All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress!

📣 Update! 📣

Head over to week 2's Five Star Labs challenge for the latest stop on the #QwiklabsExpress!

 

Revisit week 1's challenge....

Got your ticket to free labs? Great! Thanks for joining us! 

This is the first station on a three-stop holiday journey between now and the end of the year. Each week, we’ll launch new learning recommendations and opportunities to connect (and gifts too). 

This week, you’re invited to Learn Something New!

Have you ever set up a secure VPC network? Used Terraform? Built a Looker dashboard? Find something in the catalog that you’ve never done before, and give it a shot 🙂 

And now the fun part: we have 50 gifts under the tree this week. How to get your name on one of the tags? Be one of the first 50 GCC users to…

  1. Complete a Google Cloud skill badge or quest this week (badge must be dated between now and Dec. 18, no exceptions). 
  2. AND be one of the first unique 50 commenters on this exact post (in the Google Cloud Community only). To be considered, your post must include all of the following: 
    1. A link to your Skills Boost profile showing your new badge (sorry, badges earned outside the challenge timeline don’t qualify!)
    2. And in your comment, answer the question, “What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?” This can be a quick sentence or two, or a paragraph or more. (I love writing but not everyone does!)

Limited to the first 50 GCC members to FULLY COMPLETE REQUIREMENTS or December 18, 2021 EOD (whichever comes first).

👉DO NOT EXPECT A DM IMMEDIATELY👈 if you think you are eligible for a gift. DMs will arrive before Jan 31, 2022. Limit one prize per person, only while supplies last, first come first serve. 

FAQs

  1. What if I earn multiple badges?
    1. Great! You can post multiple badges if you like but only one post is eligible. 

  2. Where do I post my comment?
    1. Reply to this post. Any posts outside of this thread will not be considered. 

  3. What if I am #51?
    1. You missed this one but never fear. Stay tuned for next week’s challenge!

  4. What if I don’t want to post a link to my Skills Boost profile?
    1. You are welcome to avail yourself of the free training opportunity, but you’re only eligible for a gift if you meet all the requirements listed. 

  5. What if I don’t want to post in the GCC?
    1. You are welcome to avail yourself of the free training opportunity, but you’re only eligible for a gift if you meet all the requirements listed. 

  6. What if I have a question about the gift?
    1. I’m glad you asked! All swag-related questions should be posted on this thread. Any swag-related comments posted elsewhere (for example in the general forum) will be assessed and removed by moderators, in an effort to keep our forums well-organized and helpful.

Cheers and good luck, looking forward to reading about new skills 🙂🎄

PS: Gift reveal later this week!

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Networking in Google Cloud Badge

Public Profile Sinchana C 

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As a Student I would love to say thank you for giving me this opportunity to get access to my qwiklabs for another 1 month , I cant be more thankfull and happy to express it. I learned many topics in this quest like networking , network security and network services Google has to offer to many business clients. Overall it was an amazing learning experience . Thank you.

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here you can check my earned badge :

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/416c6662-ec43-42c8-8a26-990d33d237d0/badges/1602...

 

Hey Everyone!

Firstly, thank you @emily927 for bringing this exciting learning opportunity. keep them coming!

I have successfully completed the Exploring Data with Looker . By completing the Exploring Data with Looker quest I have learned how to use the Explore interface to access data published by Look ML developers. In this quest, I have learned fundamentals of data exploration in Looker including but not limited to dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explores, and using advanced functions.

Hello, Google Cloud Community!

I am glad to share that I have completed "Automating Infrastructure on Google Cloud with Terraform", "Baseline: Data, ML, AI", "Baseline: Infrastructure", and "Google Cloud Essentials" Quests and earned the Badges. I have learned a lot of Important things that make us experts in Clouding. Thanks to @emily927 and Qwiklab for this Great Opportunity.

#QwiklabsExpress

Here is my Profile Link: PUPPALA KOUSHIK | Google Cloud Skills Boost

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I am excited to share that I have completed Google Cloud Essentials Quest.

Here is my link to Google Cloud Essentials Quest:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/35547541-f116-4a8c-99c9-1a3855519613/badges/1602...

