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Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery
Earned May 18, 2026 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) with Vertex AI: Model Evaluation
Earned May 18, 2026 EDT
Accelerate App Development with Gemini CLI
Earned May 18, 2026 EDT
Using BigQuery Machine Learning for Inference
Earned May 1, 2026 EDT
Gemini for Data Scientists and Analysts
Earned May 1, 2026 EDT
Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit
Earned Apr 17, 2026 EDT
This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating improved answers. The course explains the conceptual reasons behind these steps and their practical implementation with BigQuery. By the end of the course, learners will be able to build a RAG pipeline using BigQuery and generative AI models like Gemini and embedding models to address their own AI hallucination use cases.
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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 designed for app developers and DevOps engineers who want to work smarter by using Gemini CLI, a generative AI agent made for the terminal and powered by Gemini.
This course discusses Gemini CLI installation and configuration, and introduces use cases and security best practices. It explains commands, tools, MCP servers, and extensions. With a hands-on exercise, you'll install and configure Gemini CLI and use it to analyze code and build and modify an app.
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Learn about BigQuery ML for Inference, why Data Analysts should use it, its use cases, and supported ML models. You will also learn how to create and manage these ML models in BigQuery.
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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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Complete the intermediate Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge course to demonstrate skills in text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. In this course, you learn Gemini prompting, test Streamlit apps in Cloud Shell, and deploy them as Docker containers in Cloud Run.
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Complete the advanced Deploy Multi-Agent Architectures skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building multi-agent systems with ADK, connecting agents with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, integrating external tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and deploying a complete multi-agent solution to Agent Engine.
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This course explores Gemini in BigQuery, a suite of AI-driven features to assist data-to-AI workflow. These features include data exploration and preparation, code generation and troubleshooting, and workflow discovery and visualization. Through conceptual explanations, a practical use case, and hands-on labs, the course empowers data practitioners to boost their productivity and expedite the development pipeline.
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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions.
For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin?
If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.
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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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Build AI agents that can leverage enterprise databases using the MCP Toolbox for Databases. You will define secure database interaction tools, and implement intelligent querying capabilities (leveraging vector embeddings, structured queries).
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In this course, you’ll learn to use the Google Agent Development Kit to build complex, multi-agent systems. You will build agents equipped with tools, and connect them with parent-child relationships and flows to define how they interact. You’ll run your agents locally and deploy them to Vertex AI Agent Engine to run as a managed agentic flow, with infrastructure decisions and resource scaling handled by Agent Engine.
Please note these labs are based off a pre-released version of this product. There may be some lag on these labs as we provide maintenance updates.
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In this course, you learn how to develop an app using Flutter, Google's portable UI toolkit, and integrate the app with Gemini, Google's family of generative AI models. You also use Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google's platform for building and managing AI Agents and applications.
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AI inference is the process of using a trained machine learning model to make predictions on new, unseen data by applying learned patterns. This course is designed for developers, data scientists, and ML engineers interested in quickly deploying AI inference services on Cloud Run. It is useful for those familiar with cloud-based serverless application deployment solutions, but who may not have experience with running AI inference using Google Cloud serverless products. The course includes examples that deploys a model for AI inference with GPUs and integrates gen AI apps with data storage services.
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Enhance the navigation experience of your website by using generative AI to provide a better search experience for your users. In this course, you learn how to use Vertex AI Search to provide your website users a generative search experience enabling them to discover content offered by the website. As a website editor, you also learn how to use generative AI to quickly and efficiently translate and improve the content using suggestions.
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Generative AI applications can create new user experiences that were nearly impossible before the invention of large language models (LLMs). As an application developer, how can you use generative AI to build engaging, powerful apps on Google Cloud?
In this course, you'll learn about generative AI applications and how you can use prompt design and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to build powerful applications using LLMs. You'll learn about a production-ready architecture that can be used for generative AI applications and you'll build an LLM and RAG-based chat application.
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Kickstarting Application Development with Gemini Code Assist course, where you will learn to leverage the power of Google's AI coding assistant and multiple development tech
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AI Agents represent a major shift beyond traditional large language models (LLMs): instead of simply generating text-based solutions, they can also act autonomously to execute them.
This course introduces the fundamentals of AI Agents, how they differ from LLM APIs, and where they add value in the real world. Based on Google’s agents whitepaper, it provides the theoretical foundation needed before writing your first lines of agent code—ideal for developers, architects, and technical decision-makers who want to understand AI systems through the lens of autonomous, goal-directed behavior (and not just text generation).
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This course is designed for Google Cloud developers and DevOps engineers who have basic knowledge of the Google Cloud console and are responsible for configuring Gemini Code Assist for an organization. The course introduces the benefits of Gemini Code Assist and compares the features of the different Gemini Code Assist editions. The course also shows you how to configure and manage Gemini Code Assist within an organization.
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Designed for developers of all levels, this course introduces you to the core features and functionalities of Gemini Code Assist, an AI-powered app development collaborator for Google Cloud. From intelligent code suggestions and auto-completion to real-time error detection and refactoring assistance, you'll discover how Gemini Code Assist can significantly enhance your productivity and code quality, and save valuable time to focus on more productive and enjoyable tasks.
