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Badge for Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned יול 11, 2023 EDT
Badge for Level 1: AppDev and Infrastructure Level 1: AppDev and Infrastructure Earned יול 11, 2023 EDT
Badge for The Basics of Google Cloud Compute The Basics of Google Cloud Compute Earned יול 11, 2023 EDT
Badge for App Engine: 3 Ways App Engine: 3 Ways Earned יול 10, 2023 EDT
Badge for Security Best Practices in Google Cloud Security Best Practices in Google Cloud Earned נוב 29, 2022 EST
Badge for Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Earned נוב 29, 2022 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals Earned נוב 24, 2022 EST
Badge for Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud Earned נוב 23, 2022 EST
Badge for Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid Connectivity and Network Management Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid Connectivity and Network Management Earned נוב 23, 2022 EST
Badge for Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned נוב 23, 2022 EST
Badge for Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery Exploring and Preparing your Data with BigQuery Earned נוב 23, 2022 EST
Badge for Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights Creating New BigQuery Datasets and Visualizing Insights Earned נוב 22, 2022 EST
Badge for Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads Earned נוב 22, 2022 EST
Badge for Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations Earned נוב 22, 2022 EST
Badge for Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned נוב 22, 2022 EST
Badge for Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Monitor Environments with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus Earned נוב 21, 2022 EST
Badge for Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned נוב 21, 2022 EST
Badge for Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Earned נוב 21, 2022 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned נוב 18, 2022 EST
Badge for Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery Earned נוב 18, 2022 EST
Badge for Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos Hybrid Cloud Multi-Cluster with Anthos Earned נוב 18, 2022 EST
Badge for Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud with Anthos Multi-Cluster, Multi-Cloud with Anthos Earned נוב 18, 2022 EST
Badge for Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Developing a Google SRE Culture Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned נוב 17, 2022 EST
Badge for Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations - בעברית Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations - בעברית Earned נוב 15, 2022 EST
Badge for Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud - בעברית Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud - בעברית Earned נוב 15, 2022 EST
Badge for Innovating with Data and Google Cloud - בעברית Innovating with Data and Google Cloud - בעברית Earned נוב 15, 2022 EST
Badge for Digital Transformation with Google Cloud - בעברית Digital Transformation with Google Cloud - בעברית Earned נוב 14, 2022 EST
Badge for Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned נוב 11, 2022 EST
Badge for Intro to Infrastructure Intro to Infrastructure Earned נוב 6, 2022 EST
Badge for Flutter Development Flutter Development Earned נוב 4, 2022 EDT
Badge for Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned נוב 1, 2022 EDT
Badge for Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Earned אוק 31, 2022 EDT
Badge for Applying BigQuery ML's Classification, Regression, and Demand Forecasting for Retail Applications Applying BigQuery ML's Classification, Regression, and Demand Forecasting for Retail Applications Earned אוק 31, 2022 EDT
Badge for Build Apps & Websites with Firebase Build Apps & Websites with Firebase Earned אוק 28, 2022 EDT
Badge for Anthos Service Mesh Anthos Service Mesh Earned אוק 28, 2022 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine [DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine Earned אוק 28, 2022 EDT
Badge for Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned אוק 27, 2022 EDT
Badge for Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned אוק 26, 2022 EDT
Badge for Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud Earned אוק 25, 2022 EDT
Badge for Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud Earned אוק 25, 2022 EDT
Badge for Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned אוק 21, 2022 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED ASP.NET on Google Cloud DEPRECATED ASP.NET on Google Cloud Earned אוק 21, 2021 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE  Apigee Advanced [DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Apigee Advanced Earned יול 28, 2020 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant [DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned יול 27, 2020 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks [DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks Earned יול 26, 2020 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE  Apigee Basic [DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Apigee Basic Earned יול 25, 2020 EDT
Badge for Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI Earned יול 22, 2020 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Serverless Toolbox: Developing with Cloud Run [DEPRECATED] Serverless Toolbox: Developing with Cloud Run Earned יול 22, 2020 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Building Advanced Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion [DEPRECATED] Building Advanced Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion Earned יול 18, 2020 EDT
Badge for Data Catalog Fundamentals Data Catalog Fundamentals Earned יול 18, 2020 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite on GKE DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite on GKE Earned יול 18, 2020 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI DEPRECATED Explore Machine Learning Models with Explainable AI Earned יול 8, 2020 EDT
Badge for Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned יונ 23, 2020 EDT
Badge for Workspace: Add-ons Workspace: Add-ons Earned יונ 23, 2020 EDT
Badge for Building Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion Building Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion Earned יונ 22, 2020 EDT
Badge for Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned יונ 20, 2020 EDT
