Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Earned Jul 2, 2022 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey
Earned Jun 29, 2022 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network
Earned May 18, 2022 EDT
DEPRECATED Cloud Architecture
Earned May 18, 2022 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud
Earned May 18, 2022 EDT
Develop Your Google Cloud Network
Earned May 17, 2022 EDT
Cloud Engineering
Earned May 16, 2022 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
Earned May 13, 2022 EDT
Baseline: Infrastructure
Earned May 13, 2022 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials
Earned May 3, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Earned Apr 3, 2022 EDT
In this challenge lab, you will demonstrate your ability to author agents using Agent Development Kit (ADK), deploy those agents to Agent Engine, and use them from a web app. Complete the challenge lab to earn a Google Cloud skill badge.
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Complete the Edit images with Imagen skill badge to demonstrate your skills with Imagen's mask modes and editing modes to edit images according to certain prompts.
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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!
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In this skill bagde, you will demonstrate your ability to use and compare models available in the Vertex AI Model Garden. You'll deploy a model to a Vertex AI Endpoint, query other models via their API, and use Vertex AI's Gen AI evaluation service to measure the performance of multiple models.
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With this course you will learn how to use different techniques to fine-tune Gemini. Model tuning is an effective way to customize large models like Gemini for your specific tasks. It's a key step to improve the model's quality and efficiency.
This course will give an overview of model tuning, describe the tuning options available for Gemini, help you determine when each tuning option should be used and how to perform tuning.
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This course equips machine learning practitioners with the essential tools, techniques, and best practices for evaluating both generative and predictive AI models. Model evaluation is a critical discipline for ensuring that ML systems deliver reliable, accurate, and high-performing results in production.
Participants will gain a deep understanding of various evaluation metrics, methodologies, and their appropriate application across different model types and tasks. The course will emphasize the unique challenges posed by generative AI models and provide strategies for tackling them effectively. By leveraging Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, participants will learn how to implement robust evaluation processes for model selection, optimization, and continuous monitoring.
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This course delves into the complexities of assessing the quality of large language model outputs. It examines the challenges enterprises face due to the subjective and sometimes incorrect nature of LLM responses, including hallucinations and inconsistent results. The course introduces various evaluation metrics for different tasks like classification, text generation, and question answering, such as Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 score, ROUGE, BLEU, and Exact Match. It also explores evaluation methods offered by Vertex AI LLM Evaluation Services, including computation-based, autorater, and human evaluation, providing insights into their application and benefits. Finally, the module covers how to unit test LLM applications within Vertex AI.
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Model Garden is a model library that helps you discover, test, and deploy models from Google and Google partners. Learn how to explore the available models and select the right ones for your use case. And how to deploy and interact with Model Garden models through the Google Cloud console and APIs.
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This Security quest consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in enterprise security. Each lab presents a set of the required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance.
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This Data Analytics course consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in using Google Cloud services. Each lab presents a set of the required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance.
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This Networking course consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in managing a customer's network using Google Cloud services. Each lab presents a set of the required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance.
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Actifio GO for Google Cloud is a SaaS offering which enables powerful enterprise class backup and recovery for Google Cloud resident and on-premises workloads. Actifio now supports backup, disaster recovery and rapid database cloning of Oracle on Bare Metal Solution on Google Cloud besides other enterprise workloads including SAP HANA, SQL Server, and others. This course provides a deep dive into at the preparation and deployment of the Actifio GO solution and its constituent components. Each module contains demos and explanations of each component. The Actifio GO training was originally designed for and only made available to Google Teams, however we’ve recognized how beneficial it would be for our Partners and are now offering our Partners exclusive access to the Actifio training and products, so they can benefit from the demos and best practices and bring them to their Google Cloud Customers.
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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools.
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This Databases course consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in migrating and managing Google Cloud databases. Each lab presents a set of the required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance.
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"This Application Modernization course consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in modernizing a customer's legacy software using Google Cloud. Each lab presents a set of the required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance."
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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.
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There's much excitement about cloud technology and digital transformation, but often many unanswered questions.
