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Juan Francisco Maldonado

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Diamond League

29874 points
Implement Enterprise Design Patterns with CX Agent Studio Earned Aug 28, 2026 EDT
Introduction to Gemini for customer experience Earned Aug 26, 2026 EDT
Govern Agent Access with Gemini platform Earned Aug 25, 2026 EDT
Secure your Agents with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Earned Aug 25, 2026 EDT
Govern agents with Agent Gateway, Agent Registry, and Policies Earned Aug 24, 2026 EDT
Deploy Gemini with Workspace Data Sources and Model Armor Earned Aug 24, 2026 EDT
Plan Change Management for Gemini Deployments Earned Aug 24, 2026 EDT
Build with the Managed Agents API on Gemini platform Earned Aug 19, 2026 EDT
Accelerate Agent Development with Antigravity and Agents CLI Earned Aug 19, 2026 EDT
Deploy Gemini to Transform Enterprises Earned Aug 19, 2026 EDT
Improve Agent Search findings on Gemini platform Earned Aug 18, 2026 EDT
Use a Third-Party Identity Provider with Workforce Identity Federation Earned Aug 18, 2026 EDT
Model Armor: Securing AI Deployments Earned Aug 18, 2026 EDT
Craft ADK Agents with Persistent Memories Earned Jun 24, 2026 EDT
Build Enterprise Agents with Code Execution on Gemini platform Earned Jun 24, 2026 EDT
Build Agents with the Agent Development Kit Earned Jun 24, 2026 EDT
Manage Security in Google Cloud Earned May 17, 2026 EDT
Introduction to Gemini Enterprise Earned May 8, 2026 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Apr 15, 2026 EDT
Migrate Virtual Machines to Google Cloud Earned Apr 13, 2026 EDT
Build Google Cloud Infrastructure for AWS Professionals Earned Apr 13, 2026 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PCA Exam Prep Earned Apr 9, 2026 EDT
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Earned Apr 9, 2026 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned Apr 9, 2026 EDT
Google Cloud Architecture: Design Principles Earned Apr 7, 2026 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Earned Apr 6, 2026 EDT
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Apr 5, 2026 EDT
Developing Applications with Cloud Run Functions on Google Cloud Earned Mar 23, 2026 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned Dec 30, 2025 EST
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned Dec 30, 2025 EST
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned Dec 30, 2025 EST
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned Dec 30, 2025 EST
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned Dec 30, 2025 EST
Generative AI with Google Cloud databases: Usecases Earned Apr 20, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jan 28, 2024 EST
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned Jan 26, 2024 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models - Locales Earned Jan 25, 2024 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Create Image Captioning Models Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Jan 24, 2024 EST
Attention Mechanism Earned Jan 23, 2024 EST
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Sep 30, 2023 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Sep 29, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Sep 15, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED]Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Sep 15, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Sep 14, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Sep 14, 2023 EDT
VM Migration for Partners Earned Jan 18, 2023 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Feb 8, 2022 EST
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security Earned Jul 31, 2021 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos Earned Jun 30, 2021 EDT
VM Migration for Partners Earned Jun 14, 2021 EDT
Anthos: Service Mesh Earned Jul 27, 2020 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices Earned Nov 25, 2019 EST
Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned Nov 24, 2019 EST
Google Cloud Essentials Earned May 22, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture Earned Apr 9, 2019 EDT
Cloud Architecture - Design, Implement, and Manage Earned Mar 30, 2019 EDT

This course explores using enterprise design patterns to build scalable, reliable, and secure agents within CX Agent Studio. Additionally, it covers navigating the complete development lifecycle by deploying multi-layered application security and locking down cloud infrastructure perimeters. It details the core pillars of multi-turn session persistence and real-time audio supervision to facilitate safe, continuous conversational experiences.

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This course explores the different products and capabilities of Gemini for customer experience, including CX Agent Studio, Agent Assist and CX Insights. Additionally, it covers the foundational principles of conversation design to craft engaging and effective experiences that emulate human-like experiences specific to the Chat channel.

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In this challenge lab, you will act as a cloud engineer supporting the Cymbal Pools finance team. Your mission is to deploy a BigQuery-enabled agent to Agent Runtime to help process invoice data using natural language. Rather than building from scratch, you inherit an unsecured deployment. You must establish basic data governance by configuring the Agent Development Kit (ADK), deploying the agent with a dedicated SPIFFE identity, identifying permission blocks, and applying least-privilege IAM roles so the agent can safely query and update the BigQuery database from the Agent Runtime Playground.