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In this course, you will learn how to centralize diverse sources like PDFs, web pages, and even audio files into a single, intelligent workspace. You will learn to chat with your documents to find specific information, generate instant summaries, and verify answers with AI-powered citations.
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of Google Cloud's agent platforms, including Vertex AI Agent Builder, Gemini Enterprise, Conversational Agents, and the Agent Development Kit. Learners will understand the unique capabilities of each offering, distinguish between the optimal solution for specific use cases, and gain foundational knowledge in creating search and chat applications.
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Discover how AI agents drive business impact. You’ll map agent types to your KPIs and explore use cases that solve real bottlenecks. Then, learn how Gemini Enterprise empowers you to build and orchestrate the right agents—from no-code to high-code solutions.
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Create your first Gemini Enterprise application to earn a skill badge! Connect diverse data sources to your application to build a powerful, unified search and analysis engine. Master advanced capabilities like deep research agents, multi-agent ideation, and NotebookLM for focused analysis.
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This course introduces Gemini Enteprise, a powerful platform that brings together AI agents, enterprise search, NotebookLM, and intelligent data access to solve organizational challenges. Through real-world examples and hands-on exploration, learners will be able to connect Gemini Enterprise capabilities to real business needs, describe its architecture, and explain how it handles data access and privacy across roles.
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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow.
Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Smart Cloud Application with Vibe Coding and MCP course, where you will learn to leverage the power of Google's AI coding assistant and MCP servers
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Turn your understanding of agents into practical reality by building, configuring, and running your first AI agent using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK).
In this hands-on course, you’ll set up a complete ADK development environment, create agents with both Python code and YAML configuration, and run them through multiple interfaces. You’ll also learn the core parameters that define agent behavior, taking what you learned in course 1 and applying it to working code.
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This structured course is for developers interested in building intelligent agents using the Agent Development Kit (ADK). It combines hands-on experience, core concepts, and practical application, to provide a comprehensive guide to using ADK. You can also join our community of Google Cloud experts and peers to ask questions, collaborate on answers, and connect with the Googlers making the products you use every day.
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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 learn to analyze and choose the right database for your needs, to effectively develop applications on Google Cloud. You explore relational and NoSQL databases, dive into Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, and Spanner, and learn how to align database strengths with your application requirements, including those of generative AI. Gain hands-on experience configuring Vector Search and migrating applications to the cloud.
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This Databases course consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in migrating and managing Google Cloud databases. Each lab presents a set of the required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance. The labs in this course have replaced the previous L300 Data Management Challenge Lab. If you have already completed the Challenge Lab as part of your L300 accreditation requirement, it will be carried over and count towards your L300 status. You must score 80% or higher for each lab to complete this course, and fulfill your CEPF L300 Database requirement. For technical issues with a Challenge Lab, please raise a Buganizer ticket using this CEPF Buganizer template: go/cepfl300labsupport
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Unite Google’s expertise in search and AI with Gemini Enterprise, a powerful tool designed to help employees find specific information from document storage, email, chats, ticketing systems, and other data sources, all from a single search bar. The Gemini Enterprise assistant can also help brainstorm, research, outline documents, and take actions like inviting coworkers to a calendar event to accelerate knowledge work and collaboration of all kinds.
(Please note Gemini Enterprise was previously named Google Agentspace, there may be references to the previous product name in this course.)
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The learning path offers a deep dive into Google Cloud's data processing solutions, including:
Dataflow
Pub/Sub
Managed Service for Apache Kafka
BigQuery Engine for Apache Flink
You'll learn how to leverage these tools to build, deploy, and troubleshoot efficient and scalable data pipelines for both batch and streaming data processing needs.
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This course introduces concepts of AI interpretability and transparency. It discusses the importance of AI transparency for developers and engineers. It explores practical methods and tools to help achieve interpretability and transparency in both data and AI models.
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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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This course introduces concepts of responsible AI and AI principles. It covers techniques to practically identify fairness and bias and mitigate bias in AI/ML practices. It explores practical methods and tools to implement Responsible AI best practices using Google Cloud products and open source tools.
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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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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine.
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This course explores the benefits of using Vertex AI Feature Store, how to improve the accuracy of ML models, and how to find which data columns make the most useful features. This course also includes content and labs on feature engineering using BigQuery ML, Keras, and TensorFlow.
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This learner pack introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
Goals
Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud Data Platform
Learn about batch and streaming data pipelines
Build data lake and data warehouse
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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In this intermediate course, you will learn to design, build, and optimize robust batch data pipelines on Google Cloud. Moving beyond fundamental data handling, you will explore large-scale data transformations and efficient workflow orchestration, essential for timely business intelligence and critical reporting.
Get hands-on practice using Dataflow for Apache Beam and Serverless for Apache Spark (Dataproc Serverless) for implementation, and tackle crucial considerations for data quality, monitoring, and alerting to ensure pipeline reliability and operational excellence. A basic knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud concepts is recommended.
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Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Knowledge Catalog 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 Knowledge Catalog.
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Managed Service for Apache Spark, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.
