#QwiklabsExpress: 5-star labs - Page 2

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
Include the exact name of the lab or quest (will be used to verify your rec!)
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FAQs

Do I have to earn the badge or complete the lab I recommend?
1. Yes! But it doesn't have to have been earned this week.
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1. Reply to this post. Anything outside of this thread will not be considered.
What do you mean, "most likes"?
1. Every Google Cloud Community member can click "like" for any post or comment (it's the "thumbs up" symbol 👍). You can see the number of "likes" in realtime. The 10 recs that receive the most 👍 will be considered.
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 🙂 🎄

Priyabhagat30

Thanks to @Quicklabs and @GoogleCloud to sharing those hands-on labs for students . it is a good platform to learn something new and explore yourself.

My Profile

https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/85fc17bc-5d67-4572-9605-89bb44aff819?qlcampaign=...

I would recommend Google Cloud Essentials . Here you will learn from basic knowledge. you will get hands-on practice with the Google Cloud’s fundamental tools and services. I highly recommend everyone to check out this quest .

Sneha

Greetings! @emily927
That one quest that I would give a five-star recommendation is "Google Cloud Essential". This is the very first lab that I did. It brought my interest in the field and made me know more about the topic. It was a whole new experience. That course gave a vivid clear conception with proper instructions. This is the very first lab that I did. It brought my interest in the field and made me know more about the topic. It was a whole new experience. That course gave a vivid clear conception with proper instructions. I'll encourage all new learners here to enroll in this topic. Happy learning.
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

kanishksingh216

My Recommendation :- Flutter Development ( Quest on Qwiklabs )..

Link to my Profile :

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/74da8ab7-f101-4980-8ae0-8c28c2d39792

I recommended the Flutter Development lab because if anyone wants to learn about the basics of App development , they should consider to start with Flutter Framework , By the help of this Quest anyone could get a basic understanding of flutter and dart language , I highly recommend everyone to check out this quest on qwiklabs.

emily927

I was hoping someone would mention Flutter! 😃

Vishalraj

Like mine also

Shree_Fandat30

Hello I'll recommend *Insights from Data with BigQuery* as a QwiklabsExpress : 5-star labs here we have to deal with SQL and aslo manage database tables in Cloud SQL ,query public tables and load sample data into BigQuery (fully managed enterprise data warehouse that helps you manage and analyze your data with built-in features like machine learning, geospatial analysis, and business intelligence.)and also to crate a chart in Google sheets, and export that data to google slides which creates reports in Google Data studios by connecting to BigQuery data.which is very taskful and interesting lab as per my recommendation here is my

Skills bost profile link :https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/1ab97c22-6d1b-4118-ab05-921d5362528d

And my recommended 5star Quest i.e

Insights from Data with BigQuery

Is https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/1ab97c22-6d1b-4118-ab05-921d5362528d/badges/1410...

Hope you like my recommendation @emily927 .

Sakshi_F

Good recs.

Ananya_G

Good recommendation 👍

sangeetamahala3

First of all i would like to say that thank you so much #Qwiklabs and #googlecloudplatform for providing such a wonderful opportunity for student.

I have completed the Confluent on Google Cloud which is provided by #Qwiklabs, #googlecloud and #confluent.By participating this Challenge i got how to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka® and performed various hands-on labs on the different functionalities of Confluent on Google Cloud.

Qwiklabs provides learning environments that help students, developers and IT professionals get hands-on experience working with Google cloud platforms and software. I definitely recommended to all giving your all efforts to this hands-on practices and learn new technology by using this platform and you will get a better improvement about GCP on your career path as well.

My Badge : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f5775d37-0fe8-4125-b74d-28bb413aa2bf/badges/1590...

My Qwiklabs Profile: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/f5775d37-0fe8-4125-b74d-28bb413aa2bf

Special thanks to @emily927 for the support.

