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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned Sep 1, 2025 EDT
AI Boost Bites: Intro to NotebookLM Earned Sep 1, 2025 EDT
Generate and Edit Media with Imagen, Gemini, and Veo Earned Aug 29, 2025 EDT
Professional Machine Learning Engineer Study Guide Earned Aug 27, 2025 EDT
Extend Gemini with controlled generation and Tool use Earned Aug 27, 2025 EDT
Empower Gen AI apps with tool use Earned Aug 27, 2025 EDT
Engineer Effective Prompts for Generative Models Earned Aug 26, 2025 EDT
Explore Google's Gen AI Models Earned Aug 26, 2025 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned Aug 25, 2025 EDT
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned Aug 13, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Network Architecture Earned May 14, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Hybrid and Multicloud Earned May 12, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Load Balancing Earned May 12, 2025 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Network Security Earned May 9, 2025 EDT
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking & Security in Google Cloud Earned Nov 29, 2024 EST
Getting Started with Google Cloud VMware Engine Earned Oct 9, 2024 EDT
Observability in Google Cloud Earned Sep 29, 2024 EDT
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Earned Aug 27, 2024 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey Earned Aug 19, 2024 EDT
Deploy and Manage Apigee X Earned Jun 4, 2024 EDT
API Development on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Earned Jun 2, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Security Engineers Earned May 27, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Cloud Architects Earned May 19, 2024 EDT
API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Earned Apr 21, 2024 EDT
API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Earned Apr 3, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Application Developers Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud Earned Feb 28, 2024 EST
Certification Learning Path: Professional Cloud Network Engineer Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Gemini in Google Meet Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Gemini in Google Slides Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Gemini in Google Sheets Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Gemini in Google Docs Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Gemini in Gmail Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Introduction to Gemini for Google Workspace Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Feb 20, 2024 EST
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned Feb 19, 2024 EST
Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud Earned Feb 19, 2024 EST
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Feb 13, 2024 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Feb 13, 2024 EST
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Feb 13, 2024 EST
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Feb 7, 2024 EST
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Feb 6, 2024 EST
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned Feb 6, 2024 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned Feb 5, 2024 EST
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned Jan 30, 2024 EST
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned Jan 29, 2024 EST
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jan 28, 2024 EST
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jan 28, 2024 EST
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Jan 28, 2024 EST
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Jan 28, 2024 EST
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Nov 6, 2023 EST
Application Development with Cloud Run Earned Oct 30, 2023 EDT
App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance Earned Oct 26, 2023 EDT
Securing and Integrating Components of your Application Earned Oct 18, 2023 EDT
Getting Started With Application Development Earned Oct 15, 2023 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Sep 23, 2023 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Sep 23, 2023 EDT
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Sep 7, 2023 EDT
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Sep 5, 2023 EDT
Certification Learning Path: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Earned Jun 15, 2023 EDT
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned Jun 7, 2023 EDT
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey Earned May 20, 2023 EDT
Security Best Practices in Google Cloud Earned May 15, 2023 EDT
Getting Started with Terraform for Google Cloud Earned May 2, 2023 EDT
Managing Security in Google Cloud Earned Apr 30, 2023 EDT
Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud Earned Apr 29, 2023 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Apr 21, 2023 EDT
Certification Learning Path: Professional Cloud Architect Earned Apr 16, 2023 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Routing and Addressing Earned Apr 16, 2023 EDT
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals Earned Apr 13, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Apr 11, 2023 EDT
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Network Engineer Journey Earned Mar 15, 2023 EDT
Deploying and Managing Google Cloud VMware Engine Earned Mar 16, 2022 EDT

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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AI Boost Bites is a video series designed to help you leverage Google's AI tools in your daily work. Each episode, under 10 minutes, features a quick video demonstrating a real-world AI use case or topic. After the video, you'll get a challenge to apply what you've learned. It's an easy, interactive way to boost your AI skills and improve your productivity.

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Generate engaging media with Google's foundation models for media. Create new images with Imagen, or edit your existing photos by adding details or outpainting to create a wider view. Replace backgrounds to put your products in new scenes. And learn the basics of generating videos with Veo!

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PMLE (Professional Machine Learning 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 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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Learn a variety of strategies and techniques to engineer effective prompts for generative models

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Learn how to leverage Gemini multimodal capabilities to process and generate text, images, and audio and to integrate Gemini through APIs to perform tasks such as content creation and summarization.

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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 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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Welcome to the third course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Architecture! In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of designing efficient and scalable network architectures within Google Cloud. In the first module, Introduction to Network Architecture, we'll start by introducing you to the core components and concepts of network architecture, including subnets, routes, firewalls, and load balancing. Then in the second module, network topologies, we'll dive into various network topologies commonly used in Google Cloud, discussing their strengths, and weaknesses.

