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Kalyanasundaram Balasubramanian

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Diamond League

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Develop GenAI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit Earned Dec 21, 2024 EST
Gemini for end-to-end SDLC Earned Dec 20, 2024 EST
Gemini for DevOps Engineers Earned Dec 19, 2024 EST
Gemini for Security Engineers Earned Dec 19, 2024 EST
Gemini for Network Engineers Earned Dec 19, 2024 EST
Gemini for Data Scientists and Analysts Earned Dec 17, 2024 EST
Gemini for Cloud Architects Earned Dec 16, 2024 EST
Gemini for Application Developers Earned Dec 16, 2024 EST
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Apr 6, 2024 EDT
Develop your Google Cloud Network Earned Apr 3, 2024 EDT
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned Mar 29, 2024 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Mar 23, 2024 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Mar 18, 2024 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned Mar 17, 2024 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned Mar 14, 2024 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned Mar 10, 2024 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned Mar 4, 2024 EST
Attention Mechanism Earned Jun 25, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Jun 25, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Jun 7, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Jun 7, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jun 6, 2023 EDT
Migrating Virtual Machines Earned Dec 18, 2022 EST
Cloud Hero: Serverless ML Earned Nov 20, 2022 EST
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned Nov 9, 2022 EST
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned Nov 9, 2022 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Operations Earned Nov 7, 2022 EST
Intro to BigQuery: Analytics & Machine Learning Earned Oct 30, 2022 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines Earned Oct 27, 2022 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations Earned Oct 21, 2022 EDT
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud Earned Oct 15, 2022 EDT
Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud Earned Oct 13, 2022 EDT
Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned Oct 11, 2022 EDT
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud Earned Oct 7, 2022 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Oct 3, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Oct 2, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Sep 30, 2022 EDT
Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine Earned Sep 26, 2022 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Sep 26, 2022 EDT
Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud Earned Sep 25, 2022 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Sep 25, 2022 EDT
Cloud Hero IAM & Security Skills Earned Sep 25, 2022 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Sep 24, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Sep 24, 2022 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned Sep 22, 2022 EDT

Complete the intermediate Develop GenAI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and the Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. You will explore different ways to prompt Gemini for text generation, use Cloud Shell to test and iterate on a Streamlit application, and then package it as a Docker container deployed in 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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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you use Google products and services to develop, test, deploy, and manage applications. With help from Gemini, you learn how to develop and build a web application, fix errors in the application, develop tests, and query data. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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. Skill badges validate your practical knowledge on specific products through hands-on labs and challenge assessments. Earn a badge by completing a course or jump straight into the challenge lab to get your badge today. Badges prove your proficiency, enhance your professional profile, and ultimately lead to increased career opportunities. Visit your profile to track badges you’ve earned.

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

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

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

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

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

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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.

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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Introduction to Generative AI, Introduction to Large Language Models and Introduction to Responsible AI courses. By passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI. A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 7 AI principles.

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

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

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Welcome to Cloud Hero, Gamers! Click "Join this Game". To modify your player name or avatar, go to your My Account page at https://google.qwiklabs.com. Points are earned by completing the steps in the lab.... and bonus points are earned for speed! Be sure to complete each lab by selecting the END option to get the maximum points. Please respect the GCP resource quotas that have been allocated. Otherwise, you'll waste your Game time and gain fewer points.

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People have used machine learning to solve problems ranging from identifying clouds in satellite images to ensuring food safety and responding four times faster to customer emails. In this game, you'll get hands-on experience with advanced training and prediction solutions. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!

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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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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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In the last installment of the Dataflow course series, we will introduce the components of the Dataflow operational model. We will examine tools and techniques for troubleshooting and optimizing pipeline performance. We will then review testing, deployment, and reliability best practices for Dataflow pipelines. We will conclude with a review of Templates, which makes it easy to scale Dataflow pipelines to organizations with hundreds of users. These lessons will help ensure that your data platform is stable and resilient to unanticipated circumstances.

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Welcome Gamers! Today's game is all about experimenting with Big Query for Machine Learning! Use real life case studies to learn various concepts of BQML and have fun. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.

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In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.

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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.

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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.

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Processing streaming data is becoming increasingly popular as streaming enables businesses to get real-time metrics on business operations. This course covers how to build streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud. Pub/Sub is described for handling incoming streaming data. The course also covers how to apply aggregations and transformations to streaming data using Dataflow, and how to store processed records to BigQuery or Bigtable for analysis. Learners get hands-on experience building streaming data pipeline components on Google Cloud by using QwikLabs.

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Data pipelines typically fall under one of the Extract and Load (EL), Extract, Load and Transform (ELT) or Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) paradigms. This course describes which paradigm should be used and when for batch data. Furthermore, this course covers several technologies on Google Cloud for data transformation including BigQuery, executing Spark on Dataproc, pipeline graphs in Cloud Data Fusion and serverless data processing with Dataflow. Learners get hands-on experience building data pipeline components on Google Cloud using Qwiklabs.

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The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment. This is the first course of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud course.

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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 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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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.

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Complete the introductory 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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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that often struggle to achieve the scale and speed needed to meet modern customer expectations. Business leaders and IT decision makers constantly have to choose between maintenance of legacy systems and investing in innovative new products and services. This course explores the challenges of an outdated IT infrastructure and how businesses can modernize it using cloud technology. It begins by exploring the different compute options available in the cloud and the benefits of each, before turning to application modernization and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The course also considers a range of Google Cloud solutions that can help businesses to better develop and manage their systems, such as Compute Engine, App Engine, and Apigee. This is the third course in the Cloud Digital Leader series. At the end of this course, enroll in the Understanding Google Cloud Security and Operations course.

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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud! You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points.

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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions. For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin? If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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