I have completed the following labs:

  1. Creating virtual machine
  2. getting started with google shell
  3. Kubernetes engine 
  4. Setup Network and HTTP load balancer

In this quest, I have learnt how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and understand zones, regions, and machine types.

 

I am happy to share that I have completed this Quest!

Here is my link to Google cloud Essential Quest-

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d08286f7-e065-4211-92f7-bdcb8cf23706/badges/1602728 

 

I have completed the following labs:

1. Creating virtual machine
2. getting started with google shell
3. Kubernetes engine 
4. Setup Network and http load balancer

In this quest I have learnt how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and understand zones, regions, and machine types.

@emily927  #QwiklabsExpress!

Hello Google Cloud Community!

I am excited to tell that I completed "Networking in Google Cloud" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost 

profile, https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0d91e660-de07-4377-9638-9e3337f82cd8?qlcampaign=...

Here is my badge link,

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0d91e660-de07-4377-9638-9e3337f82cd8/badges/1068...

I learnt about the User Authentication (how to restrict access selected authenticated users with Identity-Aware Proxy), how to create Multiple VPC Networks and Perform Control Accessing, HTTP Load balancer and Internal Load Balancer and finally completed the lab challenge.

Thanks to Google Cloud Challenge #QwiklabsExpress!

Thanks all!

Anutoshi

The lab had given me insights on Virtual Machine, Cloud Shell, gcloud, Network & HTTP Load Balancers.

Click on the below link to see my Qwiklabs public profile👇

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/250c3b2b-8835-4030-8183-db9509080215

I learned few things - Creating a Virtual Machine, Set-Up Network and Set-Up HTTP Load Balancers#QwiklabsExpress!#QwiklabsExpress!

 

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Google Cloud Essentials - (Quest Badge) 

I am happy to share that I have completed this Quest!

Here is my link to Google cloud Essential Quest-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0d91e660-de07-4377-9638-9e3337f82cd8/badges/9018...

I have completed the following labs:

1. Creating virtual machine

2. getting started with google shell

3. Kubernetes engine 

4. Setup Network and http load balancer

 

In this quest I have learnt how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and understand zones, regions, and machine types.

Thanks all!

 Anutoshi

 

 

Hi @emily927 @Yugali 

thank you for the wonderful opportunity to learn something new.  I have completed Managing Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform. created secure, private, site-to-site connections between Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) using virtual private networks (VPNs). This is a multi-cloud deployment.

Here's the link to my Skills Boost Badge https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/885836f7-73c8-46fc-aaef-60f21b569c57/badges/1602750 

My Public Profile link : https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/885836f7-73c8-46fc-aaef-60f21b569c57 

@emily927
#QwiklabsExpress!

Hey Google Cloud Community!
I am very happy to share that today I completed "Exploring Data with Looker" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my quest badge, https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/4ba319de-8c4e-466f-9bd8-e4f451f58950/badges/1602...

In this Quest, I learned about how to use the Explorer interface to access data published by LookML developers. Fundamentals of data exploration in Looker include but are not limited to dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explores, and using advanced functions. In the challenge lab, I learned filtering and sorting data, pivoting dimensions, reordering columns and removing fields, and using table calculations to create practical and useful visualizations. Then saved these as Looks, created a visualization that merged results from two datasets, and added all of these to a Dashboard.

Once again Thanks to Google Cloud for launching the #QwiklabsExpress!

Thank You!!

Regards
Riya Saini

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/cc8c389b-4a82-425b-b7a9-27d77ee4c869/badges/1597... 

BADGE DONE:EXPLORING DATA WITH LOOKER

Learned to build a looker dashboard with various filters and functions like merging and saving them ,FUN to learn as always .The labs never disappoint and always help in learning 

THANK YOU GOOGLE FOR THIS AMAZING PLATFORM FOR LEARNING!!!

Link to my Skills Boost profile :-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6d19ecc8-33f6-4b4b-98d6-a3427488561b/badges/1602...

 

First of all I would like to thank Qwiklabs for providing these quests. Upon achieving this badge it gave me a practical experience on  Cloud Storage and other key application services like Stackdriver and Cloud Functions. This quest has made me learn valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. Also it helped me to create and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Console and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Command Line and a lot more. The instructions where simple enough to follow thus helping me complete the quest within stipulated time.

