Mark Johnson
Member since 2018
Silver League
39507 points
Configure Service Accounts and IAM Roles for Google Cloud
Earned أكتوبر 27, 2026 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned أكتوبر 27, 2026 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned يوليو 12, 2026 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned يوليو 12, 2026 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts
Earned أكتوبر 23, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Introduction to NotebookLM
Earned أغسطس 14, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI Applications
Earned أغسطس 14, 2025 EDT
Create Data Stores for Gen AI Applications
Earned أغسطس 14, 2025 EDT
Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance
Earned أغسطس 13, 2025 EDT
Implement Hybrid Search
Earned أغسطس 13, 2025 EDT
Implement RAG with Agent Platform
Earned أغسطس 13, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Model evaluation on Vertex AI
Earned أغسطس 12, 2025 EDT
Deploy a RAG application with vector search in Firestore
Earned أغسطس 12, 2025 EDT
Edit images with Imagen
Earned أغسطس 12, 2025 EDT
Deploy and Evaluate Model Garden Models
Earned أغسطس 9, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use
Earned أغسطس 8, 2025 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Agent Platform: Model Evaluation
Earned أغسطس 2, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models
Earned يوليو 31, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models
Earned يوليو 30, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Evaluate ADK Agents with Vertex AI Gen AI Evaluation Service
Earned يوليو 29, 2025 EDT
Generate and Edit Media in Agent Platform
Earned يوليو 29, 2025 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Improve Performance by Fine-Tuning Foundation Models
Earned يوليو 28, 2025 EDT
Find, Explore and Deploy Model Garden Models
Earned يوليو 28, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI Apps with Tool Use
Earned يوليو 23, 2025 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings
Earned يوليو 14, 2025 EDT
Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery
Earned يوليو 14, 2025 EDT
Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications
Earned يوليو 14, 2025 EDT
Deploy Multi-Agent Systems with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Earned يوليو 8, 2025 EDT
Modernization Quiz: Modernize my existing applications
Earned أبريل 11, 2025 EDT
Google Workspace with Gemini: Foundations of Your AI Workflow
Earned يونيو 5, 2024 EDT
Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit
Earned يونيو 4, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for Data Scientists and Analysts
Earned مايو 22, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for Security Engineers
Earned مايو 21, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for end-to-end SDLC
Earned مايو 20, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for DevOps Engineers
Earned أبريل 29, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for Network Engineers
Earned أبريل 18, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for Cloud Architects
Earned أبريل 16, 2024 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Gemini for Application Developers
Earned أبريل 16, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned يوليو 5, 2023 EDT
[DEPRECATED]Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned يوليو 5, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned مايو 27, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned مايو 27, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned مايو 27, 2023 EDT
Creating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Earned أكتوبر 5, 2022 EDT
Measure Site Reliability using Cloud Operations Suite
Earned أغسطس 11, 2022 EDT
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned أغسطس 9, 2022 EDT
Cloud Architecture - Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned أغسطس 9, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned أغسطس 8, 2022 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned مايو 16, 2022 EDT
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud
Earned مارس 15, 2021 EDT
[Deprecated] Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure
Earned مارس 15, 2021 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned يناير 12, 2021 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned يوليو 7, 2020 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned يوليو 6, 2020 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices
Earned فبراير 8, 2020 EST
DevOps Essentials
Earned فبراير 6, 2020 EST
Cloud Engineering
Earned نوفمبر 9, 2019 EST
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security
Earned أغسطس 21, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Network Performance and Optimization
Earned أغسطس 1, 2019 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned يوليو 8, 2019 EDT
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network
Earned يوليو 3, 2019 EDT
Cloud Adoption Strategies
Earned يوليو 1, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned يونيو 25, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned يونيو 24, 2019 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications
Earned مايو 27, 2019 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned أبريل 2, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned مارس 19, 2019 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned مارس 13, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture
Earned يناير 27, 2019 EST
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned يناير 25, 2019 EST
DEPRECATED Application Development - Python
Earned يناير 3, 2019 EST
Cloud SQL
Earned يناير 2, 2019 EST
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned أكتوبر 1, 2018 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned سبتمبر 10, 2018 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned مايو 11, 2018 EDT
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 .
