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Silver League
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Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Jul 30, 2026 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned Jul 29, 2026 EDT
Build Agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Mar 4, 2026 EST
Create Your First Gemini Enterprise Application
Earned Mar 2, 2026 EST
Enterprise Agents and Use Cases
Earned Mar 2, 2026 EST
Agent Fundamentals
Earned Feb 15, 2026 EST
Introduction to AI Agents
Earned Feb 15, 2026 EST
Build a Certification Study Guide: PMLE
Earned Dec 23, 2025 EST
Build a Certification Study Guide: PDE Exam Prep
Earned Nov 23, 2025 EST
L300 Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped
Earned Oct 13, 2025 EDT
GDC Platform Introduction
Earned Oct 7, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Oct 5, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Getting Started
Earned Oct 4, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Network Architecture
Earned May 31, 2025 EDT
Create Conversational Agents with Stateful Flows
Earned Apr 21, 2025 EDT
DEPRECATED Build LangChain Applications using Vertex AI
Earned Sep 11, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Agent Platform
Earned Apr 3, 2024 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Agent Platform
Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
DEPRECATED Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI
Earned Apr 1, 2024 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 24, 2024 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 14, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for Application Developers
Earned Jan 19, 2024 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Jul 24, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Jul 24, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned Jul 23, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned Jul 17, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Jul 17, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Jul 3, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned Jul 3, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED]Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Jul 3, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned Jul 3, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned Jul 2, 2023 EDT
App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance
Earned Jun 9, 2023 EDT
Getting Started With Application Development
Earned Jun 5, 2023 EDT
Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances
Earned May 16, 2023 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PCNE Exam Prep
Earned Mar 30, 2023 EDT
How Google Does Machine Learning
Earned Mar 21, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Earned Mar 6, 2023 EST
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Dec 13, 2021 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML
Earned Nov 7, 2021 EST
Diwali with Qwiklabs 2021
Earned Nov 3, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data+
Earned Sep 30, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data
Earned Sep 15, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Essentials
Earned Sep 15, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Architecture
Earned Sep 15, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Security
Earned Sep 15, 2021 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Aug 29, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned Aug 18, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED Language, Speech, Text, & Translation with Google Cloud APIs
Earned Aug 17, 2021 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports
Earned Aug 11, 2021 EDT
Looker Challenge - Part 1
Earned Aug 4, 2021 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Aug 3, 2021 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Jul 30, 2021 EDT
Launch & Learn: BigQuery Game
Earned Jun 27, 2021 EDT
DevOps Essentials
Earned Sep 4, 2020 EDT
Cloud Implementation Approach
Earned Jun 25, 2019 EDT
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Jun 22, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Jun 17, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes Challenge Speedrun Game 2
Earned Jun 7, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes Challenge Speedrun: Game 1
Earned Jun 6, 2019 EDT
Networking Speedrun
Earned May 31, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes + Data Speedrun
Earned May 24, 2019 EDT
Friday Speedrun Game
Earned May 17, 2019 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks
Earned May 12, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes Speedrun Game
Earned May 10, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture
Earned Apr 7, 2019 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned Apr 6, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Apr 4, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Apr 1, 2019 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Mar 17, 2019 EDT
Scientific Data Processing
Earned Mar 4, 2019 EST
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Mar 3, 2019 EST
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Feb 26, 2019 EST
DEPRECATED Network Performance and Optimization
Earned Feb 19, 2019 EST
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network
Earned Feb 18, 2019 EST
Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.
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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.
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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 Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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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 Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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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 Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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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 Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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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.
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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.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Data Engineer certification exam.
You'll review Gemini Notebook features, create a notebook in Gemini Notebook, and learn how to use a study guide to practice for a certification exam.
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This L300 course explores the intricacies of the hardware and networking infrastructure, examines the role of Kubernetes in container orchestration, and how to master the deployment process. The course emphasizes critical security aspects, guiding you through defense-in-depth design, zero-trust architecture, and essential operational security measures for protecting sensitive data. You'll also gain valuable insights into operational aspects, such as resource management, upgrades, and solutions tailored for GDC customers.
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This course provides an introduction to the GDC platform—which enables you to host, control, and manage infrastructure and services directly on your premises.
GDC air-gapped is one component of Google Distributed Cloud offering which aligns to Google’s digital sovereignty vision. It supports public-sector customers and commercial entities that have strict data residency, security or privacy requirements.
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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.
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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.
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Welcome to the third course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Architecture!
In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of designing efficient and scalable network architectures within Google Cloud.
