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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#QwiklabsExpress

Heyyy I have completed the below skill badges,

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0e5dc16e-3cca-4d4c-8497-b71845f0f5f8/badges/1525...

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0e5dc16e-3cca-4d4c-8497-b71845f0f5f8/badges/1523...

This is my first hands-on experience on Deploy and Manage Cloud Environments with Google Cloud and Implement DevOps in Google Cloud. The labs had given me insights about how cloud environment works.

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress!

Hope you are doing well!

I am very happy to tell you that I just completed "Google Cloud Essentials" Quest and I have earned a badge. Here is the link of my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6b99af5b-7a85-4760-8a05-1dc3921b7aa7

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Google Cloud Essentials badge Complete Link:https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6b99af5b-7a85-4760-8a05-1dc3921b7aa7/badges/1605... 

 

 

In this Quest, I learnt about Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Cleared my doubts regarding the basic of  how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine. I created virtual machines and GCP Essentials and also I learn how to create a Google Compute Engine virtual machine.

Thank you Google Qwiklabs! #QwiklabsExpress!

Disha

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/fc92a83d-9681-464c-8865-44e6e375eb9f?qlcampaign=...

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Google Cloud is the very best platform to learn anyone for google cloud essentials. In My point of view I have learn new things related to google cloud and explore the ideas knowledge and explore the new things. I have many learn many things in google cloud essentials such as google cloud shell GKE provides a managed environment for managing and scaling containerized applications using google infrastructure. I have learn how to protect data, applications, infrastructure and cloud networking, data storage and compute services.

My public profile:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/395a0aee-80c7-405a-abd3-feeb0a4d5000

My badge URL:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/395a0aee-80c7-405a-abd3-feeb0a4d5000/badges/1605...

Now I have some hands on practice on how to perform some basic tasks using google cloud console.

#QwiklabsExpress!

My Qwiklab Public Profile
Link- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5364e0a5-28bd-4f35-a7d8-fbab3770781b

Google Cloud Essentials Badge Complete
Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/5364e0a5-28bd-4f35-a7d8-fbab3770781b/badges/1605...

Hey Google Cloud Community!

I am very excited to tell that today I just Completed "Google Cloud Essentials" Quest and earned the badge. I learned a lot of things like Creating a Virtual Machine, A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs, Getting Started with Cloud Shell and gcloud etc. This is an excellent opportunity to enhance my knowledge.

Thank you GOOGLE for this amazing platform for learning !!!

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/0cee1006-bc42-453a-84fe-5808784f79b1/badges/1605...

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 I am new to this. I am having fun learning this. I learn in this course about 1.  Why Cloud Technology is
Revolutionizing Business
  2.  Digital Transformation with
Google Cloud
  3.  Scale the Innovation Mindset.

I love to know some insiders about google like how they manage new people and organized them in an innovative way.

woohoo thanks to qwiklabs and google to introduce me to the world of data science and upgrading me with a new tool in my list named looker and I m very happy to use this tool 

my profile link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/4e6a290c-8082-4b10-bf60-542783fb62df

my badge earned with qwiklabs - Exploring Data with Looker  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/4e6a290c-8082-4b10-bf60-542783fb62df/badges/1604...

Google Cloud Essentials- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/4e6a290c-8082-4b10-bf60-542783fb62df/badges/160...

i m really thankful to qwiklabs about this 2021 express I learned ablot about this new tool looker and i m very happy that i got upgraded to lookup data thank you

you sincerely

Pranjal Yadav

(i just got information about this express yesterday night and tomorrow is the last day i hope i get into the 50s )

hey Everyone! 

I hope you all are doing very well in this winter. As we all known this is Qwiklabs Express 2021. firstly I am feel soo blessed to be the part of this Qwiklabs Express so thank you @emily927  to let us known about the program, with help of this program I am able to  learn a new things this winter and earned a new skill badge. here is my public profile link and skill badge details :-

My Public Profile Link :-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/267cbda8-c34f-4e28-8375-279752763575

Skill Badge :-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/267cbda8-c34f-4e28-8375-279752763575/badges/1605... 

In this particular program I learn about Exploring Data with Looker and earned a new skill Badge. that is Mentioned below  :-

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In this skill badge I learn how to use the Explore interface to access data published by LookML developers and also learn about the  fundamentals of data exploration in Looker including but not limited to dimensions and measures, filtering and pivoting, merging explores, and using advanced functions.

 

Hello  @emily927  and all the community members. 