Badge for Develop your Google Cloud Network Develop your Google Cloud Network Earned יונ 19, 2020 EDT
Badge for Getting Started with Go on Google Cloud Getting Started with Go on Google Cloud Earned יונ 17, 2020 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Earned יונ 15, 2020 EDT
Badge for Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned יונ 15, 2020 EDT
Badge for Set Up a Google Cloud Network Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned יונ 14, 2020 EDT
Badge for Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned יונ 14, 2020 EDT
Badge for Build a Website on Google Cloud Build a Website on Google Cloud Earned יונ 13, 2020 EDT
Badge for Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned יונ 13, 2020 EDT
Badge for Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned יונ 13, 2020 EDT
Badge for Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine Earned יונ 12, 2020 EDT
Badge for Website on Google Cloud Website on Google Cloud Earned יונ 12, 2020 EDT
Badge for Cloud SQL Cloud SQL Earned אפר 20, 2020 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Creating with Google Maps DEPRECATED Creating with Google Maps Earned מרץ 25, 2020 EDT
Badge for Applied Data: Blockchain Applied Data: Blockchain Earned פבר 2, 2020 EST
Badge for VM Migration VM Migration Earned דצמ 6, 2019 EST
Badge for Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs Earned נוב 14, 2019 EST
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Asylo - Practical Confidential Computing with Enclaves [DEPRECATED] Asylo - Practical Confidential Computing with Enclaves Earned נוב 14, 2019 EST
Badge for Cloud Hero: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Cloud Hero: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Earned אוק 29, 2019 EDT
Badge for DevOps Essentials DevOps Essentials Earned אוק 4, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Windows on Google Cloud DEPRECATED Windows on Google Cloud Earned ספט 10, 2019 EDT
Badge for Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Earned ספט 7, 2019 EDT
Badge for Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Earned ספט 3, 2019 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant [DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant Earned אוג 9, 2019 EDT
Badge for Cloud Healthcare API Cloud Healthcare API Earned אוג 8, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning Earned אוג 8, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Developing Data and Machine Learning Apps with C# DEPRECATED Developing Data and Machine Learning Apps with C# Earned אוג 6, 2019 EDT
Badge for Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning Earned אוג 4, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud Earned יול 26, 2019 EDT
Badge for Machine Learning APIs Machine Learning APIs Earned יול 15, 2019 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications [DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications Earned יול 15, 2019 EDT
Badge for Cloud Logging Cloud Logging Earned יול 15, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite Earned יול 15, 2019 EDT
Badge for Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure Earned יול 14, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Developer Essentials Google Developer Essentials Earned יול 12, 2019 EDT
Badge for Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud Earned יול 12, 2019 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned יול 5, 2019 EDT
Badge for Workspace Essentials Workspace Essentials Earned יול 2, 2019 EDT
Badge for Intro to ML: Image Processing Intro to ML: Image Processing Earned יול 1, 2019 EDT
Badge for Intro to ML: Language Processing Intro to ML: Language Processing Earned יול 1, 2019 EDT
Badge for Scientific Data Processing Scientific Data Processing Earned יונ 30, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis Earned יונ 21, 2019 EDT
Badge for Cloud Engineering Cloud Engineering Earned יונ 21, 2019 EDT
Badge for Cloud Development Cloud Development Earned יונ 21, 2019 EDT
Badge for Data Science on Google Cloud Data Science on Google Cloud Earned יונ 20, 2019 EDT
Badge for BigQuery for Machine Learning BigQuery for Machine Learning Earned יונ 20, 2019 EDT
Badge for BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned יונ 19, 2019 EDT
Badge for BigQuery for Data Warehousing BigQuery for Data Warehousing Earned יונ 19, 2019 EDT
Badge for Network Performance and Optimization Network Performance and Optimization Earned יונ 18, 2019 EDT
Badge for BigQuery for Marketing Analysts BigQuery for Marketing Analysts Earned יונ 18, 2019 EDT
Badge for Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform Earned יונ 16, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure Earned יונ 16, 2019 EDT
Badge for Networking Speedrun Networking Speedrun Earned מאי 31, 2019 EDT
Badge for Exploring APIs Exploring APIs Earned מאי 28, 2019 EDT
Badge for Kubernetes + Data Speedrun Kubernetes + Data Speedrun Earned מאי 24, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Application Development - Java DEPRECATED Application Development - Java Earned מאי 22, 2019 EDT
Badge for Kubernetes Speedrun Kubernetes Speedrun Earned מאי 3, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security Earned אפר 30, 2019 EDT
Badge for Baseline: Data, ML, AI Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned אפר 27, 2019 EDT
Badge for Baseline: Deploy & Develop Baseline: Deploy & Develop Earned אפר 19, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications Earned אפר 6, 2019 EDT
Badge for Security & Identity Fundamentals Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned אפר 5, 2019 EDT
Badge for Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB Serverless Web Apps using Amazon DynamoDB Earned מרץ 29, 2019 EDT
Badge for Application Development - Python Application Development - Python Earned מרץ 29, 2019 EDT
Badge for Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud Earned מרץ 22, 2019 EDT
Badge for Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions Earned מרץ 22, 2019 EDT
Badge for Baseline: Infrastructure Baseline: Infrastructure Earned מרץ 20, 2019 EDT
Badge for NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud Earned מרץ 20, 2019 EDT
Badge for Kubernetes in Google Cloud Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned מרץ 20, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Essentials Google Cloud Essentials Earned מרץ 11, 2019 EDT
Badge for Cloud Architecture Cloud Architecture Earned מרץ 10, 2019 EDT