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Complete the intermediate 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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In the last installment of the Dataflow course series, we will introduce the components of the Dataflow operational model. We will examine tools and techniques for troubleshooting and optimizing pipeline performance. We will then review testing, deployment, and reliability best practices for Dataflow pipelines. We will conclude with a review of Templates, which makes it easy to scale Dataflow pipelines to organizations with hundreds of users. These lessons will help ensure that your data platform is stable and resilient to unanticipated circumstances.
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MongoDB Atlas provided customers a fully managed, database-as-a-service on Google’s data cloud that is unmatched in speed, scale, and security—all with AI built in. Modern database systems, including MongoDB, have been a big step forward—giving businesses a more flexible, scalable, and developer-friendly alternative to legacy relational databases. But there is an even bigger payoff with a solution such as MongoDB Atlas a fully managed, database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering. It is an approach that gives businesses all of the advantages of a modern, scalable, highly available database, while freeing IT to focus on high-value activities.
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Complete the Enrich Metadata and Discovery of Lakehouse Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in BigQuery, Lakehouse, and Knowledge Catalog. You create Lakehouse tables and enrich metadata management and discovery of the table data.
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In this course you will learn about Cloud Spanner. You will get an introduction to Cloud Spanner, contrasting it with other Database products to understand when and how to use Spanner to solve your relational database needs at scale. You will learn how to create and manage Spanner databases using various tools on Google Cloud, learn to optimize relational schemas with Spanner’s distributed database model in mind, interact with your Spanner databases using the Spanner APIs, integrate Spanner with your applications, and learn how to use other Google tools for administering Spanner databases and managing your data.
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This learning pack is designed to have hands-on experience on Google Cloud data solutions.
Goals
Plan, execute, test, and monitor simple and complex enterprise database migrations to Google Cloud
Choose an appropriate Google Cloud database, migrate SQL Server databases and run Oracle databases on Google Cloud bare metal
Recognize and overcome the challenges of moving data to prevent data loss, preserve data integrity, and minimize downtime
Evaluate on-premises database architectures and plan migrations to make the business case for moving databases to Google Cloud
You can find all of our technical learning packs on go/techlearningpacks and industry learning packs on go/industrylearningpacks.
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This learning pack is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.
Goals
Plan, execute, test, and monitor simple and complex enterprise database migrations to Google Cloud
Choose an appropriate Google Cloud database, migrate SQL Server databases and run Oracle databases on Google Cloud bare metal
Recognize and overcome the challenges of moving data to prevent data loss, preserve data integrity, and minimize downtime
Evaluate on-premises database architectures and plan migrations to make the business case for moving databases to Google Cloud
You can find all of our technical learning packs on go/techlearningpacks and industry learning packs on go/industrylearningpacks.
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The Google Cloud Rapid Migration & Modernization Program (RaMP) is a holistic, end-to-end migration/modernization program that helps customers & partners leverage expertise and best practices, lower risk, control costs, and simplify a customer's path to cloud success. This course will give an overview of the program and some of the tools and best practices available to support customer migrations & modernizations.
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Cloud technology on its own only provides a fraction of the true value to a business; When combined with data–lots and lots of it–it has the power to truly unlock value and create new experiences for customers.
In this course, you'll learn what data is, historical ways companies have used it to make decisions, and why it is so critical for machine learning. This course also introduces learners to technical concepts such as structured and unstructured data. database, data warehouse, and data lakes. It then covers the most common and fastest growing Google Cloud products around data.
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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This course teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images
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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.
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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.
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Complete the introductory Organize and Govern Data with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Knowledge Catalog assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Knowledge Catalog.
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The Generative AI Explorer - Agent Platform course is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the Gemini models in Agent Platform. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via custom training in Agent Platform and deploy it to an endpoint in Agent Platform.
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This course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.
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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.
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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 learner pack introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
Goals
Identify the purpose and value of Google Cloud Data Platform
Learn about batch and streaming data pipelines
Build data lake and data warehouse
You can find all of our technical learning packs on go/techlearningpacks and industry learning packs on go/industrylearningpacks.
Brought to you by the CLS Tech Specialization Team (gcc-enablement-tech@). Share your request/feedback on go/learningpacks-feedback!
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This learning pack is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.
Goals
Plan, execute, test, and monitor simple and complex enterprise database migrations to Google Cloud
Choose an appropriate Google Cloud database, migrate SQL Server databases and run Oracle databases on Google Cloud bare metal
Recognize and overcome the challenges of moving data to prevent data loss, preserve data integrity, and minimize downtime
Evaluate on-premises database architectures and plan migrations to make the business case for moving databases to Google Cloud
You can find all of our technical learning packs on go/techlearningpacks and industry learning packs on go/industrylearningpacks.
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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 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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It’s no secret today that data is growing rapidly and considered the most critical asset of any organization. NetApp and Google Cloud play an instrumental role in enabling you to optimally store, protect and govern your data. With NetApp Cloud Manager and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP data storage technology that utilizes Google Cloud compute, storage and networking infrastructure, you can easily manage storage operations and meet the requirements of any workload. In this course, you get hands-on practice on using NetApp Cloud Manager and Cloud Volumes ONTAP and learn about the capabilities delivered such as multi-protocol data access, built-in storage efficiencies and data protection features, remote caching and more.
