Re: #QwiklabsExpress: 5-star labs - Page 4

emily927 · 12-20-2021 04:07 AM

Got your ticket to free labs? Great! Thanks for joining us! Amazing to see all the new badges rolling in from last week 😍

When you’re considering gifts for friends and family, do you check the product reviews and recs? I do! So this week, let’s talk about lab recommendations.

What is one lab or quest that you would give a five-star recommendation? And why?

Maybe it taught you a useful skill or helped you explore a really interesting topic? Or maybe it helped you tackle a really tough challenge at work? Drop your recommendation as a comment on this thread, and share why you picked it.

“Like” the other recommendations that resonate with you. No limit to how many “likes” and replies you can give but please limit yourself to one recommendation! And with your #QwiklabsExpress ticket, feel free to explore the recs that interest you. After all, this week we’re all about diving deep into a new skillset 🙂

Now the fun part. The top 10 eligible recommendations with the most "likes" by Dec. 22, 2021 end of day (Pacific time) will receive an additional gift. While supplies last, limited time only.

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Reply to this exact thread
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A few words about why you recommend that particular lab or quest
A link to your Skills Boost profile
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What if I write the 11th review?

You missed this one but never fear. Stay tuned for next week's challenge!

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Looking forward to taking some of your highly-recommended labs as 2021 winds down! After all, December is a great month to learn something new 🙂 🎄

Nupur2

Please like mine

penny

The lab which is a five Star according to me is "Use Cloud Composer to copy data across multiple locations" under the quest "Engineers data in Google Cloud" . It was a very useful lab for both- those who are new to cloud or those who are already working on it. It was a great quest for understanding the topics. It enhanced my knowledge and gave me a hands on experience working on cloud. I am elated to complete this lab.

My public profile link- https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/73d10108-09a7-46a6-9d77-bf2a074272a0

Cheers and happy holidays!!

ArvindRao

I would give a five-star recommendation to this course....

I will recommend :- Flutter Development

Since these days Mobile applications have a huge demand , these days everyone uses Android or iOS devices and prefer to do all work on their handsets and as per upcoming needs of application this course can help to get relevant skills .

My Badge Link:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/312b50d8-2393-4dc4-bfb7-f89d5116d3ed/badges/1599225

tamannasihag123

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Nupur2

Please like mi too

tamannasihag123

Quest: Create ML Models with BigQuery ML (https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/quests/146)

I recommend this lab because as a Machine Learning enthusiast, there is nothing better than an SQL variant with built-in machine learning which can handle billions of rows and columns, and not to mention that all these features while being available on a highly accessible cloud network. I am a big fan of BigQuery Machine Learning and I am learning more and more about it. It interests me both as an ML enthusiast and in terms of future employment opportunities as well.

Qwiklabs profile link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/cfedfdc1-2aa6-4c4c-9d30-15558a75d26f

Vishalraj

Hi please like mine

Nupur2

Please like mine too

vishal088

The lab which is a 5 star according to me is "The Apps Script CLI, or clasp" under the quest "Workspace Integrations". I love it how qwiklabs comes up with fun learning opportunities for us to learn cloud. In this lab, i learnt about the clasp tool, how it helps to create, edit, and deploy Apps Script projects.

My public profile link-

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/08d3497e-c5c1-4f58-9bd6-15a229f6fedd

emily927

Thanks for the rec 🙂 Apps Script is on my to-learn list!

Nupur2

The Lab which I will Rate 5 Star is

Implement DevOps in Google Cloud

Earn a skill badge by completing the Implement DevOps in Google Cloud quest, where you will learn about DevOps - an organizational and cultural movement that aims to increase software delivery velocity, improve service reliability, and build shared ownership among software stakeholders. Specifically, you will learn how to: create a git repository using Google Cloud Source Repositories, launch, manage, and scale deployments using Google Kubernetes Engine, set up a Kubernetes cluster and deploy Load Balancer type NGINX using Terraform; create and monitor a GKE cluster using Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging; use Jenkins on Kubernetes Engine to develop a continuous delivery pipeline.