Earn a skill badge by completing the Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud quest, where you learn how to work with VPC networks and load balancers on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Demand for cloud-skilled workers is rising. According to a report by Indeed, cloud computing jobs are expected to grow by 22% over the next five years, much faster than the average for all occupations. Play now to get hands-on experience building with Google Cloud's powerful coding and infrastructure management tools. Each lab teaches and tests your growing tech skills, and sets you on the path to your first Google Cloud credential.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute quest, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Engine: 3 ways quest, where you learn how to use App Engine with Python, Go, and PHP. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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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 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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This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals for AWS Professionals 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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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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This self-paced training course builds on the Networking in Google Cloud: Defining and Implementing Networks course and enhances the study of networking options on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, you explore and deploy Google Cloud networking technologies, such as common network design patterns, connectivity to Google Cloud VPC networks, and private connection options. The course also covers optimizing network performance and cost by using Network Service Tiers. You will also learn about billing and pricing. The course concludes by covering monitoring and logging features that can help you troubleshoot your Google Cloud network infrastructure.

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This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud. Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

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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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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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In this course, "Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Workloads," you learn about performing Kubernetes operations; creating and managing deployments; the tools of GKE networking; and how to give your Kubernetes workloads persistent storage. This is the second course of the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine series. After completing this course, enroll in the Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Production course.

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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. 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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Monitor Environments with Managed Service for Prometheus quest, where you learn Kubernetes Monitoring with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this Skill Badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This course provides an introduction to using Terraform for Google Cloud. It enables learners to describe how Terraform can be used to implement infrastructure as code and to apply some of its key features and functionalities to create and manage Google Cloud infrastructure. Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources using Terraform.