I've successfully completed the Google Cloud Essentials quest. I learned a lot. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying my first virtual machine, to running applications on Kubernetes Engine or with load balancing, Google Cloud Essentials is a prime introduction to the platform’s basic features.

Badge earned: Google Cloud Essentials 

Public profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e2aafcba-f2da-437f-b321-b2d1acac38bd

Badge completion link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e2aafcba-f2da-437f-b321-b2d1acac38bd/badges/1604...

Thank you so much for providing this opportunity!!

Thank you Everyone at the Google cloud Team for organising Wonderful events.

My Public profile link :- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bb25e215-8730-4799-a8fb-ff8ec1d8855e

Earned badge link :- https://www.cloudskillsbooScreenshot (2259).pngst.google/public_profiles/bb25e215-8730-4799-a8fb-ff8ec1d8855e/badges/1605... 

I earned Google Cloud Essentials Badge and learnt basics of cloud and many other things like creating instances, using firewall etc. and how to use them with the practical of the same .

Had a great experience of using them and excited to do much more labs in future !! 

Thank you Google cloud !!

 

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1) Google Cloud Essentials Badge :-

Link- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f6016c64-b725-4cba-be2c-6f57eed52cef/badges/1605... 

My Public Profile :-

Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f6016c64-b725-4cba-be2c-6f57eed52cef 

2) The one thing that I have learned during earning the badges is to deploying the load balancer. Although I have had previous experience in multiple deployment sessions learning and revising the same and refreshing the memory with this kind of challenges have always been a treat for me. I will also take this moment to thank google cloud for providing us opportunities and challenges and also offering swags at the same time is cherry on the top. I hope to secure goodies from google cloud and also looking forward for the week two challenges. Thank You #Qwiklabs 

 

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/bfb05820-910d-410f-8680-3865841aabfc/badges/1605419

It was great experience learning with interaction with the console I am happy that i found an efficient way to learn GCP.

 

 

Hey Google Cloud Community,

Today I am very excited to share that I have completed the "Google Cloud Essentials" quest and earned the batch for the same.

It was such a great learning experience. I got to learn a lot about Google Cloud, Cloud Shell and creating Virtual Machines. I felt so overwhelmed to receive such a great learning opportunity.

Thank you so much for these exciting quests.

Here is my Google Cloud Profile - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/529a3545-1bee-4f65-967d-bc9c5cea943d

The valuable batch that I earned for completing the quest - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/529a3545-1bee-4f65-967d-bc9c5cea943d/badges/1605...

 

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My Baseline: Infrastructure Earned Dec 17, 2021 EST -> https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2aebd70f-0e7c-4069-8545-7ca80d83e855 

In this quest - I created a Storage Bucket | Created an Instance | Experimented with IAM | Created Topic & Sub in Pub/Sub Service. I learned how Storage options in GCP is very different from other cloud providers.

My Cloud Skill Boost Profile link:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/24a81251-f1d8-4cf0-bef6-690f04a1a850 

 

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My Skill badge link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/24a81251-f1d8-4cf0-bef6-690f04a1a850/badges/1604... 

 

Hi @emily927 today I was able to understand and learn about the cloud architect. How to create Kubernetes and deploying application in Kubernetes, creating pods and adding tags to it, creating service and deploying it. Setup environment in Kubernetes and building the docker image and observe the canary deployments. Also use of Spinnaker to continuously deploy the application when changes are made to the application. Create several VPC networks and VM instances and test connectivity across networks. Navigating Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE) Resources pages and creating a Service Level Objective(SLO). It was really amazing experience to learn such new concepts and eager to learn more from "Google community" and Google Cloud.

#QwiklabsExpress

 

Thank You

Good evening, so here is my skill badge:- 

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My qwiklabs profile:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/profile/paths?qlcampaign=1q-qlx-241

My badge path:- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2312cff7-cd4b-4436-b424-094030280ffb

                                                                         or

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/2312cff7-cd4b-4436-b424-094030280ffb/badges/1605...

Now talking about the question, “What’s one new thing you learned from the badge?

Ans. I have learned about many new things. Some of the main topics which i had learn and  want to mention here are:- 

  • Creating Virtual Machine
  • Compute Engine
  • Google Shell 
  • Google Cloud
  • Kubernetes Engine
  • Setup both Network load balancers and HTTP load balancerThanks Google Cloud for providng me such a platform where i can practice and get hands-on on Google Cloud.                                                             

            Very excited to have those goodies.

 

Checkout my profile:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/13c3b112-8426-4db2-b719-653d8326712e

Below is the Google cloud essential Badge link earned by me:-

 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/13c3b112-8426-4db2-b719-653d8326712e/badges/1605...