In the first module, Introduction to Network Architecture, we'll start by introducing you to the core components and concepts of network architecture, including subnets, routes, firewalls, and load balancing.
Then in the second module, network topologies, we'll dive into various network topologies commonly used in Google Cloud, discussing their strengths, and weaknesses.
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Discover flows in Conversational Agents and learn how to build deterministic chat and voice experiences with language models. Explore key concepts like drivers, intents, and entities, and how to use them to create conversational agents. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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Complete the introductory Build LangChain Applications using Vertex AI skill badge to learn how to build Generative AI applications using LangChain and the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique for text-based content, powered by Vertex AI's advanced Generative AI capabilities. Discover how to integrate powerful large language models (LLMs) with search and retrieval workflows, boosting the accuracy and relevance of your generated content. Earn a Google Cloud skill badge and showcase your expertise by completing the course and its final assessment challenge lab.
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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.
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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.
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The Generative AI Explorer - Agent Platform course is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the Gemini models in Agent Platform. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via custom training in Agent Platform and deploy it to an endpoint in Agent Platform.
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Build and Deploy Machine Learning Solutions on Vertex AI skill badge course, where you learn how to use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, AutoML, and custom training services to train, evaluate, tune, explain, and deploy machine learning models.
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in 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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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate components from the Google Cloud ecosystem. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to create repeatable deployments by treating infrastructure as code, choose the appropriate application execution environment for an application, and monitor application performance.
Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer.
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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to apply best practices for application development and use the appropriate Google Cloud storage services for object storage, relational data, caching, and analytics.
Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer.
This is the first course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Securing and Integrating Components of your Application course.
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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.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification exam. You'll review Gemini Notebook features, add sources to your notebook, and learn how to personalize your Gemini Notebook experience to study for the exam.
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This course explores what ML is and what problems it can solve. The course also discusses best practices for implementing machine learning. You’re introduced to Vertex AI, a unified platform to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models.
The course discusses the five phases of converting a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning, and why it’s important to not skip them. The course ends with recognizing the biases that ML can amplify and how to recognize them.
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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.
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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML.
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Celebrate Diwali by learning new skills and earning new credentials! Get hands-on experience with Google Cloud’s powerful Networking, DevOps, and Machine Learning tools.
Complete the labs one by one. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score. You can take each lab up to 5 times. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data plus track! "The Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer certification is associated with the highest paying salary in IT," according to the most recent Global Knowledge skills and salary report (published August 2021). Complete this game to earn the Data Plus game badge, and be eligible for a +bonus+ prize in the Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge. See "what's next" below for details and requirements; you’ll need to earn at least 2 additional challenge badges to qualify. You'll learn next-level data skills to add to your resume. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data track! These eight labs give you a deep dive into GCP's data universe. At the end of each lab, you'll have another in-demand skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Data game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge! These eight labs give you a quick hands-on introduction to eight different GCP tools and services. At the end of each lab, you'll have another skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Essentials game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge architecture track! These eight labs give you a blueprint of GCP's building blocks. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with another tool or service to add to your resume. Complete this game to earn the Architecture game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge security track! These eight labs give you the keys to understanding GCP's powerful security suite. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with securing your cloud. Complete this game to earn the Security game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four badges (see "what's next" below for more information).
Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.
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In this course you will learn how you to harness serious Google Cloud power and infrastructure. The hands-on labs will give you use cases and you will be tasked with implementing scaling practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From developing enterprise grade load balancing and autoscaling, to building continuous delivery pipelines, Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling your Infrastructure will teach you best practices for taking your Google Cloud projects to the next level.
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In this quest you will use a collection of Google APIs that are all related to language, and speech. You will use the Speech-to-Text API to transcribe an audio file into a text file, the Cloud Translation API to translate from one language to another, the Cloud Translation API to detect what language is being used and translate to a different language, the Natural Language API to classify text and analyze sentiment, and create synthetic speech.
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization.
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It's time to roll up your sleeves and dig into some data to get hands-on practice in Looker the self-service data analytics platform! Complete every activity AND post a screenshot of your newly minted Skill Badge in the Learning Forum area of the Community (https://bit.ly/gcc-looker1) to earn a special Community Badge. The Community member* at the top of the scoreboard at the time the game is closed will be rewarded with something objectively cool. (*You must be a registered Community member to be included in the running for top dog.)