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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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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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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Perform Predictive Data Analysis in BigQuery course, where you will gain practical experience on the fundamentals of sports data science using BigQuery, including how to create 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. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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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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Course one of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud with Anthos series introduces participants to manage multi-cloud and hybrid Kubernetes deployments using Anthos. Through presentations and hands-on labs, participants explore planning and creating Anthos environments and building manageable and reliable multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure environments centered around Anthos and containers. This course is a continuation of Architecting with GKE and assumes direct experience with the technologies covered in that course.

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Welcome to Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Foundations with Anthos! This is the first course of the Architecting Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure with Anthos path. Anthos enables you to build and manage modern applications, and gives you the freedom to choose where to run them. Anthos gives you one consistent experience in both your on-premises and cloud environments. During this course, you will be presented with modules that will take you through skills that you will use as an architect or administrator running Anthos environments. The modules in this course include videos, hands-on labs, and links to helpful documentation.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This final course in the series reviews managed big data services, machine learning and its value, and how to demonstrate your skill set in Google Cloud further by earning Skill Badges.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.

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In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.

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הקורס בוחן ניהול עלויות, אבטחה ותפעול בענן. ראשית, מוסבר איך עסקים יכולים לרכוש שירותי IT מספק שירותי ענן ולשמר חלק מהתשתית שלהם או לבחור לא לשמר אותה בכלל. שנית, הקורס מתאר איך האחריות על אבטחת נתונים מתחלקת בין ספק שירותי הענן לעסק, וסוקר את אבטחת ההגנה לעומק (defense-in-depth) שמובנית ב-Google Cloud. לבסוף, הקורס מתייחס לכך שצוותי IT ומנהלי העסק צריכים לשנות את החשיבה על ניהול משאבי IT בענן, ונוגע באופן שבו כלי ניטור המשאבים ב-Google Cloud יכולים לסייע להם לשמור על שליטה וניראות בסביבת הענן שלהם.

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בארגונים מסורתיים רבים משתמשים במערכות ובאפליקציות מדורות קודמים, וקשה לבצע באמצעותן התאמה לעומס ופעולות מהירות הדרושות כדי לעמוד בציפיות מודרניות של לקוחות. מנהיגים עסקיים וקובעי מדיניות IT צריכים כל הזמן לבחור בין תחזוקה של מערכות מדורות קודמים לבין השקעה במוצרים ובשירותים חדשים. בקורס הזה נבחן את האתגרים הנובעים משימוש בתשתית IT מיושנת, ואיך בעלי עסקים יכולים לבצע מודרניזציה של תשתיות בעזרת טכנולוגיית ענן. הקורס מתחיל בהבנה מעמיקה של אפשרויות המחשוב השונות הזמינות בענן ופירוט היתרונות של כל אחת מהאפשרויות. לאחר מכן נבחן את האפשרויות למודרניזציה של האפליקציות ושל ממשקי API (ממשק תכנות יישומים). בקורס מתוארים גם מגוון פתרונות של Google Cloud שיכולים לשפר את תהליך פיתוח המערכות וניהולן בעסקים שונים, כמו Compute Engine,‏ App Engine ו-Apigee.

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טכנולוגיית הענן לבדה מספקת לעסק חלק קטן בלבד מהערך האמיתי שלה. כשהיא משולבת עם נתונים בנפח רב מאוד, נוצרת העוצמה שמאפשרת להפיק ערך וליצור חוויות חדשות ללקוחות. במסגרת הקורס הזה תלמדו מהם נתונים, איך השתמשו בהם בעבר בחברות לצורך קבלת החלטות ולמה הם קריטיים כל כך ללמידה חישובית. בנוסף, בקורס הזה יוצגו ללומדים מושגים טכניים כמו נתונים מובְנים ולא מובְנים, מסד נתונים, מחסן נתונים (data warehouse) ואגמי נתונים (data lakes). בהמשך, הקורס יעסוק במוצרי Google Cloud הנפוצים ביותר בתחום הנתונים, ובמוצרים כאלה ששיעור השימוש בהם גדל במהירות הרבה ביותר.

