BigQuery for Marketing Analysts
Earned Apr 11, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud
Earned Apr 11, 2020 EDT
Applied Data: Blockchain
Earned Apr 10, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Application Development - Java
Earned Apr 10, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Apr 6, 2020 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Apr 5, 2020 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Apr 5, 2020 EDT
BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Apr 5, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop
Earned Apr 4, 2020 EDT
Data Science on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 4, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned Apr 4, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Deploy & Develop
Earned Mar 29, 2020 EDT
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Mar 29, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned Mar 29, 2020 EDT
Workspace: Add-ons
Earned Mar 28, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: AppDev Challenge Game 2
Earned Oct 18, 2019 EDT
DevOps Essentials
Earned Oct 13, 2019 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Oct 13, 2019 EDT
Application Development - Python
Earned Oct 13, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Sep 15, 2019 EDT
30 Days of Data Challenge: Invitational Game
Earned Sep 5, 2019 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Aug 18, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications
Earned Aug 17, 2019 EDT
VM Migration
Earned Aug 17, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: VM Migration
Earned Aug 17, 2019 EDT
[DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications
Earned Aug 9, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Apigee
Earned Aug 9, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Data Engineering
Earned Aug 2, 2019 EDT
Workspace Essentials
Earned Jul 8, 2019 EDT
Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud
Earned Jul 7, 2019 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices
Earned Jul 6, 2019 EDT
Exploring APIs
Earned Apr 14, 2019 EDT
Cloud SQL
Earned Apr 14, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Apr 7, 2019 EDT
Cloud Architecture
Earned Mar 31, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Mar 24, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Mar 29, 2018 EDT
This short course on integrating applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro models on Google Cloud helps you discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models. The course teaches you how to access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code. It lets you test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.
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The Generative AI Explorer - Vertex Quest is a collection of labs on how to use Generative AI on Google Cloud. Through the labs, you will learn about how to use the models in the Vertex AI PaLM API family, including text-bison, chat-bison, and textembedding-gecko. You will also learn about prompt design, best practices, and how it can be used for ideation, text classification, text extraction, text summarization, and more. You will also learn how to tune a foundation model by training it via Vertex AI custom training and deploy it to a Vertex AI endpoint.
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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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Are you ready for #MarchMadness? (Learn more about this high-intensity competition: bitly of https://medium.com/analyzing-ncaa-college-basketball-with-gcp.) No matter what sport you follow, they all have one thing in common: data. Learn how Google Cloud can help you step your game up, both on and off the court (field, track, pitch, you get the idea…) Complete this badge and win 25$ worth Cloud Skills Boost credits! Access code:- 1q-tipoff-418
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the modern era. What was once science fiction has now finally become reality. Join this game and complete all the 4 labs as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn the badge so you can dedicate it to that one special woman in your life! Complete this badge and win 25$ worth Cloud Skills Boost credits! Access code:- iwd-2022
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data plus track! "The Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer certification is associated with the highest paying salary in IT," according to the most recent Global Knowledge skills and salary report (published August 2021). Complete this game to earn the Data Plus game badge, and be eligible for a +bonus+ prize in the Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge. See "what's next" below for details and requirements; you’ll need to earn at least 2 additional challenge badges to qualify. You'll learn next-level data skills to add to your resume. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data track! These eight labs give you a deep dive into GCP's data universe. At the end of each lab, you'll have another in-demand skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Data game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge architecture track! These eight labs give you a blueprint of GCP's building blocks. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with another tool or service to add to your resume. Complete this game to earn the Architecture game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge security track! These eight labs give you the keys to understanding GCP's powerful security suite. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with securing your cloud. Complete this game to earn the Security game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four badges (see "what's next" below for more information).
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge! These eight labs give you a quick hands-on introduction to eight different GCP tools and services. At the end of each lab, you'll have another skill to add to your list. Complete this game to earn the Essentials game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage to demonstrate skills in the following: deploy a publicly accessible website using Apache web servers, configure a Compute Engine VM using startup scripts, configure secure RDP using a Windows Bastion host and firewall rules, build and deploy a Docker image to a Kubernetes cluster and then update it, and create a CloudSQL instance and import a MySQL database. This skill badge is a great resource for understanding topics that will appear in the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification exam. 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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This quest of "Challenge Labs" gives the student preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect certification hands-on practice with common business/technology solutions using Google Cloud architectures. Challenge Labs do not provide the "cookbook" steps, but require solutions to be built with minimal guidance, across many Google Cloud technologies. All labs have activity tracking, and in order to earn this badge you must score 100% in each lab. This quest is not easy and will put your Google Cloud technology skills to the test! Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your knowledge and abilities, additional study, experience, and background in cloud architecture is recommended to prepare for this certification. Complete this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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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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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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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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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud skill badge quest. This quest is based on the series Get Cooking in Cloud, where you will 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. 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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20th February is Love Your Pet Day! Celebrate all the good boys and girls with this weekend’s speedrun. Each lab teaches you a new Google Cloud skill. In the first lab, you meet Mr. Whiskers and his friends, and deploy a new Ruby on Rails app. In the next two labs, you’ll review frisbees (5 stars, would chase again), learn how to reverse-engineer the relationships between data tables, and create new reporting tables using SQL JOINS and UNIONs. In the final lab, you’ll install and run an object detection application - a pretty neat TensorFlow experience - and test if your app can detect your pet’s species. So curl up with your furry friends (or feathered, finned, fanged, whatever else!) and learn some new tricks! Er, skills. Good luck!
