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Badge for Intro to BigQuery: Analytics & Machine Learning Intro to BigQuery: Analytics & Machine Learning Earned Haz 22, 2022 EDT
Badge for Intro to Infrastructure Intro to Infrastructure Earned Haz 21, 2022 EDT
Badge for Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned May 30, 2021 EDT
Badge for Getting Started - Create and Manage Cloud Resource Getting Started - Create and Manage Cloud Resource Earned Nis 15, 2021 EDT
Badge for Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Create ML Models with BigQuery ML Earned Nis 7, 2021 EDT
Badge for Develop your Google Cloud Network Develop your Google Cloud Network Earned Mar 24, 2021 EDT
Badge for Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase Earned Mar 24, 2021 EDT
Badge for Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud Perform Foundational Data, ML, and AI Tasks in Google Cloud Earned Mar 24, 2021 EDT
Badge for Insights from Data with BigQuery Insights from Data with BigQuery Earned Mar 23, 2021 EDT
Badge for Cloud Engineering Cloud Engineering Earned Ara 28, 2020 EST
Badge for Cloud SQL Cloud SQL Earned Ara 28, 2020 EST
Badge for Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 6 Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 6 Earned Ağu 25, 2020 EDT
Badge for Cloud Architecture Cloud Architecture Earned Ağu 21, 2020 EDT
Badge for Datastax on Google Cloud Speedrun Datastax on Google Cloud Speedrun Earned Ağu 21, 2020 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 5 Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 5 Earned Ağu 17, 2020 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 3 Google Cloud Next OnAir ‘20 - Cloud Hero Game: Week 3 Earned Ağu 10, 2020 EDT
Badge for Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud Perform Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud Earned Tem 29, 2020 EDT
Badge for Workspace: Add-ons Workspace: Add-ons Earned Tem 26, 2020 EDT
Badge for Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned Tem 25, 2020 EDT
Badge for Intro to ML: Image Processing Intro to ML: Image Processing Earned Tem 25, 2020 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Google Cloud Run Serverless Workshop Earned Mar 25, 2020 EDT
Badge for Cloud Development Cloud Development Earned Mar 14, 2020 EDT
Badge for Application Development - Python Application Development - Python Earned Mar 14, 2020 EDT
Badge for Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning Data Science on Google Cloud: Machine Learning Earned Mar 13, 2020 EDT
Badge for Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices: Security Earned Mar 4, 2020 EST
Badge for Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices Google Kubernetes Engine Best Practices Earned Ara 7, 2019 EST
Badge for Cloud Hero: Application Development Cloud Hero: Application Development Earned Ara 5, 2019 EST
Badge for Scientific Data Processing Scientific Data Processing Earned Ara 3, 2019 EST
Badge for Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Using the Cloud SDK Command Line Earned Kas 2, 2019 EDT
Badge for Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Understand Your Google Cloud Costs Earned Kas 1, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Developer Essentials Google Developer Essentials Earned Eki 19, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Windows on Google Cloud DEPRECATED Windows on Google Cloud Earned Eyl 14, 2019 EDT
Badge for 30 Days of Data Challenge: Invitational Game 30 Days of Data Challenge: Invitational Game Earned Eyl 6, 2019 EDT
Badge for Baseline: Data, ML, AI Baseline: Data, ML, AI Earned Ağu 15, 2019 EDT
Badge for VM Migration VM Migration Earned Ağu 11, 2019 EDT
Badge for BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts Earned Ağu 7, 2019 EDT
Badge for [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering [DEPRECATED] Data Engineering Earned Ağu 5, 2019 EDT
Badge for Cloud Adoption Strategies Cloud Adoption Strategies Earned Haz 26, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite Earned Haz 15, 2019 EDT
Badge for Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions Deprecated Kubernetes Solutions Earned Haz 9, 2019 EDT
Badge for Baseline: Deploy & Develop Baseline: Deploy & Develop Earned May 31, 2019 EDT
Badge for Baseline: Infrastructure Baseline: Infrastructure Earned May 27, 2019 EDT
Badge for DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis DEPRECATED BigQuery for Data Analysis Earned May 25, 2019 EDT
Badge for Kubernetes in Google Cloud Kubernetes in Google Cloud Earned Nis 21, 2019 EDT
Badge for Network Performance and Optimization Network Performance and Optimization Earned Nis 19, 2019 EDT
Badge for Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud Networking Fundamentals in Google Cloud Earned Nis 14, 2019 EDT
Badge for Security & Identity Fundamentals Security & Identity Fundamentals Earned Nis 5, 2019 EDT
Badge for Google Cloud Essentials Google Cloud Essentials Earned Şub 9, 2019 EST

