Work and Play: Healthcare with Google Cloud
Earned Mar 5, 2021 EST
Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run
Earned Feb 15, 2021 EST
Use Machine Learning APIs on Google Cloud
Earned Feb 13, 2021 EST
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data
Earned Feb 13, 2021 EST
DEPRECATED Creating with Google Maps
Earned Feb 13, 2021 EST
Pizza Day Speedrun
Earned Feb 11, 2021 EST
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned Feb 9, 2021 EST
Develop your Google Cloud Network
Earned Feb 7, 2021 EST
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned Feb 6, 2021 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned Feb 6, 2021 EST
Cloud Architecture
Earned Feb 2, 2021 EST
Cloud Engineering
Earned Jan 28, 2021 EST
Workspace Essentials
Earned Dec 27, 2020 EST
DevJam App Dev Challenge
Earned Dec 16, 2020 EST
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned Dec 12, 2020 EST
DevJam Infrastructure Challenge
Earned Dec 10, 2020 EST
DevJam Data Challenge
Earned Dec 5, 2020 EST
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
Earned Oct 31, 2020 EDT
DevJam Hands-on Challenge
Earned Oct 29, 2020 EDT
Kubernetes in Google Cloud
Earned Aug 4, 2020 EDT
Implement Load Balancing on Compute Engine
Earned Aug 1, 2020 EDT
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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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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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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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge data plus track! "The Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer certification is associated with the highest paying salary in IT," according to the most recent Global Knowledge skills and salary report (published August 2021). Complete this game to earn the Data Plus game badge, and be eligible for a +bonus+ prize in the Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge. See "what's next" below for details and requirements; you’ll need to earn at least 2 additional challenge badges to qualify. You'll learn next-level data skills to add to your resume. Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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).
Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge architecture track! These eight labs give you a blueprint of GCP's building blocks. At the end of each lab, you'll have hands-on experience with another tool or service to add to your resume. Complete this game to earn the Architecture game badge, and you'll be one step closer to collecting all four Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge badges (see "what's next" below for more information). Race the clock to increase your score and watch your name rise on the leaderboard. Good luck!
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Welcome to the Learn To Earn Cloud Challenge 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! 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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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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Complete the intermediate Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating git repositories with Cloud Source Repositories, launching, managing, and scaling deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and architecting CI/CD pipelines that automate container image builds and deployments to GKE. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant quest, where you will learn how to build Google Assistant applications, including how to: create an Actions project, integrate Dialogflow with an Actions project, test your application with Actions simulator, build an Assistant application with flash cards template, integrate customer MP3 files with your Assistant application, add Cloud Translation API to your Assistant application, and use APIs and integrate them into your applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud skill badge quest. This quest is based on the series Get Cooking in Cloud, where you will learn how to: Deploy a website on Cloud Run, Host a web app on Compute Engine, Create, deploy, and scale your website on Google Kubernetes Engine, Migrate from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This Quest is most suitable for those working in a technology or finance role who are responsible for managing Google Cloud costs. You’ll learn how to set up a billing account, organize resources, and manage billing access permissions. In the hands-on labs, you'll learn how to view your invoice, track your Google Cloud costs with Billing reports, analyze your billing data with BigQuery or Google Sheets, and create custom billing dashboards with Looker Studio. References made to links in the videos can be accessed in this Additional Resources document.
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In this course 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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This advanced-level quest offers hands-on practice with migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service. You will start with an introductory lab that briefly reviews how to get started with Cloud SQL for MySQL, including how to connect to Cloud SQL instances using the Cloud Console, then continue with two labs focused on migrating MySQL databases to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service. The quest ends with migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs.
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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.
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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Dataproc, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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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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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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Happy Holi! Collect red, blue, yellow and green skill badges with this week's colorful challenge. Each day features a different color skill badge (skill badge colors denote level of difficulty!). Play the game and solve each challenge lab for extra points! Did you know that game labs count towards skill badge completion?