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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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Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta is an intelligent data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and unstructured data for analysis. In today's game, get hands-on experience with the Cloud Dataprep UI. Learn how to create a data transformation pipeline, automate the data pipeline and much more with Cloud Dataprep and BigQuery
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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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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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The international shipping industry is responsible for carrying around 90% of the world’s trade. Packlink’s app offers a fast and easy way to book parcel deliveries with the world's top couriers at discounted prices. With the help of the Google Cloud Platform, Packlink is helping their users compare and purchase domestic and international package delivery services. By migrating to Google Cloud Platform and using BigQuery Packlink reduced it’s running costs by $5k per month, saved 100 hours, reduced 20% cost with automatic auditing of billing data and eliminated major failures decreasing the overall cost by 35%. This game is part of the Work & Play series - understanding how you can apply GCP tools to help solve real-world problems.
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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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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite 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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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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Organizations around the world rely on Apache Kafka to integrate existing systems in real time and build a new class of event streaming applications that unlock new business opportunities. Google and Confluent are in a partnership to deliver the best event streaming service based on Apache Kafka and to build event driven applications and big data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. In this game, you will first learn how to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka. You will then perform hand-on labs on the different functionalities of the Confluent Platform including deploying and running Apache Kafka on GKE and developing a Streaming Microservices Application.
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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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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services.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. All players who complete all of the labs will be awarded with this game badge. The access code for this game will be- "5a-devjam"
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Farming is a dominant sector, employing half of the labor force in India. Recent innovations have led to higher yield seeds and improved soil analyses, but access to new tech is challenging for small farmers. That’s where AgroStar’s multilingual mobile app comes in, connecting a million farmers in the cloud with agronomy, data science, and analytics - and running on Google Cloud. You can master key GCP tools the team is currently using to improve response times by 85% and support knowledge center updates for 1 million mobile devices in near real time - even building a discussion platform in 3 weeks. This game is part of the Work & Play series - understanding how you can apply GCP tools to help solve real-world problems.
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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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Welcome Gamers! Have fun in today's game with Big Query concepts and Data Warehousing. Learn how to create new tables, pipelines and ingest dataets using Big Query. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.
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Cloud Hero is played around the world, in person and online. Today, you have the opportunity to become your a cloud hero! This game is all about how GCP helps you get the most out of your data. 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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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; building machine learning models using BigQuery ML; and using Cloud Composer to copy data across multiple locations. 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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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 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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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 Integrate with Machine Learning APIs 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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This introductory-level quest shows application developers how the Google Cloud ecosystem could help them build secure, scalable, and intelligent cloud native applications. You learn how to develop and scale applications without setting up infrastructure, run data analytics, gain insights from data, and develop with pre-trained ML APIs to leverage machine learning even if you are not a Machine Learning expert. You will also experience seamless integration between various Google services and APIs to create intelligent apps.
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In this 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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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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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations course will provide individuals
with little to no background or experience in cloud computing a detailed overview
of concepts covering cloud basics, big data, and machine learning and where and
how Google Cloud fits in. The course starts with an overview of cloud computing
and dives deeper into two areas - cloud computing infrastructure, and big data and
machine learning. By the end of the course, learners will be able to articulate
concepts around cloud computing, big data, and machine learning and demonstrate
some hands-on skills.
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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes! Please see the official rules before participating; by entering the Contest, you agree to the Official Rules (“Rules”) available below and that these Rules apply to you.
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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
role. In this Quest you will explore more advanced API Management use cases
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 go through
the labs in
Apigee Basic before starting this Quest. Complete this quest, including the challenge lab at the end, to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
The challenge lab requires solutions to be built with minimal guidance and will put your knowledge to the test!
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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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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes! Please see the official rules before participating; by entering the Contest, you agree to the Official Rules (“Rules”) available below and that these Rules apply to you.