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As organizations rapidly deploy AI workforces, securing these autonomous systems becomes paramount. Secure Your Agents with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is a practical, security-first course designed to help you establish centralized, zero-trust control and comprehensive visibility over your AI ecosystem. Instead of relying on theoretical frameworks, this course teaches you how to defend AI agents the way they are actually attacked—layer by layer, with identity and access at the absolute foundation.

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This course covers the technical side of governing an AI agent workforce using Agent Gateway, Agent Registry, and Policies. It discusses the overall architecture of centralized agent governance, focusing on managing agent sprawl and securing communication with internal systems. The course explores the infrastructure and enterprise networking required to deploy the Agent Gateway, including automated deployment with Terraform and configuring private egress via Private Service Connect. It offers guidance towards establishing a zero-trust security perimeter using unique agent identities with mTLS, per-tool authorization with REQUEST_AUTHZ, and granular CEL policies. Furthermore, it empowers administrators to implement content security guardrails using Model Armor in Gemini platform and Cloud DLP to mitigate semantic threats like prompt injection and data leakage. Finally, the course explains how to manage tool discovery through the Agent Registry and ensure end-to-end observability and thr…

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In this challenge lab, you act as a Security Engineer deploying a secure Gemini environment for Cymbal Bank. You will ground Gemini in web search and internal Workspace sources to ensure accurate, contextual responses. To maintain compliance, you will configure Model Armor policies to filter sensitive data and block threats like prompt injections and malicious URLs. Finally, you will manage specific end-user features to customize the AI experience safely

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This course will guide you through designing customer engagements that result in successful, well-utilized Gemini deployments. Study the art of change management, how to identify and engage sponsors, recruit early adopters, help your customer identify and address cultural change challenges and skills gaps, and effectively deliver project communications. Additionally, learn how to support your customer to plan, offer, conduct, and evaluate end-user training, leverage partner resources, and create essential project documents.

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In this course, you'll learn to build and run enterprise agents on the Managed Agents API, the managed agent runtime on Gemini platform. Three conceptual lessons give you the mental model. You'll learn why a real business task needs an agent rather than a chat model. You'll examine how the platform splits into a control plane that defines agents and a data plane that runs them. You'll learn how to assemble an agent from a definition, a sandboxed environment, mounted data, tools, and skills. Furthermore, you'll learn how to run it with background interactions, a streamed reason-act loop, resilient typed results, and state that persists across turns. You then put that model to work in a hands-on lab, where you build, run, and harden a retail merchandising agent for Cymbal Retail from an empty project to a production-shaped deployment. By the end, you'll be able to design, build, and operate a managed agent of your own.

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In this course, you’ll learn to simplify the creation of autonomous enterprise agents using the Agent Development Kit (ADK) in Gemini platform and you will learn how to leverage the power of Antigravity and the Agents CLI to transform your agent development workflow. In this course, you will explore practical techniques to automate repetitive tasks and significantly accelerate the creation of robust, enterprise-grade agents, ensuring scalability and efficiency in your AI projects.

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This course covers the technical side of deploying Gemini. It discusses the overall architecture of Gemini, decisions to be made when provisioning the app infrastructure, and integrating enterprise data via Data Stores, Connectors. and Actions. The course also explores the kinds of agents that can be added to Gemini. It offers guidance towards establishing a security perimeter using IAM, VPC Service Control, Context-Aware Access, and semantic controls deployed with Model Armor in Gemini platform. Finally, it empowers administrators to fine-tune the end-user experience through comprehensive configuration options, and explains how administrators keep AI deployments secure, compliant, and performant through OpenTelemetry instrumentation and prompt logging.

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This course covers techniques for boosting and filtering search results, as well as the implementation of meta tags for advanced search control.

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This course provides learners the knowledge to configure Workforce Identity Federation to grant Google Cloud and Gemini access to users that authenticate using a third-party Identity Provider. The curriculum includes theory and demo videos covering workforce identity pools, OIDC and SAML providers, attribute mapping, IAM policies, and troubleshooting guidance.

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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 Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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This course explores architecting stateful AI agents that use short-term memory within a session or long-term memory services. Additionally, it covers giving agents existing expertise through skills. It details the core pillars of context engineering to facilitate personalized, continuous conversational experiences with expert agents.