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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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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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It's St Patrick's Day today! Get into the Irish spirit with today's Speedrun. Who needs luck when you can use Machine Learning to predict what happens next?
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Google Cloud, in partnership with Harvard Global Health Institute, released the COVID-19 Public Forecasts to serve as an additional resource for healthcare, the public sector, and other organizations responding to the pandemic. In this edition of the Work and Play Series, we are going to learn how to use that data to make predictions and visualizations. You’ll get hands-on experience with exactly the same tools being used to help solve complex problems and keep people safe and healthy.
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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Storage for data management, architecting resilient asynchronous systems using Cloud Run and Pub/Sub, constructing REST API gateways powered by Cloud Run, and building and deploying services on Cloud Run. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Integrate with Machine Learning APIs course, where you learn the basic features for the following machine learning and AI technologies: Cloud Vision API, Cloud Cloud Translation API, and Cloud Natural Language API. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
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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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In this quest you will use several tools available in Google Cloud to manipulate data and create a Google Map - map location details to find subway stations or a business; use geocoding and Apps Script to send an email of a map; visualize data on a customized map; and build a server-side proxy to create a map on a mobile device.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Workspace (formerly G Suite) is Google's collaborative applications platform, delivered from Google Cloud. In this introductory-level quest, you will get hands-on practice with Workspace’s core applications from a user perspective. Although there are many more applications and tool components to Workspace than are covered here, you will get experience with the primary apps: Gmail, Calendar, Sheets and a handful of others. Each lab can be completed in 10-15 minutes, but extra time is provided to allow self-directed free exploration of the applications.
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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s app dev tools and services. You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points. All players who complete all of the labs will be awarded with this game badge. The access code for this game will be- "5a-devjam-app"
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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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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s infrastructure tools and services. You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points. All players who complete all of the labs will be awarded with this game badge. The access code for this game will be- "5a-devjam-infra".
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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s data tools and services. You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points. All players who complete all of the labs will be awarded with this game badge. The access code for this game will be- "5a-devjam-data"
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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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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services.You will compete with your peers to see who can finish this game with the most points. Speed and accuracy will be used to calculate your scores — earn points by completing the labs accurately and bonus points for speed! Be sure to click “End” where you’re done with each lab to be rewarded your points. All players who complete all of the labs will be awarded with this game badge. The access code for this game will be- "5a-devjam"
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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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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.
Security & Identity Fundamentals
Earned May 18, 2022 EDT
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Operations Suite
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Google Cloud's Operations Suite
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data+
Earned Oct 10, 2021 EDT
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud
Earned Sep 21, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Security
Earned Sep 19, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Architecture
Earned Sep 14, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Data
Earned Sep 13, 2021 EDT
Learn to Earn Cloud Challenge: Essentials
Earned Sep 12, 2021 EDT
Applied Data: Blockchain
Earned May 13, 2021 EDT
Implement DevOps Workflows in Google Cloud
Earned May 8, 2021 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
Earned May 2, 2021 EDT
NCAA® March Madness®: Bracketology with Google Cloud
Earned Apr 22, 2021 EDT
Scientific Data Processing
Earned Apr 22, 2021 EDT
Build a Website on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 22, 2021 EDT
BigQuery for Data Warehousing
Earned Apr 22, 2021 EDT
Intro to ML: Language Processing
Earned Apr 22, 2021 EDT
BigQuery for Machine Learning
Earned Apr 17, 2021 EDT
BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts
Earned Apr 17, 2021 EDT
Baseline: Data, ML, AI
Earned Apr 17, 2021 EDT
Exploring APIs
Earned Apr 17, 2021 EDT
Baseline: Deploy & Develop
Earned Apr 17, 2021 EDT
Website on Google Cloud
Earned Apr 17, 2021 EDT
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[DEPRECATED] OK Google: Build Interactive Apps with Google Assistant
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Google Cloud Solutions I: Scaling Your Infrastructure
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Cloud Engineering
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