For example: What is cloud technology? What does digital transformation mean? How can cloud technology help your organization? Where do you even begin?
If you've asked yourself any of these questions, you're in the right place. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey. If you want to learn about cloud technology so you can excel in your role and help build the future of your business, then this introductory course on digital transformation is for you. This course is part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path.
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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape s the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.
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This course is designed to enhance your demonstration skills and help you deliver impactful presentations.
Course activities use an external tool (Yoodli). Refer to Yoodli's Terms of Service and Privacy Notice.
Note: The Yoodli Labs in this course will be deprecated on March 31st. We encourage you to finish your remaining Yoodli Labs before the March 31 deadline.
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This Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning course consists of a series of advanced-level labs designed to validate your proficiency in using AI and ML to extract, analyze, search, and store structured data from documents and improve customer service. Each lab presents a set of required tasks that you must complete with minimal assistance.
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The course aims to train Google technical sales partners on the business value discovery process using proprietary content.
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Twelve years ago Lily started the Pet Theory chain of veterinary clinics, and has been expanding rapidly. Now, Pet Theory is experiencing some growing pains: their appointment scheduling system is not able to handle the increased load, customers aren't receiving lab results reliably through email and text, and veteranerians are spending more time with insurance companies than with their patients. Lily wants to build a cloud-based system that scales better than the legacy solution and doesn't require lots of ongoing maintenance. The team has decided to go with serverless technology. For the labs in the Google Cloud Run Serverless Quest, you will read through a fictitious business scenario in each lab and assist the characters in implementing a serverless solution. Looking for a hands on challenge lab to demonstrate your skills and validate your knowledge? On completing this quest, enroll in and finish the additional challenge lab at the end of this quest to receive an exclusive Google…
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This workload aims to upskill Google Cloud partners to perform specific tasks associated with migrating from an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to BigQuery using the DMT tool and sample data. Learners will complete a lab that uses the DMT tool to transfer schema and data from Teradata to BigQuery.
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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.
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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.
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This short course on integrating applications with Gemini 1.0 Pro models on Google Cloud helps you discover the Gemini API and its generative AI models. The course teaches you how to access the Gemini 1.0 Pro and Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision models from code. It lets you test the capabilities of the models with text, image, and video prompts from an app.
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Designed for developers of all levels, this course introduces you to the core features and functionalities of Gemini Code Assist, an AI-powered app development collaborator for Google Cloud. From intelligent code suggestions and auto-completion to real-time error detection and refactoring assistance, you'll discover how Gemini Code Assist can significantly enhance your productivity and code quality, and save valuable time to focus on more productive and enjoyable tasks.
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In this course, you learn about Cloud Run functions, Google's serverless, fully-managed functions as a service (FaaS) product that lets you implement single-purpose function code that reponds to HTTP requests and events from your cloud infrastructure.
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This course introduces you to event-based applications and teaches you how to use service orchestration and choreography to coordinate microservices. Using lectures and hands-on labs, you learn how to use Workflows, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Cloud Scheduler to build microservices applications on Google Cloud.
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In this course, you learn the fundamentals of application development on Google Cloud. You learn best practices for cloud applications, and how to select compute and data options to match your application use cases. You're introduced to generative AI and how it's used to help build applications. You learn about authentication and authorization, application deployment, continuous integration and delivery, and monitoring and performance tuning for your applications running in Google Cloud. Using lectures and hands-on labs, you learn how to get started building and running applications on Google Cloud.
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Complete the Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in connecting models to external tools and APIs. This allows models to augment their knowledge, extend their capabilities and interact with external systems to take actions such as sending an email.
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 assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.
When you complete this course, you can earn the badge displayed here and claim it on Credly! Boost your cloud career by showing the world the skills you have developed!"
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An LLM-based application can process language in a way that resembles thought. But if you want to extend its capabilities to take actions by running other functions you have coded, you will need to use function calling. This can also be referred to as tool use. Additionally, you can give a model the ability to search Google or search a data store of documents to ground its responses. In other words, to base its answers on that information. In this course, you’ll explore these concepts.
