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Streaming high-velocity data is great, but only if your pipeline doesn't break under pressure. In this trail, you'll wire up Pub/Sub and Python Dataflow to stream live data straight into Cloud Storage, then lock the whole environment down. By encrypting keys with Cloud KMS, cataloging assets, and isolating networks with VPC Peering, you'll clear both challenge labs and prove you can build real-time data lakes that are as fast as they are secure.
Great code shouldn't get bogged down by infrastructure headaches. In this voyage, you'll master modern deployment patterns by turning ideas into production-ready microservices. From generating dynamic files and decoupling services with Pub/Sub to deploying polyglot apps across three different languages on App Engine, you'll cover the full developer lifecycle. Complete the challenge labs and show you know how to build fast, scale effortlessly, and keep things resilient.
Cloud architecture is a lot more fun when you actually know which levers to pull. In this adventure, you'll wire up Pub/Sub messaging, sling storage buckets from the terminal, and trigger Cloud Run functions without getting tangled in server management. Once your pipeline is moving, you'll lock the front door with IAM permissions and wire up real-time monitoring so nothing breaks while you're away. Finish both challenge labs to prove you can build fast, break nothing, and keep the whole machine running smoothly.
Close the gap between general AI capabilities and your domain knowledge through Agent Skills. This course walks you through the full lifecycle of custom skill building, from local scaffolding and testing to enterprise scaling and sharing using Google's agent ecosystem, including Google Antigravity, ADK, and Skill Registry. Additionally, you use Google Agents CLI toolkit to attach skills to standalone 24/7 cloud agents, equipping your team with reliable, autonomous digital coworkers.
Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Agent Platform skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Agent Platform. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Since last month's Arcade Trail wrapped up earlier than expected, we’re opening up this bonus game only for this month so you can grab that missed Arcade Point! You'll start on the vault side with Google Cloud Storage—managing buckets, exploring APIs, and locking down sensitive data with Bucket Lock. Then, you'll shift to event-driven vectors at the command line, triggering Cloud Run Functions and routing real-time messages through Pub/Sub. Complete with two hands-on challenge labs, this trail gets your streak back on track while building real-world storage and serverless skills.
Welcome to this month's Arcade Simulator where you will step into the shoes of a Network Security Engineer. In this simulation, you'll first lock down access control across your infrastructure—crafting custom IAM roles, scripting permissions, and setting up Identity-Aware Proxy to secure user authentication without traditional VPNs. Then, you'll take control of hybrid enterprise topology, using Network Connectivity Center to link multi-cloud networks, VPCs, and site-to-site HA-VPNs. Complete with two realistic challenge labs, this simulation equips you to eliminate access blind spots, secure cross-cloud traffic, and build a fortress-grade network on Google Cloud.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Smart Cloud Application with Vibe Coding and MCP course, where you will learn to leverage the power of Google's AI coding assistant and MCP servers. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Transforming raw spreadsheet data into structured business intelligence requires precise validation, efficient navigation, and dynamic visual reporting. This voyage path builds core analytical competencies using Google Sheets. You will begin by implementing strict data validation rules, configuring targeted search workflows, and ensuring data integrity across large datasets. You will then advance to building dynamic charts and executing complex analytical formulas to extract meaningful insights. Finalized with a comprehensive challenge lab, this voyage prepares you to build reliable, presentation-ready analytical workbooks.
Complete the intermediate Build Global and Regional Load Balancing Solutions skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy and utilize an internal client VM within the same VPC network and test traffic distribution, backend infrastructure suitable for a global external application Load Balancer, and backend VM instances and load balancer components using startup scripts and network tags to host a web application service.
It’s all about global spans and execution plans. First, you'll get under the hood of Google Cloud Spanner to design schemas, load data at scale, and master query plan optimization. From there, you'll execute your serverless backend plan by wiring up Cloud Run Functions, Pub/Sub messaging, and API Gateway. Packed with two challenge labs, you'll leave with full control over enterprise data and event-driven APIs.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Create a Streaming Data Lake on Cloud Storage course, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Cloud Storage together to create a streaming data lake on Google Cloud. 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, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
Earn the intermediate Skill Badge by completing the Connecting Cloud Networks with NCC where you will learn how to use the Network Connectivity Center to connect your on-premises, cloud enterprise networks, and hybrid networks, and manage them as spokes through a single, centralized hub on Google Cloud. 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 and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
Complete the intermediate Privileged Access with IAM skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: custom roles using Identity and Access Management (IAM), the principle of least privilege, Just-in-Time (JIT) temporary elevated access, and security for web applications using Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP).
Complete the intermediate Implement Multimodal Vector Search with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Gemini in BigQuery to generate and debug SQL, conduct sentiment analysis, summarize text and identify keywords, generate embeddings, create a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, and implement multimodal vector search.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security skill badge course, where you learn how to leverage Chrome Enterprise Premium to provide secure access to critical apps and services, improve your security posture with a modern Zero Trust platform, securely provide access to resources using identity and context-aware access control, and support hybrid cloud workloads using Client Connector.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Implement Event-Driven Messaging and Automation Workflows skill badge course, where you learn how to use Pub/Sub through the Cloud console, how Cloud Scheduler jobs can save you effort, and when Pub/Sub Lite can save you money on high-volume event ingestion.
Complete the introductory Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: performing core AlloyDB operations and tasks, migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL, administering an AlloyDB database, and accelerating analytical queries using the AlloyDB Columnar Engine.
Earn the Introductory skill badge by completing the Configure Service Accounts and IAM Roles for Google Cloud course, where you learn about service accounts, custom roles, and how to set permissions using gcloud .
Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI in Agent Platform 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. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Complete the introductory Integrate BigQuery Data and Google Workspace using Apps Script skill badge course to demonstrate skills in connecting Workspace products with BigQuery via AppSheet.
Earn the Introductory Skill Badge by completing the Implement Speech and Language Solutions with Pre-trained APIs course, where you learn how to use speech related API tools to synthesise and transcribe speech.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Using the Google Cloud Speech API skill badge course, where you learn how create a Speech-to-Text API request, transcribe audio speech to text, and transcribe speech.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop and Secure APIs with Apigee X skill badge course, where you learn how to modernize your APIs, use service accounts and Google Authentication to securely access backend services from Apigee API proxies, productize APIs using API products and developer portals, secure APIs using features like API keys, OAuth, private variables and fault handling, integrate Apigee with Google Cloud services like Pub/Sub and Cloud Logging, and call Google Cloud APIs like the Natural Language API and the Geocoding API.
