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Bill Fugaru

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Silver League

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Anthos: Service Mesh Earned أبريل 9, 2020 EDT
[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned مارس 2, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero: Lunar New Year Special Earned يناير 25, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: ACE Challenge Game 2 Earned يناير 10, 2020 EST
Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs Earned يناير 9, 2020 EST
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Earned يناير 8, 2020 EST
Cloud Architecture - Design, Implement, and Manage Earned ديسمبر 14, 2019 EST
DevOps Essentials Earned سبتمبر 27, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: BigQuery for Data Analysis Earned سبتمبر 7, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Data Solutions Earned أغسطس 31, 2019 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned أغسطس 17, 2019 EDT
[Deprecated] Cloud Logging Earned أغسطس 8, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs Earned أغسطس 4, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Network Performance and Optimization Earned أغسطس 4, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Data Engineering Earned أغسطس 3, 2019 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices Earned أغسطس 2, 2019 EDT
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions Earned أغسطس 2, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite Earned أغسطس 2, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure Earned أغسطس 2, 2019 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned أغسطس 2, 2019 EDT
Deployment Manager Earned أغسطس 1, 2019 EDT
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network Earned يوليو 31, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure Earned يوليو 31, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned يوليو 29, 2019 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Earned يوليو 27, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Stackdriver Earned يوليو 26, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned يوليو 24, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned يوليو 23, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering Earned يوليو 20, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering Speedrun Earned يونيو 28, 2019 EDT
Cloud Implementation Approach Earned يونيو 27, 2019 EDT
Cloud Adoption Strategies Earned يونيو 25, 2019 EDT
OK Google! Speedrun Earned يونيو 20, 2019 EDT
Friday Speedrun: Machine Learning Earned يونيو 14, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes Challenge Speedrun Game 2 Earned يونيو 7, 2019 EDT
Networking Speedrun Earned مايو 31, 2019 EDT
Friday Speedrun Game Earned مايو 17, 2019 EDT
OK Google! Speedrun Earned أبريل 26, 2019 EDT

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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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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Happy Lunar New Year from Qwiklabs! Begin your new year with an exciting game full of fun and learning. Play this game and complete the labs from the Cloud Architecture Quest and get a headstart for your certification preps!

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Whoa, it's 2020 and you want to accelerate your career! But you don't know where to start. Have you considered getting Google Cloud certified? Get hands-on practice with the GCP Console in today's game. Bonus, these labs will advance you towards completing the Cloud ACE 30-day challenge!

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This is the second Quest in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This Quest is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Here you'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits, and taking advantage of committed use discounts. In the hands-on labs, you’ll practice using various tools to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.

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This course is suitable for technology or finance roles managing Google Cloud costs. Learn to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage access permissions. In hands-on labs, you view invoices and analyze billing data with BigQuery. You also use Google Sheets and create dashboards with Data Studio. You find references from the videos in this Additional Resources document.

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This quest of "Challenge Labs" gives the student preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification hands-on practice with common business/technology solutions using Google Cloud architectures. Challenge Labs do not provide the "cookbook" steps, but require solutions to be built with minimal guidance, across many Google Cloud technologies. All labs have activity tracking, and in order to earn this badge you must score 100% in each lab. This quest is not easy and will put your Google Cloud technology skills to the test! Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your knowledge and abilities, additional study, experience, and background in cloud architecture is recommended to prepare for this certification. Complete this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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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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You have data. We have analysis tools. Let's talk! In today's game, you will explore how Google Cloud can help you take advantage of the information you already have. Get hands-on practice with SQL, BigQuery and Data Studio, three tools we promise you will use again.

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In today's game, you will explore how Google Cloud can help you solve real-world challenges with different data tools, while making progress on the Data Engineering quest. Want to learn more about what data can do? Check out how the New York Times, Macy's and healthcare researchers are using tools like Kubernetes and Tensorflow: http://bit.ly/32e0bwi

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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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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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Google Cloud Application Programming Interfaces are the mechanism to interact with Google Cloud Services programmatically. This quest will give you hands-on practice with a variety of GCP APIs, which you will learn through working with Google’s APIs Explorer, a tool that allows you to browse APIs and run their methods interactively. By learning how to transfer data between Cloud Storage buckets, deploy Compute Engine instances, configure Dataproc clusters and much more, Exploring APIs will show you how powerful APIs are and why they are used almost exclusively by proficient GCP users. Enroll in this quest today.

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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.

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Start the 30-day challenge strong with a speedrun! Two labs in this game fulfill requirements towards your Data Engineering cert practice badge, and all four get you hands-on experience with key data tools and concepts.

