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Parameshwar Ramanan

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Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Jun 6, 2025 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Jun 6, 2025 EDT
Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps Earned Mar 4, 2025 EST
Get Started with Dataplex Earned Dec 30, 2024 EST
Get Started with Eventarc Earned Dec 30, 2024 EST
Get Started with API Gateway Earned Dec 29, 2024 EST
Cloud Run Functions: 3 Ways Earned Dec 28, 2024 EST
Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API Earned Dec 28, 2024 EST
The Basics of Google Cloud Compute Earned Dec 28, 2024 EST
Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs Earned Dec 28, 2024 EST
Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API Earned Dec 27, 2024 EST
Get Started with Looker Earned Dec 27, 2024 EST
Get Started with Pub/Sub Earned Dec 26, 2024 EST
Get Started with Cloud Storage Earned Dec 25, 2024 EST
App Building with AppSheet Earned Dec 25, 2024 EST
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned Dec 21, 2024 EST
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned Apr 29, 2024 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Apr 26, 2024 EDT
How Google Does Machine Learning Earned Apr 15, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Apr 15, 2024 EDT
Introduction to AI and Machine Learning on Google Cloud Earned Mar 26, 2024 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned Feb 26, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Jan 23, 2024 EST
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned Jan 12, 2024 EST
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned Sep 26, 2023 EDT
Search with AI Applications Earned Sep 25, 2023 EDT
Implementing Generative AI with Vertex AI Earned Sep 20, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Aug 31, 2023 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned Aug 30, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Explorer : Vertex AI Earned Aug 30, 2023 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Aug 21, 2023 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned Aug 17, 2023 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned Aug 16, 2023 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned Aug 16, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Aug 16, 2023 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jul 21, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Jul 21, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Jul 21, 2023 EDT
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jul 19, 2023 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Apr 12, 2023 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Apr 3, 2023 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned Nov 10, 2022 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned Nov 7, 2022 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned Nov 1, 2022 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Sep 6, 2022 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Sep 2, 2022 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Aug 29, 2022 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Aug 23, 2022 EDT
Migration Summit 2022 Earned Aug 17, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Essentials Earned Jul 29, 2022 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Jul 29, 2022 EDT
Intro to BigQuery: Analytics & Machine Learning Earned Jun 3, 2022 EDT
Cloud Hero Infra II Skills Earned Jun 3, 2022 EDT
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned Jun 3, 2022 EDT

As organizations move their data and applications to the cloud, they must address new security challenges. The Trust and Security with Google Cloud course explores the basics of cloud security, the value of Google Cloud's multilayered approach to infrastructure security, and how Google earns and maintains customer trust in the cloud. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) represent an important evolution in information technologies that are quickly transforming a wide range of industries. “Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence” explores how organizations can use AI and ML to transform their business processes. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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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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Complete the introductory Get Started with Dataplex skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating Dataplex assets, creating aspect types, and applying aspects to entries in Dataplex.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Eventarc quest, where you use Eventarc to create event triggers for different resources including Pub/Sub topics and Cloud Storage buckets. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with API Gateway quest, where you learn how to use API Gateway to deploy, secure, and manage APIs with a fully managed gateway. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Cloud Run functions: 3 Ways course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services. It tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, including the 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 Analyze Sentiment with Natural Language API quest, where you learn how the API derives sentiment from text.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the The Basics of Google Cloud Compute quest, where you learn how to work with virtual machines (VMs), persistent disks, and web servers using Compute Engine. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Speech and Language with Google APIs quest, where you learn how to use the Natural Language and Speech APIs in real-world settings.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Analyze Images with the Cloud Vision API quest, where you discover how to leverage the Cloud Vision API for various tasks, including extracting text from images.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Looker quest, where you learn how to analyze, visualize, and curate data using Looker Studio and Looker. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Pub/Sub quest, where you learn how to use Pub/Sub through the Cloud console, how Cloud Scheduler jobs can save you effort, and when Pub/Sub Lite can save you money on high-volume event ingestion. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Get Started with Cloud Storage quest, where you learn how to create a Cloud Storage bucket, how to use the Cloud Storage command line, and how to use Bucket Lock to protect objects in a bucket. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet quest, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet. 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 digital badge that you can share with your network.

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This course explores Gemini in BigQuery, a suite of AI-driven features to assist data-to-AI workflow. These features include data exploration and preparation, code generation and troubleshooting, and workflow discovery and visualization. Through conceptual explanations, a practical use case, and hands-on labs, the course empowers data practitioners to boost their productivity and expedite the development pipeline.

