep 18, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED Application Development - Java
Earned Aug 15, 2021 EDT
Transform and Clean your Data with Dataprep by Alteryx on Google Cloud
Earned Aug 14, 2021 EDT
Migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service
Earned Aug 14, 2021 EDT
Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI
Earned Aug 13, 2021 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned Aug 12, 2021 EDT
Scientific Data Processing
Earned Aug 12, 2021 EDT
Language, Speech, Text, & Translation with Google Cloud APIs
Earned Aug 12, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 1, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 1, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 1, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Earned Aug 1, 2021 EDT
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned Jul 13, 2021 EDT
Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning
Earned Jul 9, 2021 EDT
Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure
Earned Jul 9, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED Developing Data and Machine Learning Apps with C#
Earned Jul 8, 2021 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security
Earned Jul 8, 2021 EDT
Cloud Healthcare API
Earned Jul 6, 2021 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports
Earned Jul 6, 2021 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery
Earned Jul 2, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI
Earned Jul 2, 2021 EDT
Flutter Development
Earned Jul 1, 2021 EDT
Google Workspace for IT Administrators
Earned Jul 1, 2021 EDT
Understanding LookML in Looker
Earned Jun 30, 2021 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 28, 2021 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Apr 27, 2021 EDT
Application Development - Python
Earned Apr 26, 2021 EDT
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run
Earned Apr 26, 2021 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 26, 2021 EDT
Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase
Earned Apr 26, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED ASP.NET on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 25, 2021 EDT
Applying BigQuery ML's Classification, Regression, and Demand Forecasting for Retail Applications
Earned Apr 25, 2021 EDT
Anthos Service Mesh
Earned Apr 22, 2021 EDT
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Apigee Basic](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/P%2B3RWEehvgc4NaFwawAnpFdTkhRoJz7l20S4PlvlhQs%3D)
[DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Apigee Basic
Earned Dec 5, 2020 EST
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line
Earned Dec 4, 2020 EST
Applied Data: Blockchain
Earned Dec 3, 2020 EST
Baseline: Deploy & Develop
Earned Dec 2, 2020 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
Earned Dec 1, 2020 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML
Earned Dec 1, 2020 EST
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Dec 1, 2020 EST
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/%2BCsWnL49dO1EiQScypoKfAJdI8oWEgDWqu5PBt%2FWepc%3D)
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Dec 1, 2020 EST
Cloud SQL
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite on GKE
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
BigQuery for Data Warehousing
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned Nov 30, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud
Earned Nov 20, 2020 EST
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[DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Nov 18, 2020 EST
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[DEPRECATED] Building Advanced Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion
Earned Nov 10, 2020 EST
Google Developer Essentials
Earned Nov 8, 2020 EST
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[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Nov 8, 2020 EST
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability
Earned Nov 6, 2020 EST
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud
Earned Nov 6, 2020 EST
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 6, 2020 EST
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Nov 5, 2020 EST
Confluent on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 5, 2020 EST
Cloud Logging
Earned Nov 4, 2020 EST
BigQuery for Marketing Analysts
Earned Nov 4, 2020 EST
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Nov 4, 2020 EST
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 4, 2020 EST
Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning
Earned Nov 3, 2020 EST
Intro to ML: Language Processing
Earned Nov 3, 2020 EST
Work and Play: Farming in the Cloud
Earned Oct 31, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned Oct 28, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned Oct 28, 2020 EDT
Building Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion
Earned Oct 24, 2020 EDT
VM Migration
Earned Oct 23, 2020 EDT
BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Oct 20, 2020 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 20, 2020 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications
Earned Oct 20, 2020 EDT
Machine Learning APIs
Earned Oct 20, 2020 EDT
Intro to ML: Image Processing
Earned Oct 20, 2020 EDT
Network Performance and Optimization
Earned Oct 19, 2020 EDT
Exploring APIs
Earned Oct 19, 2020 EDT
DevOps Essentials
Earned Oct 19, 2020 EDT
Getting Started with Go on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 19, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Oct 18, 2020 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Oct 18, 2020 EDT
Cloud Architecture
Earned Oct 18, 2020 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
Data Catalog Fundamentals
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
Develop your Google Cloud Network
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
Workspace: Add-ons
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
15 Days of Kubernetes
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Creating with Google Maps
Earned Oct 17, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Windows on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Build a Website on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Build Apps & Websites with Firebase
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
Website on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 16, 2020 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Asylo - Practical Confidential Computing with Enclaves
Earned Oct 15, 2020 EDT
Security on AWS
Earned Oct 15, 2020 EDT
Workspace Essentials
Earned Oct 15, 2020 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 14, 2020 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Oct 14, 2020 EDT
Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine
Earned Oct 14, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Sep 16, 2020 EDT
GKE & Anthos
Earned Sep 16, 2020 EDT
Migrating Virtual Machines
Earned Sep 16, 2020 EDT