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Flex your Google Clout! Each week unlocks a new cloud puzzle. How fast can you find the solution? Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.
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In this quest you will get hands-on experience writing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
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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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Flex your Google Clout! Each day unlocks a new cloud puzzle. Complete all five and you’ll earn the inaugural Google Cloud badge! Share your score on your choice of social networks and join the conversation over in the Google Cloud Community.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and interacting with Cloud Spanner instances and databases; loading Cloud Spanner databases using various techniques; backing up Cloud Spanner databases; defining schemas and understanding query plans; and deploying a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner instance.
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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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This is the second Quest in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This Quest is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Here you'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits, and taking advantage of committed use discounts. In the hands-on labs, you’ll practice using various tools to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.
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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Write SQL queries.Query public tables.Load sample data into BigQuery.Troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery.Create reports in Data Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.
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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology.
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.
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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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This quest introduces you to Vault and teaches you how to secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys to protect secrets and other sensitive data.
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In this course, we see what the common challenges faced by data analysts are and how to solve them with the big data tools on Google Cloud. You’ll pick up some SQL along the way and become very familiar with using BigQuery and Dataprep to analyze and transform your datasets.
This is the first course of the From Data to Insights with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights course.
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The third course in this course series is Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery. Here we will build on your growing knowledge of SQL as we dive into advanced functions and how to break apart a complex query into manageable steps.
We will cover the internal architecture of BigQuery (column-based sharded storage) and advanced SQL topics like nested and repeated fields through the use of Arrays and Structs. Lastly we will dive into optimizing your queries for performance and how you can secure your data through authorized views.
After completing this course, enroll in the Applying Machine Learning to your Data with Google Cloud course.
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This is the second course in the Data to Insights course series. Here we will cover how to ingest new external datasets into BigQuery and visualize them with Looker Studio. We will also cover intermediate SQL concepts like multi-table JOINs and UNIONs which will allow you to analyze data across multiple data sources.
Note: Even if you have a background in SQL, there are BigQuery specifics (like handling query cache and table wildcards) that may be new to you.
After completing this course, enroll in the Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery course.
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Cloud Logging is a fully managed service that performs at scale. It can ingest application and system log data from thousands of VMs and, even better, analyze all that log data in real time. In this fundamental-level Quest, you learn how to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert on log data and events from Google Cloud. The labs in the Quest give you hands-on practice using Cloud Logging to maximize your learning experience and provide insight on how you can use Cloud Logging to your own Google Cloud environment.
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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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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences.
“Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible.
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.
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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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Machine Learning is one of the most innovative fields in technology, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, Google Cloud has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level course, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning at scale and how to employ the advanced ML infrastructure available on Google Cloud.
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Workspace is Google's collaborative applications platform, delivered from Google Cloud. In this introductory-level course you will get hands-on practice with Workspace’s core applications from a user perspective. Although there are many more applications and tool components to Workspace than are covered here, you will get experience with the primary apps: Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and a handful of others. Each lab can be completed in 10-15 minutes, but extra time is provided to allow self-directed free exploration of the applications.
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This course demonstrates the power of integrating Google Cloud services and tools with Workspace applications - like using Node.js to build a survey bot, the Natural Language API to recognize sentiment in a Google Doc, and building a chat bot with Apps Script.
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Twelve years ago Lily started the Pet Theory chain of veterinary clinics, and has been expanding rapidly. Now, Pet Theory is experiencing some growing pains: their appointment scheduling system is not able to handle the increased load, customers aren't receiving lab results reliably through email and text, and veteranerians are spending more time with insurance companies than with their patients. Lily wants to build a cloud-based system that scales better than the legacy solution and doesn't require lots of ongoing maintenance. The team has decided to go with serverless technology. For the labs in the Google Cloud Run Serverless Quest, you will read through a fictitious business scenario in each lab and assist the characters in implementing a serverless solution. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google…
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The hands-on labs in this Quest are structured to give experienced app developers hands-on practice with the state-of-the-art developing applications in Google Cloud. The topics align with the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Developer Certification. These labs follow the sequence of activities needed to create and deploy an app in Google Cloud from beginning to end. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, it is recommended that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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This is the second of two Quests of hands-on labs derived from the exercises from the book Data Science on Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition by Valliappa Lakshmanan, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. In this second Quest, covering chapter 9 through the end of the book, you extend the skills practiced in the first Quest, and run full-fledged machine learning jobs with state-of-the-art tools and real-world data sets, all using Google Cloud tools and services.
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Obtain a competitive advantage through DevOps. DevOps is an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. In this course you will learn how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. DevOps Research and Assessment has joined Google Cloud. How does your team measure up? Take this five question multiple-choice quiz and find out!
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The Data Lake Modernization course aims to prepare you to lead a Data Lake Modernization engagement through discovery & qualification through the technical considerations & cost modelling. The training is designed to educate on the Migration Journey, Data Lifecycle, Costing & Hands on Technical execution. At the end of the training you will have a deeper understanding of the Data Lake ecosystem, modernizing and migrating to GCP and hands-on experience of building data ingestion, processing & analytics pipelines on GCP.