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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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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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This course explores what ML is and what problems it can solve. The course also discusses best practices for implementing machine learning. You’re introduced to Vertex AI, a unified platform to quickly build, train, and deploy AutoML machine learning models. The course discusses the five phases of converting a candidate use case to be driven by machine learning, and why it’s important to not skip them. The course ends with recognizing the biases that ML can amplify and how to recognize them.

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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Vertex AI skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Vertex AI. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. 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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This course introduces the AI and machine learning (ML) offerings on Google Cloud that build both predictive and generative AI projects. It explores the technologies, products, and tools available throughout the data-to-AI life cycle, encompassing AI foundations, development, and solutions. It aims to help data scientists, AI developers, and ML engineers enhance their skills and knowledge through engaging learning experiences and practical hands-on exercises.

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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 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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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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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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(Previously named "Developing apps with Vertex AI Agent Builder: Search". Please note there maybe instances in this course where previous product names and titles are used) Enterprises of all sizes have trouble making their information readily accessible to employees and customers alike. Internal documentation is frequently scattered across wikis, file shares, and databases. Similarly, consumer-facing sites often offer a vast selection of products, services, and information, but customers are frustrated by ineffective site search and navigation capabilities. This course teaches you to use AI Applications to integrate enterprise-grade generative AI search.

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This course will help ML Engineers, Developers, and Data Scientists implement Large Language Models for Generative AI use cases with Vertex AI. The first two modules of this course contain links to videos and prerequisite course materials that will build your knowledge foundation in Generative AI. Please do not skip these modules. The advanced modules in this course assume you have completed these earlier modules.

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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 teaches you how to create an image captioning model by using deep learning. You learn about the different components of an image captioning model, such as the encoder and decoder, and how to train and evaluate your model. By the end of this course, you will be able to create your own image captioning models and use them to generate captions for images

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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 course introduces you to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model. You learn about the main components of the Transformer architecture, such as the self-attention mechanism, and how it is used to build the BERT model. You also learn about the different tasks that BERT can be used for, such as text classification, question answering, and natural language inference.This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course gives you a synopsis of the encoder-decoder architecture, which is a powerful and prevalent machine learning architecture for sequence-to-sequence tasks such as machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. You learn about the main components of the encoder-decoder architecture and how to train and serve these models. In the corresponding lab walkthrough, you’ll code in TensorFlow a simple implementation of the encoder-decoder architecture for poetry generation from the beginning.

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This course will introduce you to the attention mechanism, a powerful technique that allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence. You will learn how attention works, and how it can be used to improve the performance of a variety of machine learning tasks, including machine translation, text summarization, and question answering. This course is estimated to take approximately 45 minutes to complete.

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This course introduces diffusion models, a family of machine learning models that recently showed promise in the image generation space. Diffusion models draw inspiration from physics, specifically thermodynamics. Within the last few years, diffusion models became popular in both research and industry. Diffusion models underpin many state-of-the-art image generation models and tools on Google Cloud. This course introduces you to the theory behind diffusion models and how to train and deploy them on Vertex AI.

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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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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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This is an introductory level micro-learning course that explores what large language models (LLM) are, the use cases where they can be utilized, and how you can use prompt tuning to enhance LLM performance. It also covers Google tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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This is an introductory level microlearning course aimed at explaining what Generative AI is, how it is used, and how it differs from traditional machine learning methods. It also covers Google Tools to help you develop your own Gen AI apps.

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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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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 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 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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Organizations of all sizes are embracing the power and flexibility of the cloud to transform how they operate. However, managing and scaling cloud resources effectively can be a complex task. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations explores the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud, and how Google Cloud can help support these efforts. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Many traditional enterprises use legacy systems and applications that can't stay up-to-date with modern customer expectations. Business leaders often have to choose between maintaining their aging IT systems or investing in new products and services. "Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud" explores these challenges and offers solutions to overcome them by using cloud technology. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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Cloud technology can bring great value to an organization, and combining the power of cloud technology with data has the potential to unlock even more value and create new customer experiences. “Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud” explores the value data can bring to an organization and ways Google Cloud can make data useful and accessible. Part of the Cloud Digital Leader learning path, this course aims to help individuals grow in their role and build the future of their business.

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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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The GSI Migration Summit is a curated collection of hands-on labs and quests that provide coverage of application migration. Security and analytics labs and quests have been added to provide coverage of key platform concepts and services.

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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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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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Get hands-on practice with Google Cloud! 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.

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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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