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in 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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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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In honor of the Launch of the Google Cloud Community and the Learning & Certification Hub (bit.ly/3gNtlMB), we’ve devised a fun little game to catapult your skills in BigQuery and give you a chance to win the First. Ever. Community. Learning. Challenge. (Pause for effect) Not only will participating in this game give you hands-on practice to boost key skills in BQ, but simply participating will earn you some sweet online badges. Plus, the winner of the game will be rewarded...handsomely . More details below... Complete every activity in this game and earn a Skill Badge which you can share across your network with pride. Complete every activity AND post a screenshot of your newly minted Skill Badge in the Learning Forum area of the Community (bit.ly/35LoLIB) to earn a special Community Badge which you can then flaunt over other community members shamelessly. The Community member at the top of the scoreboard at the time the game is closed will be rewarded with something objectively …
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Obtain a competitive advantage through DevOps. DevOps is an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. In this course you will learn how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. DevOps Research and Assessment has joined Google Cloud. How does your team measure up? Take this five question multiple-choice quiz and find out!
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Welcome to Cloud Implementation Approach! Click "Join this Game".
To modify your player name or avatar, go to your My Account page at https://google.qwiklabs.com.
Points are earned by completing the steps in the lab.... and bonus points are earned for speed! Be sure to complete each lab by selecting the END option to get the maximum points.
Please respect the GCP resource quotas that have been allocated. Otherwise, you'll waste your Game time and gain fewer points.
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Containerized applications have changed the game and are here to stay. With Kubernetes, you can orchestrate containers with ease, and integration with the Google Cloud Platform is seamless. In this advanced-level quest, you will be exposed to a wide range of Kubernetes use cases and will get hands-on practice architecting solutions over the course of 8 labs. From building Slackbots with NodeJS, to deploying game servers on clusters, to running the Cloud Vision API, Kubernetes Solutions will show you first-hand how agile and powerful this container orchestration system is.
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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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It’s gameday! Watch your name move up the leaderboard and get valuable Kubernetes skills and experience to help you complete the 30-day challenge. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge. The top 10 players get 25 free Qwiklabs credits. And the winner? We'll send you an ebook copy of the book "Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure" by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns and Joe Beda (delivered via email). Hurry, the game is open for 12 hours only. Ready to play?
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It’s gameday! Watch your name move up the leaderboard and get one lab closer to completing your 30-day challenge. You can complete the game lab up to 5 times to maximize points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge. The top 10 players get 25 free Qwiklabs credits. And the winner? We'll send you an ebook copy of the book "Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure" by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns and Joe Beda (delivered via email). Hurry, the game is open for 12 hours only. Ready to play?
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Welcome, gamers!
It’s gameday - watch your name move up the leaderboard and get 4 labs closer to completing your Networking quest. In today's game, experiment with VPC networks, firewalls and optimizing spend - plus maybe win a prize. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?
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Want to make the most of your Friday? Learn something new (might even help your next career move) and watch your name move on the leaderboard. (Hopefully upwards!) In today's game, experiment with containerization, Kubeflow, BigQuery and ML - plus maybe even win some prizes before the weekend starts. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?
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Feeling tense after a long week? Relax and learn something new - how about TensorFlow? In today's game, experiment with ML, TPUs, and TensorFlow, then finish the week with a Kubernetes twist. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?
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The move to Google® Cloud public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. Palo Alto Networks® offers innovative and comprehensive protection as you adopt public cloud services. The Palo Alto Networks solutions complement the native Google Cloud security toolset, including network, host and cloud-native security delivered through APIs for comprehensive protection. In this Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall running in Google Cloud. You will gain practical experience that you can apply to improve visibility and security for your applications and workloads.
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Challenge yourself to learn advanced Kubernetes concepts as qwikly as possible with today's game. Experiment with ML, build and deploy a Docker image, practice scaling, and more. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?
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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.
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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.
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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.
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In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.
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Big data, machine learning, and scientific data? It sounds like the perfect match. In this course, you will get hands-on practice with GCP services like BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark, and Tensorflow by applying them to use cases that employ real-life, scientific data sets. By getting experience with tasks like earthquake data analysis and satellite image aggregation, Scientific Data Processing will expand your skill set in big data and machine learning so you can start tackling your own problems across a spectrum of scientific disciplines.
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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other catalog offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataprep, to Cloud Composer, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation, too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Engineer Data in the Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like BigQuery, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.
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Networking is a principle theme of cloud computing. It’s the underlying structure of Google Cloud, and it’s what connects all your resources and services to one another. This course will cover essential Google Cloud networking services and will give you hands-on practice with specialized tools for developing mature networks. From learning the ins-and-outs of VPCs, to creating enterprise-grade load balancers, Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.
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