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Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Strategies for Cloud Security Risk Management Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Cloud Security Risks: Identify and Protect Against Threats Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Detect, Respond, and Recover from Cloud Cybersecurity Attacks Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Put It All Together: Prepare for a Cloud Security Analyst Job Earned Dec 16, 2025 EST
Gemini for DevOps Engineers Earned Oct 14, 2025 EDT
Gemini for end-to-end SDLC Earned Oct 14, 2025 EDT
Gemini for Security Engineers Earned Oct 7, 2025 EDT
Gemini for Network Engineers Earned Oct 7, 2025 EDT
Gemini for Data Scientists and Analysts Earned Oct 7, 2025 EDT
Gemini for Cloud Architects Earned Oct 6, 2025 EDT
Gemini for Application Developers Earned Sep 30, 2025 EDT
Put It All Together: Prepare for a Cloud Data Analyst Job Earned Aug 12, 2024 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Aug 9, 2024 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network Earned Aug 8, 2024 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine - Locales Earned Aug 7, 2024 EDT
Put It All Together: Prepare for a Cloud Security Analyst Job Earned Aug 1, 2024 EDT
Detect, Respond, and Recover from Cloud Cybersecurity Attacks Earned Aug 1, 2024 EDT
Cloud Security Risks: Identify and Protect Against Threats Earned Aug 1, 2024 EDT
Strategies for Cloud Security Risk Management Earned Jul 31, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Security Principles in Cloud Computing Earned Jul 30, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Jul 26, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Apr 1, 2024 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation - Locales Earned Mar 13, 2024 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey - Locales Earned Feb 27, 2024 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services - Locales Earned Feb 25, 2024 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation - Locales Earned Feb 24, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - Locales Earned Feb 23, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Feb 22, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Feb 22, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Earned Dec 9, 2022 EST
DEPRECATED Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI Earned Jun 9, 2022 EDT
Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI Earned Jun 7, 2022 EDT
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud Earned Jun 3, 2022 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned Jun 2, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned May 31, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Earned May 30, 2022 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned May 27, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Earned May 27, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned May 26, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned May 26, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Earned May 26, 2022 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned May 25, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals - Locales Earned May 25, 2022 EDT

This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.

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This is the second of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore widely-used cloud risk management frameworks, exploring security domains, compliance lifecycles, and industry standards such as HIPAA, NIST CSF, and SOC. You'll develop skills in risk identification, implementation of security controls, compliance evaluation, and data protection management. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with Google Cloud and multi-cloud tools specific to risk and compliance. This course also incorporates job application and interview preparation techniques, offering a comprehensive foundation to understand and effectively navigate the complex landscape of cloud risk management.

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This is the third of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the principles of identity management and access control within a cloud environment, covering key elements like AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing), credential handling, and certificate management. You'll also explore essential topics in threat and vulnerability management, cloud-native principles, and data protection measures. Upon completing this course, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to secure cloud-based resources and safeguard sensitive organizational information. Additionally, you'll continue to engage with career resources and hone your interview techniques, preparing you for the next step in your professional journey.

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This is the fourth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll focus on developing capabilities in logging, security, and alert monitoring, along with techniques for mitigating attacks. You'll gain valuable knowledge in customizing threat feeds, managing incidents, handling crisis communications, conducting root cause analysis, and mastering incident response and post-event communications. Using Google Cloud tools, you'll learn to identify indicators of compromise and prepare for business continuity and disaster recovery. Alongside these technical skills, you'll continue updating your resume and practicing interview techniques.

