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Anthony Youssef

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Customer Engagement Suite with Google AI Architecture Earned Jul 14, 2025 EDT
Derive Insights from BigQuery Data Earned Jun 12, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned May 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned May 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned May 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned May 17, 2025 EDT
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned May 17, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI Applications Earned May 16, 2025 EDT
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Google Agentspace Earned May 16, 2025 EDT
Improving developer velocity with Gemini Code Assist Earned Jul 3, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Fairness & Bias Earned Jul 3, 2024 EDT
Build and Deploy a Generative AI solution using a RAG framework Earned Jun 24, 2024 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG Earned Jun 24, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Security Engineers Earned Jun 20, 2024 EDT
Gemini for Cloud Architects Earned Jun 20, 2024 EDT
Building Gen AI Apps with Vertex AI: Prompting and Tuning Earned Jun 6, 2024 EDT
Build a Secure Google Cloud Network Earned Jun 6, 2024 EDT
App Dev with Gemini Earned Jun 5, 2024 EDT
Multimodality with Gemini Earned Jun 5, 2024 EDT
Getting Started with the Vertex AI Gemini API Earned Jun 5, 2024 EDT
Search with AI Applications Earned Jun 5, 2024 EDT
Custom Search with Embeddings in Vertex AI Earned Jun 5, 2024 EDT
Develop Advanced Enterprise Search and Conversation Applications Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Vector Search and Embeddings Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Implementing Generative AI with Vertex AI Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Create Image Captioning Models Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Transformer Models and BERT Model Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Encoder-Decoder Architecture Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Attention Mechanism Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Integrate Vertex AI Search and Conversation into Voice and Chat Apps Earned May 31, 2024 EDT
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned May 30, 2024 EDT
Stateful Flows Earned May 30, 2024 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Google Security Operations - SOAR Developer Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Google Security Operations - SOAR Analyst Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
SOAR Fundamentals Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Security Practices with Google Security Operations - SIEM Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Developing a Google SRE Culture Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Preparing for Your Associate Cloud Engineer Journey Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Develop Advanced Enterprise Search and Conversation Applications Earned Mar 6, 2024 EST
Generative AI Explorer : Vertex AI Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Image Generation Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
DEPRECATED Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Google Workspace Security Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
Configure your Workplace: Google Workspace for IT Admins Earned Mar 5, 2024 EST
DEPRECATED Network Performance and Optimization Earned Jan 22, 2024 EST
Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud Earned Jan 22, 2024 EST
Networking in Google Cloud: Routing and Addressing Earned Jan 19, 2024 EST
Networking in Google Cloud: Fundamentals Earned Jan 19, 2024 EST

In this course you will learn the key architectural considerations that need to be taken into account when designing for the implementation of Conversational AI solutions. Please note Dialogflow CX was recently renamed to Conversational Agents and CCAI Insights was renamed to Conversational Insights.

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Complete the introductory Derive Insights from BigQuery Data skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: write SQL queries, query public tables, load sample data into BigQuery, troubleshoot common syntax errors with the query validator in BigQuery, and create reports in Looker Studio by connecting to BigQuery data. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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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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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 Gemini for Workspace and NotebookLM. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is 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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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 course introduces AI Applications. You will learn about the types of apps that you can create using AI Applications, the high-level steps that its data stores automate for you, and what advanced features can be enabled for Search apps.

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Unite Google’s expertise in search and AI with Google Agentspace, an enterprise tool designed to help employees find specific information from document storage, email, chats, ticketing systems, and other data sources, all from a single search bar. The Google Agentspace assistant can also help brainstorm, research, outline documents, and take actions like inviting coworkers to a calendar event to accelerate knowledge work and collaboration of all kinds.

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Learn how Gemini can revolutionize your ability to develop applications! This course helps developers go beyond the basics and learn how to integrate Gemini into their workflows.

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This course introduces concepts of responsible AI and AI principles. It covers techniques to practically identify fairness and bias and mitigate bias in AI/ML practices. It explores practical methods and tools to implement Responsible AI best practices using Google Cloud products and open source tools.

