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Takanori Akiyama

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Google Skills Arcade Certification Zone December 2025 Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 2 Earned Dec 26, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 1 Earned Dec 25, 2025 EST
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Oct 26, 2025 EDT
Get Started with Dataplex Earned Sep 13, 2025 EDT
Share Data Using Google Data Cloud Earned Sep 12, 2025 EDT
Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen Earned Sep 12, 2025 EDT
Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned Sep 12, 2025 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PMLE Earned Aug 15, 2025 EDT
Gemini for Application Developers Earned May 30, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned May 29, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned May 28, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned May 27, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned May 27, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned May 26, 2025 EDT
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned Apr 10, 2025 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Feb 17, 2025 EST
Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit Earned Jan 28, 2025 EST
Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI Earned Jan 21, 2025 EST
[DEPRECATED] Webhook fundamentals Earned Aug 2, 2024 EDT
Level 2: Develop and Deploy Earned Jun 26, 2024 EDT
The Arcade June Speedrun Earned Jun 25, 2024 EDT
Level 3: GenAIus Travels Earned Jun 24, 2024 EDT
The Arcade Trivia June 2024 Week 1 Earned Jun 21, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings Earned Jun 12, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned Jun 7, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Jun 7, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Interpretability & Transparency Earned May 27, 2024 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI Earned May 27, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Mar 19, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned Mar 19, 2024 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned Mar 18, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Mar 10, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Mar 10, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Mar 10, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Mar 9, 2024 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Mar 9, 2024 EST
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned Jan 16, 2024 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned Oct 20, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned Oct 19, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned Oct 17, 2022 EDT

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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December 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 December Trivia Week 2 badge!

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

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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Complete the introductory Get Started with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Dataplex assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Dataplex.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Share Data Using Google Data Cloud skill badge 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.

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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 intermediate Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: managing deployments with kubectl, monitoring and debugging applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and continuous delivery techniques.

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Learn how to use NotebookLM to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification exam (PMLE). You'll review NotebookLM features, create a notebook, and use the study guide to practice for a certification exam.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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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 s 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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This course explores Gemini in BigQuery, a suite of AI-driven features to assist data-to-AI workflow. These features include data exploration and preparation, code generation and troubleshooting, and workflow discovery and visualization. Through conceptual explanations, a practical use case, and hands-on labs, the course empowers data practitioners to boost their productivity and expedite the development pipeline.

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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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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 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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In this course, you will learn the important role that different types of webhooks play in Dialogflow CX development, and how to effectively integrate them into your routine configuration of a Virtual Agent.

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Bring your ideas to life by gaining hands-on experience in application development and deployment on Google Cloud Platform. Master security, traffic management, and learn to use development frameworks while earning a Google Cloud Credential. No prior experience needed!

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Race to the finish line with the Arcade June Speedrun and pick up valuable skills along with an exclusive Google Cloud Credential. Get hands-on experience with APIs, learn how to build a serverless app, and more! No prior experience needed.

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Excited to follow your favorite soccer/football stars on their next quest? Use GenAIus Travel Guides to learn how to interact with chat applications, master prompt engineering, understand the importance of context in AI, and work with Generative AI. Earn an exclusive Google Cloud Generative AI Credential and showcase your new skills! No prior experience needed!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with the 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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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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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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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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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 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 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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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 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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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.

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