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Victor Saxon

Member since 2024

Bronze League

13445 points
Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery Earned Apr 30, 2024 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Apr 15, 2024 EDT
Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs Earned Apr 11, 2024 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Earned Apr 9, 2024 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Mar 13, 2024 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Mar 9, 2024 EST

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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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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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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This course is suitable for technology or finance roles managing Google Cloud costs. Learn to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage access permissions. In hands-on labs, you view invoices and analyze billing data with BigQuery. You also use Google Sheets and create dashboards with Data Studio. You find references from the videos in this Additional Resources document.

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

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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.

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