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.

My Public Profileqhttps://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/20a7b75e-c20b-439e-b6cb-48518059f377

nishant_gupta

i liked to Build a Google Workspace Add-on with Node.js and Cloud Run very much as here I created to-do list in the gmail and also I had option to make to-do list in the other google services available. this thing is very much useful as it is integrated from to-do and google so now we don't have to switch to different apps.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/97be3e49-9ab0-4e24-ad04-0d5e277a66b5

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

tamannasihag123

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nishant_gupta

done bro thanks for 1 like

Nupur2

Please like minee too

emily927

This is a very cool lab, thanks for sharing... #HiddenGem

Sarvang

@emily927
From what I've learned so far, the Set Up and Configure a Cloud Environment in Google Cloud quest takes all five stars.
Because, as the name suggests, it includes all the necessary bits of the GCP platform to setup the actual cloud environment.

After successfully completing this quest you'll be able to learn how to: setup/manage IAM roles, add/remove project access for various roles, write SQL queries (BigQuery and CloudSQL), create VPC networks, deploy and monitor Compute Engine VMs, deploy and monitor VMs in Compute Engine, and deploy applications using Kubernetes with multiple deployment approaches.

Please be mindful of the fact that it is an advanced level quest so you will need fair amount of hands on experience before you could clear the final challenge lab and pocket the badge. If you are relatively new to GCP, my recommendation is to take advantage of this ticket to the free labs (free 1-month pass to the entire lab catalog) and get started with few Introductory and Fundamental labs first.

With that, good luck and happy holidays everyone! #KeepLearning

You can checkout my Skills Boost profile here - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8687c5eb-489d-4e0b-b14e-a66fe3a9ed10

Cheers!

tamannasihag123

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Nupur2

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nishant_gupta

i liked to Build a Google Workspace Add-on with Node.js and Cloud Run very much as here I created to-do list in the gmail and also I had option to make to-do list in the other google services available. this thing is very much useful as it is integrated from to-do and google so now we don't have to switch to different apps.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/97be3e49-9ab0-4e24-ad04-0d5e277a66b5

tamannasihag123

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tamannasihag123

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Maharshi07

I completed Troubleshooting Workloads on GKE for Site Reliability Engineers lab of Cloud Architecture and I give this lab 5 Star ratings because I learned a lot from it.

Completion link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/3d7e87cc-7d6d-4173-a829-0f00f7629cc7/badges/1609...

DeepakNadar

Profile link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a195d2ec-2788-4296-9450-a2b64c12fc71

Badge earned: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/a195d2ec-2788-4296-9450-a2b64c12fc71/badges/1606...

I gave this lab 5 stars Because I think this quest will be the most demanding in the upcoming days, since we can already see AI and ML are getting huge attention from major tech giant companies like google.

Apart from this I really enjoyed doing this quest #QwiklabsExpress

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Patrick-Steve

My most favorite lab is:- Google Cloud Essentials

It is one of the most basic quests one could take and personally, I like it the most because the joy you get when you work for the first time in GCP is priceless.

I would highly recommend this quest to anyone who has just started working in the GCP workspace.

sandeepdabas

My favourite lab which should get 5 stars is "Build a machine learning model using BigQuery ML" under the quest "Engineer Data in Google Cloud." This quest was very useful for me and gave me an hands-on-experience on qwiklabs. If someone is new to ml, he/she can learn these complex concepts in the lab. Thank you google cloud for providing this wonderful learning opportunity.

My public profile link:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/7143e2fe-b371-4940-878b-80f59646cd5f

HAPPY LEARNING

Asi123

Hii @emily927

Thanks To #qwiklabsexpress

According to me, the one lab with 5 star level is "Data Catalog Fundamentals: Challenge Lab", in the quest

I learn very much staff in these modules:-

1) I will learn fundamental SQL clauses and will get hands on practice running structured queries on BigQuery and Cloud SQL

2)how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the GCP Console.

3)how to explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights.

4)how to explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights.