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Welcome to the sixth course in our Networking and Google Cloud series, Hybrid and Multicloud. The first module will walk you through various cloud connectivity options, with a deep dive into Cloud Interconnect, exploring its different types and functionalities. In the second module, we'll cover Cloud VPN, discussing its implementation, high availability, VPN topologies, and the Network Connectivity Center for streamline management. By the end of this course, you will be able to explain the different connectivity options available to extend your on-premises and other cloud networks to Google Cloud, and analyze the suitability of different Google Cloud hybrid and multicloud connectivity services for specific use cases.

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This training course builds on the concepts covered in the Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals course. Through presentations, demonstrations, and labs, participants explore and implement Cloud Load Balancing.

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Welcome to the fourth course of the "Networking in Google Cloud" series: Network Security! In this course, you'll dive into the services for safeguarding your Google Cloud network infrastructure. The first module, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection, covers how to fortify your network against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, ensuring uninterrupted availability of your services. In the second module, Controlling Access to VPC Networks, you'll learn the network access control, enabling you to define permissions for who can access your resources and how. Finally, in the third module, Advanced Security Monitoring and Analysis, we'll explore how to proactively detect and respond to potential threats, keeping your Google Cloud environment secure and resilient. By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of Google Cloud network security.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This third course covers cloud automation and management tools and building secure networks.

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This workload aims to upskill Google Cloud Partners about what Google Cloud VMware Engine is, design considerations, and basic implementation. It will also cover interoperability with on-premises vSphere and real world use cases for deployment. Finally, it will cover how VMware Engine compares to other cloud providers' offerings of VMware as a Service and future plans for VMware Engine.

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Welcome to the second part of the two part course, Observability in Google Cloud. This course is all about application performance management tools, including Error Reporting, Cloud Trace, and Cloud Profiler.

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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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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PCA (Professional Cloud Architect) 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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Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Apigee X quest, where you learn about the Apigee X architecture, how to provision an Apigee X organization within a Google Cloud project, the management of Apigee X using the Apigee API and UI, and the use of Cloud Armor and Apigee threat protection policies to protect your APIs. 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 quest, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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In this course, you learn how to create APIs that utilize multiple services and how you can use custom code on Apigee. You will also learn about fault handling, and how to share logic between proxies. You learn about traffic management and caching. You also create a developer portal, and publish your API to the portal. You learn about logging and analytics, as well as CI/CD and the different deployment models supported by Apigee. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform.This is the third and final course of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course series.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps you secure your cloud environment and resources. You learn how to deploy example workloads into an environment in Google Cloud, identify security misconfigurations with Gemini, and remediate security misconfigurations with Gemini. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves your cloud security posture. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps administrators provision infrastructure. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain infrastructure, deploy GKE clusters and update existing infrastructure. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the GKE deployment workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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In this course, you learn how to secure your APIs. You explore the security concerns you will encounter for your APIs. You learn about OAuth, the primary authorization method for REST APIs. You will learn about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) and federated security. You also learn about securing against malicious requests, safely sending requests across a public network, and how to secure your data for users of Apigee. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform. This is the second course of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Development on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course.

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In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API life cycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the life cycle. You learn about how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform. This is the first course of the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform course.

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In this course, you learn how Gemini, a generative AI-powered collaborator from Google Cloud, helps developers build applications. You learn how to prompt Gemini to explain code, recommend Google Cloud services, and generate code for your applications. Using a hands-on lab, you experience how Gemini improves the application development workflow. Duet AI was renamed to Gemini, our next-generation model.

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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud This first course provides an overview of cloud computing, ways to use Google Cloud, and different compute options.

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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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The Google Cloud Computing Foundations courses are for individuals with little to no background or experience in cloud computing. They provide an overview of concepts central to cloud basics, big data, and machine learning, and where and how Google Cloud fits in. By the end of the series of courses, learners will be able to articulate these concepts and demonstrate some hands-on skills. The courses should be completed in the following order: 1. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Cloud Computing Fundamentals 2. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Infrastructure in Google Cloud 3. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Networking and Security in Google Cloud 4. Google Cloud Computing Foundations: Data, ML, and AI in Google Cloud

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Good news! There’s a new updated version of this learning path available for you!Open the new Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification Learning Path to begin, once you’ve selected the new path all your current progress will be reflected in the new version.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with access to generative AI features. This course delves into the capabilities of Gemini in Google Meet. Through video lessons, hands-on activities and practical examples, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Gemini features in Google Meet. You learn how to use Gemini to generate background images, improve your video quality, and translate captions. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently utilize Gemini in Google Meet to maximize the effectiveness of your video conferences.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this mini-course, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Google Slides.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this mini-course, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Google Sheets.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with access to generative AI features. This course delves into the capabilities of Gemini in Google Docs using video lessons, hands-on activities and practical examples. You learn how to use Gemini to generate written content based on prompts. You also explore using Gemini to edit text you’ve already written, helping you improve your overall productivity. By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently utilize Gemini in Google Docs to improve your writing.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this mini-course, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Gmail.

