A. L. Ciprian Brebu
Member since 2020
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment
Earned мая 23, 2025 EDT
[Deprecated] Cloud Logging
Earned мая 23, 2025 EDT
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability
Earned мая 23, 2025 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Operations and Service Mesh with Anthos
Earned мая 19, 2025 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security
Earned апр. 11, 2025 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned апр. 7, 2025 EDT
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud
Earned апр. 7, 2025 EDT
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run
Earned апр. 7, 2025 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture
Earned марта 11, 2025 EDT
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud
Earned июня 4, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned мая 31, 2023 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud
Earned мая 24, 2023 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Service Mesh with Anthos
Earned мая 23, 2023 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned апр. 24, 2023 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned апр. 21, 2023 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned марта 30, 2023 EDT
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned марта 30, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Architecture: Design Principles
Earned марта 20, 2023 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals
Earned марта 15, 2023 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: ACE Exam Prep
Earned авг. 31, 2022 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Earned авг. 30, 2022 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Earned авг. 30, 2022 EDT
API Security with the Apigee API Platform
Earned авг. 30, 2022 EDT
API Design and Fundamentals with the Apigee API Platform
Earned авг. 30, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned авг. 29, 2022 EDT
Build a Certification Study Guide: PDE Exam Prep
Earned авг. 23, 2022 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML
Earned авг. 23, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned авг. 23, 2022 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
Earned авг. 23, 2022 EDT
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud
Earned авг. 22, 2022 EDT
Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned июля 27, 2022 EDT
Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned июля 19, 2022 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery
Earned июля 7, 2022 EDT
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud
Earned июня 28, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned июня 21, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Earned июня 20, 2022 EDT
Security on AWS
Earned апр. 16, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture
Earned июня 25, 2021 EDT
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network
Earned июня 16, 2021 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned июня 16, 2021 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned июня 16, 2021 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned июня 14, 2021 EDT
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs
Earned июня 14, 2021 EDT
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line
Earned апр. 26, 2021 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned апр. 26, 2021 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned апр. 22, 2021 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned апр. 16, 2021 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned апр. 16, 2021 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned апр. 15, 2021 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned апр. 7, 2021 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned марта 28, 2021 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
Earned дек. 8, 2020 EST
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned дек. 8, 2020 EST
In this course, you will learn the basic skills to implement secure and efficient DevSecOps practices on Google Cloud. You'll learn how to secure your development pipeline with Google Cloud services like Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Binary Authorization. This enables you to build, test, and deploy containerized applications with security controls throughout the CI/CD pipeline.
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Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale. It can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs and, even better, analyze all that log data in real time. In this fundamental-level Quest, you learn how to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud. The labs in the Quest give you hands-on practice using Cloud Logging to maximize your learning experience and provide insight on how you can use Cloud Logging to your own Google Cloud environment.
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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics.
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Course two of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud with Anthos series prepares students to operate and observe Anthos environments. Through presentations and hands-on labs, participants explore adjusting existing clusters, setting up advanced traffic routing policies, securing communication across workloads, and observing clusters in Anthos. This course is a continuation of course one, Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud with Anthos, and assumes direct experience with the topics covered in that course.
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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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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.
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This course provides an introduction to using Terraform for Google Cloud. It enables learners to describe how Terraform can be used to implement infrastructure as code and to apply some of its key features and functionalities to create and manage Google Cloud infrastructure.
Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources using Terraform.
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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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In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.
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In this self-paced training course, participants learn mitigations for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use. They also learn about the Security Command Center, cloud logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.
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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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Welcome to the two-part course on Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud. The core operations tools in Google Cloud break down into two major categories. The operations-focused components and the application performance management tools. This course, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, covers the operations-focused components including Logging, Monitoring, and Service Monitoring. After taking this course, it is suggested that you complete part 2, Observability in Google Cloud, to learn about the available application performance management tools.
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This on-demand course equips students to understand and adopt Istio-based
service-mesh with Anthos for centralized observability, traffic management,
and service-level security.
This is the second course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with
Anthos series. After completing this course, learners should continue to the
Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos course.
Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a
prerequisite for this course.
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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness.
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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 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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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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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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Networking in Google cloud is a 6 part course series. Welcome to the first course of our six part course series, Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of core networking concepts, including networking fundamentals, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and the sharing of VPC networks. Additionally, the course covers network logging and monitoring techniques.
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Learn how to use Gemini Notebook to create a personalized study guide for the Associate Cloud 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 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, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
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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 learn how to secure your APIs. You explore the security concerns you will encounter for your APIs. You learn about OAuth, the primary authorization method for REST APIs. You will learn about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and federated security. You also learn about securing against malicious requests, safely sending requests across a public network, and how to secure your data for users of Apigee.
Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform.
This is the second course of the Developing APIs with the Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Development with the Apigee API Platform course.
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In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API lifecycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the lifecycle. You learn how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.
Through a combination of lessons, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform. This is the first course of the Developing APIs with the Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Security with the Apigee API Platform course.
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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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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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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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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 Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions.
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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.
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In this course you will get hands-on in order to work through real-world challenges faced when building streaming data pipelines. The primary focus is on managing continuous, unbounded data with Google Cloud products.
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In this intermediate course, you will learn to design, build, and optimize robust batch data pipelines on Google Cloud. Moving beyond fundamental data handling, you will explore large-scale data transformations and efficient workflow orchestration, essential for timely business intelligence and critical reporting.
Get hands-on practice using Dataflow for Apache Beam and Serverless for Apache Spark (Dataproc Serverless) for implementation, and tackle crucial considerations for data quality, monitoring, and alerting to ensure pipeline reliability and operational excellence. A basic knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud concepts is recommended.
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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery.
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While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.
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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Data Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.
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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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This quest is designed to teach you how to apply AWS Identity and Access Management, in concert with several other AWS Services, to address real-world application and service security management scenarios.
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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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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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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.
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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.
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In this 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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Google Cloud Application Programming Interfaces are the mechanism to interact with Google Cloud Services programmatically. This quest will give you hands-on practice with a variety of GCP APIs, which you will learn through working with Google’s APIs Explorer, a tool that allows you to browse APIs and run their methods interactively. By learning how to transfer data between Cloud Storage buckets, deploy Compute Engine instances, configure Dataproc clusters and much more, Exploring APIs will show you how powerful APIs are and why they are used almost exclusively by proficient GCP users. Enroll in this quest today.
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For everyone using Google Cloud Platform for the first time, getting familar with gcloud, Google Cloud's command line, will help you get up to speed faster. In this quest, you'll learn how to install and configure Cloud SDK, then use gcloud to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, using BigQuery, and using gsutil to perform operations.
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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 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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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.
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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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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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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in.
By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills.
The courses should be completed in the following order:
1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals
2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud
3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud
4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud
This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.
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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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