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In this course, you explore the Code Execution feature of the Gemini platform, which lets AI agents safely generate and run Python code in isolated sandbox environments. You learn how the Agent Sandbox fits into the broader platform architecture, how to configure and operate Code Execution sandboxes using the Agent Platform SDK, and how to integrate code execution into agent workflows with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) in Gemini platform.

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In this course, you'll learn to use the Agent Development Kit (ADK) in Gemini platform to build systems where multiple AI agents collaborate on complex tasks. You'll start with the ADK agent model: how ADK represents agents, tools, and runners, and how a single agent is configured and run. You'll then make tools the model can call, persist session state across agents, and instrument the execution lifecycle with callbacks and plugins. Next, you'll orchestrate multiple agents using ADK's template workflow agents and graph-based workflows, and ground them in enterprise data through multi-source retrieval and MCP integrations. Finally, you'll deploy a multi-agent system to Agent Runtime as a managed service and register and share it through Gemini so users across an organization can reach it.

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This course provides foundational knowledge for securing your Google Cloud environment. You will learn Google Cloud's security model, including Zero Trust principles and the Shared Fate model. You will configure identity services like Cloud Identity and Workforce Identity Federation, manage access control using Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, conditions, and policies, and implement network security controls such as VPCs, Cloud Firewall tiers, and VPC Service Controls to build a secure perimeter. As the foundation of the Security in Google Cloud learning path, this course establishes the core principles required for two subsequent specialized tracks: the five-course Security Best Practices in Google Cloud series and the four-course Mitigate Threats in Google Cloud series.

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This course introduces Gemini Enteprise, a powerful platform that brings together AI agents, enterprise search, Gemini Notebook, and intelligent data access to solve organizational challenges. Through real-world examples and hands-on exploration, learners will be able to connect Gemini Enterprise capabilities to real business needs, describe its architecture, and explain how it handles data access and privacy across roles. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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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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In this course, you follow the full application modernization journey. You start by lifting and shifting a web application to a virtual machine, then evolve the architecture by containerizing the application for Kubernetes orchestration, and finally deploy it to a serverless platform.

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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.

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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Professional Cloud Architect 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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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.

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In this course, you’ll learn how to apply the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework to design resilient, production-grade cloud environments. You’ll analyze real-world challenges across six distinct industries to balance competing priorities like low-latency performance, ironclad security, and carbon efficiency. By the end, you'll possess a practical architectural playbook and the critical thinking skills needed to lead reviews and optimize cloud workloads in the field.

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

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In this course, you learn about Cloud Run functions, Google's serverless, fully-managed functions as a service (FaaS) product that lets you implement single-purpose function code that reponds to HTTP requests and events from your cloud infrastructure.

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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and Gemini Notebook. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape 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.

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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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Explore the future of generative AI in Google Cloud databases, how Google Cloud uses Duet AI with databases, and how generative AI can be implemented at the orchestration layer. Discover new capabilities in PostgreSQL with SQL and vector search, AlloyDB innovations for generative AI apps, and Duet AI in CloudSpanner. Follow demonstrations for AlloyDB AI, and Duet AI in Cloud Spanner and Database Migration Service.

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Earn a skill badge 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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A Business Leader in Generative AI can articulate the capabilities of core cloud Generative AI products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey and how they can leverage Google Cloud's generative AI products to overcome these challenges.

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This course, Introduction to Large Language Models - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Introduction to Large Language Models. This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This 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 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 will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course introduces 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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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps. 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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This course provides comprehensive skills on VM migration, from the initial assessment through the final implementation through presentations, demonstrations, and whiteboard session.

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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.

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Get Anthos Ready. This Google Kubernetes Engine-centric quest of best practice hands-on labs focuses on security at scale when deploying and managing production GKE environments -- specifically role-based access control, hardening, VPC networking, and binary authorization.

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Welcome to Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos! This is the first course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos path. Anthos enables you to build and manage modern applications, and gives you the freedom to choose where to run them. Anthos gives you one consistent experience in both your on-premises and cloud environments. During this course, you will be presented with modules that will take you through skills that you will use as an architect or administrator running Anthos environments. The modules in this course include videos, hands-on labs, and links to helpful documentation.

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This course provides comprehensive skills on VM migration, from the initial assessment through the final implementation through presentations, demonstrations, and whiteboard sessions.

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

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

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

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

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