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This Course is utilized to certify completion of The Skills Challenge at Next 2025.
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In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.
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This course provides hands-on experience with Google Cloud's Search for Retail, focusing on practical skills in setting up and managing retail search functionalities using APIs and console configurations. Participants will engage with real-world scenarios to learn how to import product data, manage user events, configure search parameters, and optimize search results within a retail environment.
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In this course, you'll use text embeddings for tasks like classification, outlier detection, text clustering and semantic search. You'll combine semantic search with the text generation capabilities of an LLM to build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, such as for question-answering systems, using Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Google Cloud databases.
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This skill badge course aims to unlock the power of data visualization and business intelligence reporting with Looker, and gain hands-on experience through labs.
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Learn to build generative AI applications leveraging Firebase Genkit to call LLMs on Google Cloud and elsewhere, simplify complex applications' code and deploy your solution on Google Cloud.
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This skill badge aims to provide partners an introduction to BigQuery Data Transfer Service and Migration Service, two powerful tools for managing and migrating data in the cloud. Learners will learn how to leverage these tools to efficiently migrate and manage data, and gain hands-on experience through labs.
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This skill badge aims to evaluate a partner's ability to migrate PostgreSQL databases to AlloyDB. Learners will gain hands-on experience through labs and achieve comprehensive knowledge and practical skills for migrating PostgreSQL databases to AlloyDB.
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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge course 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.
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This skill badge aims to evaluate a partner's ability to utilize BigQuery's features and capabilities to manage and analyze large datasets. Learners will gain hands-on experience through labs and achieve solid understanding of BigQuery's foundational concepts and features.
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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase skill badge course 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.
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This skill badge aims to provide partners a comprehensive understanding of migrating PostgreSQL databases to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using the Database Migration Service, and gain hands-on experience through labs.
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This skill badge aims to provide partners a comprehensive understanding of migrating MySQL databases to Cloud Spanner, and gain hands-on experience through labs.
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This skill badge aims to provide partners a comprehensive understanding of migrating Microsoft SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL for SQL Server, and gain hands-on experience through labs.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build a Secure Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Protect Cloud Traffic with Chrome Enterprise Premium Security skill badge course, where you learn how to leverage Chrome Enterprise Premium to provide secure access to critical apps and services, improve your security posture with a modern Zero Trust platform, securely provide access to resources using identity and context-aware access control, and support hybrid cloud workloads using Client Connector.
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Earn the introductory skill badge by completing the Build a Website on Google Cloud skill badge course. This course is based on the Get Cooking in Cloud series and covers`:`Deploying a website on Cloud RunHosting a web app on Compute EngineCreating, deploying, and scaling your website on Google Kubernetes EngineMigrating from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture using Cloud Build
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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge course 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.
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Complete the intermediate Develop Serverless Applications on Cloud Run skill badge course 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.
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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.
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Earn the intermediate skill badge by completing the Implement CI/CD Pipelines on Google Cloud skill badge course where you learn how to use Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy. You interact with the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, Cloud Run, and GKE. This course teaches you how to build continuous integration pipelines, store and secure artifacts, scan for vulnerabilities, attest to the validity of approved releases. Additionally, you get hands-on experience deploying applications to both GKE and Cloud Run.
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Demonstrate your ability to implement updated prompt engineering techniques and utilize several of Gemini's key capacilities including multimodal understanding and function calling. Then integrate generative AI into a RAG application deployed to Cloud Run. This course contains labs that are to be used as a test environment. They are deployed to test your understanding as a learner with a limited scope. These technologies can be used with fewer limitations in a real world environment.
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This course on Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps is composed of a set of labs to give you a hands on experience to interacting with new Generative AI technologies. You will learn how to create end-to-end search and conversational experiences by following examples. These technologies complement predefined intent-based chat experiences created in Dialogflow with LLM-based, generative answers that can be based on your own data. Also, they allow you to porvide enterprise-grade search experiences for internal and external websites to search documents, structure data and public websites.