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מהי טכנולוגיית ענן ומהו מדע הנתונים? וחשוב יותר, איך הם יכולים לעזור לכם, לצוות שלכם ולעסק שלכם? קורס המבוא הזה בנושא טרנספורמציה דיגיטלית מתאים למי שרוצה ללמוד על טכנולוגיית הענן כדי להתמקצע ולהצטיין בעבודתו וכדי לעזור בפיתוח העתיד של העסק. בקורס יוגדרו מונחי יסוד כגון הענן, נתונים וטרנספורמציה דיגיטלית. בנוסף, נבחן דוגמאות של חברות מרחבי העולם שמשתמשות בטכנולוגיית הענן כדי לבצע טרנספורמציה בעסק. הקורס כולל סקירה של סוגי ההזדמנויות שיש לחברות ושל האתגרים הנפוצים שחברות מתמודדות איתם במהלך טרנספורמציה דיגיטלית. הקורס גם מדגים איך עמודי התווך של פתרונות Google Cloud יכולים לעזור בתהליך. חשוב לומר: טרנספורמציה דיגיטלית לא קשורה רק לשימוש בטכנולוגיות חדשות. כדי הטרנספורמציה תהיה מלאה, ארגונים צריכים גם ליישם חדשנות ולפתח דפוס חשיבה שמקדם חדשנות בכל התחומים והצוותים. השיטות המומלצות המתוארות בקורס יעזרו לכם להשיג את המטרה הזו.

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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. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Welcome Gamers! You will compete to see who can finish the game with the highest score. Earn the points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge.

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Explore the fundamentals of Flutter application development in this hands-on quest! Within this quest, you will build a "Hello World" Flutter application, design a frontend for a shopping application, and learn how to connect your Flutter applications to backend services. Each lab in this quest utilizes a pre-provisioned development environment allowing minimal setup to get into the application code!

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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions. 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 course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: architecting and building serverless web applications with Firebase, utilizing Firestore for database management, automating deployment processes using Cloud Build, and integrating Google Assistant functionality into your applications. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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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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Firebase is a backend-as-service (Bass) platform for creating mobile and web applications. In this quest you will learn to build serverless web apps, import data into a serverless database, and build a Google Assistant application with Firebase and its Google Cloud integrations. 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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine quest, where you learn about security at scale on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) including how to: migrate containers from virtual machines to Google Kubernetes Engine, restrict network connections in GKE using firewalls and Network Policies, use role-based access controls (RBAC) in GKE, use Binary Authorization for security controls of your images, secure applications in GKE using 3 access levels: host, network, Kubernetes API, and harden GKE cluster configurations. 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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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge 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. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network. For practice with BigQuery fundamentals (including working with the console and command line), complete the course titled BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts.

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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating git repositories with Cloud Source Repositories, launching, managing, and scaling deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and architecting CI/CD pipelines that automate container image builds and deployments to GKE. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn the advanced skill badge by completing the Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API. 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 course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge 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. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Google Cloud is committed to supporting Windows workloads in its frameworks and services. In this quest, you will get hands-on practice running Microsoft’s ASP.net (web app framework) on Google Cloud. ASP.NET is an open-source and cross-platform framework for building modern cloud-based and internet-connected applications using the C# programming language.

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Apigee Edge is Google Cloud's full lifecycle API management platform, that helps enterprises with various aspects of exposure, consumption, productization, and monetization of their APIs. As enterprises build connected experiences, or plan to modernize their existing backed apps, APIs and API Management plays a crucial part. In this Quest you will explore more advanced API Management usecases for application modernization and practice using the Apigee Edge platform. If you don't have hands-on experience with Apigee, it is recommended that you to go through the labs in Apigee Basic before starting this Quest.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant quest, where you will learn how to build Google Assistant applications, including how to: create an Actions project, integrate Dialogflow with an Actions project, test your application with Actions simulator, build an Assistant application with flash cards template, integrate customer MP3 files with your Assistant application, add Cloud Translation API to your Assistant application, and use APIs and integrate them into your applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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The move to Google® Cloud public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. Palo Alto Networks® offers innovative and comprehensive protection as you adopt public cloud services. The Palo Alto Networks solutions complement the native Google Cloud security toolset, including network, host and cloud-native security delivered through APIs for comprehensive protection. In this Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall running in Google Cloud. You will gain practical experience that you can apply to improve visibility and security for your applications and workloads.