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.
Accelerating software delivery while maintaining stability demands automated build, artifact, and release pipelines. This trail covers the core practices for implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) on Google Cloud. You will begin by managing container images with Artifact Registry and building automated pipelines for Google Kubernetes Engine using Cloud Build. Next, you will configure continuous delivery workflows with Google Cloud Deploy to safely promote releases across environments. Concluding with a practical challenge lab, this trail prepares you to establish resilient, production-ready deployment pipelines.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop with Apps Script and AppSheet skill badge course, where you learn how to build chat bots and how to use the script editor in any document.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API quest, where you learn how the API derives sentiment from text.
Who says sharing complex data across boundaries has to be a compliance nightmare? This adventure is your blueprint for delivering modern Analytics-as-a-Service on Google Data Cloud. You'll start by building secure, authorized views on BigQuery to safely expose data to partners without exposing underlying tables. Next, you'll learn to consume customer-specific datasets and streamline cross-organization data delivery. Packed with a hands-on challenge lab, this adventure gives you the practical skills to publish, share, and scale data seamlessly while keeping security tight.
In "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Workloads", you'll embark on a comprehensive journey into cloud-native application development. Throughout the learning experience, you'll explore Kubernetes operations, deployment management, GKE networking, and persistent storage. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine- Production course.
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.
Earn a Skill Badge by completing the Build Event-Driven Applications with Eventarc course. In this course, you use Eventarc to create event triggers for different resources, including Pub/Sub topics and Cloud Storage buckets.
Earn a Skill Badge by completing the Implement Cloud Storage and Data Protection Solutions course. Learn to create a Cloud Storage bucket, use the command line, and protect objects with Bucket Lock.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Secure Serverless APIs 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.
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.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals course, where you learn how to configure IAM permission, orchestrate workloads using Kubernetes, host a web application using compute engine, and configure load balancing.
Complete the introductory Create and Manage Bigtable Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating instances, designing schemas, querying data, and performing administrative tasks in Bigtable including monitoring performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication.
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.
Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and interacting with Cloud Spanner instances and databases; loading Cloud Spanner databases using various techniques; backing up Cloud Spanner databases; defining schemas and understanding query plans; and deploying a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner instance.
Complete the intermediate Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating datasets in BigQuery by importing CSV and JSON files; harnessing the power of BigQuery with sophisticated SQL analytical concepts, including using BigQuery ML to train an expected goals model on soccer event data and evaluate the impressiveness of World Cup goals.
Building a true "safe space" in the cloud means protecting your applications from external threats while keeping your internal infrastructure stable and efficient. This challenege starts by turning Security Command Center into your ultimate defensive shield—learning to spot risks, investigate threats, and secure your perimeter. From there, you'll bring that same safe-space philosophy to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by isolating workloads safely with multi-tenant namespaces and protecting your budget through smart autoscaling ensuring your cloud environments remain secure and perfectly optimized.
Complete the introductory Secure Lakehouse Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills with IAM, BigQuery, Lakehouse, and Knowledge Catalog to create and secure Lakehouse tables.
Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies.
Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating, configuring, and managing Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances and databases.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Apigee X skill badge course, where you learn about the Apigee X architecture, how to provision an Apigee X organization within a Google Cloud project, the management of Apigee X using the Apigee API and UI, and the use of Cloud Armor and Apigee threat protection policies to protect your APIs.
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.
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.
Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing Git 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.
Complete the intermediate Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Your Ecosystem skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API) to discover, inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data across your Google Cloud ecosystem including Cloud Storage files, BigQuery data, and Gen AI model responses.
Data is one of the most valuable assets an organization owns, making its safe handling and governance essential. In this voyage, you will master Cloud Storage fundamentals by automating bucket management via APIs and the CLI, while enforcing compliance with Bucket Lock. You will then advance to automated security, configuring Sensitive Data Protection Discovery to scan and catalog risks across BigQuery and Cloud Storage. Complete with two challenge labs, this journey equips you to secure assets across your entire cloud ecosystem.
Complete the introductory Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using APIs to work with Cloud Storage resources, including the Cloud Storage API.
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.
Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus skill badge course, where you learn Kubernetes Monitoring with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.
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 Data Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.
Welcome to this month's Arcade Simulator where you will be a Data Mesh Architect. In this simulation, you'll first tackle BigQuery to build date-partitioned tables, solve complex join pitfalls, and master nested data structures. Then, you'll shift to decentralized governance using Dataplex Knowledge Catalog to organize assets, assign metadata, and enforce strict cloud security. Complete with two realistic challenge labs, this simulation equips you to break down data silos, scale your infrastructure, and run a secure, seamless data mesh.
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.
Managing an organization’s digital ecosystem isn't just about keeping the lights on—it's about building a secure launchpad for collaboration. In this trail, you'll step into the Google Workspace Admin Console to control user provisioning and application security from the ground up. Then, you'll switch gears to digital education, transforming standard environments into secure virtual classrooms using Google Meet and Google Classroom. Backed by a challenge lab, this trail is your fast track to running enterprise-grade cloud workspaces.
Earn a Introductory skill badge by completing the Build Serverless Applications with Cloud Run Functions course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line.
Who says you need a mountain of code to build great software? This adv is your fast lane to rapid app development and automation. First, you'll jump into Google AppSheet to build and launch fully functional apps entirely code-free. Then, you'll master the backend with Cloud Run Functions, deploying event-driven code via the console and command line. Packed with two hands-on challenge labs, this quest is your ticket to building slick apps and scaling them effortlessly on Google Cloud.