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This course introduces Vertex AI Studio, a tool to interact with generative AI models, prototype business ideas, and launch them into production. Through an immersive use case, engaging lessons, and a hands-on lab, you’ll explore the prompt-to-product lifecycle and learn how to leverage Vertex AI Studio for Gemini multimodal applications, prompt design, prompt engineering, and model tuning. The aim is to enable you to unlock the potential of gen AI in your projects with Vertex AI Studio.
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This course is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.
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Text Prompt Engineering Techniques introduces you to consider different strategic approaches & techniques to deploy when writing prompts for text-based generative AI tasks.
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Earn a skill badge by passing the final quiz, you'll demonstrate your understanding of foundational concepts in generative AI.
A skill badge is a digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your knowledge of Google Cloud products and services. Share your skill badge by making your profile public and adding it to your social media profile.
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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you.
In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.
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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.
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A Business Leader in Generative AI can articulate the capabilities of core cloud Generative AI products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey and how they can leverage Google Cloud's generative AI products to overcome these challenges.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating, configuring, and managing Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances and databases.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage AlloyDB Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: performing core AlloyDB operations and tasks, migrating to AlloyDB from PostgreSQL, administering an AlloyDB database, and accelerating analytical queries using the AlloyDB Columnar Engine.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Bigtable Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating instances, designing schemas, querying data, and performing administrative tasks in Bigtable including monitoring performance and configuring node autoscaling and replication.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud Spanner Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and interacting with Cloud Spanner instances and databases; loading Cloud Spanner databases using various techniques; backing up Cloud Spanner databases; defining schemas and understanding query plans; and deploying a Modern Web App connected to a Cloud Spanner instance.
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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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This course is intended to give architects, engineers, and developers the skills required to help enterprise customers architect, plan, execute, and test database migration projects. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs participants move databases to Google Cloud while taking advantage of various services.
This course covers how to move on-premises, enterprise databases like SQL Server to Google Cloud (Compute Engine and Cloud SQL) and Oracle to Google Cloud bare metal.
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Complete the introductory Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating, configuring, and managing Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instances and databases.
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Complete the introductory Migrate MySQL Data to Cloud SQL Using Database Migration Service skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: migrating MySQL data to Cloud SQL using different job types and connectivity options available in Database Migration Service and migrating MySQL user data when running Database Migration Service jobs.
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Moving to the cloud creates numerous opportunities to start working in
a new way and it empowers the workforce to better collaborate and innovate. But
it’s also a big change. Sometimes the success of the change hinges not on the change
itself, but on how it’s managed.
This course will help people managers to understand
some of the key challenges associated with cloud adoption, and provide them with
a verified in-the-field framework that will assist them in supporting their teams
on the change journey. By addressing the human factor of moving to the cloud, organizations
increase their chances of realizing business objectives and investing in their future
talent.
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Migration from Oracle to Cloud Spanner using HarbourBridge. This course describes an example scenario that uses sample data during the migration. This process includes using HarbourBridge for Assessment, Schema Conversion, Schema Transformation, Data Migration, and supporting tools for data validation.
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This skill badge aims to provide partners an comprehensive understanding of migrating MySQL databases to Cloud SQL using the Database Migration Service, and gain hands-on experience through labs.
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This course aims to upskill Google Cloud partners to perform specific tasks of migrating data from Microsoft SQL Server to CloudSQL using the built-in replication capabilities of SQL Server.
Sample data will be used during the migration. Learners will complete several labs that focus on the process of transferring schema, data, and related processes to corresponding Google Cloud products.
One or more challenge labs will test the learner's understanding of the topics.
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This workload aims to upskill Google Cloud partners to perform specific tasks associated with priority workloads. Learners will perform the tasks of migrating data from PostgreSQL to CloudSQL using the Database Migration Service.
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Migration from MySQL to Cloud SQL using Database Migration Service that includes sample mock data and all necessary steps with initial assessment to validation including taking care of migrating users and grants.
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This course enables system integrators and partners to understand the principles of automated migrations, plan legacy system migrations to Google Cloud leveraging G4 Platform, and execute a trial code conversion.