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Happy Siblings Day!! It's time to kindle your sibling rivalry and participate in today's Speedrun with Siblings. Challenge your siblings with some fun labs which will help in earning a Google Skill Badge!! All the best! May the best sibling win!.
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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes! Please see the official rules before participating; by entering the Contest, you agree to the Official Rules (“Rules”) available below and that these Rules apply to you.
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Practice your skills in our weekly hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a curated collection of relevant labs for Next OnAir. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes!
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The move to public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. In today's game, get hands-on experience with the GCP security toolset. Learn to manage user access at scale, score your environment's security, and more. Bonus, three of these labs get you closer to earning the Security & Identity quest badge.
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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with BigQuery and Machine Learning. Learn some interesting concepts with BigQuery Qwik start and use them in day to day scenarios. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.
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Welcome Winners! We hope you enjoyed the BQML Challenge. Now it is Game Time!
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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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with Machine Learning. Learn intermediate machine learning skills with Google Cloud. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.
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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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Welcome Gamers! In this game today, you will be having fun with Machine Learning. Learn about Natural Language API and get hands on experience on other services as well. Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.
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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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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 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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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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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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22nd April is celebrated as the earth day worldwide. Perform some interesting labs and celebrate this Earth day with the Earth Day Speedrun. 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. All players will be awarded the game badge.
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Hellp Gamers! Up for a Qwik Challenge? Here's a fun game for you to test your GCP Skills. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges! Take labs to earn points. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score.
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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, 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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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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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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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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This Quest is most suitable for those working in a technology or finance role who are responsible for managing Google Cloud costs. You’ll learn how to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage billing access permissions. In the hands-on labs, you'll learn how to view your invoice, track your Google Cloud costs with Billing reports, analyze your billing data with BigQuery or Google Sheets, and create custom billing dashboards with Looker Studio. References made to links in the videos can be accessed in this Additional Resources document.
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In this series of labs you will learn how to use BigQuery to analyze NCAA basketball data with SQL. Build a Machine Learning Model to predict the outcomes of NCAA March Madness basketball tournament games.
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Want to 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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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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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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In this advanced-level quest, 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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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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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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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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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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Have you chosen your language for the 30-day challenge yet? Make progress towards completing the challenge + earning your badge in this week's game. Only a few days left until the challenge ends!
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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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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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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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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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Welcome, gamers! Congratulations on completing the 30-day challenge and earning the Data Engineering badge. You're invited to put your new skills to the test and watch your name move on the leaderboard. (Hopefully upwards!) You might even be eligible for prizes: http://bit.ly/2lDV7RB
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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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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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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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Looking to learn new skills in today's multi- and hybrid-cloud world? Play today's game and get hands-on practice with Google's VM migration sequence. Learn to leverage Terraform’s infrastructure-as-code templates, perform lift-and-shift migrations with Cloud Endure, and finally replicate applications as cloud-native workloads. Bonus, the labs in today's game all count towards earning your VM Migration 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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Learn how to operate in a multi- and hybrid-cloud world with today's game. Leverage Apigee to transparently migrate application traffic from legacy backends to GCP-backed systems. In this game, you will use Apigee to move site traffic to the cloud without disruption, maintaining business continuity. The faster you complete the lab objectives, the higher your score. Don't forget to click on the "End Lab" button once you finish this lab.
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Start the 30-day challenge strong with a speedrun! Two labs in this game fulfill requirements towards your Data Engineering cert practice badge, and all four get you hands-on experience with key data tools and concepts.
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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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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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Get Anthos Ready. Demand for Google Kubernetes Engine is growing, and customers are looking to Google and its partners to provide in-depth technical knowledge. This first Google Kubernetes Engine-centric Quest of best practices hands-on labs will get you started containerizing to modernize in place , and then managing your deployed apps and services -- with monitoring, tracing, and logging.
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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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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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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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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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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.