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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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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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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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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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NotebookLM is an AI-powered collaborator that helps you do your best thinking. After uploading your documents, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so you can read, take notes, and collaborate with it to refine and organize your ideas.
NotebookLM Pro gives you everything already included with NotebookLM, as well as higher utilization limits, access to premium features, and additional sharing options and analytics.
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This course introduces AI Applications. You will learn about the types of apps that you can create using AI Applications, the high-level steps that its data stores automate for you, and what advanced features can be enabled for Search apps.
(Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)
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Data stores represent a simple way to make content available to many types of generative AI applications, including search applications, recommendations engines, Gemini Enterprise apps, Agent Development Kit agents, and apps built with Google Gen AI or LangChain SDKs. Connect data from many sources include Cloud Storage, Google Drive, chat apps, mail apps, ticketing systems, third-party file storage providers, Salesforce, and many more.
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Complete the Evaluate Gen AI model and agent performance skill badge to demonstrate your ability to use the Gen AI evaluation service. You will evaluate models to select the best model for a given task, compare models against each other and evaluate the performance of agents.
A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!
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Learn how to create Hybrid Search applications using Vertex AI Vertex Search to combine semantic searching with keyword search to return results based on both semantic meaning and keyword matching.
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Learn how to build your own Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for greater control and flexibility than out-of-the-box implementations. Create a custom RAG solution using Agent Platform APIs, vector stores, and the LangChain framework.
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This course delves into the complexities of assessing the quality of large language model outputs. It examines the challenges enterprises face due to the subjective and sometimes incorrect nature of LLM responses, including hallucinations and inconsistent results. The course introduces various evaluation metrics for different tasks like classification, text generation, and question answering, such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score, ROUGE, BLEU, and Exact Match. It also explores evaluation methods offered by Vertex AI LLM Evaluation Services, including computation-based, autorater, and human evaluation, providing insights into their application and benefits. Finally, the module covers how to unit test LLM applications within Vertex AI.
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This lab tests your ability to develop a real-world Generative AI Q&A solution using a RAG framework. You will use Firestore as a vector database and deploy a Flask app as a user interface to query a food safety knowledge base.
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Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts.
A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!
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In this skill bagde, you will demonstrate your ability to use and compare models available in the Vertex AI Model Garden. You'll deploy a model to a Vertex AI Endpoint, query other models via their API, and use Vertex AI's Gen AI evaluation service to measure the performance of multiple models.
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Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to take actions such as sending an email.
A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"
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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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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models
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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.
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Evaluation is important at every step of your Gen AI development process. In this course you will learn how to evaluate gen AI agents built using agent frameworks.
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This course dives into the world of media creation with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform using Nano Banana and Veo. Learn to design text and image-based prompts to produce high-quality, consistent images, and captivating, cinematic video clips. You'll also learn to refine generated assets using core editing functions. Finally, this course guides you through multi-tool workflow implementations for creative control and consistency, empowering you to transform images into video clips and leverage Gemini for prompt writing assistance and feedback.
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Model tuning is an effective way to customize large models to your tasks. It's a key step to improve the model's quality and efficiency. Model tuning provides benefits such as higher quality results for your specific tasks and increased model robustness. You learn some of the tuning options available in Vertex AI and when to use them.
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Model Garden on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is a model library that helps you discover, test, and deploy models from Google and Google partners. Learn how to explore the available models and select the right ones for your use case. And how to deploy and interact with Model Garden models through the Google Cloud console and APIs.
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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.
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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.