 

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Now comes to the learning part:-This certification is a good starting point for those new to the cloud and can be used as a path to professional-level certifications.

I learned alot from these modules:-

1)How to work on cloud shell and gcloud

2)I got a knowldge of Cloud Storage,Cloud Monitoring,Cloud IAM,Cloud Functions

3)How to create virtual machine.

4)To Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers

5)Knowledge related to Provision Services with Google Cloud Marketplace

Now i can proudly say myself a junior cloud engineer

Thanks QuickLabs and Google for this great opportunity,Excited to receive swags.

@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 "Baseline: Data, ML, AI" and earned the badge. 

The Public Link of my Skill Boost Profile is Mentioned Below :

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/59d3c88b-bb8d-4e50-9975-b0b8146e96d3

In this Particular quest , I have learnt as we know Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are today’s hot computing topics, but these fields are quite specialized and introductory material is hard to come by. Fortunately, Google Cloud provided user-friendly services in these areas and Qwiklabs has also covered with this introductory-level quest, so we can take our first steps with tools like Big Query, Cloud Speech API, and AI Platform and also if we want extra help? 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

Badge Link:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/59d3c88b-bb8d-4e50-9975-b0b8146e96d3/badges/1605...

Thank you @emily927 for providing us a great opportunity to learnt something new !

#QwiklabsExpress!

Glad to say that it really helpful to build knowledge and practice those lab and quest. Also badges encourage to learn more and more labs,

I appreciate that Google Cloud helps to learn this skills for free, lots of love for Google. Thank You 💗

Google Cloud Essentials - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bd2a37d8-f4dd-4e25-8d54-b8a9cd37f938/badges/1605...

Profile - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bd2a37d8-f4dd-4e25-8d54-b8a9cd37f938

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 Link to Skills Boost profile-  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/db1fa25b-538e-496f-a2a3-8cc6eefd398c

I learned many new things from this course which will help me in creating my own projects. This was my first experience with GoogleCloud and now I want to learn more of it.

Hey peeps I hope you all are doing well.

I am very happy  to tell that I have completed "Baseline: Infrastructure" Quest and earned the badge. Here is the link of my Skills Boost profile,https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d89c4bbd-7e12-4993-9cda-31282a678b1e/badges/675159 

n the Baseline infrastructure I learnt about

  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud IAM
  • Cloud Functions

The   Cloud Monitoring Lab which forms a part of the badge was useful in  reinforcing ways in which monitoring can be  a crucial  aspect of shift-right activities in production systems.

 

Thank you @emily927 for giving us such an event #QwiklabsExpress! 

 #QwiklabsExpress!

Profile link :  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/55ec8a20-8cfb-43a1-b716-72ec81f5903b

 

This is my first Google Badge . 
This is very helpful for students , I got an awesome experience .😊 
 
 

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Hola everyone!!!!!

Hi @emily927 and all other members of the community.I have completed Google Cloud Essentials and earned the completion badge.Actually,I came with  a little prior cloud knowledge, but here I have gained more knowledge. I have Cleared my doubts regarding the basic concepts .   I learnt many useful things about Google Cloud Platforms.

The link of my profile: https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d89c4bbd-7e12-4993-9cda-31282a678b1e/badges/641750 

 

 

How to get Lab Creds ?

Get the ticket from here and complete one lab then you will get a monthly subscription.

Hi! I missed this week, but very excited to learn in the next week, this festival theme is exciting me a lot🥳

Glad to see someone atleast read the post 

We would love to see you next week

 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/b16780ac-c108-45aa-b268-d5a4f978fc97 

Today I'm so excited to announce that I have completed the quest and earned my very first badge from the gcp!! The Hands-on Labs made concepts much more understandable. The Badge I earned was the introductory Hands- on labs on "Google Cloud Essentials". I learnt plenty of things about Google Cloud Platforms. I am honored that I have learnt from the "Google Community" and looking forward to know more about Google Cloud.

 

GCP is a highly reliable and scalable cloud platform offering the best cloud computing services on the web. 

Baseline: Infrastructure will provide you with practical experience through labs that dive into Cloud Storage and other key application services like Cloud Operations and Cloud Functions.