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This is the fifth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll combine and apply key concepts such as cloud security principles, risk management, identifying vulnerabilities, incident management, and crisis communications in an interactive capstone project. Additionally, you'll finalize your resume updates and put to practice all the new interview techniques you've learned, preparing you to confidently apply for and interview for jobs in the field.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps engineers manage infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to find and understand application logs, create a GKE cluster, and investigate how to create a build environment. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the DevOps workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you secure your cloud environment and resources. You learn how to deploy example workloads into an environment in Google Cloud, identify security misconfigurations with Gemini, and remediate security misconfigurations with Gemini. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves your cloud security posture. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps network engineers create, update, and maintain VPC networks. You learn how to prompt Gemini to provide specific guidance for your networking tasks, beyond what you would receive from a search engine. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini makes it easier for you to work with Google Cloud VPC networks. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps analyze customer data and predict product sales. You also learn how to identify, categorize, and develop new customers using customer data in BigQuery. Using hands-on labs, you experience how Gemini improves data analysis and machine learning workflows. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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This is the fifth of five courses in the Google Cloud Data Analytics Certificate. In this course, you’ll combine and apply the foundational knowledge and skills from courses 1-4 in a hands-on Capstone project that focuses on the full data lifecycle project. You’ll practice using cloud-based tools to acquire, store, process, analyze, visualize, and communicate data insights effectively. By the end of the course, you’ll have completed a project demonstrating their proficiency in effectively structuring data from multiple sources, presenting solutions to varied stakeholders, and visualizing data insights using cloud-based software. You’ll also update your resume and practice interview techniques to help prepare for applying and interviewing for jobs.

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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 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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This course, Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine. Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud. The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.

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This is the fifth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll combine and apply key concepts such as cloud security principles, risk management, identifying vulnerabilities, incident management, and crisis communications in an interactive capstone project. Additionally, you'll finalize your resume updates and put to practice all the new interview techniques you've learned, preparing you to confidently apply for and interview for jobs in the field.

Learn more

This is the fourth of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll focus on developing capabilities in logging, security, and alert monitoring, along with techniques for mitigating attacks. You'll gain valuable knowledge in customizing threat feeds, managing incidents, handling crisis communications, conducting root cause analysis, and mastering incident response and post-event communications. Using Google Cloud tools, you'll learn to identify indicators of compromise and prepare for business continuity and disaster recovery. Alongside these technical skills, you'll continue updating your resume and practicing interview techniques.

Learn more

This is the third of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the principles of identity management and access control within a cloud environment, covering key elements like AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing), credential handling, and certificate management. You'll also explore essential topics in threat and vulnerability management, cloud-native principles, and data protection measures. Upon completing this course, you will have acquired the skills and knowledge necessary to secure cloud-based resources and safeguard sensitive organizational information. Additionally, you'll continue to engage with career resources and hone your interview techniques, preparing you for the next step in your professional journey.

Learn more

This is the second of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore widely-used cloud risk management frameworks, exploring security domains, compliance lifecycles, and industry standards such as HIPAA, NIST CSF, and SOC. You'll develop skills in risk identification, implementation of security controls, compliance evaluation, and data protection management. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience with Google Cloud and multi-cloud tools specific to risk and compliance. This course also incorporates job application and interview preparation techniques, offering a comprehensive foundation to understand and effectively navigate the complex landscape of cloud risk management.

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This is the first of five courses in the Google Cloud Cybersecurity Certificate. In this course, you’ll explore the essentials of cybersecurity, including the security lifecycle, digital transformation, and key cloud computing concepts. You’ll identify common tools used by entry-level cloud security analysts to automate tasks.

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

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

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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This course, Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation. This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

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This course, Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey. This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

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This course, Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services. 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 course, Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation. 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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This course, Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure. 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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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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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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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 third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI quest, where you will learn how to do the following using Explainable AI: build and deploy a model to an AI platform for serving (prediction), use the What-If Tool with an image recognition model, identify bias in mortgage data using the What-If Tool, and compare models using the What-If Tool to identify potential bias. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge quest and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI quest, where you will learn about the features of Contact Center AI, including how to Build a virtual agent, Design conversation flows for your virtual agent; Add a phone gateway to your virtual agent; Use Dialogflow for troubleshooting; Review logs and debug your virtual agent. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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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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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 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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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 final course in the series reviews managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud further by earning Skill Badges.

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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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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 third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.

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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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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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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

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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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This course, Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals - Locales, is intended for non-English learners. If you want to take this course in English, please enroll in Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals .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 …

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