Complete the intermediate Secure Software Delivery skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in proactively integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with DevSecOps principles. You'll learn how to utilize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run for secure container image deployment, implement automated vulnerability scanning to proactively identify risks, and streamline application development with Artifact Registry while maintaining a focus on security. Additionally, you'll gain skills in integrating Cloud Build for robust development processes and implementing Admission Control Policies for fine-grained control over your environment.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Complete the introductory Develop AI-Powered Prototypes in Google AI Studio skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: crafting effective prompts, leveraging multimodal capabilities for image and video analysis, prototyping functional AI-driven applications from templates and text prompts, and utilizing API keys to build and deploy custom AI solutions. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Complete the intermediate Enhance Gemini Model Capabilities skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: leveraging advanced features of Gemini models, including code generation and execution, grounding, controlled content generation, and synthetic data creation, to build more powerful and sophisticated AI applications.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API quest, where you discover how to leverage the Cloud Vision API for various tasks, including extracting text from images.
Complete the introductory Organize and Govern Data with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Knowledge Catalog assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Knowledge Catalog.
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.
Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.
Raw data is only useful if it is clean, structured, and secure. In this track, you’ll start by processing and preparing data using Dataprep, Dataflow templates, and Apache Spark. You'll learn how to clean up datasets so they are ready for machine learning models. From there, you'll focus on security by working with tools that find and mask sensitive information like personal IDs and credentials. You'll practice redacting critical details and creating safe, de-identified copies of your data in Cloud Storage. By finishing the hands-on challenge labs, you’ll show you can handle big data workflows while keeping confidential information completely safe.
Building a reliable platform for data analysis requires structured data modeling and clean, maintainable code. In this challenge, you’ll start with the building blocks of LookML, creating custom dimensions, measures, and derived tables to shape your data exactly how you need it. From there, you'll work on making your platform faster and easier to use by setting up caching, defining datagroups, and modularizing your code using extends. By following these development best practices, you'll walk away knowing how to build efficient, scalable data models that your team can easily rely on.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Writing code is just the first step; you also need to know how to deploy it smoothly and keep it running at its best. In this adventure, you’ll get started with serverless setups by running code on Cloud Run Functions and connecting your services using Google Cloud Pub/Sub. From there, you'll work on the operations side—building out clean development environments, keeping tabs on multiple projects at once, and setting up smart alerts so you can spot and fix issues early. With a couple of challenge labs thrown into the mix, you’ll walk away with the skills needed to build, monitor, and scale apps on Google Cloud.
Generative AI applications can create new user experiences that were nearly impossible before the invention of large language models (LLMs). As an application developer, how can you use generative AI to build engaging, powerful apps on Google Cloud? In this course, you'll learn about generative AI applications and how you can use prompt design and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to build powerful applications using LLMs. You'll learn about a production-ready architecture that can be used for generative AI applications and you'll build an LLM and RAG-based chat application. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Securing applications and streamlining delivery go hand in hand in modern cloud environments. In this trail, you’ll work with tools like Cloud KMS, Identity-Aware Proxy, and service accounts to manage access and protect resources. You’ll also explore private Kubernetes clusters, artifact management, and build CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build—bringing together the essentials of cloud security and DevOps in practice.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Earn a Skill Badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Applications on Google App Engine course, where you learn how to use App Engine with Python, Go, and PHP.
Building and running applications on Google Cloud can take many forms—and this adventure brings them together. Get hands-on with App Engine, Cloud Run, Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine as you deploy applications, manage scaling, and explore modern architectures, including the shift from monolithic to microservices.
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.
Working with data and applications requires the right balance of governance and agility. In this voyage, you’ll use Dataplex to organize, secure, and assess data quality while exploring concepts like data mesh. Alongside, you’ll get hands-on with Firebase—building serverless apps, working with Firestore, and managing data in real time—bringing together modern data management and application development.
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.
A season to build, experiment, and grow—one skill at a time. You’ll start with the fundamentals of networking, creating the foundation that connects everything together. From there, you’ll step into automation and application development using Cloud Scheduler, App Engine, and machine learning APIs. By the end, you’ll have a more confident, hands-on understanding of how modern applications are built, connected, and run on the cloud.
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.
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.
As platforms grow, maintaining speed, reliability, and seamless user experiences becomes critical. Inspired by Bobble AI and its journey to support millions of real-time interactions, this challenge explores how cloud-native systems are designed for efficiency at scale. You’ll work with Docker and Kubernetes to run and orchestrate applications, while also using IAM, Cloud Storage, and Monitoring to manage access, data, and performance. The result: a clearer view of how the right mix of containers, automation, and observability keeps modern applications fast, resilient, and efficient.
Complete the advanced Deploy Multi-Agent Architectures skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building multi-agent systems with ADK, connecting agents with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, integrating external tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and deploying a complete multi-agent solution to Agent Engine. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Complete the introductory Orchestrate Multi-Agent Workflows with Gemini Enterprise skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using agentic assistants powered by Gemini Enterprise to unify data across first- and third-party sources, develop multimedia marketing materials, and automate business actions across systems. Skill badges validate your practical knowledge on specific products through hands-on labs and challenge assessments. Earn a badge by completing a course or jump straight into the challenge lab to get your badge today. Badges prove your proficiency, enhance your professional profile, and ultimately lead to increased career opportunities. Visit your profile to track badges you’ve earned. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Explore the vital transition from task-driven workflows to human-centric AI orchestration. You will learn to strategically distinguish between augmentation and automation, and how to balance machine efficiency with human intuition. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Take your agents from localhost to production. This course teaches you to deploy ADK agents to Vertex AI Agent Engine and Cloud Run, with optional cross-session memory via Memory Bank. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Explore the architecture and deployment of multi-agent systems using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure. You will learn to design hierarchical agent trees and deterministic workflow agents while identifying the ideal hosting environment—from serverless Cloud Run to high-performance GKE—to ensure your AI agents are secure, scalable, and production-ready. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
You've built basic LLM agents that respond to queries—now let's make them stateful. Use session state to build agents that maintain context, remember user preferences, and provide personalized experiences. Transform agents from stateless responders to intelligent assistants.Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
You’ve built agents with advanced configuration—now give them real-world capabilities. Equip agents with tools that enable searching the web, executing code, querying databases, and performing custom actions. Transform agents from intelligent responders into capable assistants that take action. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
You’ve built your first agent—now it’s time to take it further. In this course, you’ll advance your skills by learning how to turn a basic AI agent into a sophisticated, precise assistant—applying advanced instructions, model selection, planning capabilities, and structured output patterns. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program. Join the community forum for questions and discussions
Complete the intermediate Engineer AI Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK) skill badge by completing this course to demonstrate skills in the following: formulating real-world language model research problems; building a simple tokenizer; preparing a dataset for training a transformer language model; running the training loop of a small language model. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Turn your understanding of agents into practical reality by building, configuring, and running your first AI agent using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). In this hands-on course, you’ll set up a complete ADK development environment, create agents with both Python code and YAML configuration, and run them through multiple interfaces. You’ll also learn the core parameters that define agent behavior, taking what you learned in course 1 and applying it to working code.Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program
Learn about how you can use Agent Development Kit (ADK) to build complex, production-ready AI agents. This course covers ADK’s open-source framework, moving from simple prompt engineering to a code-first, structured software development approach suitable for enterprise-grade, multi-agent systems. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Create your first Gemini Enterprise application to earn a skill badge! Connect diverse data sources to your application to build a powerful, unified search and analysis engine. Master advanced capabilities like deep research agents, multi-agent ideation, and Gemini Notebook for focused analysis. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
This course introduces the fundamentals of AI agents and explores where agents add value in the real world. It provides a foundation for developers, architects, and technical decision-makers who want to understand AI systems through the lens of autonomous, goal-directed behavior. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Gain a conceptual overview of AI Agents. Discover how AI Agents use autonomous action and reasoning to solve complex problems. You’ll explore the technical architecture—models, tools, and orchestration—that enables agents to learn, plan, and achieve goals on your behalf.
