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Security Best Practices in Google Cloud Earned أغسطس 10, 2024 EDT
Mitigate Threats and Vulnerabilities with Security Command Center Earned أغسطس 8, 2024 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned يوليو 24, 2024 EDT
Using DevSecOps in your Google Cloud Environment Earned يوليو 20, 2024 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security Earned يوليو 18, 2024 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production Earned يوليو 17, 2024 EDT
Get Started with Sensitive Data Protection Earned يوليو 12, 2024 EDT
Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security Earned يوليو 11, 2024 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos Earned يوليو 9, 2024 EDT
Hybrid Cloud Service Mesh with Anthos Earned يونيو 23, 2024 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Routing and Addressing Earned يونيو 16, 2024 EDT
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud Earned يونيو 11, 2024 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned يونيو 9, 2024 EDT
Securing and Integrating Components of your Application Earned يونيو 4, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Cloud Identity Earned يونيو 2, 2024 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned مايو 27, 2024 EDT
Managing Security in Google Cloud Earned مايو 26, 2024 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned ديسمبر 5, 2023 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned ديسمبر 1, 2023 EST
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned نوفمبر 28, 2023 EST
Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned نوفمبر 12, 2023 EST
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud Earned نوفمبر 11, 2023 EST
Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned أكتوبر 28, 2023 EDT
Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned أكتوبر 23, 2023 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned أكتوبر 10, 2023 EDT
Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud Earned أكتوبر 8, 2023 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned أكتوبر 3, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned أكتوبر 3, 2023 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned يونيو 23, 2022 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned يونيو 22, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Exploring APIs Earned أبريل 27, 2022 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network Earned أبريل 13, 2022 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned أبريل 13, 2022 EDT
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Earned أبريل 12, 2022 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned أبريل 7, 2022 EDT
Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations Earned أبريل 6, 2022 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned مارس 31, 2022 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned مارس 30, 2022 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned مارس 25, 2022 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals Earned مارس 24, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned مارس 18, 2022 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned مارس 14, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned مارس 8, 2022 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned مارس 4, 2022 EST

This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Storage access control technologies, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, API access controls, scoping, shielded VMs, encryption, and signed URLs. It also covers securing Kubernetes environments.

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

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Welcome to the two-part course on Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud. The core operations tools in Google Cloud break down into two major categories. The operations-focused components and the application performance management tools. This course, Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud, covers the operations-focused components including Logging, Monitoring, and Service Monitoring. After taking this course, it is suggested that you complete part 2, Observability in Google Cloud, to learn about the available application performance management tools.

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In this course, you will learn the basic skills to implement secure and efficient DevSecOps practices on Google Cloud. You'll learn how to secure your development pipeline with Google Cloud services like Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Binary Authorization. This enables you to build, test, and deploy containerized applications with security controls throughout the CI/CD pipeline.

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Get Anthos Ready. This Google Kubernetes Engine-centric quest of best practice hands-on labs focuses on security at scale when deploying and managing production GKE environments -- specifically role-based access control, hardening, VPC networking, and binary authorization.

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In this course, you'll learn about Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) security; logging and monitoring; and using Google Cloud managed storage and database services from within GKE. This is the second course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process course or the Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos course.

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

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

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This on-demand course equips students to understand, configure, and maintain multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructures using Anthos GKE, and Istio-based service mesh, whether deployed with Anthos on Google Cloud or with Anthos deployed on VMware. This is the third, and final, course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos series. Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a prerequisite for this course.

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This on-demand course equips students to understand and adopt Istio-based service-mesh with Anthos for centralized observability, traffic management, and service-level security. This is the second course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos series. After completing this course, learners should continue to the Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos course. Completion of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine path is a prerequisite for this course.

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Welcome to the second course in the networking and Google Cloud series routing and addressing. In this course, we'll cover the central routing and addressing concepts that are relevant to Google Cloud's networking capabilities. Module one will lay the foundation by exploring network routing and addressing in Google Cloud, covering key building blocks such as routing IPv4, bringing your own IP addresses and setting up cloud DNS. In Module two will shift our focus to private connection options, exploring use cases and methods for accessing Google and other services privately using internal IP addresses. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of how to effectively route and address your network traffic within Google Cloud.

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In this self-paced training course, participants learn mitigations for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use. They also learn about the Security Command Center, cloud logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.

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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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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to develop more secure applications, implement federated identity management, and integrate application components by using messaging, event-driven processing, and API gateways. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the second course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance course.

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Introduction to Cloud Identity serves as the starting place for any new Cloud Identity, Identity/Access Management/Mobile Device Management admins as they begin their journey of managing and establishing security and access management best practices for their organization. This 15-30 hour accelerated, one-week course will leave you feeling confident to utilize the basic functions of the Admin Console to manage users, control access to services, configure common security settings, and much more. Through a series of introductory lessons, step-by-step hands-on exercises, Google knowledge resources, and knowledge checks, learners can expect to leave this training with all of the skills they need to get started as new Cloud Identity Administrators.

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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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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Identity, Resource Manager, IAM, Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Peering, Cloud Interconnect, and VPC Service Controls. This is the first course of the Security in Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Security Best Practices in Google Cloud course.

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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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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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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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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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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 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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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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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 Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data.

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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 you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.

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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.

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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.

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For everyone using Google Cloud Platform for the first time, getting familar with gcloud, Google Cloud's command line, will help you get up to speed faster. In this quest, you'll learn how to install and configure Cloud SDK, then use gcloud to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, using BigQuery, and using gsutil to perform operations.

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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: Configuring and building Docker container images.Creating and managing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.Utilizing kubectl for efficient cluster management.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.

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In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations," you get a review of the layout and principles of Google Cloud, followed by an introduction to creating and managing software containers and an introduction to the architecture of Kubernetes. This is the first course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads course.

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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.

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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster.

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Earn 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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Networking in Google cloud is a 6 part course series. Welcome to the first course of our six part course series, Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals.  This course provides a comprehensive overview of core networking concepts, including networking fundamentals, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and the sharing of VPC networks. Additionally, the course covers network logging and monitoring techniques. 

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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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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.

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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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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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