Integrating Applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 21, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Explorer - Vertex AI
Earned Mar 20, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI
Earned May 14, 2023 EDT
Tipoff! Sports data analysis with GCP
Earned Mar 17, 2022 EDT
Womens Day: 2022
Earned Mar 9, 2022 EST
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data+
Earned Oct 4, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data
Earned Sep 26, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Architecture
Earned Sep 26, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Security
Earned Sep 25, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Essentials
Earned Sep 25, 2021 EDT
Cloud Architecture: Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned Mar 11, 2021 EST
Cloud Architecture - Design, Implement, and Manage
Earned Mar 11, 2021 EST
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Mar 11, 2021 EST
Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase
Earned Mar 11, 2021 EST
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run
Earned Mar 9, 2021 EST
Automate Interactions with Contact Center AI
Earned Mar 8, 2021 EST
Getting Started with Go on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Build a Website on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
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[DEPRECATED] Secure Workloads in Google Kubernetes Engine
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Build Apps & Websites with Firebase
Earned Mar 7, 2021 EST
Love Your Pet Speedrun
Earned Feb 20, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Creating with Google Maps
Earned Feb 12, 2021 EST
Trifacta Dataprep on Google Cloud Game Day
Earned Jan 21, 2021 EST
Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine
Earned Jan 13, 2021 EST
Develop your Google Cloud Network
Earned Jan 12, 2021 EST
Work and Play: Shipping in the Cloud
Earned Dec 12, 2020 EST
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[DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Nov 14, 2020 EST
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite
Earned Nov 14, 2020 EST
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[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Nov 13, 2020 EST
Confluent on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 5, 2020 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Nov 1, 2020 EST
DevJam Hands-on Challenge
Earned Nov 1, 2020 EDT
Work and Play: Farming in the Cloud
Earned Oct 31, 2020 EDT
Website on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 30, 2020 EDT
BigQuery for Data Warehousing I
Earned Oct 28, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: Data & ML
Earned Oct 27, 2020 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML
Earned Sep 19, 2020 EDT
Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure
Earned Sep 19, 2020 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Building Advanced Codeless Pipelines on Cloud Data Fusion
Earned Sep 17, 2020 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 15, 2020 EDT
Integrate with Machine Learning APIs
Earned Sep 14, 2020 EDT
BigQuery for Data Warehousing
Earned Sep 13, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis
Earned Sep 13, 2020 EDT
Data Catalog Fundamentals
Earned Sep 13, 2020 EDT
Cloud Healthcare API
Earned Sep 13, 2020 EDT
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 12, 2020 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Sep 12, 2020 EDT
Google Developer Essentials
Earned Sep 12, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning
Earned Sep 12, 2020 EDT
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 12, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations
Earned Sep 10, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 9
Earned Sep 10, 2020 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Build and Manage APIs with Apigee
Earned Sep 10, 2020 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Sep 10, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 7
Earned Sep 1, 2020 EDT
Speedrun with Siblings
Earned Aug 13, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 3
Earned Aug 10, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 1
Earned Jul 18, 2020 EDT
Secure your Cloud
Earned Jun 6, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #4: BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned May 30, 2020 EDT
BQML 15 Day Challenge May 2020
Earned May 28, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #3: Intermediate ML
Earned May 20, 2020 EDT
Intro to ML: Language Processing
Earned May 14, 2020 EDT
Community Speedrun Challenge May #2: Intro to ML: Language Processing
Earned May 14, 2020 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned May 13, 2020 EDT
Intro to ML: Image Processing
Earned Apr 24, 2020 EDT
Machine Learning APIs
Earned Apr 24, 2020 EDT
Scientific Data Processing
Earned Apr 24, 2020 EDT
Cloud Logging
Earned Apr 24, 2020 EDT
Earth Day Speedrun
Earned Apr 24, 2020 EDT
Qwiklabs Challenge Speedrun
Earned Apr 18, 2020 EDT
BigQuery for Marketing Analysts
Earned Apr 11, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud
Earned Apr 11, 2020 EDT
Applied Data: Blockchain
Earned Apr 10, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Application Development - Java
Earned Apr 10, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Apr 6, 2020 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Apr 5, 2020 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Apr 5, 2020 EDT
BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Apr 5, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop
Earned Apr 4, 2020 EDT
Data Science on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 4, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned Apr 4, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Deploy & Develop
Earned Mar 29, 2020 EDT
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Mar 29, 2020 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned Mar 29, 2020 EDT
Workspace: Add-ons
Earned Mar 28, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: AppDev Challenge Game 2
Earned Oct 18, 2019 EDT
DevOps Essentials
Earned Oct 13, 2019 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Oct 13, 2019 EDT
Application Development - Python
Earned Oct 13, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Sep 15, 2019 EDT
30 Days of Data Challenge: Invitational Game
Earned Sep 5, 2019 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Aug 18, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications
Earned Aug 17, 2019 EDT
VM Migration
Earned Aug 17, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: VM Migration
Earned Aug 17, 2019 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications
Earned Aug 9, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Apigee
Earned Aug 9, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Data Engineering
Earned Aug 2, 2019 EDT
Workspace Essentials
Earned Jul 8, 2019 EDT
Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud
Earned Jul 7, 2019 EDT
Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices
Earned Jul 6, 2019 EDT
Exploring APIs
Earned Apr 14, 2019 EDT
Cloud SQL
Earned Apr 14, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Apr 7, 2019 EDT
Cloud Architecture
Earned Mar 31, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Mar 24, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Mar 29, 2018 EDT