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Dheeraj Chhabra

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Get Started with Dataplex Earned יונ 5, 2023 EDT
Create a Secure Data Lake on Cloud Storage Earned יונ 5, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Cloud Storage Earned יונ 5, 2023 EDT
Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned יונ 4, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Eventarc Earned יונ 4, 2023 EDT
Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs Earned יונ 4, 2023 EDT
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned מאי 26, 2023 EDT
Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI Earned מאי 25, 2023 EDT
Manage Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned מאי 25, 2023 EDT
DEPRECATED Deploy Google Cloud Framework Data Foundation for SAP Earned מאי 25, 2023 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned מאי 25, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Google Workspace Tools Earned מאי 25, 2023 EDT
Get Started with Looker Earned מאי 24, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Citizen Developer Skills Earned מאי 24, 2023 EDT
Qwiklabs Trivia May 2023 Earned מאי 23, 2023 EDT
Cloud Run Functions: 3 Ways Earned מאי 18, 2023 EDT
App Building with AppSheet Earned מאי 18, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Data, ML and API Skills Earned מאי 18, 2023 EDT
Get Started with API Gateway Earned מאי 17, 2023 EDT
Streaming Analytics into BigQuery Earned מאי 15, 2023 EDT
Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets Earned אפר 28, 2023 EDT
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Command Line Earned אפר 28, 2023 EDT
Level 2: Data Exploration with Looker, BigQuery and Sheets Earned אפר 24, 2023 EDT
Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets Earned אפר 24, 2023 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned אפר 24, 2023 EDT
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Console Earned אפר 23, 2023 EDT
Level 1: Managing Resources and Data in the Cloud Earned אפר 23, 2023 EDT
Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources Earned אפר 23, 2023 EDT
Anthos Earned מרץ 9, 2021 EST
Work and Play: Healthcare with Google Cloud Earned מרץ 4, 2021 EST
Application Development II Earned מרץ 2, 2021 EST
BigQuery for Data Analysis II Earned פבר 25, 2021 EST
Love Your Pet Speedrun Earned פבר 20, 2021 EST
Cloud Hero: Core Infrastructure II Earned פבר 17, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Creating with Google Maps Earned פבר 13, 2021 EST
Pizza Day Speedrun Earned פבר 10, 2021 EST
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Earned פבר 6, 2021 EST
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Earned פבר 6, 2021 EST
Intro to ML: Image Processing Earned ינו 27, 2021 EST
Trifacta Game Day Earned ינו 22, 2021 EST
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud Earned ינו 20, 2021 EST
Machine Learning APIs Earned ינו 20, 2021 EST
Workspace: Add-ons Earned ינו 20, 2021 EST
Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned ינו 17, 2021 EST
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned ינו 17, 2021 EST
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned ינו 16, 2021 EST
Google Workspace Essentials Earned ינו 16, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning Earned ינו 15, 2021 EST
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned ינו 14, 2021 EST
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network Earned ינו 14, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Marketing Analysts Earned ינו 12, 2021 EST
Data Catalog Fundamentals Earned ינו 12, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned ינו 11, 2021 EST
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Earned ינו 8, 2021 EST
Intro to ML: Language Processing Earned ינו 8, 2021 EST
Cloud Logging Earned ינו 8, 2021 EST
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud Earned ינו 8, 2021 EST
Google Developer Essentials Earned ינו 8, 2021 EST
[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned ינו 8, 2021 EST
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned ינו 7, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite Earned ינו 7, 2021 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned ינו 7, 2021 EST
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned ינו 7, 2021 EST
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned ינו 6, 2021 EST
Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned ינו 5, 2021 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned ינו 4, 2021 EST
BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned ינו 4, 2021 EST
[DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned ינו 3, 2021 EST
Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Earned ינו 1, 2021 EST
Build Apps & Websites with Firebase Earned ינו 1, 2021 EST
Cloud SQL Earned דצמ 30, 2020 EST
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned דצמ 29, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned דצמ 29, 2020 EST
Holiday Speedrun Earned דצמ 26, 2020 EST
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage Earned דצמ 25, 2020 EST
Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs Earned דצמ 19, 2020 EST
VM Migration Earned דצמ 18, 2020 EST
Anthos: Service Mesh Earned דצמ 17, 2020 EST
[DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks Earned דצמ 16, 2020 EST
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Earned דצמ 16, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite on GKE Earned דצמ 15, 2020 EST
Palo Alto Networks Game Earned דצמ 11, 2020 EST
Work and Play: Shipping in the Cloud Earned דצמ 10, 2020 EST
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud Earned דצמ 4, 2020 EST
DevOps Essentials Earned דצמ 4, 2020 EST
Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned דצמ 4, 2020 EST
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned דצמ 4, 2020 EST
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned דצמ 4, 2020 EST
Develop Your Google Cloud Network Earned דצמ 3, 2020 EST
Cloud Engineering Earned דצמ 3, 2020 EST
Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned דצמ 3, 2020 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned דצמ 2, 2020 EST
Baseline: Infrastructure Earned דצמ 2, 2020 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned דצמ 2, 2020 EST
Google Cloud Essentials Earned דצמ 1, 2020 EST

