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Configure AI Applications to optimize search results Earned Sep 4, 2025 EDT
Accelerate Knowledge Exchange with Google Agentspace Earned Sep 4, 2025 EDT
Introduction to CES and Conversational Agents Earned Aug 11, 2025 EDT
Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned Aug 6, 2025 EDT
Recommendations with AI Applications Earned Aug 6, 2025 EDT
Extend Google Agentspace assistant capabilities Earned Aug 5, 2025 EDT
Introduction to NotebookLM Earned Aug 5, 2025 EDT
Improve Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace Search Results Earned Aug 1, 2025 EDT
Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace Analytics Earned Aug 1, 2025 EDT
Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace UI Configurations Earned Aug 1, 2025 EDT
Build search and recommendations applications with AI Applications Earned Aug 1, 2025 EDT
Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores Earned Jul 31, 2025 EDT
Create Data Stores for Gen AI Applications Earned Jul 31, 2025 EDT
Introduction to AI Applications Earned Jul 30, 2025 EDT
Boost Productivity with Gemini in BigQuery Earned Jul 29, 2025 EDT
Cloud SQL Earned May 7, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: BigQuery Extended Capabilities Earned Apr 10, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Streaming Analytics Earned Apr 10, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Analyze Data with Looker Earned Apr 10, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Stream Data with Pub/Sub Earned Apr 8, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Process Data with Dataflow Earned Apr 8, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Cloud Data Fusion Pipelines Earned Apr 4, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Migrate Data to BigQuery Earned Apr 4, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Process Data with Dataproc Earned Apr 3, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Optimize in BigQuery Earned Apr 3, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Design in BigQuery Earned Apr 3, 2025 EDT
Data Warehousing for Partners: Enable Google Cloud Customers Earned Apr 2, 2025 EDT
Introduction to Large Language Models Earned Jul 29, 2024 EDT
Generative AI Fundamentals Earned Jul 26, 2024 EDT
Text Prompt Engineering Techniques Earned Jul 25, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Vertex AI Studio Earned Jul 24, 2024 EDT
Prompt Design in Vertex AI Earned Jul 24, 2024 EDT
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned Jul 23, 2024 EDT
Introduction to Responsible AI Earned Jul 23, 2024 EDT
Generative AI for Business Leaders Earned Jul 23, 2024 EDT
Set Up a Google Cloud Network Earned Apr 16, 2024 EDT
Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned Apr 10, 2024 EDT
Develop your Google Cloud Network Earned Apr 9, 2024 EDT
Level 1 : Getting Started with GCP Earned Apr 8, 2024 EDT
Logging and Monitoring in Google Cloud Earned Apr 4, 2024 EDT
The Arcade Trivia April 2024 Week 1 Earned Apr 4, 2024 EDT
Reliable Google Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process Earned Apr 2, 2024 EDT
The Arcade Trivia March 2024 Week 4 Earned Mar 29, 2024 EDT
Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Mar 26, 2024 EDT
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations Earned Mar 21, 2024 EDT
Getting Started with Google Kubernetes Engine Earned Mar 20, 2024 EDT
Implementing Cloud Load Balancing for Compute Engine Earned Mar 19, 2024 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned Mar 18, 2024 EDT
Elastic Google Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation Earned Mar 18, 2024 EDT
Trust and Security with Google Cloud Earned Mar 14, 2024 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services Earned Mar 14, 2024 EDT
Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation Earned Mar 12, 2024 EDT
Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud Earned Mar 11, 2024 EDT
Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence Earned Mar 8, 2024 EST
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure Earned Mar 7, 2024 EST
Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Mar 4, 2024 EST
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud Earned Mar 1, 2024 EST
Preparing for your Professional Cloud Architect Journey Earned Feb 29, 2024 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Operations Earned Feb 23, 2024 EST
Introduction to Generative AI Earned Jan 26, 2024 EST
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Develop Pipelines Earned Sep 8, 2023 EDT
Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals Earned Aug 8, 2023 EDT
Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey Earned Aug 8, 2023 EDT
Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML Earned Jun 20, 2023 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned Jun 16, 2023 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned Jun 15, 2023 EDT
Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow: Foundations Earned Jun 15, 2023 EDT
Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud Earned Jun 13, 2023 EDT
Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on Google Cloud Earned Jun 8, 2023 EDT
Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud Earned Jun 5, 2023 EDT
Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with Google Cloud Earned May 30, 2023 EDT

Complete the Configure AI Applications to optimize search results skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in configuring search results from AI Applications. You will be tasked with implementing search serving controls to boost and bury results, filter entries from search results and display metadata in your search interface. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. 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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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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This course explores the different products and capabilities of Customer Engagement Suite (CES) and Conversational agents. Additionally, it covers the foundational principles of conversation design to craft engaging and effective experiences that emulate human-like experiences specific to the Chat channel.