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Apigee enables you to create APIs and manage them for the benefit of other developers who might need to use your software. Apigee Edge enables you to quickly expose backend services as APIs. These "API Products" offer different capabilities and levels of service, with consumption managed by Apigee. This Quest of hands-on labs gives you practice in using Apigee for API creation and management functionality when you decide to modernize an application backend.

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

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The labs in this quest will give you a quick introduction to serverless on Google Cloud. You learn by resolving a customer problem using serverless infrastructure. The labs are based on the Serverless Toolbox YouTube series.

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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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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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In this fundamental-level course, you will learn the ins and outs of Google Cloud's operations suite running on Google Kubernetes Engine, 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. The labs in this course 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 course. Additional lab experience with the labs in the Baseline - Infrastructure course will also be useful. Looking for a hands-on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this course, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this course to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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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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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. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This quest of hands-on labs 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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This quest 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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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. 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 course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM rols 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. A skill badge is an exclusivedigital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Get started with Go (Golang) by reviewing Go code, and then creating and deploying simple Go apps on Google Cloud. Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build fast, reliable, and efficient software at scale. Go runs native on Google Cloud, and is fully supported on Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions. Go is a compiled language and is faster and more efficient than interpreted languages. As a result, Go requires no installed runtime like Node, Python, or JDK to execute.

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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network course, where you will learn how to: Set IAM features with the gcloud CLI tool; deploy and scale a web app on Google Compute Engine; provision a Kubernetes cluster and break an application into microservices; perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform; view BigQuery logs inside Cloud Logging, and migrate a stand-alone PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL using a continuous Database Migration Service job. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge 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, and create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data. 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 course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud course. This course is based on the series Get Cooking in Cloud, where you learn how to: Deploy a website on Cloud Run; Host a web app on Compute Engine; Create, deploy, and scale your website on Google Kubernetes Engine; Migrate from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture using Cloud Build. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge 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, and deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices. 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 course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the introductory Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: writing gcloud commands and using Cloud Shell, creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine, and configuring network and HTTP load balancers. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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In this quest you will learn about the four Google Cloud website architectures available to ensure that your website is available and scalable. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this Build a Website on Google Cloud to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge. This quest is based on the video series Get Cooking in Cloud.

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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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In this quest you will use several tools available in Google Cloud to manipulate data and create a Google Map - map location details to find subway stations or a business; use geocoding and Apps Script to send an email of a map; visualize data on a customized map; and build a server-side proxy to create a map on a mobile device.

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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 Quest you will gain hands-on experience with distributed ledger and the exploration of blockchain datasets in Google Cloud. This Quest brings the research and solution work of Google's Allen Day into self-paced labs for you to run and learn directly. Since this Quest utilizes advanced SQL in BigQuery, a SQL-in-BigQuery refresher lab is at the start. The final lab is an advanced challenge-style lab in which there are elements where you are not provided the answer but must solve it for yourself.

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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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ביצוע אופטימיזציה לעלויות של Google Cloud תיאור: זו המשימה השנייה מתוך שתיים בנושא יסודות החיוב וניהול העלויות ב-Google Cloud. המשימה הזו מתאימה במיוחד לבעלי תפקידים הקשורים ל-IT או לפיננסים, שאחראים לביצוע האופטימיזציה של תשתית הענן בארגון. במהלך המשימה תלמדו כמה דרכים לשליטה ולביצוע אופטימיזציה בעלויות של Google Cloud, ביניהן הגדרת תקציבים והתראות, ניהול של מגבלות מכסה וניצול של הנחות תמורת התחייבות לשימוש. בשיעורים המעשיים תתנסו בכל מיני כלים שיעזרו לכם לשלוט בעלויות ב-Google Cloud, לבצע אופטימיזציה שלהן או לעודד את צוותי הטכנולוגיה להחיל את השיטות המומלצות לאופטימיזציה של העלויות. מטרות: להסביר על הדרישות המקדימות בתחום התפעול לצורך אופטימיזציה של העלויות בענן. להבדיל בין תקציבים למכסות. להגדיר תקציבים והתראות לסף החזוי ולסף בפועל לקבלת תשלום. להגדיר אמצעי בקרה על עלויות באמצעות מכסה. לנתח את ההנחות תמורת התחייבות לשימוש. להשתמש בשיטות מתקדמות לשליטה בעלויות ולאופטימיזציה שלהן. קהל: כל מי שמנהל את ההוצאות ב-Google Cloud בכל תפקיד בחברה. התפקידים שנכללים: פיננסים ו-IT, מנהלי רכש, מנ…

