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Configure AI Applications to optimize search results Earned июля 31, 2025 EDT
Extend Google Agentspace assistant capabilities Earned июля 31, 2025 EDT
Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned июля 31, 2025 EDT
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Google Agentspace Earned июля 31, 2025 EDT
Recommendations with AI Applications Earned июля 30, 2025 EDT
Introduction to NotebookLM Earned июля 30, 2025 EDT
Improve Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace Search Results Earned июля 30, 2025 EDT
Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace Analytics Earned июля 30, 2025 EDT
Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace UI Configurations Earned июля 30, 2025 EDT
Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores Earned июля 30, 2025 EDT
Create Data Stores for Gen AI Applications Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI Applications Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Deploy a RAG application with vector search in Firestore Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Evaluate ADK Agents with Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation Service Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Edit images with Imagen Earned июля 29, 2025 EDT
Generate and Edit Media with Imagen, Gemini, and Veo Earned июля 28, 2025 EDT
Build Gen AI solutions using Model Garden models and APIs Earned июля 28, 2025 EDT
Find, Explore and Deploy Model Garden Models Earned июля 28, 2025 EDT
Improve Performance by Fine-Tuning Foundation Models Earned июля 28, 2025 EDT
Implement Hybrid Search Earned июля 28, 2025 EDT
Implement RAG with Vertex AI Earned июля 28, 2025 EDT
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery Earned июля 18, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI apps with tool use Earned июля 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned мая 14, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned мая 14, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned мая 14, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned мая 14, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned мая 14, 2025 EDT
Cloud Hero IAM & Security Skills Earned окт. 12, 2023 EDT
Cloud Hero Infra Skills Earned окт. 4, 2023 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned окт. 4, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned июня 14, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned июня 12, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned мая 23, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned мая 23, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI Earned мая 23, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned мая 23, 2023 EDT
Techcon 2023 Platform Game Earned мая 17, 2023 EDT
GCC Technical Specialty Learning Packs - Industry - Financial Services & Insurance Earned февр. 13, 2023 EST
[Accelerate 2022]: TechCon Lab Bash 2022 Earned янв. 14, 2022 EST
Cloud Hero: Data Management Earned февр. 17, 2021 EST

Complete the Configure AI Applications to optimize search results skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in configuring search results from AI Applications. You will be tasked with implementing search serving controls to boost and bury results, filter entries from search results and display metadata in your search interface. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Complete the Extend Google Agentspace assistant capabilities skill badge to demonstrate your ability to extend Google Agentspace assistant's capabilities with actions, grounding with Google Search, and a conversational 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Complete the Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your ability to create, configure, and access media search and recommendations applications using AI Applications. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Unite Google’s expertise in search and AI with Google Agentspace, an enterprise tool designed to help employees find specific information from document storage, email, chats, ticketing systems, and other data sources, all from a single search bar. The Google Agentspace assistant can also help brainstorm, research, outline documents, and take actions like inviting coworkers to a calendar event to accelerate knowledge work and collaboration of all kinds.

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Do you want to keep your users engaged by suggesting content they'll love? This course equips you with the skills to build a cutting-edge recommendations app using your own data with no prior machine learning knowledge. You learn to leverage AI Applications to build recommendation applications so that audiences can discover more personalized content, like what to watch or read next, with Google-quality results customized using optimization objectives.

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NotebookLM is an AI-powered collaborator that helps you do your best thinking. After uploading your documents, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so you can read, take notes, and collaborate with it to refine and organize your ideas. NotebookLM Pro gives you everything already included with NotebookLM, as well as higher utilization limits, access to premium features, and additional sharing options and analytics.

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If you've worked with data, you know that some data is more reliable than other data. In this course, you'll learn a variety of techniques to present the most reliable or useful results to your users. Create serving controls to boost or bury search results. Rank search results to ensure that each query is answered by the most relevant data. If needed, tune your search engine. Learn to measure search results to ensure your search applications deliver the best possible results to each user.

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AI Applications provides built-in analytics for your Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace apps. Learn what metrics are tracked and how to view them in this course.

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Initial deployment of Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace apps takes only a few clicks, but getting the configurations right can elevate a deployment from a basic off-the-shelf app to an excellent custom search or recommendations experience. In this course, you'll learn more about the many ways you can customize and improve search, recommendations, and Google Agentspace apps.