Discover how AI agents drive business impact. You’ll map agent types to your KPIs and explore use cases that solve real bottlenecks. Then, learn how Gemini Enterprise empowers you to build and orchestrate the right agents—from no-code to high-code solutions. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Modern cloud teams rely on automation and strong platform knowledge to move faster and smarter. In this trail, you’ll deploy Kubernetes Load Balancers and Cloud SQL using Terraform, strengthen observability with Cloud Logging, and customize analytics experiences in Looker using Liquid. You’ll also put your knowledge to the test through role-based Arcade Quizzes — from Data Practitioner and Database Engineer to Workspace Administrator — sharpening both your technical confidence and real-world readiness.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Over 80% of security breaches are linked to misconfigurations and weak access controls — which is why mastering cloud security and automation matters. In this adventure, you’ll detect and investigate threats with Security Command Center, create IAM custom roles, and secure digital transactions using Confidential Space. You’ll also strengthen your data and infrastructure skills by working with Datastore, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage APIs, data joins and warehousing techniques, load balancers, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins on Kubernetes Engine. Together, these labs help you build secure, reliable, and scalable cloud environments with confidence.
Great data experiences don’t happen by accident — they’re modeled, optimized, and scaled with intent. In this challenge, you’ll build a strong foundation with Looker by creating modeled queries, defining measures and dimensions, modularizing LookML with extends, and refining logic using functions and operators. You’ll filter Explores, merge results, and sort insights to uncover what truly matters. You’ll also enhance performance with caching and explore distributed processing with Dataproc. These are the same capabilities that Zoomcar used on Google Cloud to modernize its data stack — and now, you get to build them too!
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. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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.
This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Learners will get hands-on practice using Agent Platform Feature Store's streaming ingestion at the SDK layer.
Holi is all about bringing different colors together — and that’s exactly what this challenge does with technology. You’ll package applications with Docker, manage deployments using Kubernetes Engine, secure access with IAM and VPN, and deploy apps on App Engine. You’ll also store data in Cloud Storage and explore how AI APIs can analyze, classify, and translate text. It’s a hands-on way to see how different cloud pieces come together to build something reliable, secure, and smart.
This month's Arcade Sprint 4 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This month's Arcade Sprint 3 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This month's Arcade Sprint 2 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This month's Arcade Sprint 1 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
Getting started with cloud and data tools is all about building strong fundamentals. In this voyage, you’ll gain hands-on skills by working with Google Cloud APIs, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, networking, and serverless services. You’ll also explore how to collect, validate, analyze, and visualize data using Google Sheets and Forms, while learning how to manage secure access with Vault policies. Together, these labs help you build confidence with core cloud services and everyday data workflows that support efficient, secure, and scalable solutions.
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini in Google Sheets for advanced data analysis. You'll learn how to create data visualizations, like a scatter plot, using a simple prompt. You'll also learn how to ask Gemini to analyze your data for strategic insights and recommendations, such as how to save money.
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini in Google Sheets to automatically generate organized trackers from unstructured data. You'll learn how to write a prompt that references other Google Drive files using the "@" symbol. You'll also see how Gemini builds a fully formatted, color-coded table with drop-down menus based on the data in your notes, saving you significant manual effort.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini in Google Workspace to manage your calendar from your Gmail inbox. You'll learn how to ask Gemini about your schedule in the side panel and how to create new events without switching apps. You'll also learn how to use Gemini's one-click scheduling feature when it automatically detects event details in an email.
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini in Google Slides to build polished presentations efficiently. You'll see how to create slides by referencing content directly from your Google Drive files using the "@" symbol. You'll also learn to generate custom, professional images from a simple text prompt to visually enhance your presentation.
In this video, you'll learn to use the "Ask Gemini" feature in Google Sheets to manage your data with natural language. You'll see how to ask Gemini to create dropdowns, highlight sales data, create a pivot table, filter by month, and sort by revenue.
In this video, you'll learn to use the =AI() function in Google Sheets to automate your work. You'll see how to generate text like slogans, summarize paragraphs of customer feedback, and categorize data by classifying inquiries and analyzing sentiment.
In this video, you'll learn to create "what if" scenarios using AI's reasoning. You'll see how to set a "before" scene with a person holding a cake, prompt an action by asking "what would happen if they tripped?", and let the AI generate the plausible "after" image of the cake falling.
In this video, you'll learn the "creative mashup artist" technique for combining images. You'll see how to generate a subject and a scene as two separate images, and then use a final blending prompt to fuse the astronaut from the first image and the court from the second into one new picture.
In this video, you'll learn to art direct your images in the Gemini app. You'll see how to use multi-turn editing to furnish an empty room step-by-step, and how to "remix" a photo by applying the color and texture of a butterfly's wings to a pair of rainboots.