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

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

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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Bu giriş seviyesi Görev, Google Cloud’daki temel araç ve hizmetlerle ilgili pratik yapmanıza olanak tanır. Google Cloud’u öğrenmeye başlayanlar için önerilen ilk Görev, Getting Started - Create and Manage Cloud Resources’dır. Bulutla ilgili hiçbir bilginiz olmadan ya da çok az bilgiye sahip olarak girdiğiniz bu görevden ilk Google Cloud projenize uygulayabileceğiniz pratik deneyimlerle ayrılacaksınız. Cloud Shell komutları yazıp ilk sanal makinenizi dağıtmaktan Kubernetes Engine’de veya yük dengeleme özelliğiyle uygulama çalıştırmaya kadar, Google Cloud’daki temel özelliklere Getting Started - Create and Manage Cloud Resources göreviyle giriş yapabilirsiniz. Bu görevi, görev sonundaki yarışma laboratuvarı da dahil olmak üzere tamamladığınızda, size özel bir Google Cloud dijital rozetine hak kazanırsınız. Her laboratuvarda, anahtar kavramlarla ilgili 1 dakikalık yol gösterici videolar bulunur.

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Complete the intermediate Create ML Models with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and evaluating machine learning models with BigQuery ML to make data predictions. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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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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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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Bilgi-işlem alanında günümüzün en gözde konuları büyük veri, makine öğrenimi ve yapay zekadır. Ancak önemli ölçüde uzmanlaşma gerektiren bu alanlar hakkında giriş niteliği taşıyan bir materyal bulmak kolay değildir. Neyse ki Google Cloud bu alanlarda kullanıcı dostu hizmetler sunuyor. Qwiklabs ise bu giriş düzeyi görevle desteğe hazır. Artık Big Query, Cloud Speech API ve AI Platform gibi araçlarla ilk adımlarınızı atabilirsiniz. Bu görevi, görev sonundaki yarışma laboratuvarı da dahil olmak üzere tamamladığınızda, size özel bir Google Cloud dijital rozetine hak kazanırsınız. Biraz daha yardıma mı ihtiyacınız var? Her laboratuvarda, anahtar kavramlarla ilgili 1 dakikalık yol gösterici videolar bulunur.

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Veri analizi girişimlerinizi, veritabanı donanımını yönetme zahmeti olmadan ölçeklemek mi istiyorsunuz? BigQuery laboratuvarlarından oluşan bu etkileşimli seride, veri ambarınızı sorgulama ve veri ambarınızla ilişkili analizleri alma konusunda en iyi uygulamaları öğrenebilirsiniz. BigQuery, Google’ın tümüyle yönetilen, NoOps özellikli, düşük maliyetli analitik veritabanıdır. BigQuery ile terabaytlarca veriyi, yönetilmesi gereken bir altyapıya ya da bir veritabanı yöneticisine ihtiyaç duymadan sorgulayabilirsiniz. SQL kullanan BigQuery’de, kullandıkça öde modelinin avantajlarından yararlanabilirsiniz. Ayrıca BigQuery, anlamlı bulgular elde edebilmeniz için veri analizine odaklanmanıza olanak sağlar. Bu görevi, görev sonundaki yarışma laboratuvarı da dahil olmak üzere tamamladığınızda, size özel bir Google Cloud dijital rozetine hak kazanırsınız.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Have fun with this interesting game and get some hands on Stackdriver, Docker and Python. Challenge yourself to complete each task as quickly and accurately as possible to score points and earn badges!

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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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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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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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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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Google Cloud is committed to supporting Windows workloads in its frameworks and services. In this advanced-level quest, you will get hands-on practice running many of the popular Windows services on Google Cloud. For example, you will learn how to instantiate Microsoft SQL databases, cloud tools for Powershell on Google Cloud Platform frameworks.

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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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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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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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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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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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Welcome to Cloud Adoption Strategies 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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