Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.
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Renew your Professional Cloud Architect certification through hands-on labs and friendly competition! This Cloud Hero challenge puts your skills to the test, putting your expertise into practice across two required labs. Earn points for accuracy, rack up bonus points for speed, and see where you stand on the leaderboard. Can you claim the top spot? **Critical Steps for Recertification:** To successfully recertify, you must link your Google Skills and CM Connect accounts, complete both labs in this game, and manually enroll in two required courses. How to enroll / steps (can be done before or after the game): Visit CertMetrics and click "Sign in with Google Skills" Click each course link below and click the "Start" button on the course page to enroll Course 1 Course 2 Come back to this page to start this game Complete the labs in the game to earn your renewal
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.
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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 27, 2026 EDT
Cloud Hero: PCA Continuing Education Renewal
Earned Sep 21, 2026 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Oct 22, 2024 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned Oct 21, 2024 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 18, 2024 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 16, 2024 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Oct 15, 2024 EDT