In this video, you'll learn to create imaginative portraits in the Gemini app that maintain your likeness. You'll see how to use the "Subject, Action, Scene, Style" formula for better prompts, transport yourself into a vintage photo, and combine a photo of yourself and your dog into one new image.
In this video, you'll learn to use NotebookLM to manage a large-scale research project. You'll see how to upload all your documents to get summaries, ask deeper strategic questions to find key insights, and use the audio feature to listen to your findings on the go.
In this video, you'll learn to use NotebookLM to analyze raw data and find compelling stories. You'll see how to ground the AI in your specific documents, prompt it to generate newsworthy PR claims, and ask it to find hidden correlations between different data points to uncover new insights.
Over 70% of cloud professionals say hands-on practice is the most effective way to build real-world skills. In this adventure, you’ll develop hands-on skills across data analytics, automation, security, networking, and application deployment using Google Cloud and Workspace tools. You’ll create dashboards and alerts in Looker, analyze security findings, work with AI-powered services, deploy CI/CD pipelines, and manage network access and traffic insights—strengthening your ability to design, monitor, and operate reliable, scalable cloud solutions.
Pup and Kit’s World Cup journey highlights how the right skills quietly power great experiences. As they plan, adapt, and stay in sync using data, automation, and cloud-based tools, the story nudges you to step into their shoes and build those capabilities yourself. Each lab mirrors a moment from their adventure, encouraging you to explore, experiment, and strengthen skills that help you stay prepared, move faster, and make smarter choices-whatever the situation demands.
In this video, you'll learn to use an AI assistant to streamline large-scale event planning. You'll see how to prompt an AI to brainstorm off-site ideas, create fair groups for icebreakers, build a shuttle schedule based on arrival times, and analyze survey feedback for gains and losses.
In this video, you'll learn pro tips for conducting thorough competitive research with Gemini Deep Research. You'll see how to enhance a basic prompt by assigning a persona, specifying a table format for the output, and directing the AI to search specific sources like Reddit for richer insights.
As Pup and Kit move through the city between matches—booking plans on the fly, exploring structures built to last, and navigating busy streets—the story reflects what it takes to keep systems running smoothly behind the scenes. From securing storage and shaping networks to improving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, these labs echo the quiet work that makes flexibility possible. Along the way, hands-on challenges and quizzes sharpen decision-making, so when it’s time for the next big play, everything is ready to perform.
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini Deep Research to make complex purchasing decisions with confidence. You'll see how to write a nuanced, personal prompt about your specific needs and receive a synthesized, comparative report that cuts through the clutter of online reviews.
In this video, you'll learn to create an animated bar chart race using Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to write a prompt to visualize data over time and then use a follow-up prompt to refine the animation, such as slowing it down for a presentation.
In this video, you'll learn to create complex animated art using Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to write a descriptive prompt to generate a kinetic typography animation with distortion effects, and then use a follow-up prompt to completely change its color style.
In this video, you'll learn to build a reusable, custom "Study Guide Gem." You'll see how to write the core instructions for your Gem once, and then use it again and again to transform messy notes and articles into a perfectly structured study guide with a summary, outline, and glossary.
In this video, you'll learn to turn your study guides into interactive quizzes using Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to upload your notes and use a simple prompt to generate a quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions that provide immediate feedback.
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini Deep Research to conduct competitive marketing analysis. You'll see how to submit a research prompt, approve the personalized research plan Gemini creates, and receive a detailed, synthesized report on competitor campaigns to inform your strategy.
In this video, you'll learn to build a working prototype of a personalized weather app using Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to specify the cities for a 7-day forecast and then use a follow-up prompt to change the app's theme to a minimal, dark mode interface.
In this video, you'll learn to create an interactive 3D simulation using Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to build a 3D model of the solar system from a single sentence and then use follow-up prompts to add interactive and educational features, like clickable planets and fun facts.
In this video, you'll learn to build a custom personal utility app using Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to write a detailed prompt to create a Pomodoro timer tailored to your specific needs, and then use follow-up prompts to adjust its visual design.
In this video, you'll learn to use the Guided Learning experience in Gemini to build a deep understanding of any topic. You'll see how to start a conversation, engage with Gemini's probing questions, and use interactive tools like diagrams and quizzes to guide your learning journey.
In this video, you'll learn to use a simple text prompt in Gemini Canvas to build a playable game. You'll see how to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game, use a follow-up prompt to customize its theme to a retro 8-bit style, and share the final game with a link.
In this video, you'll learn to build a working music synthesizer using a simple text prompt in Gemini Canvas. You'll see how to specify controls like waveform, attack, and sustain, and then interact with the generated instrument to create and experiment with your own unique sounds.
In this video, you'll learn to use creative prompts in Gemini to make complex research fun and easy to understand. You'll see how to ask Gemini to research a topic and present the findings in a creative format, like a sports scouting report and a head-to-head bracket, to better visualize and compare your options.
Developers using managed cloud services can reduce infrastructure management effort by up to 60%, allowing more time to focus on building features that matter. In this level, you’ll gain hands-on experience with Cloud SQL, containerized workloads, and cloud-native application development through the Arcade ACE App Dev series, helping you design, deploy, and manage scalable applications more efficiently.
In this video, you'll learn to use the Create menu in Gemini Canvas to instantly convert a block of text into a variety of visual formats. You’ll see how to take a brainstormed marketing campaign and turn it into both a shareable infographic and an internal webpage with just one click.
In this video, you'll learn to use Gemini Canvas to turn a simple drawing into a working app. You'll upload a sketch, use a simple prompt to generate code, watch a live preview build itself, and make iterative changes to your app prototype using natural language.
This video covers how NotebookLM's Reports feature dynamically suggests formats to help you create customized, trustworthy analyses of your documents with ease.
It begins with a simple question: Where to next? Inspired by Agoda’s AI-powered travel platform, this challenge shows how AI helps turn preferences into vivid destinations, detailed itineraries, and stunning visuals. You’ll build intelligent apps that understand intent, generate rich content, and deliver real-time recommendations — supported by cloud-native services that keep everything fast, reliable, and seamless. The result: planning that feels effortless, inspiring, and part of the journey itself.