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In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.
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In this course, you will receive technical training for Enterprise Data Warehouses solutions using BigQuery based on the best practices developed internally by Google’s technical sales and services organizations. The course will also provide guidance and training on key technical challenges that can arise when migrating existing Enterprise Data Warehouses and ETL pipelines to Google Cloud. You will get hands-on experience with real migration tasks, such as data migration, schema optimization, and SQL Query conversion and optimization. The course will also cover key aspects of ETL pipeline migration to Dataproc as well as using Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Cloud Data Fusion, giving you hands-on experience using all of these tools for Data Warehouse ETL pipelines.
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This course focuses on how you can bring your on-premises data lakes and workloads to Google Cloud to unlock cost savings and scale.
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This course further explores SQL Server on Google Cloud.
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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.
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In this course you will get hands-on in order to work through real-world challenges faced when building streaming data pipelines. The primary focus is on managing continuous, unbounded data with Google Cloud products.
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While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.
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Google Cloud Application Programming Interfaces are the mechanism to interact with Google Cloud Services programmatically. This quest will give you hands-on practice with a variety of GCP APIs, which you will learn through working with Google’s APIs Explorer, a tool that allows you to browse APIs and run their methods interactively. By learning how to transfer data between Cloud Storage buckets, deploy Compute Engine instances, configure Dataproc clusters and much more, Exploring APIs will show you how powerful APIs are and why they are used almost exclusively by proficient GCP users. Enroll in this quest today.
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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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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 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 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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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the 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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This course is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs participants move databases to Google Cloud while taking advantage of various services.
This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.
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This advanced-level Quest builds on its predecessor Quest, and offers hands-on practice on the more advanced data integration features available in Cloud Data Fusion, while sharing best practices to build more robust, reusable, dynamic pipelines. Learners get to try out the data lineage feature as well to derive interesting insights into their data’s history.
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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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This introductory-level quest shows application developers how the Google Cloud ecosystem could help them build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud native applications. You learn how to develop and scale applications without setting up infrastructure, run data analytics, gain insights from data, and develop with pre-trained ML APIs to leverage machine learning even if you are not a Machine Learning expert. You will also experience seamless integration between various Google services and APIs to create intelligent apps.
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In this quest, you will learn about Google Cloud’s IoT Core service and its integration with other services like GCS, Dataprep, Stackdriver and Firestore. The labs in this quest use simulator code to mimic IOT devices and the learning here should empower you to implement the same streaming pipeline with real world IoT devices.
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In this course you will learn how to use several BigQuery ML features to improve retail use cases. Predict the demand for bike rentals in NYC with demand forecasting, and see how to use BigQuery ML for a classification task that predicts the likelihood of a website visitor making a purchase.
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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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This intermediate-level quest is unique among Qwiklabs quests. These labs have been curated to give operators hands-on practice with Anthos—a new, open application modernization platform on Google Cloud. Anthos enables you to build and manage modern hybrid applications. Tasks include: installing service mesh, collecting telemetry, and securing your microservices with service mesh policies. This quest is composed of labs targeted to teach you everything you need to know to introduce service mesh, and Anthos, into your next hybrid cloud project.
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Google Cloud’s four step structured Cloud Migration Path Methodology provides a defined and repeatable path for users to follow when migrating and modernizing Virtual Machines. In this quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google’s current solution set for VM assessment, planning, migration, and modernization. You will start by analyzing your lab environment and building assessment reports with CloudPhysics and StratoZone, then build a landing zone within Google Cloud leveraging Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code templates, next you will manually transform a two-tier application into a cloud-native workload running on Kubernetes, and finally, transform a VM workload into Kubernetes with Migrate for Anthos and migrate a VM between cloud environments.
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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.
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In this introductory-level quest, you will learn the fundamentals of developing and deploying applications on the Google Cloud Platform. You will get hands-on experience with the Google App Engine framework by launching applications written in languages like Python, Ruby, and Java (just to name a few). You will see first-hand how straightforward and powerful GCP application frameworks are, and how easily they integrate with GCP database, data-loss prevention, and security services.
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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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The Google Cloud Platform provides many different frameworks and options to fit your application’s needs. In this introductory-level quest, you will get plenty of hands-on practice deploying sample applications on Google App Engine. You will also dive into other web application frameworks like Firebase, Wordpress, and Node.js and see firsthand how they can be integrated with Google Cloud.
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TensorFlow is an open source software library for high performance numerical computation that's great for writing models that can train and run on platforms ranging from your laptop to a fleet of servers in the Cloud to an edge device. This quest takes you beyond the basics of using predefined models and teaches you how to build, train and deploy your own on Google Cloud.
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Want to build ML models in minutes instead of hours using just SQL? BigQuery ML democratizes machine learning by letting data analysts create, train, evaluate, and predict with machine learning models using existing SQL tools and skills. In this series of labs, you will experiment with different model types and learn what makes a good model.
