This challenge is designed to help you get comfortable working with data across tools like Google Sheets, BigQuery, Looker, and even Google Docs. You’ll start by learning how to find, filter, and visualize data in Sheets, and run quick-start projects using Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataplex, and Cloud Filestore from the command line. From there, you’ll dive deeper—writing SQL to explore real-world datasets, spotting common query errors, and troubleshooting data models in Looker. You’ll also pick up best practices to make your LookML projects easier to use and maintain. Whether you're just exploring or solving tricky issues, these labs give you the practical skills to work smarter with your data.
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Modern apps don’t just need to run—they need to run smart, fast, and secure. With these labs, you'll get hands-on with the foundational tools that power today's connected experiences. You'll configure VPC networks, manage identity with IAM and IAP, and monitor systems using Prometheus and Cloud Monitoring. You’ll also deploy serverless apps with Cloud Run and generate PDFs with Go. It’s everything you need to sharpen your networking know-how—fast!
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This set of labs is all about helping you get hands-on with Looker and Google Cloud to turn raw data into clear, useful insights. You’ll learn how to build and organize your data models using LookML, create custom metrics and dimensions, and use derived tables to clean and shape your data. Along the way, you'll explore best practices like modularizing your code and improving query performance with caching and datagroups. Once the data’s in shape, you’ll move into Looker Studio to build reports, schedule dashboards, and set up alerts—making it easier to share what matters with your team.
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Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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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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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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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud quest, where you learn how to work with VPC networks and load balancers on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Monitoring in Google Cloud course, where you learn how to use Cloud Monitoring tools.
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Tag and Discover BigLake Data quest, where you use BigQuery, BigLake, and Data Catalog within Dataplex to create, tag, and discover BigLake tables. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Secure BigLake Data quest, where you use IAM, BigQuery, BigLake, and Data Catalog within Dataplex to create and secure BigLake tables. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage quest, where you use Cloud Storage, IAM, and Dataplex together to create a secure data lake on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Streaming Analytics into BigQuery quest, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow and BigQuery together to stream data for analytics. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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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Complete the Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets skill badge to demonstrate that you can use Connected Sheets to access, analyze, visualize, and share billions of rows of BigQuery data from your Google Sheets spreadsheet.
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Google Cloud Certifications provide a tangible way for you to demonstrate your skills to potential or current employers. These certifications incorporate performance-based questions, testing your hands-on expertise through practical tasks. Begin your journey towards becoming a Google Certified Professional with the help of the Arcade Cert Zone.
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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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for April Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the April Trivia Week 4 badge!
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Booking a hotel online often comes down to what you see—and for Goibibo, making those visuals accurate and timely is key. In this challenge, you’ll explore how Goibibo sped up the process of moderating and publishing thousands of hotel images each day using tools like Cloud Vision and AutoML. Through hands-on labs, you’ll learn how to classify and analyze images, work with cloud storage, manage networks, and explore data using BigQuery and Looker. You’ll also get a closer look at how cloud infrastructure supports fast, reliable user experiences. Whether it’s processing photos or managing traffic, you’ll see how technology helps keep things running smoothly behind the scenes!
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop with Apps Script and AppSheet quest, where you will learn how to build chat bots and how to use the script editor in any document. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.
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Earn an introductory skill badge by completing the Get Started with Google Workspace Tools course, where you will get introduced to Google's collaborative platform and learn to use Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Drive, Sheets, and AppSheet.
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Complete the introductory Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: image recognition, natural language processing, image generation using Google's powerful Gemini and Imagen models, deploying applications on the Vertex AI platform.
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs quest, where you learn how to use the Natural Language and Speech APIs in real-world settings.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Using the Google Cloud Speech API quest, where you learn how create a Speech-to-Text API request, transcribe audio speech to text, and transcribe speech. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn the Introductory skill badge by completing the Cloud Speech API: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use speech related API tools to synthesise and transcribe speech.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Create a Streaming Data Lake on Cloud Storage course, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Cloud Storage together to create a streaming data lake on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Run functions: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services. It tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, including the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Engine: 3 ways quest, where you learn how to use App Engine with Python, Go, and PHP. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage quest, where you learn how APIs work in Google, and how to use the Cloud Storage API specifically. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Cloud Storage quest, where you learn how to create a Cloud Storage bucket, how to use the Cloud Storage command line, and how to use Bucket Lock to protect objects in a bucket. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Looker quest, where you learn how to analyze, visualize, and curate data using Looker Studio and Looker. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Complete the introductory Get Started with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Dataplex assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Dataplex.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with API Gateway quest, where you learn how to use API Gateway to deploy, secure, and manage APIs with a fully managed gateway. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Pub/Sub quest, where you learn how to use Pub/Sub through the Cloud console, how Cloud Scheduler jobs can save you effort, and when Pub/Sub Lite can save you money on high-volume event ingestion. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for April Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the April Trivia Week 3 badge!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for April Week 2! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the April Trivia Week 2 badge!
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Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute quest, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Build smarter, more connected applications while keeping security at the forefront. These hands-on labs take you through creating dynamic Gmail Add-ons, Google Chat Bots, and AI-powered document tools. You'll also explore securing cloud environments with Binary Authorization, detecting threats with Security Command Center, and monitoring performance with Google Cloud’s managed services. Get ready to develop, secure, and optimize with confidence!
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Learn how to streamline healthcare data management with cloud technology. In these hands-on labs, you'll work with FHIR and HL7v2 data using the Healthcare API, de-identify medical images, and build a secure data lake on Cloud Storage. You'll also explore ways to cut cost and process large datasets with Cloud Dataproc. Whether it's managing patient records or securing sensitive data, these labs will equip you with the skills to enhance healthcare technology.
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Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
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Get hands-on with Google Cloud’s core infrastructure and API capabilities. These labs walk you through deploying virtual machines, setting up network load balancers, and provisioning services through Cloud Marketplace. You'll also explore API management with API Gateway and enhance security with Cloud Data Loss Prevention and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
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Welcome to the Arcade Quiz, where every question is a chance to learn, explore, and challenge yourself. Explore a variety of intriguing topics, put your cloud knowledge to the test, and complete all the challenges to earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for April Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the April Trivia Week 1 badge!
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Using the Google Cloud Speech API
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Cloud Speech API: 3 Ways
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