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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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Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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In this 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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(This course was previously named Multimodal Prompt Engineering with Gemini and PaLM) This course teaches how to use Vertex AI Studio, a Google Cloud console tool for rapidly prototyping and testing generative AI models. You learn to test sample prompts, design your own prompts, and customize foundation models to handle tasks that meet your application's needs. Whether you are looking for text, chat, code, image or speech generative experiences Vertex AI Studio offers you an interface to work with and APIs to integrate your production application.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud course, where you will learn about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Unlock the power of Google Cloud's cutting-edge Vertex AI Gemini API to craft innovative multimodal applications. This hands-on course delves into the integration of the Vertex AI SDK for Python, guiding you through the generation of sophisticated responses powered by the Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision models. Get ready to build, deploy, and harness the transformative capabilities of multimodal AI within your own projects. Important Disclaimer: Please note that these labs are under active development. Functionality may occasionally change or break unexpectedly, and content might be removed or altered without notice. By proceeding with this course, you acknowledge this potential disruption.

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Delve into the power of multimodal AI with this project-based course using Gemini. Master essential techniques and build advanced applications. You will: - Experiment with multimodal use cases to expand application possibilities - Implement recommendation systems that combine suggestions with clear reasoning - Design a powerful document search engine using multimodal RAG methods Important Disclaimer: Please note that these labs are under active development. Functionality may occasionally change or break unexpectedly, and content might be removed or altered without notice. By proceeding with this course, you acknowledge this potential disruption.

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Get hands-on with the Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision models through our new labs. This course gives you a unique chance to explore these powerful AI tools while our training content is still in development. Learn to interact with the models using the Vertex AI Gemini API and cURL commands, and help us create the best possible learning experience around this technology. Important Disclaimer: Please note that these labs are under active development. Functionality may occasionally change or break unexpectedly, and content might be removed or altered without notice. By proceeding with this course, you acknowledge this potential disruption.

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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 explores Google Cloud technologies to create and generate embeddings. Embeddings are numerical representations of text, images, video and audio, and play a pivotal role in many tasks that involve the identification of similar items, like Google searches, online shopping recommendations, and personalized music suggestions. Specifically, you’ll use embeddings for tasks like classification, outlier detection, clustering and semantic search. You’ll combine semantic search with the text generation capabilities of an LLM to build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and question-answering solutions, on your own proprietary data using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

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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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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine.

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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 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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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 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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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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Discover flows in Conversational Agents and learn how to build deterministic chat and voice experiences with language models. Explore key concepts like drivers, intents, and entities, and how to use them to create conversational agents.

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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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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 course helps developers customize Chronicle and augment its abilities with third party integrations.

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This course helps you understand how to use Chronicle to properly handle security incidents.

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This course will familiarize you with the core functionality of Chronicle, including the user interface, connections, and settings.

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Learn the technical aspects you need to know about Chronicle and how it can help you detect and action threats.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Planning for a Google Workspace Deployment is the final course in the Google Workspace Administration series. In this course, you will be introduced to Google's deployment methodology and best practices. You will follow Katelyn and Marcus as they plan for a Google Workspace deployment at Cymbal. They'll focus on the core technical project areas of provisioning, mail flow, data migration, and coexistence, and will consider the best deployment strategy for each area. You will also be introduced to the importance of Change Management in a Google Workspace deployment, ensuring that users make a smooth transition to Google Workspace and gain the benefits of work transformation through communications, support, and training. This course covers theoretical topics, and does not have any hands on exercises. If you haven’t already done so, please cancel your Google Workspace trial now to avoid any unwanted charges.

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This course empowers learners to secure their Google Workspace environment. Learners will implement strong password policies and two-step verification to govern user access. They will then utilize the security investigation tool to proactively identify and respond to security risks. Next, they will manage third-party app access and mobile devices to ensure security. Finally, learners will enforce email security and compliance measures to protect organizational data.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Configure your Workplace: Google Workspace for IT Admins quest, where you will get try out the Admin role for Workspace and learn to provision Groups, manage applications, security, and manage Meet. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge quest, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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If you want to take your Google Cloud networking skills to the next level, look no further. This course is composed of labs that cover real-life use cases and it will teach you best practices for overcoming common networking bottlenecks. From getting hands-on practice with testing and improving network performance, to integrating high-throughput VPNs and networking tiers, Network Performance and Optimization is an essential course for Google Cloud developers who are looking to double down on application speed and robustness.

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Complete the intermediate Implement Cloud Security Fundamentals on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and assigning roles with Identity and Access Management (IAM); creating and managing service accounts; enabling private connectivity across virtual private cloud (VPC) networks; restricting application access using Identity-Aware Proxy; managing keys and encrypted data using Cloud Key Management Service (KMS); and creating a private Kubernetes cluster. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge course, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Welcome to the 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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