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In this Quest, the experienced user of Google Cloud will learn how to describe and launch cloud resources with Terraform, an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. In these nine hands-on labs, you will work with example templates and understand how to launch a range of configurations, from simple servers, through full load-balanced applications.
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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. You will develop valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for these labs.
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Networking is a principle theme of cloud computing. It’s the underlying structure of Google Cloud, and it’s what connects all your resources and services to one another. This course will cover essential Google Cloud networking services and will give you hands-on practice with specialized tools for developing mature networks. From learning the ins-and-outs of VPCs, to creating enterprise-grade load balancers, Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.
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Learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite, an important service for generating insights into the health of your applications. It provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. These labs will give you hands-on practice with and will teach you how to monitor virtual machines, generate logs and alerts, and create custom metrics for application data. It is recommended that the students have at least earned a Badge by completing the Google Cloud Essentials. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the challenge lab at the end of the Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration system, and Google Kubernetes Engine was designed specifically to support managed Kubernetes deployments in Google Cloud. In this course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.
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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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This course offers hands-on practice with Cloud Data Fusion, a cloud-native, code-free, data integration platform. ETL Developers, Data Engineers and Analysts can greatly benefit from the pre-built transformations and connectors to build and deploy their pipelines without worrying about writing code. This Quest starts with a quickstart lab that familiarises learners with the Cloud Data Fusion UI. Learners then get to try running batch and realtime pipelines as well as using the built-in Wrangler plugin to perform some interesting transformations on data.
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Organizations around the world rely on Apache Kafka to integrate existing systems in real time and build a new class of event streaming applications that unlock new business opportunities. Google and Confluent are in a partnership to deliver the best event streaming service based on Apache Kafka and to build event driven applications and big data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. In this course, you will first learn how to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka, then try out the different functionalities of the Confluent Platform.
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Containerized applications have changed the game and are here to stay. With Kubernetes, you can orchestrate containers with ease, and integration with the Google Cloud Platform is seamless. In this advanced-level quest, you will be exposed to a wide range of Kubernetes use cases and will get hands-on practice architecting solutions over the course of 8 labs. From building Slackbots with NodeJS, to deploying game servers on clusters, to running the Cloud Vision API, Kubernetes Solutions will show you first-hand how agile and powerful this container orchestration system is.
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Google Cloud is committed to supporting Windows workloads in its frameworks and services. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice running many of the popular Windows services on Google Cloud. For example, you will learn how to instantiate Microsoft SQL databases, cloud tools for Powershell on Google Cloud Platform frameworks.
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Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provides user-friendly services in these areas, and with this introductory-level quest, so you can take your first steps with tools like BigQuery, Cloud Speech API and Video Intelligence. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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In this quest, you will get hands-on experience with LookML in Looker. You will learn how to write LookML code to create new dimensions and measures, create derived tables and join them to Explores, filter Explores, and define caching policies in LookML.
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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn how to harness serious Google Cloud computing power to run big data and machine learning jobs. The hands-on labs will give you use cases, and you will be tasked with implementing big data and machine learning practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From running Big Query analytics on tens of thousands of basketball games, to training TensorFlow image classifiers, you will quickly see why Google Cloud is the go-to platform for running big data and machine learning jobs.
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In this introductory level Quest you will gain practical experience on the fundamentals of sports data science using BigQuery. Start your journey by creating a soccer dataset in BigQuery by importing CSV and JSON files. Harness the power of BigQuery with sophisticated SQL analytical concepts, including using BigQuery ML to train an expected goals model on the soccer event data and evaluate the impressiveness of World Cup goals.
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Complete the introductory Migrate MySQL Data to Cloud SQL Using Database Migration Service skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service and migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs.
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This course offers hands-on practice with migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service. You start with an introductory lab that briefly reviews how to get started with Cloud SQL for MySQL, including how to connect to Cloud SQL instances using the Cloud Console. Then, you continue with two labs focused on migrating MySQL databases to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service. The course ends with a lab on migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs.
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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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Big data, machine learning, and scientific data? It sounds like the perfect match. In this course, you will get hands-on practice with GCP services like BigQuery, Managed Service for Apache Spark, and Tensorflow by applying them to use cases that employ real-life, scientific data sets. By getting experience with tasks like earthquake data analysis and satellite image aggregation, Scientific Data Processing will expand your skill set in big data and machine learning so you can start tackling your own problems across a spectrum of scientific disciplines.
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Blockchain and related technologies, such as distributed ledger and distributed apps, are becoming new value drivers and solution priorities in many industries. In this course you will gain hands-on experience with distributed ledger and the exploration of blockchain datasets in Google Cloud. It brings the research and solution work of Google's Allen Day into self-paced labs for you to run and learn directly. Since this course uses advanced SQL in BigQuery, a SQL-in-BigQuery refresher lab is at the start.
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This is the first of two Quests of hands-on labs is derived from the exercises from the book Data Science on Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition by Valliappa Lakshmanan, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. In this first Quest, covering up through chapter 8, you are given the opportunity to practice all aspects of ingestion, preparation, processing, querying, exploring and visualizing data sets using Google Cloud tools and services.