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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Cloud Storage skill badge course, where you learn how to create a Cloud Storage bucket, how to use the Cloud Storage command line, and how to use Bucket Lock to protect objects in a bucket.

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Complete the introductory Monitoring in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Cloud Monitoring tools to monitor resources on Google Cloud.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Eventarc skill badge course, where you use Eventarc to create event triggers for different resources including Pub/Sub topics and Cloud Storage buckets.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs quest, where you learn how to use the Natural Language and Speech APIs in real-world settings.

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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge course 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 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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy Google Cloud Framework Data Foundation for SAP quest. 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 quest, 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 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 an introductory skill badge by completing the Get Started with Google Workspace Tools course, where you will get introduced to Google's collaborative platform and learn to use Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Drive, Sheets, and AppSheet.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Looker skill badge course, where you learn how to analyze, visualize, and curate data using Looker Studio and Looker.

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Ever thought "I wish I had an app for this" ? Guess what - employers have, too. In fact, demand for citizen developers is expected to grow 300% by 2024 according to a Forrester report. Become the innovator companies want and need with the Arcade. Play now to get hands-on experience creating custom applications with Google Cloud's powerful data tools. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential.

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Welcome to Qwiklabs Trivia for May! Each week, we will release a new set of questions to test your knowledge. You will have opportunities to play throughout the month. Give your career a boost with hands on experience on GCP and partner services and earn the May badge.

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Earn a Introductory skill badge by completing the Cloud Run functions: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.

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Demand for cloud-skilled workers is rising. According to a report by Indeed, cloud computing jobs are expected to grow 22% over the next five years, much faster than the average for all occupations. And demand for machine learning jobs is expected to grow 75%. Want to grow your skills and take advantage of the opportunity? Level up your tech skills and get hands-on experience in the Arcade, with labs that help you learn and earn your first Google Cloud credential. No experience required.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with API Gateway skill badge course, where you learn how to use API Gateway to deploy, secure, and manage APIs with a fully managed gateway.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Streaming Analytics into BigQuery skill badge course, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow and BigQuery together to stream data for analytics.

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Complete the intermediate Use Functions, Formulas and Charts in Google Sheets skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: analyzing data with functions; visualizing data using charts; and searching, validating, formatting, and displaying data.

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Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Pub/Sub are all Google Cloud Platform services that can be used to store, process, and manage data. All three services can be used together to create a variety of data-driven applications. In this skill badge you use Cloud Storage to store images, Cloud Functions to process the images, and Cloud Pub/Sub to send the images to another application.

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Description: According to IDC, by 2026, 7 PB of data will be generated per second globally. But what you *do* with the data is what matters. Data is the heart of digital transformation and offers incredible opportunities for organizations to accelerate the most strategic business outcomes, like revenue and productivity. Want to grow your skills and take advantage of the opportunity? Play now to get hands-on experience with Google Cloud's powerful data tools. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential.

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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 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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Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Pub/Sub are all Google Cloud Platform services that can be used to store, process, and manage data. All three services can be used together to create a variety of data-driven applications. In this skill badge you use Cloud Storage to store images, Cloud Functions to process the images, and Cloud Pub/Sub to send the images to another application.

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More than 90% of IT leaders say they're looking to grow their cloud environments in the next several years, yet more than 80% of those same leaders identified a lack of skills as a barrier to growth. This means that tech skills (particularly cloud skills!) are in high demand. Want to grow your skills and take advantage of the opportunity? Play now to get hands-on experience with Google Cloud. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential. No experience required.

