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Connecting Cloud Networks with NCC Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Get Started with Eventarc Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
The Basics of Google Cloud Compute Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Configure Service Accounts and IAM Roles for Google Cloud Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Integrate BigQuery Data and Google Workspace using Apps Script Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned Dec 28, 2025 EST
Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Create and Manage Bigtable Instances Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Get Started with Pub/Sub Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Get Started with Looker Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Streaming Analytics into BigQuery Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Analyze and Reason on Multimodal Data with Gemini Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Cloud Run Functions: 3 Ways Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Implement Multimodal Vector Search with BigQuery Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Your Ecosystem Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
App Building with AppSheet Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Build a Data Mesh with Dataplex Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Develop with Apps Script and AppSheet Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Cloud Speech API: 3 Ways Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Use Functions, Formulas, and Charts in Google Sheets Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection Earned Dec 27, 2025 EST
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned Dec 26, 2025 EST
Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center Earned Dec 26, 2025 EST
Get Started with Cloud Storage Earned Dec 26, 2025 EST
Using the Google Cloud Speech API Earned Dec 26, 2025 EST
Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances Earned Dec 25, 2025 EST
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Dec 24, 2025 EST
Develop and Secure APIs with Apigee X Earned Dec 24, 2025 EST
Work Meets Play: Burger Bytes Earned Dec 24, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Certification Zone December 2025 Earned Dec 23, 2025 EST
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Command Line Earned Dec 22, 2025 EST
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned Dec 22, 2025 EST
Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage Earned Dec 22, 2025 EST
Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs Earned Dec 22, 2025 EST
Secure Software Delivery Earned Dec 19, 2025 EST
Enhance Gemini Model Capabilities Earned Dec 19, 2025 EST
Store, Process, and Manage Data on Google Cloud - Console Earned Dec 17, 2025 EST
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud Earned Dec 17, 2025 EST
App Engine: 3 Ways Earned Dec 17, 2025 EST
Winter Wins Earned Dec 17, 2025 EST
Build a Website on Google Cloud Earned Dec 17, 2025 EST
Level 1: Applied Intelligence and Cloud Architecture Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Get Started with Dataplex Earned Dec 15, 2025 EST
Level 2: Strategic Cloud Security and Intelligent Network Design Earned Dec 15, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Base Camp December 2025 Earned Dec 12, 2025 EST
Classify Images with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Earned Dec 11, 2025 EST
Share Data Using Google Data Cloud Earned Dec 11, 2025 EST
Level 3: Cloud Development Essentials Earned Dec 11, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 4 Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 3 Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 2 Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia December 2025 Week 1 Earned Dec 10, 2025 EST
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Dec 8, 2025 EST
Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned Dec 8, 2025 EST
Introduction to Security in the World of AI Earned Dec 7, 2025 EST
Google Cloud AI and ML Solutions for the Public Sector Earned Dec 5, 2025 EST
Model Armor: Securing AI Deployments Earned Dec 5, 2025 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Dec 4, 2025 EST
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned Dec 3, 2025 EST
How to Use TPUs for Inference Earned Dec 3, 2025 EST
Architecting an AI Inference Stack Earned Dec 3, 2025 EST
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker Earned Dec 3, 2025 EST
Manage Data Models in Looker Earned Dec 3, 2025 EST
Developing Data Models with LookML Earned Dec 2, 2025 EST
Analyzing and Visualizing Data in Looker Earned Dec 2, 2025 EST
Introduction to Looker Earned Dec 1, 2025 EST
Introduction to Data Analytics on Google Cloud Earned Dec 1, 2025 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation Earned Nov 27, 2025 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI Earned Nov 27, 2025 EST
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports Earned Nov 26, 2025 EST
Build LookML Objects in Looker Earned Nov 26, 2025 EST
Get Started with Google Workspace Tools Earned Nov 26, 2025 EST
Level 2: Intelligent Development and Automation Earned Nov 19, 2025 EST
Level 1: Advanced Cloud Integration and Data Intelligence Earned Nov 17, 2025 EST
Level 3: Scalable Deployments and Delivery Earned Nov 14, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Base Camp November 2025 Earned Nov 14, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia November 2025 Week 4 Earned Nov 10, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia November 2025 Week 3 Earned Nov 10, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia November 2025 Week 2 Earned Nov 10, 2025 EST
Google Skills Arcade Trivia November 2025 Week 1 Earned Nov 10, 2025 EST
Skills Boost Arcade Base Camp October 2025 Earned Oct 31, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia October 2025 Week 4 Earned Oct 29, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia October 2025 Week 3 Earned Oct 29, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia October 2025 Week 2 Earned Oct 29, 2025 EDT
Skills Boost Arcade Trivia October 2025 Week 1 Earned Oct 29, 2025 EDT
Google Skills Arcade Certification Zone October 2025 Earned Oct 28, 2025 EDT
Level 3: Generative AI Earned Oct 28, 2025 EDT

Earn the intermediate Skill Badge by completing the Connecting Cloud Networks with NCC where you will learn how to use the Network Connectivity Center to connect your on-premises, cloud enterprise networks, and hybrid networks, and manage them as spokes through a single, centralized hub on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios.