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Gemini for Google Workspace provides customers with generative AI features in Google Workspace. In this learning path, you learn about the key features of Gemini and how they can be used to improve productivity and efficiency in Google Workspace.

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 introduces you to fundamentals, practices, capabilities and tools applicable to modern cloud-native application development using Google Cloud Run. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to on Google Cloud using Cloud Run.design, implement, deploy, secure, manage, and scale applications

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate components from the Google Cloud ecosystem. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to create repeatable deployments by treating infrastructure as code, choose the appropriate application execution environment for an application, and monitor application performance. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer.

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to develop more secure applications, implement federated identity management, and integrate application components by using messaging, event-driven processing, and API gateways. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the second course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the App Deployment, Debugging, and Performance course.

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In this course, application developers learn how to design and develop cloud-native applications that seamlessly integrate managed services from Google Cloud. Through a combination of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs, participants learn how to apply best practices for application development and use the appropriate Google Cloud storage services for object storage, relational data, caching, and analytics. Completing one version of each lab is required. Each lab is available in Node.js. In most cases, the same labs are also provided in Python or Java. You may complete each lab in whichever language you prefer. This is the first course of the Developing Applications with Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Securing and Integrating Components of your Application course.

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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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Good news! There’s a new updated version of this learning path available for you!Open the new Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification Learning Path to begin, once you’ve selected the new path all your current progress will be reflected in the new version.

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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 helps learners prepare for the Professional Cloud Security Engineer (PCSE) Certification exam. Learners will be exposed to and engage with exam topics through a series of lectures, diagnostic questions, and knowledge checks. After completing this course, learners will have a personalized workbook that will guide them through the rest of their certification readiness journey.

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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Storage access control technologies, Security Keys, Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys, API access controls, scoping, shielded VMs, encryption, and signed URLs. It also covers securing Kubernetes environments.

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This course provides an introduction to using Terraform for Google Cloud. It enables learners to describe how Terraform can be used to implement infrastructure as code and to apply some of its key features and functionalities to create and manage Google Cloud infrastructure. Learners will get hands-on practice building and managing Google Cloud resources using Terraform.

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This self-paced training course gives participants broad study of security controls and techniques on Google Cloud. Through recorded lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on labs, participants explore and deploy the components of a secure Google Cloud solution, including Cloud Identity, Resource Manager, IAM, Virtual Private Cloud firewalls, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Peering, Cloud Interconnect, and VPC Service Controls. This is the first course of the Security in Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Security Best Practices in Google Cloud course.

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In this self-paced training course, participants learn mitigations for attacks at many points in a Google Cloud-based infrastructure, including Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, phishing attacks, and threats involving content classification and use. They also learn about the Security Command Center, cloud logging and audit logging, and using Forseti to view overall compliance with your organization's security policies.

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This course teaches participants techniques for monitoring and improving infrastructure and application performance in Google Cloud. Using a combination of presentations, demos, hands-on labs, and real-world case studies, attendees gain experience with full-stack monitoring, real-time log management and analysis, debugging code in production, tracing application performance bottlenecks, and profiling CPU and memory usage.

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Good news! There’s a new updated version of this learning path available for you!Open the new Professional Cloud Architect Certification Learning Path to begin, once you’ve selected the new path all your current progress will be reflected in the new version.

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Welcome to the second course in the networking and Google Cloud series routing and addressing. In this course, we'll cover the central routing and addressing concepts that are relevant to Google Cloud's networking capabilities. Module one will lay the foundation by exploring network routing and addressing in Google Cloud, covering key building blocks such as routing IPv4, bringing your own IP addresses and setting up cloud DNS. In Module two will shift our focus to private connection options, exploring use cases and methods for accessing Google and other services privately using internal IP addresses. By the end of this course, you'll have a solid grasp of how to effectively route and address your network traffic within Google Cloud.

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Networking in Google cloud is a 6 part course series. Welcome to the first course of our six part course series, Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals.  This course provides a comprehensive overview of core networking concepts, including networking fundamentals, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and the sharing of VPC networks. Additionally, the course covers network logging and monitoring techniques. 

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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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This course helps you structure your preparation for the Professional 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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This course enables partners to help customers extend their on-premises VMware environments to Google Cloud using Google Cloud VMware Engine. Partners will learn how to architect Google Cloud VMware Engine migration solutions that allow customers to move virtual machines to the cloud with minimal risk. The course also instructs partners on how to solve real-world VMware integration and migration problems.

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