Skills Boost Arcade Certification Zone March 2025
Earned Mar 28, 2025 EDT
Professional Machine Learning Engineer Study Guide
Earned Dec 31, 2024 EST
Responsible AI for Developers: Privacy & Safety
Earned Dec 30, 2024 EST
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Earned Dec 29, 2024 EST
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey
Earned Sep 2, 2024 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Sep 1, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Interpretability & Transparency
Earned Sep 1, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Fairness & Bias
Earned Aug 29, 2024 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG
Earned Aug 26, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings
Earned Aug 24, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Aug 22, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Aug 18, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned Aug 18, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Data Analytics in Google Cloud
Earned Jul 7, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Jun 19, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
Earned Jun 12, 2024 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned May 24, 2024 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned May 23, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned May 17, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI
Earned May 15, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud
Earned May 14, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Nov 27, 2023 EST
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Nov 27, 2023 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Nov 23, 2023 EST
Every great app starts with a solid foundation—and that’s exactly what you’ll build here. Spin up VMs, deploy SQL Server, and move data with confidence. But it doesn't stop there. As threats loom and traffic spikes, you’ll step up—locking buckets, defending with Cloud Armor, and scanning for vulnerabilities. It’s your mission to launch fast, stay secure, and keep everything running smoothly—all while working towards an exclusive Google Cloud credential!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for July 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 July Trivia Week 1 badge!
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Build reliable systems that can handle real-world demands. These labs focus on automated deployments, smart traffic management, and resilient architecture using GKE, Cloud Run, and Cloud Deploy. Finish strong and earn a Google Cloud credential that highlights your operational edge.
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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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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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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps analyze customer data and predict product sales. You also learn how to identify, categorize, and develop new customers using customer data in BigQuery. Using hands-on labs, you experience how Gemini improves data analysis and machine learning workflows.
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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.
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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI course. In this course, you learn how to extract, process, and capture data using Document AI.
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AI Boost Bites is a video series designed to help you leverage Google's AI tools in your daily work. Each episode, under 10 minutes, features a quick video demonstrating a real-world AI use case or topic. After the video, you'll get a challenge to apply what you've learned. It's an easy, interactive way to boost your AI skills and improve your productivity.
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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.
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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.
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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.
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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.
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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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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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Lace up for the Learn-a-Thon, your ultimate endurance challenge to master Google Cloud! This game features dynamic, hands-on labs where you'll conquer advanced topics like Terraform for robust load balancing, extract deep insights using Cloud ML APIs for perceptive text analysis, explore the fundamentals of EOSIO blockchain, and deploy Jenkins on Kubernetes for seamless CI/CD. Rack up points, earn a prestigious badge, and truly accelerate your cloud expertise.
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for June 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 June Trivia Week 4 badge!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for June 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 June Trivia Week 2 badge!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for June 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 June Trivia Week 1 badge!
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This set of labs helps you explore, manage, and visualize data effectively while also diving into task automation and performance testing on Google Cloud. You’ll work with tools like Looker and Looker Studio to model data, create derived tables, and build compelling dashboards for insights into billing and usage. You’ll also explore data governance with Data Catalog and service discovery using Service Directory. On the automation front, you’ll set up scheduled jobs with Cloud Scheduler and use Kubernetes for distributed load testing. Additionally, you'll learn how to test network latency between VMs and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
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This set of labs helps you get practical experience deploying applications and managing cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud. You’ll start by launching apps using App Engine and Dataflow across languages like PHP, Go, and Python. Then, you’ll explore how to design and manage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networks, control access, and use tools like internal load balancers and Cloud CDN to optimize performance and cost. As you go, you'll gain hands-on experience with Terraform to automate infrastructure deployment and maintain state across environments. Whether you're new to cloud deployment or looking to sharpen your networking and automation skills, these labs provide a strong foundation for building scalable, efficient applications.