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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Eventarc skill badge course, where you use Eventarc to create event triggers for different resources including Pub/Sub topics and Cloud Storage buckets.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute skill badge course, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine.

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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 introductory Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: performing core AlloyDB operations and tasks, migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL, administering an AlloyDB database, and accelerating analytical queries using the AlloyDB Columnar Engine.

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Complete the introductory Integrate BigQuery Data and Google Workspace using Apps Script skill badge course to demonstrate skills in connecting Workspace products with BigQuery via AppSheet.

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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 intermediate Explore Generative AI with the Gemini API in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in text generation, image and video analysis for enhanced content creation, and applying function calling techniques within the Gemini API. Discover how to leverage sophisticated Gemini techniques, explore multimodal content generation, and expand the capabilities of your AI-powered projects.

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Complete the introductory Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: image recognition, natural language processing, image generation using Google's powerful Gemini and Imagen models, deploying applications on the Vertex AI platform.

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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 the introductory skill badge by completing the Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI course. In this course, you learn how to extract, process, and capture data using Document AI.

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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 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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Complete the Analyze BigQuery Data in Connected Sheets skill badge to demonstrate that you can use Connected Sheets to access, analyze, visualize, and share billions of rows of BigQuery data from your Google Sheets spreadsheet.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: architecting and building serverless web applications with Firebase, utilizing Firestore for database management, automating deployment processes using Cloud Build, and integrating Google Assistant functionality into your applications.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API quest, where you learn how the API derives sentiment from text.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security skill badge course, where you learn how to leverage Chrome Enterprise Premium to provide secure access to critical apps and services, improve your security posture with a modern Zero Trust platform, securely provide access to resources using identity and context-aware access control, and support hybrid cloud workloads using Client Connector.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Bigtable Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating instances, designing schemas, querying data, and performing administrative tasks in Bigtable including monitoring performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Pub/Sub skill badge course, where you learn how to use Pub/Sub through the Cloud console, how Cloud Scheduler jobs can save you effort, and when Pub/Sub Lite can save you money on high-volume event ingestion.

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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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Complete the intermediate Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating datasets in BigQuery by importing CSV and JSON files; harnessing the power of BigQuery with sophisticated SQL analytical concepts, including using BigQuery ML to train an expected goals model on soccer event data and evaluate the impressiveness of World Cup goals.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Looker skill badge course, where you learn how to analyze, visualize, and curate data using Looker Studio and Looker.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Streaming Analytics into BigQuery skill badge course, where you use Pub/Sub, Dataflow and BigQuery together to stream data for analytics.

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Complete the intermediate Analyze and Reason on Multimodal Data with Gemini skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: analyzing text, image, audio, and video data using Gemini, and reasoning about this combined information to draw conclusions and extract insights.

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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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Complete the introductory Monitor and Manage Google Cloud Resources skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: granting and revoking IAM permissions; installing monitoring and logging agents; creating, deploying, and testing an event-driven Cloud Run function.

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Earn a Introductory skill badge by completing the Cloud Run functions: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line.

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Complete the intermediate Implement Multimodal Vector Search with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Gemini in BigQuery to generate and debug SQL, conduct sentiment analysis, summarize text and identify keywords, generate embeddings, create a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline, and implement multimodal vector search.

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Complete the intermediate Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Your Ecosystem skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API) to discover, inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data across your Google Cloud ecosystem including Cloud Storage files, BigQuery data, and Gen AI model responses.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.

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Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Dataplex to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Dataplex.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop with Apps Script and AppSheet skill badge course, where you learn how to build chat bots and how to use the script editor in any document.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus skill badge course, where you learn Kubernetes Monitoring with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus.

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Earn the Introductory skill badge by completing the Cloud Speech API: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use speech related API tools to synthesise and transcribe speech.

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Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API quest, where you discover how to leverage the Cloud Vision API for various tasks, including extracting text from images.