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This quest introduces you to Asylo (Greek for safe place), a developer framework and SDK for developing applications that run in trusted execution environments (TEEs).

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How can artificial intelligence and machine learning benefit your business? Let Google Cloud do the hard work and start taking advantage of advanced AI and ML tools. Dive deep into key solutions to common use cases and gain hands-on experience with TensorFlow, forecasting and prediction, plus score points and compete with other players in today's game.

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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 quest 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! 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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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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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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המשמעות של העלויות ב-Google Cloud תיאור: המשימה הזו מתאימה במיוחד לבעלי תפקידים בתחומי הטכנולוגיה או הפיננסים, שאחראים לניהול של העלויות ב-Google Cloud. תלמדו איך להגדיר חשבון חיוב, איך לארגן משאבים ואיך לנהל הרשאות גישה לחיוב. בשיעורים המעשיים האלה תלמדו איך להציג את החשבונית, לעקוב אחר העלויות ב-Google Cloud בעזרת דוחות חיוב, לנתח את נתוני החיוב באמצעות BigQuery או Google Sheets וליצור מרכזי בקרה לחיוב בהתאמה אישית באמצעות Data Studio. מטרות: לתכנן ניהול יעיל של העלויות בענן על ידי הגדרת הצוותים והכלים והחלת שיטות מומלצות לפיקוח פיננסי. להגדיר חשבונות חיוב של Google Cloud ולארגן את המשאבים לניהול עלויות. להיעזר בדוחות החיוב כדי לגלות מהן המגמות הנוכחיות של העלויות ואת העלויות החזויות. לייצא את נתוני החיוב אל Google Sheets או BigQuery ולבדוק אותם. להציג את נתוני החיוב באופן חזותי באמצעות דוחות חיוב ולבנות מרכזי בקרה מותאמים אישית באמצעות Data Studio. קהל: כל מי שמנהל את ההוצאות ב-Google Cloud בכל תפקיד בחברה. התפקידים שנכללים: פיננסים ו-IT, מנהלי רכש, מנהלי כספים, סמנכ"ל תפעול, מנהלי …

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With Google Assistant part of over a billion consumer devices, this quest teaches you how to build practical Google Assistant applications integrated with Google Cloud services via APIs. Example apps will use the Dialogflow conversational suite and the Actions and Cloud Functions frameworks. You will build 5 different applications that explore useful and fun tools you can extend on your own. No hardware required! These labs use the cloud-based Google Assistant simulator environment for developing and testing, but if you do have your own device, such as a Google Home or a Google Hub, additional instructions are provided on how to deploy your apps to your own hardware.

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Cloud Healthcare API bridges the gap between care systems and applications built on Google Cloud. By supporting standards-based data formats and protocols of existing healthcare technologies, Cloud Healthcare API connects your data to advanced Google Cloud capabilities, including streaming data processing with Cloud Dataflow, scalable analytics with BigQuery, and machine learning with Cloud Machine Learning Engine. In this Quest you will use the Cloud Healthcare API to ingest and process data in the industry standard FHIR, HL7v2 and DICOM formats, train a TensorFlow model for prediction with FHIR data, and also gain practice with de-identification of datasets.

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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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C# has powered Windows .NET application development for nearly two decades and Google Cloud is committed to supporting developers getting their .NET workloads up and running on Google Cloud. In this quest, you will learn how to run C# apps in Google Cloud, and specifically how to take your apps to the next level by interfacing them with the big data and machine learning APIs that are accessible now from C#. By enrolling in this quest you will see firsthand how seamlessly Google Cloud integrates with .NET workloads and what the possibilities are for leveraging big data and ML services in your own C# projects.