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Want to turn your marketing data into insights and build dashboards? Bring all of your data into one place for large-scale analysis and model building. Get repeatable, scalable, and valuable insights into your data by learning how to query it and using BigQuery. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.
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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.
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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Create Conversational AI Agents with Dialogflow CX quest, where you will learn how to create a conversational virtual agent, including how to: define intents and entities, use versions and environments, create conversational branching, and use IVR features. 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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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of developing GCP applications in Python. The first labs will walk you through the basics of environment setup and application data storage with Cloud Datastore. Once you have a handle on the fundamentals, you will get hands-on practice deploying Python applications on Kubernetes and App Engine (the latter is the same framework that powers Snapchat!) With specialized bonus labs that teach user authentication and backend service development, this quest will give you practical experience so you can start developing robust Python applications straight away.
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In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.
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Want to learn the core SQL and visualization skills of a Data Analyst? Interested in how to write queries that scale to petabyte-size datasets? Take the BigQuery for Analyst Quest and learn how to query, ingest, optimize, visualize, and even build machine learning models in SQL inside of BigQuery.
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Want to scale your data analysis efforts without managing database hardware? Learn the best practices for querying and getting insights from your data warehouse with this interactive series of BigQuery labs. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights.
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Data Catalog is deprecated and will be discontinued on January 30, 2026. You can still complete this course if you want to. For steps to transition your Data Catalog users, workloads, and content to Dataplex Catalog, see Transition from Data Catalog to Dataplex Catalog (https://cloud.google.com/dataplex/docs/transition-to-dataplex-catalog). Data Catalog is a fully managed and scalable metadata management service that empowers organizations to quickly discover, understand, and manage all of their data. In this quest you will start small by learning how to search and tag data assets and metadata with Data Catalog. After learning how to build your own tag templates that map to BigQuery table data, you will learn how to build MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer to Data Catalog Connectors.
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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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This advanced-level quest is unique amongst the other catalog offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Certification. From Big Query, to Dataprep, to Cloud Composer, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud data engineering knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, you will need other preparation, too. The exam is quite challenging and external studying, experience, and/or background in cloud data engineering is recommended. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of the Engineer Data in the Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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Looking to build or optimize your data warehouse? Learn best practices to Extract, Transform, and Load your data into Google Cloud with BigQuery. In this series of interactive labs you will create and optimize your own data warehouse using a variety of large-scale BigQuery public datasets. BigQuery is Google's fully managed, NoOps, low cost analytics database. With BigQuery you can query terabytes and terabytes of data without having any infrastructure to manage or needing a database administrator. BigQuery uses SQL and can take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model. BigQuery allows you to focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.
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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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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.
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Enterprise Agents and Use Cases
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Introduction to Gemini Enterprise
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Gemini for Application Developers
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Build Your First Agent with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Mar 10, 2026 EDT
Build intelligent agents with Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Earned Feb 24, 2026 EST
How to Use TPUs for Inference
Earned Jan 29, 2026 EST
Architecting an AI Inference Stack
Earned Jan 29, 2026 EST
Select a Google Cloud Database for Your Applications
Earned Sep 5, 2025 EDT
[CEPF L300 Course]: Databases
Earned Jul 29, 2025 EDT
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Gemini Enterprise
Earned Mar 4, 2025 EST
GCC Tech Learning Packs - Streaming Analytics - SME Academy
Earned Jan 15, 2025 EST
Responsible AI for Developers: Interpretability & Transparency
Earned Aug 14, 2024 EDT
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI
Earned Aug 13, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Fairness & Bias
Earned Aug 13, 2024 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG
Earned Aug 13, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings
Earned Jul 31, 2024 EDT
Feature Engineering
Earned Apr 16, 2024 EDT
GCC Technical Specialty Learning Packs - Data Analytics - Prerequisites
Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud
Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Generative AI Fundamentals
Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Responsible AI
Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned Feb 29, 2024 EST
Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog
Earned Feb 28, 2024 EST
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Feb 27, 2024 EST
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery
Earned Feb 22, 2024 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Operations
Earned Feb 16, 2024 EST
Getting Started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud
Earned Dec 12, 2023 EST
Enrich Metadata and Discovery of Lakehouse Data
Earned Dec 11, 2023 EST
Understanding Cloud Spanner
Earned Nov 27, 2023 EST
GCC Technical Specialty Learning Packs - Data Management - Specialty
Earned Nov 21, 2023 EST
GCC Technical Specialty Learning Packs - Data Management - Prerequisites
Earned Nov 21, 2023 EST
Rapid Migration & Modernization Program
Earned Nov 21, 2023 EST
Innovating with Data and Google Cloud
Earned Oct 24, 2023 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey
Earned Oct 19, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio
Earned Aug 23, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models