This video covers how to build a personalized "Work with Me" agent using Gemini Gems, which helps streamline foundational feedback and makes your meetings more strategic and efficient.
AI Boost Bites is a video series designed to help you leverage Google's AI tools in your daily work. Each episode, under 10 minutes, features a quick video demonstrating a real-world AI use case or topic. After the video, you'll get a challenge to apply what you've learned. It's an easy, interactive way to boost your AI skills and improve your productivity.
This video covers how to create a 'project notebook' in NotebookLM by adding all relevant sources to build a central, searchable knowledge hub for your team.
This video covers how to use NotebookLM for common marketing tasks like analyzing customer feedback, conducting market research, and generating content ideas.
This video covers how to use the Video Overviews feature in NotebookLM to automatically generate a short explainer video based on your source documents.
This video covers how to use the 'Discover Sources' feature in NotebookLM to find and import relevant web-based sources directly into your research project.
This video covers how to use the Mind Maps feature in NotebookLM to automatically create a visual representation of your sources, helping you understand connections and key concepts.
This video covers how to use NotebookLM as a personal research assistant by adding sources, asking questions, and generating new content formats based on your documents.
This video covers how to use Gemini in Gmail to draft new emails, refine their tone, respond with context from Drive files, and use smart reply suggestions.
This video covers how to use the 'Help me create' feature in Google Docs to generate a complete, formatted document by referencing content from other files in your Drive.
This video covers five key ways to use Google's AI tools, including Gemini in Workspace, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM, to enhance your daily productivity.
This month's Arcade Sprint 4 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This month's Arcade Sprint 3 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This month's Arcade Sprint 2 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This month's Arcade Sprint 1 is live! It's designed for quick learning. Since the labs are open all month, there's no rush; just jump in when you have the time. You'll earn 1 Arcade Point and a new skill with each step. It's that simple: grab your point and keep the momentum going!
This video covers how to use Gemini in Gmail to summarize emails, find information, and draft replies, helping you manage your inbox more efficiently.
This video covers how to use Gemini in Slides to automatically generate meeting recaps and draft follow-up emails, which can streamline your post-meeting workflow and save you time.
This video covers how you can leverage Gemini's advanced AI capabilities within Google Sheets to effortlessly pull data and generate insights in minutes, all without the need for any technical or coding background.
This video will cover how to leverage Gemini Gems to create authentic social media posts in your leader's unique voice. Learn to overcome the challenge of scaling executive social presence by training a Gem with writing samples and clear instructions. Discover how to generate engaging posts quickly, saving time while amplifying thought leadership and ensuring authenticity.
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
This video covers how you can create your own Brevity Gem to summarize and transform messy notes or long documents into clear, concise, executive-ready summaries.
This video covers how to use Gemini and Apps Script to automate manual tasks across Google Workspace. You'll learn to prompt Gemini to generate Apps Script code that automatically drafts email reminders in Google Sheets for tasks not marked 'Complete.' Automate your workflow with little to no technical expertise, freeing up time for more important work and eliminating manual follow-ups.
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.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
This video covers how you can leverage Notebook LM to "eat the frog" on your to-do list by automating complex tasks like summarizing legislation and mapping services, saving you hours of work.
This video covers how to eliminate tedious manual data entry using Gemini. Learn how to take a picture or screenshot of data (from PDFs, paper, or images) and prompt Gemini to instantly convert it into a structured Google Sheet. Discover this simple hack to save countless hours transcribing data, turning Gemini into your personal data entry assistant. Just snap, prompt, and export!
Generative AI is quickly becoming a core part of modern cloud solutions. In this challenge, you’ll build applications using Gemini on Vertex AI for text embeddings, multimodal content generation, and text-to-image workflows, while also learning how to ingest data into BigQuery from Cloud Storage. You’ll then test your understanding through role-based Arcade quizzes designed for Workspace Administrators, Database Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Digital Leaders—bringing together hands-on building and practical knowledge validation.
AI Boost Bites is a video series designed to help you leverage Google's AI tools in your daily work. Each episode, under 10 minutes, features a quick video demonstrating a real-world AI use case or topic. After the video, you'll get a challenge to apply what you've learned. It's an easy, interactive way to boost your AI skills and improve your productivity.
This video will cover how to use NotebookLM to gather and analyze publicly available information, combine it with internal documents, and extract key competitive insights.
This video covers how to personalize your Gemini results in Google Workspace. Learn to incorporate documents and research papers directly into your prompts using the "@" symbol to get more targeted and relevant AI output tailored to your needs.
Over 80% of modern applications rely on event-driven architectures or real-time messaging to stay responsive at scale. In challenge, you’ll work with Pub/Sub to build event-driven systems, deploy workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine, manage authentication and dynamic secrets with Vault, and explore language processing using Cloud APIs. You’ll also build Flutter applications and work with Cloud Spanner, gaining hands-on experience across messaging, security, data, and application development.
This video covers how you can use Gemini to summarize long documents in Google Workspace, so you can quickly get the information you need and save time. You'll learn how to use Gemini to summarize entire documents or just selected text, as well as how to use Gemini in Drive to summarize across multiple files.
This video covers prompt engineering fundamentals for effective AI communication. Learn a simple framework (Persona, Task, Context, Format) to craft clear prompts, getting better, faster results from Gemini in Google Workspace. Discover how to use natural language, be specific, and iterate for optimal AI assistance.
This video will cover how you can leverage Gemini's advanced AI capabilities in Google Docs to brainstorm ideas, draft various marketing content, and collaborate with your team.
This video covers how NotebookLM can revolutionize customer insight gathering from call or chat transcripts. You'll learn to upload PDF transcripts of hundreds of conversations (even multilingual ones!) and quickly extract key themes, trending topics, and actionable insights without listening for hours. Discover how to save findings, share notebooks, and even generate interactive podcast summaries of your data.
This video covers how to create your own Gemini Gems, advanced AI capabilities that can automate repetitive tasks and supercharge your productivity.
Infrastructure is the backbone of modern care. Following the blueprint set by Manipal Hospitals, this challenge dives into the backend architecture that powers healthcare at scale. From automating CI/CD pipelines to securing containerized workloads on GKE, you will explore how cloud-native tools directly impact real-world outcomes—like faster prescriptions and safer transitions of care. Learn to architect for reliability, ensuring that when the demand spikes, your system doesn't just run; it performs.