 

Profile Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/62cd31cf-7da7-433e-aa1f-217bcc459168 

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Badge Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/62cd31cf-7da7-433e-aa1f-217bcc459168/badges/1605... 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bad672a5-5000-49d7-a629-630ab3960760 

Had a great time spending time in completing qwiklabs via google cloud and feeling lucky to grab these opportunity thanks google cloud.  I have been waiting to participate in some competition like this being a newbie. I have successfully completed and earned 2 skill badges 1> Google Cloud Essential 2>Baseline Infrastructure

#qwiklabs

#googlecloud

 Here's my skill boost profile for Baseline Data and Google cloud Essential respectively.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bad672a5-5000-49d7-a629-630ab3960760/badges/1603... 

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/bad672a5-5000-49d7-a629-630ab3960760/badges/1603... 

Now coming on to the labs what I have learnt so far from these labs:-

In the Google Cloud Essentials, I learned about

  •  the labs platform, and identify key features of a lab environment.
  • Learned how to access the Cloud Console with specific credentials.

  • 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.

  • Learn about the API library, and examine its chief features.

In the Baseline infrastructure I learnt about

  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Cloud IAM
  • Cloud Functions

These labs were easy to understand and helped me immensely to understand so many things in such short span of time.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😁

 

Greetings! @emily927 I'm thrilled to announce that I have earned my first badge from the renowned Google Cloud Platforms! The Badge I earned was the introductory lab on "Google Cloud Essential". I got to learn plenty of things about Google Cloud Platforms.

My Badge URL:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/245b3ec3-2837-42af-85a4-572026157437/badges/1605...

My Profile URL:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/245b3ec3-2837-42af-85a4-572026157437

 

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 I got exposure of google cloud via qwiklabs. It has been a great time learning something new everytime from google cloud labs and feeling lucky being a part of google cloud community.

Here I am submitting my link https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/24d251ac-80cc-4e4b-a4b8-816526d3a83a?qlcampaign=...

It's always an experience to learn from #Qwiklabs and our motivator @emily927 (who always motivates us with all the enthusiasm).

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 I learnt plenty of things about Google Cloud Platforms. I am honored that I have learnt from the "Google Community" and looking forward to know more about Google Cloud.

Here is my public profile link:

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f3f6a875-4720-4ff5-b146-6e401e4cc7c1/badges/1605...

 

 

Hi @emily927 ,

I am really excited to share that i have earned these two :

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And With this i completed this quest :

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I have completed the Big Data Analysis to a Slide Presentation.

  • I have learnt that how can we use Google Apps Script with multiple Google services also BigQuery to perform a big data analysis.
  • I have also created a Google Sheet and populate data into it, as well as created a chart with spreadsheet data.
  • Transfering the spreadsheet chart and data into separate slides of a Google Slides presentation was really great experience in google cloud platform.

My Profile Link : https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/bf321214-af50-491e-a010-8fed8cb3d177/badges/1605595

Thank You Qwiklab and google cloud for this amazing opportunity !

 

My Qwiklab Public Profile Link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a3da28b5-3d7a-4598-9bd8-ea006eb6da30

Application Deployment - Python Badge : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a3da28b5-3d7a-4598-9bd8-ea006eb6da30/badges/1605...

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Greetings! @emily927 . I'm very happy to say that I have earned my badge from the renowned Google Cloud Platforms! The Badge I earned was the introductory lab on "Application Deployment - Python". I got to learn many things about the how applications can be deploed in python which I would like to highlight some of them and they were -  

  • Setting up development environment in python
  • Storing application data in cloud datastore
  • Storing images and video files in cloud storage
  • Adding user authentication to the application
  • Developing a backend service for the application
  • Deploying the application into kubernetes engine

 

Thankyou Google Clouds for designing such an informative course for we beginers to help us understand these topics more clearly.

Public profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/76eca8b6-e217-43d3-b340-aeeba5417b96

Latest Badge :  https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/76eca8b6-e217-43d3-b340-aeeba5417b96/badges/1605...

i have started leaning GCP recently. so this very interesting for  me . looking forward for next challenge 

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

Today I'm so excited to announce that I have completed the quest and earned my very first badge from the Google Cloud Platforms .Hands-on Labs made concepts much more understandable. The Badge I earned was the introductory Hands- on labs on "Exploring Data with Looker" and "Networking in Google Cloud".I am honored that I have learnt from the "Google Community" and looking forward to know more about Google Cloud. 

 

Once Again Thank You For GoogleCloud Community For Providing This Opportunity

ThankYou @emily927 

 Qwiklabs Public Profile  -  https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f0730301-f39b-40df-9444-c68874c871a8

My Badges  -  https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f0730301-f39b-40df-9444-c68874c871a8/badges/1605289

 https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f0730301-f39b-40df-9444-c68874c871a8/badges/1603801

 

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