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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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 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 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! 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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It’s pizza O’clock at Qwiklabs. 9th February is Pizza day and we thought what better way to celebrate than a speedrun! Today’s labs come with all the extra toppings, no extra charge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bu görevde, web sitenizin kullanılabilir ve ölçeklenebilir olmasını sağlayacak dört Google Cloud web sitesi mimarisini öğreneceksiniz. Bu görevi, görev sonundaki yarışma laboratuvarı da dahil olmak üzere tamamladığınızda, size özel bir Google Cloud dijital rozetine hak kazanırsınız. Kendinizi sınayabileceğiniz bu laboratuvar, önceden belirlenmiş bazı adımları yerine getirmenizi ister, ancak çözümlerin asgari seviyede yönlendirmeyle oluşturulmasını zorunlu kılar ve Google Cloud teknolojisiyle ilişkili yeteneklerinizi teste tabi tutar. Bu görev, Get Cooking in Cloud video serisi temel alınarak hazırlanmıştır.
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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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Getting Started - Create and Manage Cloud Resources görevinden daha üst seviyede pratik yapmak isteyen, sınırlı deneyime sahip bir bulut geliştiricisiyseniz bu görev tam size göre. Cloud Storage ve Stackdriver ile Cloud Functions gibi diğer önemli uygulama hizmetlerini konu alan laboratuvarlar sayesinde pratik deneyim sahibi olacaksınız. Bu göreve katılarak herhangi bir Google Cloud girişiminde kullanabileceğiniz değerli beceriler edineceksiniz. Bu görevi, görev sonundaki yarışma laboratuvarı da dahil olmak üzere tamamladığınızda, size özel bir Google Cloud dijital rozetine hak kazanırsınız. Laboratuvarlarda, anahtar kavramlarla ilgili 1 dakikalık yol gösterici videolar bulunur.
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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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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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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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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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Learn how you can migrate and modernize your workloads on Google's global, secure, and reliable infrastructure. Not sure how to choose the best path to the cloud for your company? Get hands-on experience with the console and see what works for you in these labs. Our goal is to help you take advantage of GCP's high performance computing, to turn your bold ideas into big discoveries with cost-effective, scalable infrastructure.
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Welcome Gamers! It's Cinco de Mayo. Celebrate with us by playing today's game. Good news if you're interested in Machine Learning - these labs give you a variety of ML scenarios, with more to come for the rest of May. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points! Good Luck, buena suerte!
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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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Welcome Gamers, Congratulations on completing the 15 Day Challenge. Now is game time. Here's a fun opportunity for you to get yourself familiarized with the G-Suite. 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. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!
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Welcome, gamers! Here is a game for celebrating Women's Month! Hope you have with Big Data and Machine Learning! You will compete to see who can finish the game with the most points. Speed is important, and so is accuracy! Start taking the game labs to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with the lab to get the maximum points. You can take each lab up to 5 times.
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The carnival is not yet over! Enjoy an extended carnival with this speedrun and get hands on training on Kubernetes. 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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Are you a developer? Get hands-on practice with the state-of-the-art tools for developing applications in Google Cloud. The skills you learn align with the Professional Cloud Developer Certification exam. You will work with two different languages, Java and Python, and get 4 labs closer to earning the Cloud Development badge. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. Ready to play?
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Come! Fall in love with some interesting cloud services this Valentine's day. Have fun with interesting labs and get to learn something new! Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!
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Happy Lunar New Year from Qwiklabs! Begin your new year with an exciting game full of fun and learning. Play this game and complete the labs from the Cloud Architecture Quest and get a headstart for your certification preps!
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This is the second of two Quests of hands-on labs derived from the exercises from the book Data Science on Google Cloud Platform, 2nd Edition by Valliappa Lakshmanan, published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. In this second Quest, covering chapter 9 through the end of the book, you extend the skills practiced in the first Quest, and run full-fledged machine learning jobs with state-of-the-art tools and real-world data sets, all using Google Cloud tools and services.
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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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Whoa, it's 2020 and you want to accelerate your career! But you don't know where to start. Have you considered getting Google Cloud certified? Get hands-on practice with the GCP Console in today's game. Bonus, these labs will advance you towards completing the Cloud ACE 30-day challenge!
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Have you joined the Cloud ACE 30-day challenge yet? Jump ahead of the pack with today's game. You'll get hands-on experience with key Google Cloud tools and you'll be 4 labs closer to completing the challenge and earning your badge. Play to ACE your new year's resolutions!
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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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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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Tis the season for hot chocolate, gingerbread cookies and stocking stuffers! If you work in retail, it's also the season for long days and high stress. Learn how Google Cloud can make your life easier by bringing holiday cheer-filled solutions to your retail website, supply chain management, and more. In today's game, predict pricing and customer purchasing habits with GCP's data and ML tools. Happy holidays from our Qwiklabs family to yours!
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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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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.