#gcp #googlecloudplatform #qwiklabs #google #code #security #learning #knowledge #opportunity

SONU_GANDHI

#QwiklabsExpress: 5-star labs

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress : 5 star

Hey folks,

Today I am giving 5 star of 'Networking in google cloud lab' ,In this I learn lot of things related to network which develop skills and helps in future.also all these labs gives knowledge. Thank u so much organizing such events ,so that developing skills

I learned through out in this lab User authentication: Identity-Aware Proxy, Multiple vpc networks, VPC Networks -controlling access,HTTP Load Balancer with cloud armor, Internal Load Balancer,This lab demonstrates a common enterprise use case for Google Cloud's Packet Mirroring in conjunction with an Open Source Intrusion Detection System.

My profile URL :

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

My Badge Link:

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

Thank You Google cloud for organizing such events , Every events give some more and more Knowledge and develop skills.

thanks @emily927 for giving me a chance to write my opinion.

Once again thank You [#Qwiklab Express]

PLEASE LIKE MY POST , THANK YOU!!!😊

Sneha

WHY DID YOU COPY MY COMMENT!

SONU_GANDHI

Please check my post is different for you not same !!! I think u have not seen properly,please @emily927 see this person blaming others.

Abhishek213

Post the link of ur post. In comments

Vandana

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Learning-Forums/QwiklabsExpress-5-star-labs/td-p/180130#.YcG...

Sneha

You edited your comment. I'm pretty sure admin can see if a post is edited. Peace. @emily927

Nupur2

Please like mine also

AyushShah

Hi,
Madam/Sir,

Hope your doing well and if not guaranteed you are going your best to make it an awesome one..!

I have completed Baseline: Infrastructure Badge and it was really an master piece because it helped me a lot.

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

It is very helpful for every Developer and if you're a developer you should 100% do it.

I thank Google and Qwiklabs for this opportunity.

Badge Profile:-- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/920f013f-3cb1-433b-9779-2a49d0d2d66d/badges/1604...

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This also help me getting good marks in the test which I do as developer. In fact i also got a job in famous named company after doing all these labs.

So definitely with no doubt, you should also try these lab and I am sure that it will give you good result one day.

@emily927 I want to Thank you very very much.

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swapniljha

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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.

Profile Link - https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d6071b65-76f4-49c4-9de1-f70d2a557d70

Akshat512

BigQuery for Marketing Analysts. This is the lab which I will definitely give 5-star to.

This is an Insightful, easy to follow, complete hands-on lab for starting as a Data Analyst .An amazing quest that guides easily how to start with BigQuery from scratch.

Learnt a lot from this quest and had a plenty of exercises and tools like sql , data studio , big query etc to use from which gave basic insights of how to use it.

Really enjoyed doing this quest

Public profile link :

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/fce82bb7-8cae-4334-9648-1255dec5a22b

emily927

Agree, this is a good one! This is the quest that taught me not to be afraid of BigQuery 🙂

Vandana

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Learning-Forums/QwiklabsExpress-5-star-labs/td-p/180130#.YcG...

Like this please

Aathil2002

My public profile link https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/b3000d32-ac7c-429e-a870-0277f e43b480

The lab I recommend :- Language, Speech, Text, & Translation with Google Cloud APIs( https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/179 )

We can learn The Speech-to-Text API transcribe audio speech files to text files in over 80 languages.

Automated Speech Recognition (ASR), also known as machine transcription or Speech-to-Text, uses machine learning to turn audio containing speech into text. ASR has many applications from subtitling, to virtual assistants, to IVRs, to dictation, and more. However, machine learning systems are rarely 100% accurate and ASR is no exception. If you plan to rely on ASR for critical systems it's very important to measure its accuracy or overall quality to understand how it will perform in your broader system.

Once you measure your accuracy, it’s possible to tune the systems to provide even greater accuracy for your specific situation. In Google’s Cloud Speech-to-Text API, accuracy tuning is done using our Speech Adaptation API

The Cloud Translation API Google’s neural machine translation technology to instantly translate texts into more than one hundred languages.