5)explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights

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swadhin9

The lab which I'll easily give a 5 star is " Creating a Virtual Machine" under the quest "Google Cloud Essentials"

It was basically my best experience in the overall quest. It had so much practical work involved that I couldn't help but learn a lot.

Before this lab, I had no prior knowledge of virtual machines but this was definitely a good start. I am a huge fan of practical lessons and this just did the trick. I humbly recommend this to anybody who is genuinely interested in cloud knowledge.

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shokeenvikas

My favourite lab to which i would give 5 stars is- "Build a Google Assistant application." of the quest "Serverless Firebase Development". In this lab, i learnt to build a fully fledged Firebase web app that allows users to log information and schedule appointments in real time. I did a lot of quests and this one was my favourite. I learnt a lot from qwiklabs.

My public profile link is:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/e332943f-9704-4fe3-83c3-291335140495

Shweta-Rani1

#QwiklabsExpress: 5-star labs

Although all quests are best in Qwiklabs because we practically experienced it by performing if I would have to give 5-star to Quest to any quest then from experience I would give the 5-star recommendation to the quest:- "Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud"

Here's a link to the Quest:- (https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/128).

In this quest, I learned for the first time about multiple networking-related resources to build, scale, and secure your applications on Google Cloud.

Also, learned to Enable Identity-Aware Proxy,

Create VPC networks.

Create virtual machine instances with Nginx web servers using Compute Engine.

Create firewall rules to control internal and external access to your VMs.

Configure, stress, and protect a multi-region HTTP application with an HTTP load balancer and Google Cloud Armor.

Configure and test an internal TCP load balancer with a regional backend service.

And that is new for me but Qwiklabs make it as easy as it can be by following every instruction I completed this Quest during 30 days of the Google Cloud Campaign.

I would like to suggest everyone go through it, you will surely learn something new!

Profile link:-

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/6836ca50-d33e-41c7-ad14-14b44f01c86f

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ayush_jain

The best learning lab I used to find here is- "Create and manage cloud resources". It's my deep wish to give it 5⭐(star) feedback.

As I get to know about cloud technology, Kubernetes, virtual engine, etc. In the beginning I found it little bit tough but as I work hard

and time passes I became familiar with it. I really get to know so much about this technology through this lab.

Thank you so much for being my learning guide. Really lab was amazing.

Profile link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6add0ab8-263d-4c8c-9efe-f4b782f73ac8?qlcampaign=...

Thank you.😊

ganeshyeminedi

Hi I have completed the Baseline-Infrastructure lab and earned badge.

I have gone through the Storage account details, Cloud IAM, Cloud Functions, Cloud Pub/Sub and others.

Public profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6e302800-5a8a-4279-9a9d-3005bbacf19c

Badge: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/6e302800-5a8a-4279-9a9d-3005bbacf19c/badges/1609...

Thanks to Google cloud.

inimitable

My favourite lab which I should give 5 stars is: "Creating a Data Transformation Pipeline with Cloud Dataprep" under the quest "Data Engineering" that was very useful for me.

@emily927 I'm glad to share my cloud skills boost profile with you. This is a great opportunity to learn something new with fun 😃 and really! this a great experience with google cloud and that community. And thank you too to give us this great learning opportunities and that's why we all are sharing our experiences with you. I learned many thing from there like Google Cloud Essentials!!! and Baseline: Data ML, AI!!

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arunkrsingh

Thanks #Qwiklabs and #googlecloudplatform for providing course contents and lab for learning. This makes significant difference in my career. This small labs are big difference. I completed 19 quest so far and I can surely say that it is very helpful in enhancing technical knowledge skill.

Personally I loved "Cloud Architecture" course and will give 5 star for this course. It helped me in getting "Google cloud professional cloud architect" certificate. Below is my completion profile.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/8ec6b99f-6094-4a75-abdd-b4536393f121/badges/3428...

Vinayak

I like the Baseline: Infrastructure quest. I come in with little prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that I can apply to my first Google Cloud project. Cleared my doubts regarding the basic concepts of GCP also. so many insights from this lab.