A new year brings a fresh opportunity to build consistency in how you learn and apply cloud skills. In this challenge, you’ll deploy applications using App Engine and Cloud Run Functions, work with Compute Engine instances, and manage data through Cloud Storage using both the console and CLI. You’ll also define fine-grained access with custom IAM roles, analyze logs, create alerts from logs-based metrics, and monitor workloads across multiple projects. Together, these labs help you begin the year by strengthening essential cloud operations skills and developing habits that support reliable, well-monitored applications.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for January Week 4! 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 January Trivia Week 4 badge!
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for January Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the January Trivia Week 3 badge!
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!
This course covers building ML models with TensorFlow and Keras, improving the accuracy of ML models and writing ML models for scaled use.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for January 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 January Trivia Week 2 badge!
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for January 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 January Trivia Week 1 badge!
Every day, millions of apps depend on fast data reads, stable networks, and reliable backend logic to keep users connected. Delivering that experience starts with strong development and foundational skills. In this challenge, you’ll level up through ACE App Dev labs, write to Firestore using Python and TypeScript, and build confidence with essential Linux commands. You’ll also strengthen your networking basics. These labs give you the core abilities every cloud developer needs—clean app logic, solid network understanding, and command-line fluency.
Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Knowledge Catalog to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Knowledge Catalog.
Complete the intermediate Analyze and Reason on Multimodal Data with Gemini skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: analyzing text, image, audio, and video data using Gemini, and reasoning about this combined information to draw conclusions and extract insights.
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.
Complete the advanced Designing Network Security in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: designing, configuring, and troubleshooting key security services including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Cloud DNS, and Cloud Armor. Skill badges validate your practical knowledge on specific products through hands-on labs and challenge assessments. Earn a badge by completing a course or jump straight into the challenge lab to get your badge today. Badges prove your proficiency, enhance your professional profile, and ultimately lead to increased career opportunities. Visit your profile to track badges you’ve earned.
Complete the advanced Google DeepMind: Train A Small Language Model skill badge by completing this course to demonstrate skills in the following: formulating real-world language model research problems; building a simple tokenizer; preparing a dataset for training a transformer language model; running the training loop of a small language model. Access this lab at no-cost by signing up for the no-cost subscription. Receive 35 free credits each month!
Complete the Enrich Metadata and Discovery of Lakehouse Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in BigQuery, Lakehouse, and Knowledge Catalog. You create Lakehouse tables and enrich metadata management and discovery of the table data.
Complete the introductory Migrate MySQL Data to Cloud SQL Using Database Migration Service skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service and migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs.
Intelligent systems today process everything from scanned invoices to massive data lakes, all while powering apps that users expect to work instantly. Handling that complexity calls for advanced AI, strong governance, and dependable cloud architecture. In this challenge, you’ll extract insights from documents with Document AI, organize and manage distributed data using Dataplex, and secure sensitive information with Cloud KMS. You’ll also deploy containerized apps on Kubernetes Engine, build real-time backends with Firebase, create no-code chat apps with AppSheet, and monitor live activity through Streamlit. These labs show how modern cloud solutions combine intelligence and architecture to stay efficient, secure, and ready for anything.
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.
Google processes over 2 trillion data operations a day—and now you’ll tap into the skills behind that scale on your path to your next Winter Win. You’ll streamline collaboration with Google Workspace, prep insight-ready data for Looker, build secure networks, launch compute resources, and keep everything steady with smart monitoring. Then you’ll bring it all together by deploying a website, building an AppSheet app, and managing data across Google Cloud. By the time you’re through, you won’t just reach your next Winter Win—you’ll feel like you earned every bit of it.
Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute skill badge course, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine.
Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.
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.
Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud skill badge course. This course is based on the Get Cooking in Cloud series and covers`:`Deploying a website on Cloud RunHosting a web app on Compute EngineCreating, deploying, and scaling your website on Google Kubernetes EngineMigrating from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture using Cloud Build
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.
Earn an introductory skill badge by completing the Implement Cloud Collaboration and Productivity Workflows course, where you will get introduced to Google's collaborative platform and learn to use Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Drive, Sheets, and AppSheet.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December Week 4! 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 4 badge!
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the December Trivia Week 3 badge!
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!
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!
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.
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. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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 Gemini Notebook. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is 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.
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.
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.
This course reviews the essential security features of Model Armor and equips you to work with the service. You’ll learn about the security risks associated with LLMs and how Model Armor protects your AI apps. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative possibilities, but it also introduces new security challenges. This course equips security and data protection leaders with strategies to securely manage AI within their organizations. Learn a framework for proactively identifying and mitigating AI-specific risks, protecting sensitive data, ensuring compliance, and building a resilient AI infrastructure. Pick use cases from four different industries to explore how these strategies apply in real-world scenarios.
This course introduces important topics of AI privacy and safety. It explores practical methods and tools to implement AI privacy and safety recommended practices through the use of Google Cloud products and open-source tools.
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.
This course introduces concepts of responsible AI and AI principles. It covers techniques to practically identify fairness and bias and mitigate bias in AI/ML practices. It explores practical methods and tools to implement Responsible AI best practices using Google Cloud products and open source tools.
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 Knowledge Catalog lake for data governance.
Complete the Implement Sensitive Data Protection on Google Cloud Skill Badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API) to inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data in Google Cloud.
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.
Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud skill badge course where you learn how to use Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. You interact with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, Cloud Run, and GKE. This course teaches you how to build continuous integration pipelines, store and secure artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, attest to the validity of approved releases. Additionally, you get hands-on experience deploying applications to both GKE and Cloud Run.
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.
This course explores the benefits of using Vertex AI Feature Store, how to improve the accuracy of ML models, and how to find which data columns make the most useful features. This course also includes content and labs on feature engineering using BigQuery ML, Keras, and TensorFlow.