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Complete the Create media search and media recommendations applications with AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your ability to create, configure, and access media search and recommendations applications using AI Applications. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. 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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Do you want to keep your users engaged by suggesting content they'll love? This course equips you with the skills to build a cutting-edge recommendations app using your own data with no prior machine learning knowledge. You learn to leverage AI Applications to build recommendation applications so that audiences can discover more personalized content, like what to watch or read next, with Google-quality results customized using optimization objectives.

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Complete the Extend Google Agentspace assistant capabilities skill badge to demonstrate your ability to extend Google Agentspace assistant's capabilities with actions, grounding with Google Search, and a conversational agent. 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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NotebookLM is an AI-powered collaborator that helps you do your best thinking. After uploading your documents, NotebookLM becomes an instant expert in those sources so you can read, take notes, and collaborate with it to refine and organize your ideas. NotebookLM Pro gives you everything already included with NotebookLM, as well as higher utilization limits, access to premium features, and additional sharing options and analytics.

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If you've worked with data, you know that some data is more reliable than other data. In this course, you'll learn a variety of techniques to present the most reliable or useful results to your users. Create serving controls to boost or bury search results. Rank search results to ensure that each query is answered by the most relevant data. If needed, tune your search engine. Learn to measure search results to ensure your search applications deliver the best possible results to each user.

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AI Applications provides built-in analytics for your Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace apps. Learn what metrics are tracked and how to view them in this course.

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Initial deployment of Vertex AI Search and Google Agentspace apps takes only a few clicks, but getting the configurations right can elevate a deployment from a basic off-the-shelf app to an excellent custom search or recommendations experience. In this course, you'll learn more about the many ways you can customize and improve search, recommendations, and Google Agentspace apps.

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Complete the Build search and recommendations AI Applications skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in deploying search and recommendation applications through AI Applications. Additionally, emphasis is placed on constructing a tailored Q&A system utilizing data stores. Please note that AI Applications was previously named Agent Builder, so you may encounter this older name within the lab content. 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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Complete the Create and maintain Vertex AI Search data stores skill badge to demonstrate your proficiency in building various types of data stores used in Vertex AI Search applications. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the 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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Data stores represent a simple way to make content available to many types of generative AI applications, including search applications, recommendations engines, Google Agentspace apps, Agent Development Kit agents, and apps built with Google Gen AI or LangChain SDKs. Connect data from many sources include Cloud Storage, Google Drive, chat apps, mail apps, ticketing systems, third-party file storage providers, Salesforce, and many more.

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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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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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Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that stands out from its peers due to high performance, seamless integration, and impressive scalability. In this quest you will receive hands-on practice with the basics of Cloud SQL and quickly progress to advanced features, which you will apply to production frameworks and application environments. From creating instances and querying data with SQL, to building Deployment Manager scripts and connecting Cloud SQL instances with applications run on GKE containers, this quest will give you the knowledge and experience needed so you can start integrating this service right away.

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This course explores the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), GIS Visualization, and machine learning enhancements to BigQuery.

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This course explores how to implement a streaming analytics solution using Dataflow and BigQuery.

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This course explores how to leverage Looker to create data experiences and gain insights with modern business intelligence (BI) and reporting.

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This course explores how to implement a streaming analytics solution using Pub/Sub.

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This course continues to explore the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Dataflow.

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This course continues to explore the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Cloud Data Fusion.

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This course identifies best practices for migrating data warehouses to BigQuery and the key skills required to perform successful migration.

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This course explores the implementation of data load and transformation pipelines for a BigQuery Data Warehouse using Dataproc.

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Welcome to Optimize in BigQuery, where we map Enterprise Data Warehouse concepts and components to BigQuery and Google data services with a focus on optimization.

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Welcome to Design in BigQuery, where we map Enterprise Data Warehouse concepts and components to BigQuery and Google data services with a focus on schema design.

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This course discusses the key elements of Google's Data Warehouse solution portfolio and strategy.

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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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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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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 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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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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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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This is an introductory-level microlearning course aimed at explaining what responsible AI is, why it's important, and how Google implements responsible AI in their products. It also introduces Google's 3 AI principles.

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A Business Leader in Generative AI can articulate the capabilities of core cloud Generative AI products and services and understand how they benefit organizations. This course provides an overview of the types of opportunities and challenges that companies often encounter in their digital transformation journey and how they can leverage Google Cloud's generative AI products to overcome these challenges.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up a Google Cloud Network course, where you will learn how to perform basic networking tasks on Google Cloud Platform - create a custom network, add subnets firewall rules, then create VMs and test the latency when they communicate with each other. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete the skill badge, and final assessment challenge lab, to receive a digital badge that you can share with your network.