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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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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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It's no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and Google Cloud 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 quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning APIs by taking labs like Detect Labels, Faces, and Landmarks in Images with the Cloud Vision API. 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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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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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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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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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, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning at scale and how to employ the advanced ML infrastructure available on GCP.

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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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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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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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Workspace (formerly G Suite) is Google's collaborative applications platform, delivered from Google Cloud. In this introductory-level quest, 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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Using large scale computing power to recognize patterns and "read" images is one of the foundational technologies in AI, from self-driving cars to facial recognition. The Google Cloud Platform provides world class speed and accuracy via systems that can utilized by simply calling APIs. With these and a host of other APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to image processing by taking labs that will enable you to label images, detect faces and landmarks, as well as extract, analyze, and translate text from within images.

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It’s no secret that machine learning is one of the fastest growing fields in tech, and the Google Cloud Platform has been instrumental in furthering its development. With a host of APIs, GCP has a tool for just about any machine learning job. In this introductory quest, you will get hands-on practice with machine learning as it applies to language processing by taking labs that will enable you to extract entities from text, and perform sentiment and syntactic analysis as well as use the Speech to Text API for transcription.

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Big data, machine learning, and scientific data? It sounds like the perfect match. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with GCP services like Big Query, Dataproc, 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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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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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 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 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 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. 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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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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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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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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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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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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In this course you will learn how you to harness serious Google Cloud power and infrastructure. The hands-on labs will give you use cases and you will be tasked with implementing scaling practices utilized by Google’s very own Solutions Architecture team. From developing enterprise grade load balancing and autoscaling, to building continuous delivery pipelines, Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling your Infrastructure will teach you best practices for taking your Google Cloud projects to the next level.

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Welcome, gamers! It’s gameday - watch your name move up the leaderboard and get 4 labs closer to completing your Networking quest. In today's game, experiment with VPC networks, firewalls and optimizing spend - plus maybe win a prize. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?

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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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Welcome, gamers! Want to make the most of your Friday? Learn something new (might even help your next career move) and watch your name move on the leaderboard. (Hopefully upwards!) In today's game, experiment with containerization, Kubeflow, BigQuery and ML - plus maybe even win some prizes before the weekend starts. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?

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In this advanced-level quest, you will learn the ins and outs of developing GCP applications in Java. 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 Java 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 Java applications straight away.

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Welcome to the Friday Speedrun, gamers! Pop quiz: What's the most popular solution to manage containerized workloads? Kubernetes of course, originally developed at Google and released as open source in 2014. Learn how it works with a game. Start taking the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?

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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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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 Big Query, Cloud Speech API, and AI Platform. Want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

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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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When it comes to hosting websites and web applications, you want a framework that’s robust, fast, and secure. By choosing the Google Cloud Platform, you will have all of those needs covered. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with GCPs key infrastructure and computing services for the web. From deploying your first web app, to integrating Cloud SQL with Ruby on Rails, to mapping the NYC subway system on App Engine, you will learn all the skills needed to harness GCPs web hosting power.

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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. 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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Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without needing to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure. This quest will show how to design, build, and deploy interactive serverless web applications, using a simple HTML/JavaScript web interface which uses Amazon API Gateway calls to send requests to AWS Lambda backends that query Amazon DynamoDB data.

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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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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 quest 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, Networking Fundamentals in the Google Cloud will give you the practical experience needed so you can start building robust networks right away.

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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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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this quest is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Stackdriver and Cloud Functions. By taking this quest, 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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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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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 advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications. This quest will teach you the practical skills needed for integrating container orchestration into your own workflow. Looking for a hands-on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, finish the additional Challenge Lab at the end of the Deploy to Kubernetes in Google Cloud Quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.

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In this introductory-level Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Google Cloud Essentials is the recommended first Quest for the Google Cloud learner - you will 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. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

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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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