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Thinking about certifications or just want to see how far you've come? This challenge is your chance to sharpen your skills with help from Generative AI. Start by reflecting on where you stand in the digital space, then jump into Gen AI-powered reviews tailored to key Google Cloud certifications like Generative AI Digital, Data Practitioner, Cloud Developer, and DevOps Engineer. Wrap things up with fun, fast quizzes to test what you’ve learned and spot areas to improve. Its a smarter, more focused way to prep—and a great way to keep your journey in the cloud going strong!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for May 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 May Trivia Week 4 badge!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for May 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 May Trivia Week 2 badge!
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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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for May 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 May Trivia Week 3 badge!
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Complete the intermediate Develop GenAI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and the Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. You will explore different ways to prompt Gemini for text generation, use Cloud Shell to test and iterate on a Streamlit application, and then package it as a Docker container deployed in 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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Getting from point A to B quickly is Rapido’s promise—but delivering on that takes more than just two wheels. In this challenge, you’ll see how Rapido used Google Cloud to scale from a bike-taxi service to launching delivery solutions for people and businesses, all while handling real-time demand across 100+ cities. You’ll explore how tools like Kubernetes, Cloud Vision, Firebase, and BigQuery help manage microservices, onboard drivers in minutes, and personalize user experiences. From rapid app releases to smarter route planning, discover how cloud technology keeps Rapido moving fast—on the road and in the backend.
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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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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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Get hands-on with the core tools behind modern app development on Google Cloud. Start by exploring Artifact Registry to securely store, organize, and manage your container images and packages. You’ll explore key tasks like setting up repositories, configuring authentication, applying tags, and automating cleanups. Then, transition to Cloud Run to deploy stateless, containerized applications with ease. Learn how to work with environment variables, manage secrets, control traffic, and build scalable, event-driven services and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
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In this beginner-level course, you will learn about the Data Analytics workflow on Google Cloud and the tools you can use to explore, analyze, and visualize data and share your findings with stakeholders. Using a case study along with hands-on labs, lectures, and quizzes/demos, the course will demonstrate how to go from raw datasets to clean data to impactful visualizations and dashboards. Whether you already work with data and want to learn how to be successful on Google Cloud, or you’re looking to progress in your career, this course will help you get started. Almost anyone who performs or uses data analysis in their work can benefit from this course.
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As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud.
Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes.
Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task.
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts.
Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions.
For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin?
If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.
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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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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: text generation, image and video analysis for enhanced content creation, and applying function calling techniques within the Gemini API. Discover how to leverage sophisticated Gemini techniques, explore multimodal content generation, and expand the capabilities of your AI-powered projects.
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery course, where you will gain practical experience on the fundamentals of sports data science using BigQuery, including how to create a soccer dataset in BigQuery by importing CSV and JSON files; harness the power of BigQuery with sophisticated SQL analytical concepts, including using BigQuery ML to train an expected goals model on the soccer event data, and evaluate the impressiveness of World Cup goals.
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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.
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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 intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.
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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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Complete the introductory Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API) to inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data in 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 course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Share Data Using Google Data Cloud course, where you will gain practical experience with Google Cloud Data Sharing Partners, which have proprietary datasets that customers can use for their analytics use cases. Customers subscribe to this data, query it within their own platform, then augment it with their own datasets and use their visualization tools for their customer facing dashboards. 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 Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API quest, where you learn how the API derives sentiment from text.
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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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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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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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for March 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 March Trivia Week 1 badge!
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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for March 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 March Trivia Week 3 badge!
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Learn how to build and deploy cloud applications with hands-on practice and pick up essential skills like automation, optimization, and scalability. Get real-world experience to create efficient, high-performing apps and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
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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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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PMLE (Professional Machine Learning Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.
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This course introduces important topics of AI privacy and safety. It explores practical methods and tools to implement AI privacy and safety recommended practices through the use of Google Cloud products and open-source tools.
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This course introduces the AI and machine learning (ML) offerings on Google Cloud that build both predictive and generative AI projects. It explores the technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI life cycle, encompassing AI foundations, development, and solutions. It aims to help data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers enhance their skills and knowledge through engaging learning experiences and practical hands-on exercises.
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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.
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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Vertex AI empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.
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This course introduces concepts of AI interpretability and transparency. It discusses the importance of AI transparency for developers and engineers. It explores practical methods and tools to help achieve interpretability and transparency in both data and AI models.