Earned Aug 23, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture
Earned Aug 23, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation
Earned Aug 23, 2023 EDT
Organize and Govern Data with Knowledge Catalog
Earned Jun 13, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Agent Platform
Earned May 17, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model
Earned May 11, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism
Earned May 11, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models
Earned May 11, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned May 11, 2023 EDT
GCC Technical Specialty Learning Packs - Data Analytics - Prerequisites
Earned Jan 4, 2023 EST
GCC Technical Specialty Learning Packs - Data Management - Prerequisites
Earned Jan 4, 2023 EST
Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances
Earned Jan 4, 2023 EST
Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances
Earned Oct 17, 2022 EDT
NetApp: Build, Protect and Govern your Data Infrastructure On Google Cloud
Earned Sep 8, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 5 (4/10)
Earned Sep 2, 2022 EDT
Creating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform
Earned Aug 18, 2022 EDT
Create and Manage Bigtable Instances
Earned Aug 18, 2022 EDT
#GoogleClout Set 2, 1/10
Earned Aug 12, 2022 EDT
Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances
Earned Aug 12, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI
Earned Aug 11, 2022 EDT
Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Aug 9, 2022 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Jun 29, 2022 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Earned Jun 27, 2022 EDT
Share Data Using Google Data Cloud
Earned Jun 27, 2022 EDT
Using Vault on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 24, 2022 EDT
Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery
Earned Jun 23, 2022 EDT
Achieving Advanced Insights with BigQuery
Earned Jun 23, 2022 EDT
Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights
Earned Jun 23, 2022 EDT
Cloud Logging
Earned Jun 17, 2022 EDT
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Jun 14, 2022 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
Earned Jun 12, 2022 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned Jun 10, 2022 EDT
Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure
Earned Jun 9, 2022 EDT
Google Workspace Essentials
Earned Jun 9, 2022 EDT
Workspace: Add-ons
Earned Jun 8, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop
Earned Jun 8, 2022 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Jun 8, 2022 EDT
Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning
Earned Jun 7, 2022 EDT
DevOps Essentials
Earned Jun 7, 2022 EDT
Data Lake Modernization (Hadoop) on GCP
Earned May 27, 2022 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines
Earned May 27, 2022 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Data Warehouse Migration with BigQuery
Earned May 20, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned May 19, 2022 EDT
Data Lake Modernization on Google Cloud
Earned May 18, 2022 EDT
Inside Track: SQL Server - Advanced
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs
Earned May 13, 2022 EDT
Build LookML Objects in Looker
Earned May 11, 2022 EDT
Applying Advanced LookML Concepts in Looker
Earned May 10, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for Looker Dashboards and Reports
Earned May 9, 2022 EDT
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML
Earned Apr 22, 2022 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned Apr 12, 2022 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Apr 11, 2022 EDT
Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
Earned Apr 11, 2022 EDT
Enterprise Database Migration
Earned Apr 9, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Building Advanced Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion
Earned Apr 6, 2022 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Apr 4, 2022 EDT
Google Developer Essentials
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DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud
Earned Apr 3, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Applying BigQuery ML's Classification, Regression, and Demand Forecasting for Retail Applications
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Automate Data Capture at Scale with Document AI
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DEPRECATED Anthos Service Mesh
Earned Apr 2, 2022 EDT
VM Migration
Earned Apr 1, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Network Performance and Optimization
Earned Mar 30, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Deploy & Develop
Earned Mar 30, 2022 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Mar 29, 2022 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications
Earned Mar 29, 2022 EDT
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 28, 2022 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned Mar 28, 2022 EDT
Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
Earned Mar 28, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Mar 26, 2022 EDT
Automate Deployment and Manage Traffic on a Google Cloud Network
Earned Mar 26, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned Mar 25, 2022 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Mar 25, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture
Earned Mar 23, 2022 EDT
Building Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion
Earned Feb 24, 2022 EST
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform on Google Cloud
Earned Jan 29, 2022 EST
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Jan 19, 2022 EST
DEPRECATED Windows on Google Cloud
Earned Jan 17, 2022 EST
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Jan 17, 2022 EST
Understanding LookML in Looker
Earned Jan 16, 2022 EST
DEPRECATED Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning
Earned Jan 16, 2022 EST
Sports Analytics: Pitch Perfect BigQuery
Earned Jan 15, 2022 EST
Migrate MySQL Data to Cloud SQL Using Database Migration Service
Earned Jan 14, 2022 EST
Migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service
Earned Jan 14, 2022 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Jan 13, 2022 EST
Scientific Data Processing
Earned Jan 13, 2022 EST
DEPRECATED Applied Data: Blockchain
Earned Jan 12, 2022 EST
Data Science on Google Cloud
Earned Jan 11, 2022 EST
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Marketing Analysts
Earned Jan 10, 2022 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations
Earned Jan 10, 2022 EST
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals
Earned Jan 10, 2022 EST
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey
Earned Jan 8, 2022 EST
DEPRECATED Create Conversational AI Agents with Dialogflow CX
Earned Dec 11, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Application Development - Python
Earned Jul 27, 2020 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Jul 24, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis
Earned Jul 24, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Jul 24, 2020 EDT
Data Catalog Fundamentals
Earned Jul 24, 2020 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML
Earned Jul 24, 2020 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Jul 24, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Warehousing
Earned Jul 23, 2020 EDT
Cloud SQL
Earned Jul 22, 2020 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned Jul 22, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Jul 22, 2020 EDT