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Complete the introductory Monitoring in Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Cloud Monitoring tools to monitor resources on Google Cloud.

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Complete the intermediate Use Functions, Formulas and Charts in Google Sheets skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: analyzing data with functions; visualizing data using charts; and searching, validating, formatting, and displaying data.

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Complete the introductory Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API) to inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data in Google Cloud.

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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 Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: preventing and managing environment threats, identifying and mitigating application vulnerabilities, and responding to security anomalies.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Cloud Storage skill badge course, where you learn how to create a Cloud Storage bucket, how to use the Cloud Storage command line, and how to use Bucket Lock to protect objects in a bucket.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Using the Google Cloud Speech API skill badge course, where you learn how create a Speech-to-Text API request, transcribe audio speech to text, and transcribe speech.

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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating, configuring, and managing Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances and databases.

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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 Develop and Secure APIs with Apigee X skill badge course, where you learn how to modernize your APIs, use service accounts and Google Authentication to securely access backend services from Apigee API proxies, productize APIs using API products and developer portals, secure APIs using features like API keys, OAuth, private variables and fault handling, integrate Apigee with Google Cloud services like Pub/Sub and Cloud Logging, and call Google Cloud APIs like the Natural Language API and the Geocoding API.

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Every second counts when a line of cars is waiting at the drive-thru. Wendy’s is using Google Cloud to turn data and AI into faster, more accurate ordering—handling countless menu combinations without slowing things down. In this challenge, you’ll tap into the same ideas. You’ll create clear dashboards with Looker, shape and query data in BigQuery and Cloud SQL, apply machine learning and language analysis to spot patterns, and keep systems reliable with Kubernetes and data platforms. It’s about learning how smart data and AI come together to keep experiences smooth, even at peak speed.

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Google Cloud Certifications provide a tangible way for you to demonstrate your skills to potential or current employers. These certifications incorporate performance-based questions, testing your hands-on expertise through practical tasks. Begin your journey towards becoming a Google Certified Professional with the help of the Arcade Cert Zone.

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Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Pub/Sub are all Google Cloud Platform services that can be used to store, process, and manage data. All three services can be used together to create a variety of data-driven applications. In this skill badge you use Cloud Storage to store images, Cloud Functions to process the images, and Cloud Pub/Sub to send the images to another application.

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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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Complete the introductory Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using APIs to work with Cloud Storage resources, including the Cloud Storage API.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs quest, where you learn how to use the Natural Language and Speech APIs in real-world settings.

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Complete the intermediate Secure Software Delivery skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in proactively integrating security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) with DevSecOps principles. You'll learn how to utilize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run for secure container image deployment, implement automated vulnerability scanning to proactively identify risks, and streamline application development with Artifact Registry while maintaining a focus on security. Additionally, you'll gain skills in integrating Cloud Build for robust development processes and implementing Admission Control Policies for fine-grained control over your environment.

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Complete the intermediate Enhance Gemini Model Capabilities skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: leveraging advanced features of Gemini models, including code generation and execution, grounding, controlled content generation, and synthetic data creation, to build more powerful and sophisticated AI applications.

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Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Pub/Sub are all Google Cloud Platform services that can be used to store, process, and manage data. All three services can be used together to create a variety of data-driven applications. In this skill badge you use Cloud Storage to store images, Cloud Functions to process the images, and Cloud Pub/Sub to send the images to another application.

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Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Engine`:` 3 ways course, where you learn how to use App Engine with Python, Go, and PHP.

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Google processes over 2 trillion data operations a day—and now you’ll tap into the skills behind that scale on your path to your next Winter Win. You’ll streamline collaboration with Google Workspace, prep insight-ready data for Looker, build secure networks, launch compute resources, and keep everything steady with smart monitoring. Then you’ll bring it all together by deploying a website, building an AppSheet app, and managing data across Google Cloud. By the time you’re through, you won’t just reach your next Winter Win—you’ll feel like you earned every bit of it.

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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud skill badge course. This course is based on the Get Cooking in Cloud series and covers`:`Deploying a website on Cloud RunHosting a web app on Compute EngineCreating, deploying, and scaling your website on Google Kubernetes EngineMigrating from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture using Cloud Build

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Intelligent systems today process everything from scanned invoices to massive data lakes, all while powering apps that users expect to work instantly. Handling that complexity calls for advanced AI, strong governance, and dependable cloud architecture. In this challenge, you’ll extract insights from documents with Document AI, organize and manage distributed data using Dataplex, and secure sensitive information with Cloud KMS. You’ll also deploy containerized apps on Kubernetes Engine, build real-time backends with Firebase, create no-code chat apps with AppSheet, and monitor live activity through Streamlit. These labs show how modern cloud solutions combine intelligence and architecture to stay efficient, secure, and ready for anything.