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Complete the introductory Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: granting and revoking IAM permissions; installing monitoring and logging agents; creating, deploying, and testing an event-driven Cloud Run function.

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Welcome to Cloud Hero, Gamers! Click "Join this Game" to start this game. To modify your player name or avatar, go to your My Account page at https://google.qwiklabs.com. Points are earned by completing the steps in the lab.... and bonus points are earned for speed....

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Google Cloud, in partnership with Harvard Global Health Institute, released the COVID-19 Public Forecasts to serve as an additional resource for healthcare, the public sector, and other organizations responding to the pandemic. In this edition of the Work and Play Series, we are going to learn how to use that data to make predictions and visualizations. You’ll get hands-on experience with exactly the same tools being used to help solve complex problems and keep people safe and healthy.

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Welcome Gamers, Here's a fun opportunity for you to get yourself familiarized with Isitio. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab....and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!

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Welcome Gamers! Test your skills and learn BigQuery, all while having fun! You will compete to see who can finish the game with the highest score. Earn the points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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20th February is Love Your Pet Day! Celebrate all the good boys and girls with this weekend’s speedrun. Each lab teaches you a new Google Cloud skill. In the first lab, you meet Mr. Whiskers and his friends, and deploy a new Ruby on Rails app. In the next two labs, you’ll review frisbees (5 stars, would chase again), learn how to reverse-engineer the relationships between data tables, and create new reporting tables using SQL JOINS and UNIONs. In the final lab, you’ll install and run an object detection application - a pretty neat TensorFlow experience - and test if your app can detect your pet’s species. So curl up with your furry friends (or feathered, finned, fanged, whatever else!) and learn some new tricks! Er, skills. Good luck!

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Cloud Hero is played around the world, in person and online. Today, you have the opportunity to become one of the Cloud Heroes! Today's game is all about Core Infrastructure. You will compete to see who can finish the game with the most points. Speed is important, and so is accuracy! Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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In this quest you will use several tools available in Google Cloud to manipulate data and create a Google Map - map location details to find subway stations or a business; use geocoding and Apps Script to send an email of a map; visualize data on a customized map; and build a server-side proxy to create a map on a mobile device.

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It’s pizza O’clock at Qwiklabs. 9th February is Pizza day and we thought what better way to celebrate than a speedrun! Today’s labs come with all the extra toppings, no extra charge.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run.

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Twelve years ago Lily started the Pet Theory chain of veterinary clinics, and has been expanding rapidly. Now, Pet Theory is experiencing some growing pains: their appointment scheduling system is not able to handle the increased load, customers aren't receiving lab results reliably through email and text, and veteranerians are spending more time with insurance companies than with their patients. Lily wants to build a cloud-based system that scales better than the legacy solution and doesn't require lots of ongoing maintenance. The team has decided to go with serverless technology. For the labs in the Google Cloud Run Serverless Quest, you will read through a fictitious business scenario in each lab and assist the characters in implementing a serverless solution. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google…

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Using large scale computing power to recognize patterns and "read" images is one of the foundational technologies in AI, from self-driving cars to facial recognition. The Google Cloud Platform provides world class speed and accuracy via systems that can utilized by simply calling APIs. With these and a host of other APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to image processing by taking labs that will enable you to label images, detect faces and landmarks, as well as extract, analyze, and translate text from within images.

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Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta is an intelligent data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and unstructured data for analysis. In today's game, get hands-on experience with the Cloud Dataprep UI. Learn how to create a data transformation pipeline, automate the data pipeline and much more with Cloud Dataprep and BigQuery

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Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API.

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It's no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and Google Cloud has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, Google Cloud has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning APIs by taking labs like Detect Labels, Faces, and Landmarks in Images with the Cloud Vision API. Looking for a hands-on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? Enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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This course demonstrates the power of integrating Google Cloud services and tools with Workspace applications - like using Node.js to build a survey bot, the Natural Language API to recognize sentiment in a Google Doc, and building a chat bot with Apps Script.

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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.

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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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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery.

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Workspace is Google's collaborative applications platform, delivered from Google Cloud. In this introductory-level course you will get hands-on practice with Workspace’s core applications from a user perspective. Although there are many more applications and tool components to Workspace than are covered here, you will get experience with the primary apps: Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and a handful of others. Each lab can be completed in 10-15 minutes, but extra time is provided to allow self-directed free exploration of the applications.

