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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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.
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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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.
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.
Modern applications rely on scalable infrastructure, secure identity management, and real-time monitoring to perform reliably. In this challenge, you’ll learn to configure Cloud Storage buckets for website hosting, deploy containers with Google Kubernetes Engine, and manage authentication and authorization with Vault. Explore Cloud Spanner for highly available databases, troubleshoot data models in Looker, and improve LookML projects for usability. You’ll also monitor logs, create alerts, and dive into Cloud Functions across Go, Node.js, .NET, and PHP to build responsive, secure, and scalable cloud applications.
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.
Every minute, people upload more than 500 hours of video to YouTube, while apps worldwide handle millions of users at once. Managing that kind of demand requires powerful, scalable cloud solutions. In this challenge, you’ll store and serve media in Cloud Storage, deploy apps on Kubernetes Engine, and connect networks with VPC peering. You’ll also explore Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, IAM, and load balancing for secure, reliable systems—plus dive into Dataproc and Video Intelligence for smarter data insights. These labs show how today’s apps scale, stay secure, and keep delivering when demand never slows down!
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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!
This Diwali, it’s not just lights—it’s your brain that gets to sparkle! Take on quizzes and challenges across cloud building blocks, firewalls, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Networking, and Identity & Access. Test your knowledge on roles like Cloud Digital Leader, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Developer, and Data Practitioner. Each question is a little spark, every correct answer lights up your skills!
This Diwali, trade the fireworks for fun chats! Hang out with Arcade Chatbots to brush up on cloud skills, from Cloud Architect to Machine Learning, then race through football stadiums and Olympic events—sprints, BMX, swimming, you name it. Every chat is a little spark that makes learning feel festive, fun, and totally worth it!
With Google Calendar, you can quickly schedule meetings and events and create tasks, so you always know what’s next. Google Calendar is designed for teams, so it’s easy to share your schedule with others and create multiple calendars that you and your team can use together. In this course, you’ll learn how to create and manage Google Calendar events. You will learn how to update an existing event, delete and restore events, and search your calendar. You will understand when to apply different event types such as tasks and appointment schedules. You will explore the Google Calendar settings that are available for you to customize Google Calendar to suit your way of working. During the course you will learn how to create additional calendars, share your calendars with others, and access other calendars in your organization.
Digital transformation is a critical journey for modern organizations, and establishing a strong baseline in cloud computing is the first step toward driving meaningful innovation. Digital Transformation with Google Cloud introduces the core technologies and strategic frameworks that help organizations modernize their operations. This course explores fundamental cloud concepts, global network infrastructure, and the shared responsibility model to help leaders navigate their path to the cloud with confidence. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.
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.
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.
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.
Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and Gemini Notebook. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.
In this course, we introduce you to Google Meet, Google’s video conference software included with Google Workspace. You learn how to create and manage video conference meetings using Google Meet. You explore different ways to open Google Meet and add people to a video conference. You also learn how to join meetings from different sources like calendar events or meeting links. We discuss how Google Meet can help you better communicate, exchange ideas, and share resources with your team wherever they are. You learn how to customize the Google Meet environment to fit your needs and how to effectively use chat messages during a video conference. You also explore different ways to share resources, such as by using calendar invites or attachments. You learn about using host controls in Google Meet to manage participants and utilize interactive moderation features. You also learn how to record and live stream video conferences.
As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address a rapidly evolving landscape of security challenges. This course explores the foundations of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud’s secure-by-design infrastructure, and the defense-in-depth strategy, while highlighting how AI-driven operations and compliance tools help organizations meet strict global regulatory requirements. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.
Ready to get started with AI Hypercomputer? This course makes it easy! We'll cover the basics of what they are and how they help AI with AI workloads. You'll learn about the different components inside a hypercomputer, like GPUs, TPUs, and CPUs, and discover how to pick the right deployment approach for your needs.
Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. This course explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. As part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.
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.
Earn a skill badge by completing the Detect Manufacturing Defects using Visual Inspection AI course, where you learn how to use Visual Inspection AI to deploy a solution artifact and test that it can successfully identify defects in a manufacturing process.
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.
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.
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.
Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI in Agent Platform 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. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From containerization with Docker to scalable databases on Firebase, developer success starts with mastering the essentials. These labs guide you through core skills like container networking and volumes, static site hosting on Cloud Storage, database operations with Firestore in multiple languages, and Linux command-line basics—helping you strengthen the foundation every modern developer needs and earn an exclusive Google Cloud credential!
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!
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.
Data-driven decisions fuel growth, but research shows over 80% of enterprise workloads still juggle complex integrations across systems. These labs walk you through Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Dataproc, and Dataflow—giving you hands-on practice in managing, processing, scaling data the way modern businesses do and a chance to earn an exclusive Google Cloud credential!
Data complexity slows innovation, with studies showing that nearly 70% of organizations struggle to unify siloed data and apply AI effectively. This challenge takes you end-to-end—starting with solving data join pitfalls, building warehouses, and governing assets with Dataplex, then moving into automation with Document AI and hands-on generative AI. You’ll practice ingesting healthcare data, managing cloud storage, customizing AI models, and even building a chat app with the Gemini API—skills that reflect the real-world shift toward data-driven and AI-powered solutions.
Hey there! You're invited to game on with Skills Boost Arcade Trivia for September 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 September Trivia Week 4 badge!
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Jot down new skills as you automate tasks, build smart tools, secure data, and sketch insights with Looker. In this challenge, you’ll learn to set up automation with Cloud Scheduler, create Gmail add-ons and chatbots, move apps into containers with GKE, and strengthen security with the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API and Security Command Center—wrapping it up by turning data into clear insights with Looker.
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Over 90% of enterprises now rely on APIs to accelerate innovation and deliver intelligent digital experiences. In this lab challenge, you'll build and deploy intelligent apps using Flutter, Java, and Kubernetes. Integrate speech and image recognition with Cloud ML APIs, streamline delivery with Jenkins on GKE, and manage access securely with Vault. You'll also automate infrastructure with Terraform and steer traffic using Cloud DNS. A hands-on path to smarter, scalable cloud solutions, and an exclusive Google Cloud Credential.
Get hands-on with building apps using Flutter, Dart, and AppSheet, and automate tasks with Document AI and Python. Learn to validate infrastructure with Terraform, monitor performance using Prometheus, and process data with Dataproc. You’ll also explore enterprise tools like Media CDN, Neo4j, and SAP integration while earning an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!
Used by over 70% of DevOps teams globally, Terraform has become the go-to tool for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code. In this hands-on challenge, you'll use Terraform to automate the setup of Google Cloud resources—Firestore, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and more. You'll also manage secure configurations with Service Accounts, Firewall Rules, and Secret Manager. Build a strong foundation for scalable, repeatable deployments and earn an exclusive Google Cloud Credential!.
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.
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!
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.
Cloud roles are evolving fast—and staying future-ready means knowing more than just code. According to industry reports, over 70% of cloud professionals now work across app development, data engineering, and network management. This challenge is designed to equip you with skills across all three. You'll build dynamic apps with Flutter and Node.js, work with modern data tools like Firestore, LookML, and Cloud SQL, and strengthen your networking fundamentals with Cloud NAT, HA-VPN, and Private Google Access. There’s even a hands-on intro to machine learning with TensorFlow. These are the skills that don’t just meet today’s demands—they prepare you for what’s next!
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Build reliable systems that can handle real-world demands. These labs focus on automated deployments, smart traffic management, and resilient architecture using GKE, Cloud Run, and Cloud Deploy. Finish strong and earn a Google Cloud credential that highlights your operational edge.
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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.