 

Link to my Google Cloud public profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e2d9970c-0bf9-46d4-a8f5-2a2d1b46088c 

 

Link to my Google Cloud Skill badge (earned on Dec 16th, 2021): https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e2d9970c-0bf9-46d4-a8f5-2a2d1b46088c/badges/1602... 

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What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?

In this badge/quest, I passed various labs. The topics that I learned are as follows-

  1. Using Google Cloud Console
  2. Identity and Access Management in Google Cloud
  3. Managing users in Google Cloud
  4. Using Google Cloud Functions
  5. The Cloud Pub/Sub (Publisher and Subscribers) that can be used for event-driven processing

It was a great experience to learn all these things. This encouraged me to use GCP in my personal projects because is it so powerful. The process from enrolling into the quest to earning the badge was insane.

Loved it!

neo
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Hello everyone . I loved working on google's cloudskillsboost. First of all thank you to team who have created this workspace for students like us. Here we can consume tech knowledge and also win swags . I love the interface for qwiklabs which is user friendly. For tech student such as me I like how they are engaging more and more industry inthusiasts into google's projects . I hereby  giving my profile link .

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5d6ebc52-d3ce-4b5a-a905-4b45b54bc95d

 

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress! 

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well.

I am very happy and excited to tell that today I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials", "Kubernetes in Google Cloud" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile, link~

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/080b2be1-418b-4b02-a50d-07574dcfee47

In this Quest, I learned about the

1. How to create a Virtual Machine.

2. Got insights about Cloud shell and GC Cloud.

3. Got to know about the Kubernates Engine.

4. At last I have Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers and finally completed the challenge.

 

Hello everyone !!

first of all I would like to thank Google cloud and qwiklabs for launching  such an amazing programs and helps students to improving and exploring their skills in various platforms .

so coming to program thanks for launching this #qwiklabsexpress as a gift for Christmas.

so today I completed one google cloud badge

here is the link -https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/007fe90a-3284-4a69-8ff5-9fccc9b54b2a/badges/1602...

so by completing this lab I came to know and learn a lot of things like basic features of Big Query: write SQL queries, create and manage database tables in Cloud SQL, query public tables, and load sample data into Big Query, troubleshoot common Syntax errors with the Query Validator, use Google Apps Script, create a chart in Google Sheets, and export that data to Google Slides, and create reports in Google Data Studio by connecting to Big Query data.

Once again thanks for google cloud & qwiklabs for this amazing opportunity.  

Hoping to get DM asap, excited for the prize.😍

@emily927
#QwiklabsExpress!

Hey Google Cloud Community!
I am very happy to share that today I completed "Exploring Data with Looker" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my quest badge, https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d26ad900-da39-4c5d-ab1a-b4419768057a/badges/1602... 

In this Quest, I learned about how to use the Explorer interface to access data published by LookML developers. Fundamentals of data exploration in Looker include but are not limited to dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explores, and using advanced functions. In the challenge lab, I learned filtering and sorting data, pivoting dimensions, reordering columns and removing fields, and using table calculations to create practical and useful visualizations. Then saved these as Looks, created a visualization that merged results from two datasets, and added all of these to a Dashboard.

Once again Thanks to Google Cloud for launching the #QwiklabsExpress!

Thank You!!

#QwiklabsExpress! 

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well.

I am very happy and excited to tell that today I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials", "Kubernetes in Google Cloud" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile, link~

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/4f95b2a1-0bb7-429c-b283-167c8133549b/badges/1602851

In this Quest, I learned about the

1. How to create a Virtual Machine.

2. Got insights about Cloud shell and GC Cloud.

3. Got to know about the Kubernates Engine.

4. At last I have Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers and finally completed the challenge.

 

And I have a great experience using Google Cloud

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d5e3b30d-06dc-4e35-9207-936039244de2 

I completed Google Cloud Essentials badge

I am new to Google Cloud. 

I learnt how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine and understand zones, regions, and machine types

Google Kubernetes Engine provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling your containerized applications using Google infrastructure. 

learnt how setup both network load balancers and HTTP load balancers for your application running in Compute Engine virtual machines.

I started learning it today

 

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress!

