BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned May 19, 2020 EDT
Cinco de Mayo Speedrun
Earned May 7, 2020 EDT
Google Developer Essentials
Earned Apr 26, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Apr 26, 2020 EDT
Earth Day Speedrun
Earned Apr 25, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: Core Infrastructure
Earned Mar 26, 2020 EDT
OK Google: 15 Day Challenge Speedrun
Earned Mar 24, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: WFH Speedrun
Earned Mar 21, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Mar 17, 2020 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Mar 15, 2020 EDT
[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Mar 14, 2020 EDT
Carnival Speedrun
Earned Mar 3, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Leap Day
Earned Mar 1, 2020 EST
Valentine's Speedrun
Earned Feb 15, 2020 EST
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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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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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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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! 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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Need a pick-me-up? There's a lab for that! And this time, we mean the canine type. Join today's game for labs (both the GCP training kind and the canines) and general appreciation for all the good boys and girls on International Dog Day. Rated 14/10, would boop that pup's nose.
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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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Have you ever been asked for a report, then been told "I need it ASAP"? Us too! In today's game, learn how to create and troubleshoot reports with a variety of GCP data tools. Next time your boss asks for some quick numbers, you'll be prepared. Plus by playing the game, you'll get a jump on the new skill badge. Either way, you 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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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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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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Practice your skills in this hands-on game. In this competitive challenge, you will find a set of relevant labs for Datastax on Google Cloud. Play with other attendees to see yourself on the leaderboard, earn a digital badge, and win prizes!
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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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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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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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The move to Google® Cloud public cloud services is underway, and requirements for cloud security are real. Palo Alto Networks® offers innovative and comprehensive protection as you adopt public cloud services. The Palo Alto Networks solutions complement the native Google Cloud security toolset, including network, host and cloud-native security delivered through APIs for comprehensive protection. In this Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Palo Alto Networks virtual next-generation firewall running in Google Cloud. You will gain practical experience that you can apply to improve visibility and security for your applications and workloads.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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Complete the 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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This fundamental-level quest is unique amongst the other quest offerings. The labs have been curated to give IT professionals hands-on practice with topics and services that appear in the Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification. From IAM, to networking, to Kubernetes engine deployment, this quest is composed of specific labs that will put your Google Cloud knowledge to the test. Be aware that while practice with these labs will increase your skills and abilities, we recommend that you also review the exam guide and other available preparation resources.
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The 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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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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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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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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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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Cloud Hero is played around the world, in person and online. Today, you have the opportunity to become one of the Cloud Heroes! Today's game is all about Core Infrastructure. You will compete to see who can finish the game with the most points. Speed is important, and so is accuracy! 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! Take some time for yourself and challenge your brain to learn something new. Here is a WFH special game to learn something new or brush up your Google Cloud skills. 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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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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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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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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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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Welcome Gamers!
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!
Understand Your Google Cloud Costs
Earned Aug 11, 2023 EDT
Trifacta Dataprep on Google Cloud Game Day
Earned Jan 22, 2021 EST
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Build and Manage APIs with Apigee](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/WeOvvctOZmbOnacnbNWdO3Y1xuIbW3MERvfFfk82WnY%3D)
[DEPRECATED] DEPRECATE Build and Manage APIs with Apigee
Earned Sep 15, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 8
Earned Sep 7, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 7
Earned Sep 3, 2020 EDT
Dog Day Speedrun
Earned Aug 27, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop
Earned Aug 26, 2020 EDT
Report due ASAP: Data Analytics Speedrun
Earned Aug 24, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 6
Earned Aug 23, 2020 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML
Earned Aug 23, 2020 EDT
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/%2BCsWnL49dO1EiQScypoKfAJdI8oWEgDWqu5PBt%2FWepc%3D)
[DEPRECATED] Data Engineering
Earned Aug 23, 2020 EDT
Datastax on Google Cloud Speedrun
Earned Aug 20, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 5
Earned Aug 15, 2020 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Aug 15, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 4
Earned Aug 13, 2020 EDT
Speedrun with Siblings
Earned Aug 13, 2020 EDT
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/CwrfuIjM%2B4x2OCbGNe9orLkQVPycEI8mLbdGhMFBZ%2B0%3D)
[DEPRECATED] Network Security by Palo Alto Networks
Earned Aug 10, 2020 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network
Earned Aug 10, 2020 EDT
Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 10, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 3
Earned Aug 10, 2020 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Aug 2, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 1
Earned Jul 21, 2020 EDT
Develop your Google Cloud Network
Earned Jul 7, 2020 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Jul 4, 2020 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Jul 4, 2020 EDT
Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine
Earned Jul 1, 2020 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned Jun 22, 2020 EDT
Secure your Cloud
Earned Jun 6, 2020 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned May 19, 2020 EDT
Cinco de Mayo Speedrun
Earned May 7, 2020 EDT
Google Developer Essentials
Earned Apr 26, 2020 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Apr 26, 2020 EDT
Earth Day Speedrun
Earned Apr 25, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: Core Infrastructure
Earned Mar 26, 2020 EDT
OK Google: 15 Day Challenge Speedrun
Earned Mar 24, 2020 EDT
Cloud Hero: WFH Speedrun
Earned Mar 21, 2020 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Mar 17, 2020 EDT
Cloud Development
Earned Mar 15, 2020 EDT
![Badge for [DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant](https://cdn.qwiklabs.com/iN1Y1aBXjPPUZgDdv9GtQCf%2FBp0q3U%2FJg9uWO6RMKoc%3D)
[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned Mar 14, 2020 EDT
Carnival Speedrun
Earned Mar 3, 2020 EST
Cloud Hero Speedrun: Leap Day
Earned Mar 1, 2020 EST
Valentine's Speedrun
Earned Feb 15, 2020 EST