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Complete the Build search and recommendations AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in deploying search and recommendation applications through AI Applications. Additionally, emphasis is placed on constructing a tailored Q&A system utilizing data stores.
Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content.
A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!
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In this course, you’ll learn to use the Google Agent Development Kit to build complex, multi-agent systems. You will build agents equipped with tools, and connect them with parent-child relationships and flows to define how they interact. You’ll run your agents locally and deploy them to Agent Runtime on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to run as a managed agentic flow, with infrastructure decisions and resource scaling handled by Agent Runtime.
Please note these labs are based off a pre-released version of this product. There may be some lag on these labs as we provide maintenance updates.
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Transition your legacy applications to modern architectures using Google Cloud's containerization, serverless, and managed Kubernetes solution.
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Google Workspace with Gemini provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. Here, you will learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency. Continue building your skills in the full Google Workspace with Gemini learning path, and explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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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.
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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.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you secure your cloud environment and resources. You learn how to deploy example workloads into an environment in Google Cloud, identify security misconfigurations with Gemini, and remediate security misconfigurations with Gemini. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves your cloud security posture.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps engineers manage infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to find and understand application logs, create a GKE cluster, and investigate how to create a build environment. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the DevOps workflow.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps network engineers create, update, and maintain VPC networks. You learn how to prompt Gemini to provide specific guidance for your networking tasks, beyond what you would receive from a search engine. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini makes it easier for you to work with Google Cloud VPC networks.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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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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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 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 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 quest you will get hands-on experience writing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Measure Site Reliability using Cloud Operations Suite quest, where you will learn how to set Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs); create logs-based metrics to capture to capture specific issues and address them; define alerts to notify Site Reliability Engineers of issues in production environment, and troubleshoot application issues with Cloud Trace, Debugger, Profiler, Monitoring and Logging. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam.
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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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Learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. These labs will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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In this Quest, the experienced user of Google Cloud will learn how to describe and launch cloud resources with Terraform, an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. In these nine hands-on labs, you will work with example templates and understand how to launch a range of configurations, from simple servers, through full load-balanced applications.
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TensorFlow is an open source software library for high performance numerical computation that's great for writing models that can train and run on platforms ranging from your laptop to a fleet of servers in the Cloud to an edge device. This quest takes you beyond the basics of using predefined models and teaches you how to build, train and deploy your own on Google Cloud.
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Machine Learning is one of the most innovative fields in technology, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, Google Cloud has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning at scale and how to employ the advanced ML infrastructure available on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The hands-on labs in this Quest are structured to give experienced app developers hands-on practice with the state-of-the-art developing applications in Google Cloud. The topics align with the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Certification. These labs follow the sequence of activities needed to create and deploy an app in Google Cloud from beginning to end. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, it is recommended that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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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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Welcome to Cloud Adoption Strategies Click "Join this Game".
To modify your player name or avatar, go to your My Account page at https://google.qwiklabs.com.
Points are earned by completing the steps in the lab.... and bonus points are earned for speed! Be sure to complete each lab by selecting the END option to get the maximum points.
Please respect the GCP resource quotas that have been allocated. Otherwise, you'll waste your Game time and gain fewer points.
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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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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.
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The Google Cloud Platform provides many different frameworks and options to fit your application’s needs. In this introductory-level quest, you will get plenty of hands-on practice deploying sample applications on Google App Engine. You will also dive into other web application frameworks like Firebase, Wordpress, and Node.js and see firsthand how they can be integrated with Google Cloud.
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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 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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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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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 advanced-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of developing GCP applications in Python. The first labs will walk you through the basics of environment setup and application data storage with Cloud Datastore. Once you have a handle on the fundamentals, you will get hands-on practice deploying Python applications on Kubernetes and App Engine (the latter is the same framework that powers Snapchat!) With specialized bonus labs that teach user authentication and backend service development, this quest will give you practical experience so you can start developing robust Python applications straight away.
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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.
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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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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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