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Complete the Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in building various types of data stores used in Vertex AI Search 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Data stores represent a simple way to make content available to many types of generative AI applications, including search applications, recommendations engines, Google Agentspace apps, Agent Development Kit agents, and apps built with Google Gen AI or LangChain SDKs. Connect data from many sources include Cloud Storage, Google Drive, chat apps, mail apps, ticketing systems, third-party file storage providers, Salesforce, and many more.

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Complete the Build search and recommendations AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in deploying search and recommendation applications through AI Applications. Additionally, emphasis is placed on constructing a tailored Q&A system utilizing data stores. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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This course introduces AI Applications. You will learn about the types of apps that you can create using AI Applications, the high-level steps that its data stores automate for you, and what advanced features can be enabled for Search apps.

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This lab tests your ability to develop a real-world Generative AI Q&A solution using a RAG framework. You will use Firestore as a vector database and deploy a Flask app as a user interface to query a food safety knowledge base.

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Complete the Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use the Gen AI evaluation service. You will evaluate models to select the best model for a given task, compare models against each other and evaluate the performance of agents. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to take actions such as sending an email. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"

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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models

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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.

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Evaluation is important at every step of your Gen AI development process. In this course you will learn how to evaluate gen AI agents built using agent frameworks.

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This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

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Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Generate engaging media with Google's foundation models for media. Create new images with Imagen, or edit your existing photos by adding details or outpainting to create a wider view. Replace backgrounds to put your products in new scenes. And learn the basics of generating videos with Veo!

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Complete the Develop solutions using Model Garden APIs skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use Vertex AI Model Garden features when building gen AI solutions. You will use partner APIs such as Anthropic Claude ands Meta Llama, deploy and programatically access foundation models like Gemma and Stable Diffusion XL and access Vertex AI Endpoints. 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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network. When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!

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Model Garden is a model library that helps you discover, test, and deploy models from Google and Google partners. Learn how to explore the available models and select the right ones for your use case. And how to deploy and interact with Model Garden models through the Google Cloud console and APIs.

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Model tuning is an effective way to customize large models to your tasks. It's a key step to improve the model's quality and efficiency. Model tuning provides benefits such as higher quality results for your specific tasks and increased model robustness. You learn some of the tuning options available in Vertex AI and when to use them.

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Learn how to create Hybrid Search applications using Vertex AI Vertex Search to combine semantic searching with keyword search to return results based on both semantic meaning and keyword matching.

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Learn how to build your own Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for greater control and flexibility than out-of-the-box implementations. Create a custom RAG solution using Vertex AI APIs, vector stores, and the LangChain framework.

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This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.

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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.

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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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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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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud! You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points.

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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud! You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points.

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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 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 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 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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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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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 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 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 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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The Generative AI Explorer - Vertex Quest is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the models in the Vertex AI PaLM API family, including text-bison, chat-bison, and textembedding-gecko. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via Vertex AI custom training and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint.

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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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Welcome to the TechCon 2023 Platform Game!!

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Preparing Google Cloud technical staff to become accredited champions in architecting, deploying, and troubleshooting Financial Services Industry solutions on Google Cloud through learning, preparation, and practice. You can find all of our technical learning packs on go/techlearningpacks and industry learning packs on go/industrylearningpacks. Brought to you by the CLS Tech Specialization Team (gcc-enablement-tech@). Share your request/feedback on go/learningpacks-feedback!

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Welcome to the TechCon Lab Bash 2022 hands-on lab event! Below, you are presented with a series of labs ranging from Level 100 to Level 400. Level 100 labs are video walkthroughs of the lab content. Level 200 labs are traditional Learning Labs which provide you with step-by-step instructions. Level 300 are Challenge Labs which provide you with limited instructions and a hands-on technical scenario to solve. Level 400 are break/fix labs where you must identify the issues in the environment and resolve them.

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One petabyte of data is equal to 2^50 bytes, 1024 terabytes or a million gigabytes. When it comes to data, learn how to take advantage of Google Cloud's size and scale to make your data management life easier. Put GCP to the test and explore key solutions to common use cases and gain hands-on experience with IoT data at scale, ETL processing and more, plus score points and compete with other players in today's game.

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