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Get Anthos Ready. Demand for Google Kubernetes Engine is growing, and customers are looking to Google and its partners to provide in-depth technical knowledge. This first Google Kubernetes Engine-centric Quest of best practices hands-on labs will get you started containerizing to modernize in place , and then managing your deployed apps and services -- with monitoring, tracing, and logging.

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Containerized applications have changed the game and are here to stay. With Kubernetes, you can orchestrate containers with ease, and integration with the Google Cloud Platform is seamless. In this advanced-level quest, you will be exposed to a wide range of Kubernetes use cases and will get hands-on practice architecting solutions over the course of 8 labs. From building Slackbots with NodeJS, to deploying game servers on clusters, to running the Cloud Vision API, Kubernetes Solutions will show you first-hand how agile and powerful this container orchestration system is.

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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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In this course you will learn how you to harness serious Google Cloud power and infrastructure. The hands-on labs will give you use cases and you will be tasked with implementing scaling practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From developing enterprise grade load balancing and autoscaling, to building continuous delivery pipelines, Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling your Infrastructure will teach you best practices for taking your Google Cloud projects to the next level.

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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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If you’re looking to take your Google Cloud application to the next level, look no further than Deployment Manager. By automating the creation of GCP resources and services, Deployment Manager lets you focus on developing rather than maintaining. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands on practice with Deployment Manager by building custom templates, automating Python and Jinja application instances, and scaling custom networks.

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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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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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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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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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Stackdriver provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. In this game you will explore Stackdriver and get hands-on practice with it. Have fun with Stackdriver and maximize your learning experience by getting an insight on how you can utilize Stackdriver Logging to your own GCP Environments.

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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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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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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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Welcome, gamers! Have you considered getting Google Cloud certified? The logical place to start is the Cloud ACE certification. Get a head start on completing your Cloud Engineering quest and practicing key exam topics, while scoring points and competing against players around the world.

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Welcome to Cloud Implementation Approach! Click "Join 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! Be sure to complete each lab by selecting the END option to get the maximum points. Please respect the GCP resource quotas that have been allocated. Otherwise, you'll waste your Game time and gain fewer points.

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Welcome to Cloud Adoption Strategies Click "Join 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! Be sure to complete each lab by selecting the END option to get the maximum points. Please respect the GCP resource quotas that have been allocated. Otherwise, you'll waste your Game time and gain fewer points.

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Welcome, gamers! Over a billion: that's how many Google Assistant devices will be out in the world by the end of the year. Want in? Learn to build your own Google Assistant app and win points in today's Qwiklabs game. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. 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. The top 10 players get 25 free Qwiklabs credits. And the winner? Eligible to receive a Google Home mini (if available from the Google Store in your location - we'll be in touch after the game with details). Hurry, the game is open until Friday at midnight, EDT. Ready to play?

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Welcome, gamers! Are you figuring out how to use different Google tools available out there? Interested in Cryptocurrency? Here is a great opportunity to enjoy and get familiar with some cool Google tools. In today's game, rent a VM, ingest and analyse data, build an IoT pipeline, play with TensorFlow and then get the best out of this game by tracking Cryptocurrency with GCP in Real-Time!! Complete the game labs one by one to score points. 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. The top 10 players get 25 free Qwiklabs credits. And the winner? Eligible to receive an amazing E-Book `Data Science on Google Platform` by the Data Scientist Valliappa Lakshmanan. Hurry, the game is open for 24 hours only. Ready to play?

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It’s gameday! Watch your name move up the leaderboard and get valuable Kubernetes skills and experience to help you complete the 30-day challenge. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. 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. The top 10 players get 25 free Qwiklabs credits. And the winner? We'll send you an ebook copy of the book "Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure" by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns and Joe Beda (delivered via email). Hurry, the game is open for 12 hours only. Ready to play?

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Welcome, gamers! It’s gameday - watch your name move up the leaderboard and get 4 labs closer to completing your Networking quest. In today's game, experiment with VPC networks, firewalls and optimizing spend - plus maybe win a prize. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. 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. Ready to play?

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Welcome, gamers! Feeling tense after a long week? Relax and learn something new - how about TensorFlow? In today's game, experiment with ML, TPUs, and TensorFlow, then finish the week with a Kubernetes twist. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. 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. Ready to play?

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Welcome to the Friday Speedrun, gamers! Over a billion: that's how many Google Assistant devices will be out in the world by the end of the year. Want in? Learn to build your own Google Assistant app and win points in today's Qwiklabs game. Start taking the game labs one by one to score points. 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.

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