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Complete the introductory Get Started with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Dataplex assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Dataplex.

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Organizations today rely on secure data controls, resilient network design, and AI-driven insights to operate confidently at scale. In this challenge, you’ll manage Vault policies and tokens, validate SQL Server workloads, and visualize security alerts using Google SecOps. You’ll also establish VPC-to-VPC and hybrid connectivity with NCC and steer global traffic with Cloud DNS geolocation policies. On the AI side, you’ll improve speech recognition accuracy and extract, analyze, and translate text using Cloud ML and Natural Language tools. These labs show how modern cloud systems stay protected, connected, and intelligent in an ever-evolving environment.

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Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!

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Earn the intermediate Skill Badge by completing the Classify Images with TensorFlow on Google Cloud skill badge course where you learn how to use TensorFlow and Vertex AI to create and train machine learning models. You primarily interact with Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Share Data Using Google Data Cloud skill badge course, where you will gain practical experience with Google Cloud Data Sharing Partners, which have proprietary datasets that customers can use for their analytics use cases. Customers subscribe to this data, query it within their own platform, then augment it with their own datasets and use their visualization tools for their customer facing dashboards.

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Every day, millions of apps depend on fast data reads, stable networks, and reliable backend logic to keep users connected. Delivering that experience starts with strong development and foundational skills. In this challenge, you’ll level up through ACE App Dev labs, write to Firestore using Python and TypeScript, and build confidence with essential Linux commands. You’ll also strengthen your networking basics. These labs give you the core abilities every cloud developer needs—clean app logic, solid network understanding, and command-line fluency.

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the December Trivia Week 4 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the December Trivia Week 3 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December Week 2! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the December Trivia Week 2 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for December Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the December Trivia Week 1 badge!

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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 Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud skill badge course where you learn how to use Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. You interact with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, Cloud Run, and GKE. This course teaches you how to build continuous integration pipelines, store and secure artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, attest to the validity of approved releases. Additionally, you get hands-on experience deploying applications to both GKE and Cloud Run.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative possibilities, but it also introduces new security challenges. This course equips security and data protection leaders with strategies to securely manage AI within their organizations. Learn a framework for proactively identifying and mitigating AI-specific risks, protecting sensitive data, ensuring compliance, and building a resilient AI infrastructure. Pick use cases from four different industries to explore how these strategies apply in real-world scenarios.

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Building a Conversational Interface with Dialogflow CX Building conversational interfaces will enable you to engage your constituents in delightful new ways. This section will provide an overview of Dialogflow CX, which provides a range of new capabilities, languages, and functions. Scaling Equity and Access with Enterprise Translation Hub Accurate, timely and cost effective document translation has long been a challenge to providing equitable and accessible service to all constituents. In this section, explore Google's Enterprise Translation solutions which provide scalable document translation leveraging best in class Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, while retaining the critical human in the loop for final post editing review.

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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 applications.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.

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In 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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This course is for developers interested in learning how to use TPUs for inference—from architecture to deployment, and how to solve common implementation challenges.

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This course is designed for developers looking to build an optimized AI inference stack on Google Cloud. Whether you’re working with GPUs or TPUs, you’ll explore the fundamental components of an inference stack, learn design principles for maximizing performance and reliability, and explore practical techniques to take your workloads from 0 to 1.

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In this course, you will get hands-on experience applying advanced LookML concepts in Looker. You will learn how to use Liquid to customize and create dynamic dimensions and measures, create dynamic SQL derived tables and customized native derived tables, and use extends to modularize your LookML code.

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Complete the intermediate Manage Data Models in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: maintaining LookML project health; utilizing SQL runner for data validation; employing LookML best practices; optimizing queries and reports for performance; and implementing persistent derived tables and caching policies.

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This course empowers you to develop scalable, performant LookML (Looker Modeling Language) models that provide your business users with the standardized, ready-to-use data that they need to answer their questions. Upon completing this course, you will be able to start building and maintaining LookML models to curate and manage data in your organization’s Looker instance.

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In this course, you learn how to do the kind of data exploration and analysis in Looker that would formerly be done primarily by SQL developers or analysts. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to leverage Looker's modern analytics platform to find and explore relevant content in your organization’s Looker instance, ask questions of your data, create new metrics as needed, and build and share visualizations and dashboards to facilitate data-driven decision making.