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Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop your Google Cloud Network course, where you learn multiple ways to deploy and monitor applications including how to: explore IAM rols and add/remove project access, create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, write SQL queries, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches. A skill badge is an exclusivedigital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge, and the final assessment challenge lab, to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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Businesses are flocking to the cloud, and the demand for skilled professionals is skyrocketing. Join the trend and level up your resume with in-demand skills and earn a Google Cloud Credential to showcase your expertise. No experience necessary – get started today!

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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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for April Week 1! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the April Trivia Week 1 badge!

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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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Hey there! You're invited to game on with the Arcade Trivia for March Week 4! Play throughout the month and boost your cloud learning journey. Every week, we'll release a new set of questions to test your knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Get started now and earn the March Trivia Week 4 badge!

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Complete the intermediate Optimize Costs for Google Kubernetes Engine skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: creating and managing multi-tenant clusters, monitoring resource usage by namespace, configuring cluster and pod autoscaling for efficiency, setting up load balancing for optimal resource distribution, and implementing liveness and readiness probes to ensure application health and cost-effectiveness. A skill badge is an exclusive digital badge issued by Google Cloud in recognition of your proficiency with Google Cloud products and services and tests your ability to apply your knowledge in an interactive hands-on environment. Complete this skill badge course and the final assessment challenge lab to receive a skill badge that you can share with your network.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the last installment of the Dataflow course series, we will introduce the components of the Dataflow operational model. We will examine tools and techniques for troubleshooting and optimizing pipeline performance. We will then review testing, deployment, and reliability best practices for Dataflow pipelines. We will conclude with a review of Templates, which makes it easy to scale Dataflow pipelines to organizations with hundreds of users. These lessons will help ensure that your data platform is stable and resilient to unanticipated circumstances.

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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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In this second installment of the Dataflow course series, we are going to be diving deeper on developing pipelines using the Beam SDK. We start with a review of Apache Beam concepts. Next, we discuss processing streaming data using windows, watermarks and triggers. We then cover options for sources and sinks in your pipelines, schemas to express your structured data, and how to do stateful transformations using State and Timer APIs. We move onto reviewing best practices that help maximize your pipeline performance. Towards the end of the course, we introduce SQL and Dataframes to represent your business logic in Beam and how to iteratively develop pipelines using Beam notebooks.

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This course introduces the Google Cloud big data and machine learning products and services that support the data-to-AI lifecycle. It explores the processes, challenges, and benefits of building a big data pipeline and machine learning models with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.

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This course helps learners create a study plan for the PDE (Professional Data Engineer) certification exam. Learners explore the breadth and scope of the domains covered in the exam. Learners assess their exam readiness and create their individual study plan.

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Complete the intermediate Engineer Data for Predictive Modeling with BigQuery ML skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building data transformation pipelines to BigQuery using Dataprep by Trifacta; using Cloud Storage, Dataflow, and BigQuery to build extract, transform, and load (ETL) workflows; and building machine learning models using BigQuery ML. 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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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery. 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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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 is part 1 of a 3-course series on Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow. In this first course, we start with a refresher of what Apache Beam is and its relationship with Dataflow. Next, we talk about the Apache Beam vision and the benefits of the Beam Portability framework. The Beam Portability framework achieves the vision that a developer can use their favorite programming language with their preferred execution backend. We then show you how Dataflow allows you to separate compute and storage while saving money, and how identity, access, and management tools interact with your Dataflow pipelines. Lastly, we look at how to implement the right security model for your use case on Dataflow.

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Incorporating machine learning into data pipelines increases the ability to extract insights from data. This course covers ways machine learning can be included in data pipelines on Google Cloud. For little to no customization, this course covers AutoML. For more tailored machine learning capabilities, this course introduces Notebooks and BigQuery machine learning (BigQuery ML). Also, this course covers how to productionalize machine learning solutions by using Vertex AI.

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Processing streaming data is becoming increasingly popular as streaming enables businesses to get real-time metrics on business operations. This course covers how to build streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud. Pub/Sub is described for handling incoming streaming data. The course also covers how to apply aggregations and transformations to streaming data using Dataflow, and how to store processed records to BigQuery or Bigtable for analysis. Learners get hands-on experience building streaming data pipeline components on Google Cloud by using QwikLabs.

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Data pipelines typically fall under one of the Extract and Load (EL), Extract, Load and Transform (ELT) or Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) paradigms. This course describes which paradigm should be used and when for batch data. Furthermore, this course covers several technologies on Google Cloud for data transformation including BigQuery, executing Spark on Dataproc, pipeline graphs in Cloud Data Fusion and serverless data processing with Dataflow. Learners get hands-on experience building data pipeline components on Google Cloud using Qwiklabs.

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The two key components of any data pipeline are data lakes and warehouses. This course highlights use-cases for each type of storage and dives into the available data lake and warehouse solutions on Google Cloud in technical detail. Also, this course describes the role of a data engineer, the benefits of a successful data pipeline to business operations, and examines why data engineering should be done in a cloud environment. This is the first course of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud series. After completing this course, enroll in the Building Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud course.

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