My Profile link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/09866602-d9e6-40a7-af6e-3fafc5dd369c

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Atika_02

The only lab which is 5-star according to me is - "A tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs" from the Quest: "Google Cloud Essentials". It is very useful for beginners as well as professionals who are new to Google Cloud Platform.

It provides a basic overview of using the cloud labs and help to get idea about google platform.

My qwiklabs profile:-https://google.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/9ac7150a-e84b-4b8a-8c29-42c03ffdb119

Thank you!

Shubhangi_Gupta

#QwiklabsExpress: 5-star labs :

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/1de45ac6-45d4-4672-84cb-7f688cdb5496

This is my public profile URL.

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/1de45ac6-45d4-4672-84cb-7f688cdb5496/badges/1609...

This is my today's earned badge.

Hey Google Cloud Community! I hope you all are doing well and in the good health.

The one quest that I would give a five-star recommendation is *Exploring Data With Looker* and I'm very excited to share this today, as Christmas and our beloved Santa are coming for us to give us more excitement and gifts also but this is an excellent way to enjoy Christmas by achieving something new in our lives. By completing this badge I have learned a lot about Looker like how to work with it and will now explore it more every day. This is a perfect winter with Qwiklabs credits, Hands-on challenges, Labs and Quests. Highly appreciated the work done by Google and the team. I'm so happy with Google as I have received my prize of completing 5 badges in the October Challenge. Thank you so much @emily927 @Yugali

Ananya

Firstly thank you Qwiklabs!! for providing hand on practice to explore google cloud technology.

In my opinion Quest-Google Cloud Essentials ,LAB -A Tour of Google Cloud Hands on Lab is a 5 star ratting lab because n this introductory-level Quest, you will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. Google Cloud Essentials is the recommended first Quest for the Google Cloud learner - people will come in with little or no prior cloud knowledge, and come out with practical experience that we can apply to our first Google Cloud project. From writing Cloud Shell commands and deploying the 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.

In this first hands-on lab you will access the Google Cloud Platform Console and use these basic Google Cloud features: Projects, Resources, IAM Users, Roles, Permissions, and APIs , which gives the prior knowledge about other labs.

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Asi123

Hii @emily927

Thanks To #qwiklabsexpress

According to me, the one lab with 5 star level is "Data Catalog Fundamentals: Challenge Lab", in the quest

I learn very much staff in these modules:-

1) I will learn fundamental SQL clauses and will get hands on practice running structured queries on BigQuery and Cloud SQL

2)how to query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery using the GCP Console.

3)how to explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights.

4)how to explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights.

5)explore existing datasets with Data Catalog and mine the table and column metadata for insights

My Skill boost profile Profile Link:-

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/472d6b01-b022-475d-b9bc-81371f6d745e

Google cloud badge Link:-

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I'm Very Excited for the 2nd week.

Thanks to google cloud community & special thank to @emily927 for the opportunity...

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Asitesh Maji

Z_crete

Hello,

In my opinion, I would like to give the 5-star to " Baseline: Infrastructure " quest. After learning the Google Cloud Essential quest(Which many recommends, because it is the main Introductory part of GCP), I recommend you to do the Baseline: Infrastructure quest, because you can learn most basic parts of Google Cloud Platform here. Like what is Cloud storage bucket and how to create it, about the pub/sub topic and how to create a topic & subscription, in IAM(Identity and Access Management) provide different kinds of access(roles) to a user for security purpose, how to create a cloud function & deploy it, etc. And if you want to try out what you have learnt so far, you can also do the challenge lab for this quest I really recommend you to try it, so you can check your skill level. After learning these basic parts you can easily go for the more advanced level quest.

Here's my profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e955d313-982c-427c-9061-626e8c33e807?qlcampaign=...

The badge I have earned: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/e955d313-982c-427c-9061-626e8c33e807/badges/1609...

If you really excited to learn the quest, then please hit the like button.

Thank you. #QwiklabsExpress