Hello, Google Cloud Community!

My Profile is as below :-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5d09c5bb-7290-4185-9f66-27cce74cce64

Badge Earned Of Google Cloud Essentials :-

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My Learning :-

                 I had completed a badge Google Cloud Essentials. In the Google Cloud Essentials, I learned about the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment.Learned about Google Cloud projects, and identify common misconceptions about them.

Learned how to use the Google Cloud Navigation menu to identify types of Google Cloud services. Learn about primitive roles, and use the Cloud IAM service to inspect actions available to specific users. I learnt about Cloud Functions , Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Storage and kubernet clusters.

Thank you so much @emily927 , Qwiklabs, Google Cloud,  Google Cloud,  for this Great opportunity.

Thank you !

 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e01d042f-c816-4e76-9f9d-981467fbab5d/badges/1602...

The quest of Cloud Engineering is a big term in itself "Cloud Engineering", sounds like a professional cloud engineer after a single quest only .

I have a learned a lot from this quest but the main  things I have learned are about IAM, networking, Kubernetes engine deployment. These quest give an proper idea to use these thing while working with GCP. Give an idea how things work around the and in the Cloud .

#QwikilabsExpress! Thanks For this opportunity

I have successfully completed the Google Cloud Solutions II: Data and Machine Learning skill Badge In this I learn Machine learning And it's great Learning

My Skills Boost profile :

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/c27c4356-ad1a-4b64-8b52-d110d220d498

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@emily927 #Qwiklabas Express 2021

I have just completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion Badge. The link of my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8d8e9ffc-f8f8-4db0-81c6-d7a0af009851

Link for Cloud Skill Boost: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8d8e9ffc-f8f8-4db0-81c6-d7a0af009851/badges/1602...

I have learned A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on LabsCreating a Virtual MachineGetting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloudKubernetes Engine: Qwik StartSet Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers. It is a great learning experience. Looking Forward for getting such more Qwiklabs Events. It was a awesome Program.

And Again thanks @emily927  for bringing such challenges.

Thank You.

hi @emily927 

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress! 

I just completed Create and Manage Cloud Resources earned the completion badge. Here is the link https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/585351e4-6918-4c7e-843e-3cbff3703696/badges/1602909

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5870b4c5-65a1-4817-b868-ac06f27f1c33/badges/1419...

Thanks google for this opportunity, this program made me learn many new things . I am very much intrested  in  cloud computing and i see GCP as a very help full technology to fullfill my dreams . 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5870b4c5-65a1-4817-b868-ac06f27f1c33/badges/1430...

Thanks google for this opportunity, this program made me learn many new things . I am very much intrested  in  cloud computing and i see GCP as a very help full technology to fullfill my dreams .

 

 

 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/62770ae4-cfc0-42ae-bf9c-03de5c568a6e

 

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In this quest I learned about Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. I knew how to write Cloud Shell commands and deploy my virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing.

It was really a good experience while completing the quest

 

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I learned about tools like Big Query, Cloud Speech API, and AI Platform. Since big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are in demand today, so this lab helped me learn basics about them and how to implement them using different tools.

#QwiklabsExpress

My Quicklabs Profile:- https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/3eb2d70d-3054-443a-a031-1b9784bf8c2a 

This is my first hands-on on Digital Transformation With Google Cloud. Here I have learned about to truly transform, organizations also need to be innovative and scale an innovation mindset across the organization. I have Got basic understanding about this Lab.

Once again Thanks to Google Cloud for launching the #QwiklabsExpress!  Hoping to get dm asap, excited for the prize. 😍

 

 

Thanks all!

Rahul

 

Profile

Badge 

 

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 Got to learn about Cloud Storage and other key application services like Stackdriver and Cloud Functions.  Basics of GCP infrastructure.

Thank You!!!

 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/dc42e315-35ce-484f-bb18-8392fbb13704

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Finished my hands on lab on Google Cloud Essentials where I used interesting tools and services of Google Cloud. Since it was my first ever hands on lab on qwicklabs the practical knowledge of cloud gained from this quest was really helpful. Ran various sorts of commands on cloud shell from creating my own virtual machine, Kubernetes Engine and finally Setting up Network and HTTPS load balancers everything was super fun. Looking forward to complete more labs and gain lots of experience, badges and knowledge from hands on labs.