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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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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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Welcome, gamers! Over a billion: that's how many Google Assistant devices will be out in the world by the end of the year. Want in? Learn to build your own Google Assistant app and win points in today's Qwiklabs game. Complete the game labs one by one to score points. Earn the most points by completing the steps in the lab.... and get bonus points for speed! Be sure to click "End" when you're done with each lab to get the maximum points. All players will be awarded the game badge. The top 10 players get 25 free Qwiklabs credits. Hurry, the game is open until Friday at midnight, EDT. Ready to play?
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This is the second Quest in a two-part series on Google Cloud billing and cost management essentials. This Quest is most suitable for those in a Finance and/or IT related role responsible for optimizing their organization’s cloud infrastructure. Here you'll learn several ways to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs, including setting up budgets and alerts, managing quota limits, and taking advantage of committed use discounts. In the hands-on labs, you’ll practice using various tools to control and optimize your Google Cloud costs or to influence your technology teams to apply the cost optimization best practices.
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We hope you enjoyed the App Dev 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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Big data, machine learning, and scientific data? It sounds like the perfect combination. In this game, apply Big Query, Dataproc, and Tensorflow to use cases that employ real-life, scientific data sets. Get experience with tasks like earthquake data analysis and satellite image aggregation to expand your skill set in big data and machine learning. Then use your new skills to tackle your own projects across a spectrum of scientific disciplines. Plus get 4 labs closer to your Scientific Data Processing badge (for free)!
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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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We're kicking off this month's challenge with a game! Start with GCP's basic appdev tools and get four labs closer to your Google Developer Essentials badge for free with this week's game.
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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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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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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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In this game, learn how to modernize apps, work with Java to set up a development environment, build a database and end this game with deploying node js. Complete the labs in fastest possible time and earn extra points for speed!
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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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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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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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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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Are you getting the most out of your data? Take advantage of the business insights you already have with the power of Google Cloud's analysis tools. Dive deep into key solutions to common use cases and gain hands-on experience with Data Studio, BigQuery and more data tools, plus score points and compete with other players in today's game.
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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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Obtain a competitive advantage through DevOps. DevOps is an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. In this quest you will learn how to use Google Cloud to improve the speed, stability, availability, and security of your software delivery capability. DevOps Research and Assessment has joined Google Cloud. How does your team measure up? Take this five question multiple-choice quiz and find out! Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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Google Cloud 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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For everyone using Google Cloud Platform for the first time, getting familar with gcloud, Google Cloud's command line, will help you get up to speed faster. In this quest, you'll learn how to install and configure Cloud SDK, then use gcloud to perform some basic operations like creating VMs, networks, using BigQuery, and using gsutil to perform operations.
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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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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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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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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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You have data. We have analysis tools. Let's talk! In today's game, you will explore how Google Cloud can help you take advantage of the information you already have. Get hands-on practice with SQL, BigQuery and Data Studio, three tools we promise you will use again.
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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 today's game, you will explore how Google Cloud can help you solve real-world challenges with different data tools, while making progress on the Data Engineering quest. Want to learn more about what data can do? Check out how the New York Times, Macy's and healthcare researchers are using tools like Kubernetes and Tensorflow: http://bit.ly/32e0bwi
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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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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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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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In today's game, you will explore the overlap between IoT and big data, while continuing to make progress on the Data Engineering quest. Start by familiarizing yourself with key IoT concepts then challenge yourself to build an IoT Analytics Pipeline. Put GCP to the test and explore key solutions to common use cases and gain hands-on experience with IoT data at scale, ETL processing and more, plus score points and compete with other players in today's game.
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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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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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Security is an uncompromising feature of Google Cloud services, and Google Cloud has developed specific tools for ensuring safety and identity across your projects. In this fundamental-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, which is the go-to for managing user and virtual machine accounts. You will get experience with network security by provisioning VPCs and VPNs, and learn what tools are available for security threat and data loss protections. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google Cloud digital badge.
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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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Welcome to DevZone Quest, a set of labs to deepen your understanding of the technology behind the Cloud Showcase Experiments featured in the Google Cloud Next 2019 San Francisco DevZone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stackdriver provides a wealth of information in application monitoring, report logging, and diagnoses. In this game you will explore Stackdriver and get hands-on practice with it. Have fun with Stackdriver and maximize your learning experience by getting an insight on how you can utilize Stackdriver Logging to your own GCP Environments.
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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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Welcome to the ‘Career Readiness Kickstart’ game! In this game you will get hands-on practice learning Google Cloud while scoring points and solving challenges. 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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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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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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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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In this introductory-level Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Google Cloud Essentials is the recommended first Quest for the Google Cloud learner - you will come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that you can apply to your first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying your first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.
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Welcome, gamers! Have you considered getting Google Cloud certified? The logical place to start is the Cloud ACE certification. Get a head start on completing your Cloud Engineering quest and practicing key exam topics, while scoring points and competing against players around the world.