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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn how to harness serious Google Cloud computing power to run big data and machine learning jobs. The hands-on labs will give you use cases, and you will be tasked with implementing big data and machine learning practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From running Big Query analytics on tens of thousands of basketball games, to training TensorFlow image classifiers, you will quickly see why Google Cloud is the go-to platform for running big data and machine learning jobs.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.

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Networking is a principle theme of cloud computing. It’s the underlying structure of Google Cloud, and it’s what connects all your resources and services to one another. This course will cover essential Google Cloud networking services and will give you hands-on practice with specialized tools for developing mature networks. From learning the ins-and-outs of VPCs, to creating enterprise-grade load balancers, Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.

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Want to turn your marketing data into insights and build dashboards? Bring all of your data into one place for large-scale analysis and model building. Get repeatable, scalable, and valuable insights into your data by learning how to query it and using BigQuery. 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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Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. You can still complete this course if you want to. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog (https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog). Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, understand, and manage all of their data. In this quest you will start small by learning how to search and tag data assets and metadata with Data Catalog. After learning how to build your own tag templates that map to BigQuery table data, you will learn how to build MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer to Data Catalog Connectors.

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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. 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. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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For everyone using Google Cloud Platform for the first time, getting familar with gcloud, Google Cloud's command line, will help you get up to speed faster. In this quest, you'll learn how to install and configure Cloud SDK, then use gcloud to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, using BigQuery, and using gsutil to perform operations.

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It’s no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to language processing by taking labs that will enable you to extract entities from text, and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis as well as use the Speech to Text API for transcription.

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Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale. It can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs and, even better, analyze all that log data in real time. In this fundamental-level Quest, you learn how to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud. The labs in the Quest give you hands-on practice using Cloud Logging to maximize your learning experience and provide insight on how you can use Cloud Logging to your own Google Cloud environment.

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In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.

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This introductory-level quest shows application developers how the Google Cloud ecosystem could help them build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud native applications. You learn how to develop and scale applications without setting up infrastructure, run data analytics, gain insights from data, and develop with pre-trained ML APIs to leverage machine learning even if you are not a Machine Learning expert. You will also experience seamless integration between various Google services and APIs to create intelligent apps.

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With Google Assistant part of over a billion consumer devices, this quest teaches you how to build practical Google Assistant applications integrated with Google Cloud services via APIs. Example apps will use the Dialogflow conversational suite and the Actions and Cloud Functions frameworks. You will build 5 different applications that explore useful and fun tools you can extend on your own. No hardware required! These labs use the cloud-based Google Assistant simulator environment for developing and testing, but if you do have your own device, such as a Google Home or a Google Hub, additional instructions are provided on how to deploy your apps to your own hardware.

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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics.

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Learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. These labs will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML.

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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other catalog offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataprep, to Cloud Composer, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation, too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Engineer Data in the Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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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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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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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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Want to build ML models in minutes instead of hours using just SQL? BigQuery ML democratizes machine learning by letting data analysts create, train, evaluate, and predict with machine learning models using existing SQL tools and skills. In this series of labs, you will experiment with different model types and learn what makes a good model.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant quest, where you will learn how to build Google Assistant applications, including how to: create an Actions project, integrate Dialogflow with an Actions project, test your application with Actions simulator, build an Assistant application with flash cards template, integrate customer MP3 files with your Assistant application, add Cloud Translation API to your Assistant application, and use APIs and integrate them into your 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 skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: architecting and building serverless web applications with Firebase, utilizing Firestore for database management, automating deployment processes using Cloud Build, and integrating Google Assistant functionality into your applications.

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Firebase is a backend-as-service (Bass) platform for creating mobile and web applications. In this quest you will learn to build serverless web apps, import data into a serverless database, and build a Google Assistant application with Firebase and its Google Cloud integrations. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.

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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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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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Celebrate this holiday season with Qwiklabs. Have some holiday fun with these labs which will help you from mapping the NYC subway to building a nearby business search service with Google Maps platform. The goal - have fun! Each and every participant in this game will receive a gift of Qwiklabs credits. Then you may get more gifts - all depends on the number of labs you complete. The more labs you take, the higher your score and the better your chances! Hurry up and join this game today!! Limited seats available.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.