#QwiklabsExpress

@emily927 

Hey Everyone ! I hope you all are doing well.

I just completed a lab named Foundational Infrastructure Tasks in Google Cloud and it was very amazing experience

Here is my earned skill badge https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/79ee937c-850c-47af-95a3-4b9bd50b5b2b/badges/1602919

The thing that was most fascinating in this lab was working on the cloud console . As a long time linux user I was very intrigued by its working and command lines .

Basically I got to know all about the basic tasks that are done in google cloud platform like Creating cloud functions , Creating pub/sub topics , Managing cloud storage bucket , Coordinating storage buckets with cloud functions and etc etc ........ 
This lab was very fun thanks !
Abhinav 

I am very happy  to tell that I have completed Google Cloud Essentials lab
here is my public profile link -  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/88fe30e4-ee03-4ab8-a13e-e72897146b46/badges/1602...

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I have completed Google Cloud Essentials lab It was very nice experience with qwiklabs I have learnt  a

In this first hands-on lab you will access the Google Cloud Platform Console and use these basic Google Cloud features , how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine,  Kubernetes Engine qwik start ,Set up network HTTP load balancers .

It was nice experience.

Thankyougoogle cloud for #QwiklbasExpress2021 , hoping getting gifts .

 

 

Profile Link :-  https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/0d861ced-596e-4c94-8f04-c7216bcfc081

 

Baseline: Infrastructure : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0d861ced-596e-4c94-8f04-c7216bcfc081/badges/1602...

Google Cloud Essentials : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0d861ced-596e-4c94-8f04-c7216bcfc081/badges/1602...

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        1-minute videos walk me through key concepts for these labs. This Badge helps me to learn about  Google Cloud Platform and I got  practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Stackdriver and Cloud Functions. By taking this quest, I  develop my valuable skills that are applicable to any Google Cloud initiative. 

       This Badge helps me to explain and understand my own strengths

 

 

I would like to thank  All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress! and  @emily927 for providing this great opportunity to learn GCP with hands on lab.

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress 

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profile- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/04f460ca-2952-491a-9201-b958ca550e23?qlcampaign=...

Firstly, thank you @emily927 for bringing this exciting learning opportunity. Google cloud Qwiklabs labs always offer an innovative way to learn and enjoy.This was my first quest.In this Quest, i will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services, how deploy a containerized application with Kubernetes Engine,how setup both network load balancers and HTTP load balancers for application running in Compute Engine virtual machines.

PROFILE LINK: https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/26a6a068-b103-4f98-b429-c0e7cd324051

BADGE LINK: https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/26a6a068-b103-4f98-b429-c0e7cd324051/badges/1602921

In the Baseline: Infrastructure badge that I earned I learnt :

1. How to perform basic tasks in Cloud Storage using the Google Cloud Console.

2. Application of Google Cloud IAM which unifies access control for Cloud Platform services into a single system to present a consistent set of operations.

3. How to monitor a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance with Cloud Monitoring.

4. How to create and deploy a Cloud Function using the Cloud Platform Console.

5. How to publish and consume messages with a pull subscriber, using the Google Cloud Platform Console.

I would like to thank All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress! and @emily927 for providing this great opportunity to learn GCP with hands on lab.

#QwiklabsExpress.....

Thankyou so much for this Amazing Opportunity to learn passionate topics on google cloud. 

You made my week!! 

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In this week time I have learnt :

1. Google Cloud Essentials

2. Baseline Infrastructure

3. Baseline Data, Ml, AL.

through these quests I was able get an Hands-on Learning Experience on google cloud services. Qwiklabs provide really good cloud environments that help developers and IT professionals learn cloud platforms and software.

I enjoyed learning through this week and i don't stop here i will continue my learning

throughout my life.

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Here is my Google cloud Qwiklabs Profile link:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/cc09eb58-4448-4087-9912-050832e21fa2

Once again Thankyou Qwiklabs !!

I am Obliged to learn in Qwiklabs and through this badge whole world see's my skills.

thats a good part of qwiklabs.

Continue Educating People throughout the world only some Organizations/Firms Have that capability.

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