Applied Data: Blockchain
Earned Eyl 16, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data
Earned Eyl 16, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Security
Earned Eyl 16, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Architecture
Earned Eyl 14, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Essentials
Earned Eyl 14, 2021 EDT
Pizza Day Speedrun
Earned Şub 11, 2021 EST
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Eki 1, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 7
Earned Eyl 1, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations
Earned Ağu 18, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 4
Earned Ağu 13, 2020 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Ağu 10, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 3
Earned Ağu 10, 2020 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Ağu 6, 2020 EDT
Develop your Google Cloud Network
Earned Tem 27, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 1
Earned Tem 18, 2020 EDT
Build a Website on Google Cloud
Earned Tem 11, 2020 EDT
Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine
Earned Tem 8, 2020 EDT
Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud
Earned Tem 7, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
Earned Haz 30, 2020 EDT
Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions
Earned Haz 29, 2020 EDT
Website on Google Cloud
Earned Haz 28, 2020 EDT
Getting Started with Go on Google Cloud
Earned Haz 26, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: Infrastructure Modernization
Earned May 22, 2020 EDT
Cinco de Mayo Speedrun
Earned May 6, 2020 EDT
Earth Day Speedrun
Earned Nis 24, 2020 EDT
OK Google: 15 Day Challenge Speedrun
Earned Mar 25, 2020 EDT
Women's Month Speedrun
Earned Mar 14, 2020 EDT
Carnival Speedrun
Earned Mar 4, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Leap Day
Earned Şub 29, 2020 EST
Valentine's Speedrun
Earned Şub 15, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero: Lunar New Year Special
Earned Oca 25, 2020 EST
Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning
Earned Oca 23, 2020 EST
Data Science on Google Cloud
Earned Oca 17, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: ACE Challenge Game 2
Earned Oca 12, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: ACE Challenge Game 1
Earned Oca 4, 2020 EST
Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning
Earned Ara 24, 2019 EST
Advanced ML: ML Infrastructure
Earned Ara 22, 2019 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Tis the season!
Earned Ara 21, 2019 EST
VM Migration
Earned Ara 17, 2019 EST
Network Performance and Optimization
Earned Ara 9, 2019 EST
Scientific Data Processing
Earned Kas 25, 2019 EST
Intermediate ML: TensorFlow on Google Cloud
Earned Kas 22, 2019 EST
OK Google! Speedrun
Earned Kas 15, 2019 EST
Optimize Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Kas 13, 2019 EST
App Dev 30-Day Challenge
Earned Kas 9, 2019 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Scientific Data Processing
Earned Kas 6, 2019 EST
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop
Earned Eki 31, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: AppDev Challenge Game 1
Earned Eki 29, 2019 EDT
BigQuery for Marketing Analysts
Earned Eki 26, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis
Earned Eki 25, 2019 EDT
BigQuery for Data Warehousing
Earned Eki 24, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero One World Warm up:Development Arena
Earned Eki 22, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: AppDev Challenge Game 2
Earned Eki 18, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Application Development - Java
Earned Eki 16, 2019 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Eki 9, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED IoT in the Google Cloud
Earned Eki 1, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero: Smart Analytics
Earned Eyl 25, 2019 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned Eyl 25, 2019 EDT
DevOps Essentials
Earned Eyl 24, 2019 EDT
Exploring APIs
Earned Eyl 20, 2019 EDT
Using the Cloud SDK Command Line
Earned Eyl 16, 2019 EDT
Intro to ML: Language Processing
Earned Eyl 14, 2019 EDT
Cloud Logging
Earned Eyl 11, 2019 EDT
Machine Learning APIs
Earned Eyl 10, 2019 EDT
Intro to ML: Image Processing
Earned Eyl 9, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: BigQuery for Data Analysis
Earned Eyl 6, 2019 EDT
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Eyl 5, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Data Solutions
Earned Ağu 30, 2019 EDT
BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Ağu 30, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned Ağu 28, 2019 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Ağu 27, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: IoT & Big Data
Earned Ağu 22, 2019 EDT
Cloud SQL
Earned Ağu 21, 2019 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Ağu 17, 2019 EDT
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned Ağu 16, 2019 EDT
Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud
Earned Ağu 14, 2019 EDT
DevZone Quest
Earned Ağu 10, 2019 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Deploying Applications
Earned Ağu 9, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Ağu 7, 2019 EDT
DEPRECATED Websites and Web Applications
Earned Ağu 5, 2019 EDT
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/%2BCsWnL49dO1EiQScypoKfAJdI8oWEgDWqu5PBt%2FWepc%3D)
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Ağu 3, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Data Engineering
Earned Ağu 2, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Deploy & Develop
Earned Tem 29, 2019 EDT
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Stackdriver
Earned Tem 26, 2019 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Tem 20, 2019 EDT
Application Development - Python
Earned Tem 20, 2019 EDT
Career Readiness Kickstart
Earned Tem 17, 2019 EDT
Google Developer Essentials
Earned Tem 13, 2019 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Tem 3, 2019 EDT
Cloud Architecture
Earned Tem 1, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Haz 30, 2019 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Haz 30, 2019 EDT
Cloud Engineering Speedrun
Earned Haz 28, 2019 EDT