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This course introduces concepts of responsible AI and AI principles. It covers techniques to practically identify fairness and bias and mitigate bias in AI/ML practices. It explores practical methods and tools to implement Responsible AI best practices using Google Cloud products and open source tools.
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Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini. 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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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll define the field of cloud data analysis and describe roles and responsibilities of a cloud data analyst as they relate to data acquisition, storage, processing, and visualization. You’ll explore the architecture of Google Cloud-based tools, like BigQuery and Cloud Storage, and how they are used to effectively structure, present, and report data.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.
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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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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 artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like Big Query, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. 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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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you.
In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia July 2025 Week 1
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Skills Boost Arcade Certification Zone July 2025
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Skills Boost Arcade Base Camp July 2025
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Gemini for Data Scientists and Analysts
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Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
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Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI
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AI Boost Bites: Content Generation with Gemini Made Easy
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Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work
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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape
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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts
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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot
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Streaming Analytics into BigQuery
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DEPRECATED Language, Speech, Text, & Translation with Google Cloud APIs
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Arcade Learn-a-Thon
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia June 2025 Week 4
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia June 2025 Week 3
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia June 2025 Week 2
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia June 2025 Week 1
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Level 2: Automation and Performance Testing
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Level 1: Application and Network Infrastructure
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Level 3: AI Readiness
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 4
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 2
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Level 2: Data Exploration and Integration
Earned May 28, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 3
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Develop GenAI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit
Earned May 26, 2025 EDT
Work Meets Play: Rapid Runs
Earned May 21, 2025 EDT
Level 1: Data Modeling and Reporting
Earned May 15, 2025 EDT
Arcade NetworSkills
Earned May 13, 2025 EDT
Level 3: Building Blocks
Earned May 12, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Data Analytics on Google Cloud
Earned May 10, 2025 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud
Earned May 9, 2025 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Earned May 9, 2025 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
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Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned May 9, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 1
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Skills Boost Arcade Base Camp May 2025
Earned May 7, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization
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Get Started with Pub/Sub
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Create a Streaming Data Lake on Cloud Storage
Earned Apr 27, 2025 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 27, 2025 EDT
Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen
Earned Apr 26, 2025 EDT
Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets
Earned Apr 26, 2025 EDT
Monitoring in Google Cloud
Earned Apr 26, 2025 EDT
Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI
Earned Apr 25, 2025 EDT
Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery
Earned Apr 24, 2025 EDT
Build LookML Objects in Looker
Earned Apr 24, 2025 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 24, 2025 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 24, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia April 2025 Week 4
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia April 2025 Week 3
Earned Apr 21, 2025 EDT
Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection
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Level 2: Cloud Infrastructure & API Essentials
Earned Apr 13, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia April 2025 Week 1
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Arcade TechCare
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Share Data Using Google Data Cloud
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Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API
Earned Apr 8, 2025 EDT
Level 1: Application Development and Security with GCP
Earned Apr 7, 2025 EDT
Level 3: The Arcade Quiz
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Skills Boost Arcade Base Camp April 2025
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia March 2025 Week 1
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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia March 2025 Week 3
Earned Apr 1, 2025 EDT
Level 3: ACE App Dev
Earned Mar 31, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Certification Zone March 2025
Earned Mar 28, 2025 EDT
Professional Machine Learning Engineer Study Guide
Earned Dec 31, 2024 EST
Responsible AI for Developers: Privacy & Safety
Earned Dec 30, 2024 EST
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Earned Dec 29, 2024 EST
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey
Earned Sep 2, 2024 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Sep 1, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Interpretability & Transparency
Earned Sep 1, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Fairness & Bias
Earned Aug 29, 2024 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG
Earned Aug 26, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings
Earned Aug 24, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Aug 22, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned Aug 20, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Aug 18, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned Aug 18, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Data Analytics in Google Cloud
Earned Jul 7, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Jun 19, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
Earned Jun 12, 2024 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned May 24, 2024 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned May 23, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned May 17, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI
Earned May 15, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud
Earned May 14, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Nov 27, 2023 EST
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Nov 27, 2023 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Nov 23, 2023 EST