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ביצוע אופטימיזציה לעלויות של Google Cloud תיאור: זו המשימה השנייה מתוך שתיים בנושא יסודות החיוב וניהול העלויות ב-Google Cloud. המשימה הזו מתאימה במיוחד לבעלי תפקידים הקשורים ל-IT או לפיננסים, שאחראים לביצוע האופטימיזציה של תשתית הענן בארגון. במהלך המשימה תלמדו כמה דרכים לשליטה ולביצוע אופטימיזציה בעלויות של Google Cloud, ביניהן הגדרת תקציבים והתראות, ניהול של מגבלות מכסה וניצול של הנחות תמורת התחייבות לשימוש. בשיעורים המעשיים תתנסו בכל מיני כלים שיעזרו לכם לשלוט בעלויות ב-Google Cloud, לבצע אופטימיזציה שלהן או לעודד את צוותי הטכנולוגיה להחיל את השיטות המומלצות לאופטימיזציה של העלויות. מטרות: להסביר על הדרישות המקדימות בתחום התפעול לצורך אופטימיזציה של העלויות בענן. להבדיל בין תקציבים למכסות. להגדיר תקציבים והתראות לסף החזוי ולסף בפועל לקבלת תשלום. להגדיר אמצעי בקרה על עלויות באמצעות מכסה. לנתח את ההנחות תמורת התחייבות לשימוש. להשתמש בשיטות מתקדמות לשליטה בעלויות ולאופטימיזציה שלהן. קהל: כל מי שמנהל את ההוצאות ב-Google Cloud בכל תפקיד בחברה. התפקידים שנכללים: פיננסים ו-IT, מנהלי רכש, מנ…

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Google Cloud’s four step structured Cloud Migration Path Methodology provides a defined and repeatable path for users to follow when migrating and modernizing Virtual Machines. In this quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google’s current solution set for VM assessment, planning, migration, and modernization. You will start by analyzing your lab environment and building assessment reports with CloudPhysics and StratoZone, then build a landing zone within Google Cloud leveraging Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code templates, next you will manually transform a two-tier application into a cloud-native workload running on Kubernetes, and finally, transform a VM workload into Kubernetes with Migrate for Anthos and migrate a VM between cloud environments.

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This intermediate-level quest is unique among Qwiklabs quests. These labs have been curated to give operators hands-on practice with Anthos—a new, open application modernization platform on GCP. Anthos enables you to build and manage modern hybrid applications. Tasks include: installing service mesh, collecting telemetry, and securing your microservices with service mesh policies. This quest is composed of labs targeted to teach you everything you need to know to introduce service mesh, and Anthos, into your next hybrid cloud project.

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The move to Google® Cloud public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. Palo Alto Networks® offers innovative and comprehensive protection as you adopt public cloud services. The Palo Alto Networks solutions complement the native Google Cloud security toolset, including network, host and cloud-native security delivered through APIs for comprehensive protection. In this Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall running in Google Cloud. You will gain practical experience that you can apply to improve visibility and security for your applications and workloads.

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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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In this fundamental-level course, you will learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite running on Google Kubernetes Engine, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. The labs in this course will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials course. Additional lab experience with the labs in the Baseline - Infrastructure course will also be useful. Looking for a hands-on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this course to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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The move to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. Palo Alto Networks offers innovative and comprehensive protection as you adopt public cloud services. In today's game, get hands-on experience with how Palo Alto Networks solutions complement the native GCP security toolset, including network, host and cloud-native security delivered through APIs for comprehensive protection.

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The international shipping industry is responsible for carrying around 90% of the world’s trade. Packlink’s app offers a fast and easy way to book parcel deliveries with the world's top couriers at discounted prices. With the help of the Google Cloud Platform, Packlink is helping their users compare and purchase domestic and international package delivery services. By migrating to Google Cloud Platform and using BigQuery Packlink reduced it’s running costs by $5k per month, saved 100 hours, reduced 20% cost with automatic auditing of billing data and eliminated major failures decreasing the overall cost by 35%. This game is part of the Work & Play series - understanding how you can apply GCP tools to help solve real-world problems.

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Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating git repositories with Cloud Source Repositories, launching, managing, and scaling deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and architecting CI/CD pipelines that automate container image builds and deployments to GKE.

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Obtain a competitive advantage through DevOps. DevOps is an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. In this course you will learn how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. DevOps Research and Assessment has joined Google Cloud. How does your team measure up? Take this five question multiple-choice quiz and find out!

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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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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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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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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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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.

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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.

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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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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.

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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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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

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