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In this introductory course, you'll learn how Looker can help you explore, analyze, and visualize your data to drive better decisions. Through a combination of video lectures and demos, you'll discover how to connect to various data sources, build interactive dashboards, and perform effective data analysis. Whether you're a data analyst, BI analyst, data scientist or business user, this course will equip you with the foundational knowledge to start using Looker effectively, regardless of your background.

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In this beginner-level course, you will learn about the Data Analytics workflow on Google Cloud and the tools you can use to explore, analyze, and visualize data and share your findings with stakeholders. Using a case study along with hands-on labs, lectures, and quizzes/demos, the course will demonstrate how to go from raw datasets to clean data to impactful visualizations and dashboards. Whether you already work with data and want to learn how to be successful on Google Cloud, or you’re looking to progress in your career, this course will help you get started. Almost anyone who performs or uses data analysis in their work can benefit from this course.

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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 Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.

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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Vertex AI empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: filtering, sorting, and pivoting data; merging results from different Looker Explores; and using functions and operators to build Looker dashboards and reports for data analysis and visualization.

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Complete the introductory Build LookML Objects in Looker skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: building new dimensions and measures, views, and derived tables; setting measure filters and types based on requirements; updating dimensions and measures; building and refining Explores; joining views to existing Explores; and deciding which LookML objects to create based on business requirements.

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Earn an introductory skill badge by completing the Get Started with Google Workspace Tools course, where you will get introduced to Google's collaborative platform and learn to use Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Drive, Sheets, and AppSheet.

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Innovation today depends on how data, intelligence, and automation come together. With over 70% of organizations adopting cloud-native tools to accelerate development, this challenge will help you learn the technologies shaping that shift. In the first section, you’ll build dynamic dashboards in Looker, manage APIs through API Gateway, and design engaging Conversational Agents that make user interactions smarter and more intuitive. The second section focuses on bringing ideas to life at scale—deploying apps with Cloud Run and Compute Engine, streamlining workflows with Pub/Sub, managing artifacts efficiently, and adding real-time intelligence with tools like Speech-to-Textand Google Sheets charts. Together, these labs prepare you to create intelligent, connected systems that learn, respond, and scale effortlessly.

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Over 90% of enterprises rely on APIs to accelerate innovation and streamline connectivity across systems. In this challenge, you’ll learn how Apigee X helps modernize, publish, and secure APIs—enabling seamless communication between applications and services. You’ll also explore Looker, Cloud SQL, and Database Migration Service to transform raw data into actionable insights and migrate workloads securely to the cloud. Together, these labs highlight how intelligent integration powers agility, scalability, and smarter decision-making in today’s digital ecosystem.

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From code to cloud, automation drives reliable, repeatable deployment. With over 80% of enterprises adopting DevOps practices, this challenge will guide you through building and managing secure, scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud. You’ll create Artifact Registries for Go, Python, Maven, and more—managing dependencies securely—and deploy static sites using Nginx, Traefik, and Caddy V2 on Cloud Run. Then you will dive into into Terraform Essentials, where you’ll define cloud resources as code—from VPCs and firewall rules to Compute Engine and Cloud Storage—and safeguard configurations with Secret Manager. Together, these labs give you hands-on experience in automating deployments and strengthening cloud infrastructure from the ground up.

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Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for November Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the November Trivia Week 4 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for November Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the November Trivia Week 3 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for November Week 2! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the November Trivia Week 2 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Google Skills Arcade Trivia for November Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the November Trivia Week 1 badge!

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Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for October Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the October Trivia Week 4 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for October Week 3! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the October Trivia Week 3 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for October Week 2! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the October Trivia Week 2 badge!

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Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for October Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the October Trivia Week 1 badge!

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Google Cloud Certifications provide a tangible way for you to demonstrate your skills to potential or current employers. These certifications incorporate performance-based questions, testing your hands-on expertise through practical tasks. Begin your journey towards becoming a Google Certified Professional with the help of the Arcade Cert Zone.

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Nearly 1 in 3 people worldwide already use AI chatbots in their daily lives, and more than 90% of companies are exploring generative AI for work and learning. In this challenge, you’ll chat with bots that can talk about movies and music, and help you practise French, Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, and Portuguese. You’ll also explore AI study partners designed for cloud roles like architect, engineer, and digital leader. These labs show how AI can make learning easier, more interactive, and a lot more fun.

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