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This 1-week, accelerated on-demand course builds upon Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals. Through a combination of video lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, you'll learn to build streaming data pipelines using Google cloud Pub/Sub and Dataflow to enable real-time decision making. You will also learn how to build dashboards to render tailored output for various stakeholder audiences.
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In this intermediate course, you will learn to design, build, and optimize robust batch data pipelines on Google Cloud. Moving beyond fundamental data handling, you will explore large-scale data transformations and efficient workflow orchestration, essential for timely business intelligence and critical reporting.
Get hands-on practice using Dataflow for Apache Beam and Serverless for Apache Spark (Dataproc Serverless) for implementation, and tackle crucial considerations for data quality, monitoring, and alerting to ensure pipeline reliability and operational excellence. A basic knowledge of data warehousing, ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, and Google Cloud concepts is recommended.
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While the traditional approaches of using data lakes and data warehouses can be effective, they have shortcomings, particularly in large enterprise environments. This course introduces the concept of a data lakehouse and the Google Cloud products used to create one. A lakehouse architecture uses open-standard data sources and combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses, which addresses many of their shortcomings.
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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.
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Complete the intermediate Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud skill badge course 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.Deploying Kubernetes applications with robust continuous delivery (CD) practices.
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Welcome to the Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine course. If you're interested in Kubernetes, a software layer that sits between your applications and your hardware infrastructure, then you’re in the right place! Google Kubernetes Engine brings you Kubernetes as a managed service on Google Cloud.
The goal of this course is to introduce the basics of Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE, as it’s commonly referred to, and how to get applications containerized and running in Google Cloud. The course starts with a basic introduction to Google Cloud, and is then followed by an overview of containers and Kubernetes, Kubernetes architecture, and Kubernetes operations.
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This course equips students to build highly reliable and efficient solutions on Google Cloud using proven design patterns. It is a continuation of the Architecting with Google Compute Engine or Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine courses and assumes hands-on experience with the technologies covered in either of those courses. Through a combination of presentations, design activities, and hands-on labs, participants learn to define and balance business and technical requirements to design Google Cloud deployments that are highly reliable, highly available, secure, and cost-effective.
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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 course, you will get hands-on practice configuring Docker images, containers, and deploying fully-fledged Kubernetes Engine applications.
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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including securely interconnecting networks, load balancing, autoscaling, infrastructure automation and managed services.
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This course introduces participants to the strategies to migrate from a source environment to Google Cloud. Participants are introduced to Google Cloud's fundamental concepts and more in depth topics, like creating virtual machines, configuring networks and managing access and identities. The course then covers the installation and migration process of Migrate for Compute Engine, including special features like test clones and wave migrations.
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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covers deploying practical solutions including customer-supplied encryption keys, security and access management, quotas and billing, and resource monitoring.
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This accelerated on-demand course introduces participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications services. You will learn how to use the Google Cloud through the console and Cloud Shell. You'll also learn about the role of a cloud architect, approaches to infrastructure design, and virtual networking configuration with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Projects, Networks, Subnetworks, IP addresses, Routes, and Firewall rules.
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This course helps you structure your preparation for the Associate Cloud Engineer exam. You will learn about the Google Cloud domains covered by the exam and how to create a study plan to improve your domain knowledge.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other.
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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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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.
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network skill badge course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM roles 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.
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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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.
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If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice beyond Google Cloud Essentials, this course is for you. You will get practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Monitoring and Cloud Functions. 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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Complete the introductory Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and deploying virtual machines in Compute Engine and configuring network and application load balancers.
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In this introductory-level course, you get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Optional videos are provided to provide more context and review for the concepts covered in the labs. Google Cloud Essentials is a recommendeded first course for the Google Cloud learner - you can 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.
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management tools.
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Generative AI Fundamentals
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Introduction to Responsible AI
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Cloud SQL
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Enterprise Database Migration
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Create and Manage Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL Instances
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Microsoft SQL Server to Cloud SQL
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MySQL to Cloud SQL
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Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
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Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine
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Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
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Kubernetes in Google Cloud
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Migrating to Google Cloud
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Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
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Cloud Engineering
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Baseline: Infrastructure
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Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine
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Google Cloud Essentials
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
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