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Skills Boost Arcade Trivia July 2025 Week 3 Earned июля 25, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia July 2025 Week 1 Earned июля 24, 2025 EDT
Level 1: Core Infrastructure and Security Earned июля 24, 2025 EDT
Level 3: Building Blocks Earned мая 31, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Certification Zone May 2025 Earned мая 31, 2025 EDT
Level 1: Data Modeling and Reporting Earned мая 30, 2025 EDT
Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI Earned мая 30, 2025 EDT
Enrich Metadata and Discovery of BigLake Data Earned мая 30, 2025 EDT
Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets Earned мая 30, 2025 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned мая 29, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 3 Earned мая 28, 2025 EDT
Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage Earned мая 28, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 2 Earned мая 28, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia May 2025 Week 1 Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Get Started with Pub/Sub Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Customer Experience with Google AI Architecture Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Responsible AI for Digital Leaders with Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Google Calendar Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Google Sheets Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Google Meet Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Google Slides Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Google Docs Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Google Drive Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit Earned мая 27, 2025 EDT
Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen Earned мая 26, 2025 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned мая 2, 2025 EDT
Level 3: The Arcade Quiz Earned апр. 20, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia April 2025 Week 1 Earned апр. 20, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned сент. 11, 2024 EDT

Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for July 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 July Trivia Week 3 badge!

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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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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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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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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 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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Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in 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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Complete the Enrich Metadata and Discovery of BigLake Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in BigQuery, BigLake, and Dataplex Universal Catalog. You create BigLake tables and enrich metadata management and discovery of the table data.

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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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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.

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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 introductory Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: securing and configuring a Cloud Storage bucket, using Gemini for text generation, managing IAM access control, and establishing a Dataplex lake for data governance.

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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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for May 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 May Trivia Week 1 badge!

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Pub/Sub skill badge course, 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.

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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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In this course you will learn the key architectural considerations that need to be taken into account when designing for the implementation of Conversational AI solutions.

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This course equips learners with the essential knowledge and practical tools to develop and implement artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly. Through an exploration of ethical considerations, best practices, and governance procedures, participants will gain an understanding of how to navigate the complex landscape of AI while upholding ethical standards and minimizing potential risks.

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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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With Google Calendar, you can quickly schedule meetings and events and create tasks, so you always know what’s next. Google Calendar is designed for teams, so it’s easy to share your schedule with others and create multiple calendars that you and your team can use together. In this course, you’ll learn how to create and manage Google Calendar events. You will learn how to update an existing event, delete and restore events, and search your calendar. You will understand when to apply different event types such as tasks and appointment schedules. You will explore the Google Calendar settings that are available for you to customize Google Calendar to suit your way of working. During the course you will learn how to create additional calendars, share your calendars with others, and access other calendars in your organization.

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In this course we will introduce you to Google Sheets, Google’s cloud-based spreadsheet software, included with Google Workspace. With Google Sheets, you can create and edit spreadsheets directly in your web browser—no special software is required. Multiple people can work simultaneously, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically. You will learn how to open Google Sheets, create a blank spreadsheet, and create a spreadsheet from a template. You will add, import, sort, filter and format your data using Google Sheets and learn how to work across different file types. Formulas and functions allow you to make quick calculations and better use your data. We will look at creating a basic formula, using functions, and referencing data. You will also learn how to add a chart to your spreadsheet. Google Sheets spreadsheets are easy to share. We will look at the different ways you can share with others. We will also discuss how to track changes…

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In this course, we introduce you to Google Meet, Google’s video conference software included with Google Workspace. You learn how to create and manage video conference meetings using Google Meet. You explore different ways to open Google Meet and add people to a video conference. You also learn how to join meetings from different sources like calendar events or meeting links. We discuss how Google Meet can help you better communicate, exchange ideas, and share resources with your team wherever they are. You learn how to customize the Google Meet environment to fit your needs and how to effectively use chat messages during a video conference. You also explore different ways to share resources, such as by using calendar invites or attachments. You learn about using host controls in Google Meet to manage participants and utilize interactive moderation features. You also learn how to record and live stream video conferences.

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With Google Slides, you can create and present professional presentations for sales, projects, training modules, and much more. Google Slides presentations are stored safely in the cloud. You build presentations right in your web browser—no special software is required. Even better, multiple people can work on your slides at the same time, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is automatically saved. You will learn how to open Google Slides, create a blank presentation, and create a presentation from a template. You will explore themes, layout options, and how to add and format content, and speaker notes in your presentations. You will learn how to enhance your slides by adding tables, images, charts, and more. You will also learn how to use slide transitions and object animations in your presentation for visual effects. We will discuss how to organize slides and explore some of the options, including duplicating and ordering your slides, importi…

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With Google Docs, your documents are stored in the cloud, and you can access them from any computer or device. You create and edit documents right in your web browser; no special software is required. Even better, multiple people can work at the same time, you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically. In this course, you will learn how to open Google Docs, create and format a new document, and apply a template to a new document. You will learn how to enhance your documents using a table of contents, headers and footers, tables, drawings, images, and more. You will learn how to share your documents with others. We will discuss your sharing options and examine collaborator roles and permissions. You will learn how to manage versions of your documents. Google Docs allows you to work in real time with others on the same document. You will learn how to create and manage comments and action items in your documents. We will review a few of the G…

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Google Drive is Google’s cloud-based file storage service. Google Drive lets you keep all your work in one place, view different file formats without the need for additional software, and access your files from any device. In this course, you will learn how to navigate your Google Drive. You will learn how to upload files and folders and how to work across file types. You will also learn how you can easily view, arrange, organize, modify, and remove files in Google Drive. Google Drive includes shared drives. You can use shared drives to store, search, and access files with a team. You will learn how to create a new shared drive, add and manage members, and manage the shared drive content. Google Workspace is synonymous with collaboration and sharing. You will explore the sharing options available to you in Google Drive, and you will learn about the various collaborator roles and permissions that can be assigned. You’ll also explore ways to ensure consistency and save time…

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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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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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Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge course 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.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge course to demonstrate skills in text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. In this course, you learn Gemini prompting, test Streamlit apps in Cloud Shell, and deploy them as Docker containers in Cloud Run.

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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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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.

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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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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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