From code to cloud, automation drives reliable, repeatable deployment. With over 80% of enterprises adopting DevOps practices, this challenge will guide you through building and managing secure, scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud. You’ll create Artifact Registries for Go, Python, Maven, and more—managing dependencies securely—and deploy static sites using Nginx, Traefik, and Caddy V2 on Cloud Run. Then you will dive into into Terraform Essentials, where you’ll define cloud resources as code—from VPCs and firewall rules to Compute Engine and Cloud Storage—and safeguard configurations with Secret Manager. Together, these labs give you hands-on experience in automating deployments and strengthening cloud infrastructure from the ground up.
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production. Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Agent Platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.
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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 Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.
Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. This course explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address a rapidly evolving landscape of security challenges. This course explores the foundations of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud’s secure-by-design infrastructure, and the defense-in-depth strategy, while highlighting how AI-driven operations and compliance tools help organizations meet strict global regulatory requirements. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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.
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.
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.
Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and apps that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems and investing in new products and services. This course explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
At Hitachi’s Omika Works, Google Cloud helped turn routine inspections into smart, lightning-fast quality checks. Using Visual Inspection AI, teams could spot defects in minutes instead of hours with accuracy that sets a new standard. This challenge builds on that real-world innovation. You’ll work with Google Cloud tools to create AI models, analyze images and text, protect data in Gen AI responses, and manage scalable operations with Kubernetes. Learn by doing—and see how Google Cloud makes work faster, smarter, and more effective.
Cloud technology is a powerful asset, and when paired with data, it becomes a catalyst for innovation and enhanced customer experiences. Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud examines how organizations can leverage the cloud to make their data more accessible, actionable, and valuable. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
Digital transformation is a critical journey for modern organizations, and establishing a strong baseline in cloud computing is the first step toward driving meaningful innovation. Digital Transformation with Google Cloud introduces the core technologies and strategic frameworks that help organizations modernize their operations. This course explores fundamental cloud concepts, global network infrastructure, and the shared responsibility model to help leaders navigate their path to the cloud with confidence. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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.
Google Drive is Google’s cloud-based file storage service. Google Drive lets you keep all your work in one place, view different file formats without the need for additional software, and access your files from any device. In this course, you will learn how to navigate your Google Drive. You will learn how to upload files and folders and how to work across file types. You will also learn how you can easily view, arrange, organize, modify, and remove files in Google Drive. Google Drive includes shared drives. You can use shared drives to store, search, and access files with a team. You will learn how to create a new shared drive, add and manage members, and manage the shared drive content. Google Workspace is synonymous with collaboration and sharing. You will explore the sharing options available to you in Google Drive, and you will learn about the various collaborator roles and permissions that can be assigned. You’ll also explore ways to ensure consistency and save time…
Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!
Nearly 1 in 3 people worldwide already use AI chatbots in their daily lives, and more than 90% of companies are exploring generative AI for work and learning. In this challenge, you’ll chat with bots that can talk about movies and music, and help you practise French, Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, and Portuguese. You’ll also explore AI study partners designed for cloud roles like architect, engineer, and digital leader. These labs show how AI can make learning easier, more interactive, and a lot more fun.
Modern applications rely on scalable infrastructure, secure identity management, and real-time monitoring to perform reliably. In this challenge, you’ll learn to configure Cloud Storage buckets for website hosting, deploy containers with Google Kubernetes Engine, and manage authentication and authorization with Vault. Explore Cloud Spanner for highly available databases, troubleshoot data models in Looker, and improve LookML projects for usability. You’ll also monitor logs, create alerts, and dive into Cloud Functions across Go, Node.js, .NET, and PHP to build responsive, secure, and scalable cloud applications.
This Diwali, it’s not just lights—it’s your brain that gets to sparkle! Take on quizzes and challenges across cloud building blocks, firewalls, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Networking, and Identity & Access. Test your knowledge on roles like Cloud Digital Leader, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Developer, and Data Practitioner. Each question is a little spark, every correct answer lights up your skills!
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.
This course demonstrates how to use AI/ML models for generative AI tasks in BigQuery. Through a practical use case involving customer relationship management, you learn the workflow of solving a business problem with Gemini models. To facilitate comprehension, the course also provides step-by-step guidance through coding solutions using both SQL queries and Python notebooks.
Every minute, people upload more than 500 hours of video to YouTube, while apps worldwide handle millions of users at once. Managing that kind of demand requires powerful, scalable cloud solutions. In this challenge, you’ll store and serve media in Cloud Storage, deploy apps on Kubernetes Engine, and connect networks with VPC peering. You’ll also explore Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, IAM, and load balancing for secure, reliable systems—plus dive into Dataproc and Video Intelligence for smarter data insights. These labs show how today’s apps scale, stay secure, and keep delivering when demand never slows down!
Learn about BigQuery ML for Inference, why Data Analysts should use it, its use cases, and supported ML models. You will also learn how to create and manage these ML models in BigQuery.
In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps analyze customer data and predict product sales. You also learn how to identify, categorize, and develop new customers using customer data in BigQuery. Using hands-on labs, you experience how Gemini improves data analysis and machine learning workflows.
This Diwali, trade the fireworks for fun chats! Hang out with Arcade Chatbots to brush up on cloud skills, from Cloud Architect to Machine Learning, then race through football stadiums and Olympic events—sprints, BMX, swimming, you name it. Every chat is a little spark that makes learning feel festive, fun, and totally worth it!
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This course introduces participants to MLOps tools and best practices for deploying, evaluating, monitoring and operating production ML systems on Google Cloud. MLOps is a discipline focused on the deployment, testing, monitoring, and automation of ML systems in production. Machine Learning Engineering professionals use tools for continuous improvement and evaluation of deployed models. They work with (or can be) Data Scientists, who develop models, to enable velocity and rigor in deploying the best performing models.
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.
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.
This course is an introduction to Vertex AI Notebooks, which are Jupyter notebook-based environments that provide a unified platform for the entire machine learning workflow, from data preparation to model deployment and monitoring. The course covers the following topics: (1) The different types of Vertex AI Notebooks and their features and (2) How to create and manage Vertex AI Notebooks.
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 Managed Service for Apache Spark, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.
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This course introduces Google Cloud's AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities, with a focus on developing both generative and predictive AI projects. It explores the various technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI lifecycle, empowering data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers to enhance their expertise through interactive exercises.
Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE) certification exam. You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook, and use the study guide to practice for a certification exam.