The Cloud Natural Language API lets you extract entities from text, perform sentiment and syntactic analysis, and classify text into categories. . Using a database of 700+ categories, this API feature makes it easy to classify a large dataset of text.

The Cloud Natural Language API lets you extract entities from text, perform sentiment and syntactic analysis, and classify text into categories.

it was very nicely explained so any one can understand and perform labs. very nice exprience. Cleared my doubts regarding the basic concepts of GCP also. so many insights from this lab.

Vandana

https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Learning-Forums/QwiklabsExpress-5-star-labs/td-p/180130#.YcG...

Like this

Abhishek213

Heloo Gcc family the quest I liked the most is Google Cloud Essentials Quest the reason I like this quest is its beginner friendly basically giving a quick tour to our amazing platform QWIKLABS and Google Cloud Console.ike

How to create a Virtual Machine (VM)?

How powerful cloudshell is and how can we use it ( Cloud Shell and the Cloud SDK gcloud command.)?

Kubernetes basic Idea - How we can deploy a containerized application with Kubernetes Engine

Working with load balancers (TCP/HTTP)

Among all labs, I liked the load balancers the most since I reported a bug that QWIKLABS was able to find and fix, and they were really grateful for it.

Qwiklabs new learners should first try this quest and then move on to other quests after reading articles and documentation and experimenting with things like how to create a bucket using cloud shell instead of console (command to make bucket- gsutil mb gs://BUCKET_NAME). It will save you a lot of time.

Quest name - Google Cloud Essentials

Fav lab- Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers

QWIKLABS PROFILE LINK - https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f99cc491-0ef7-4f3f-85f5-d7d5c388e86c

I love QWiklabs a lot, and the speedrun and quest challenges give me a chance to explore the platform, and I discover something new every single time I play

Thanks @emily927 for this amazing opportunity

Ananya_G

I would give 5 star recommendation to the quest-"Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud"(https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/128).

I completed this quest in 30 days of Google Cloud Program.

In this quest, I learned how to enable Identity-Aware Proxy, created VPC networks, created virtual machine instances with nginx web servers using Compute Engine and firewall rules to control internal and external access to VMs. I also learned a lot about HTTP load balancers and Google Cloud Armor.

In today's world, data leak has become a major problem. There has been an alarming increase in cyber crimes and cyber attacks. Keeping the current situation in mind, its important to protect personal information and networks from cyber attacks. It is crucial to keep your device safe and protected from the invasion of computer viruses and other malicious softwares.

In "Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud" quest you learn about multiple networking resources that will help to build, scale and secure your applications on Google Cloud.

The quest is easy to follow and you'll learn a lot about VPC(Virtual Private Cloud) Networks.

In the #Qwiklabs Express 2021 Challenge do give this quest a try and learn a lot about network security before the year 2021 ends.

Happy Learning 🙂

My Qwiklabs Profile URL:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d4713d5b-7e84-4318-a452-afc67b234553

My Badge URL:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/d4713d5b-7e84-4318-a452-afc67b234553/badges/1351846

Thank you @emily927 for the wonderful event.

#Qwiklabs Express 2021 # Qwiklabs #GCP #Happy Learning

Aditya_

Good rec Ananya 👍

Ohm

Yesss it taught me many new things

emily927

Good pick - agreed, this is a really important topic. More security-related learning experiences coming in early 2022, hope you'll join us again!

Ananya_G

Definitely ma'am. Looking forward for it.

RiyaGoyal

@emily927 #QwiklabsExpress

Name of the Quest :- Google Cloud Essentials

Public profile link :- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d02a2458-6690-4235-ab94-78919a6a65e6

Badge link :- https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d02a2458-6690-4235-ab94-78919a6a65e6/badges/1593...

I would like to give 5-star to this Quest. This was the first lab that I did. Performing this Quest I learned about Cloud shell, Kubernates Engine, Virtual Machines, Load Balancers and much basic knowledge to getting started with Google cloud world. Performing this quest was quite fun and enjoyed a lot by doing the new challenge.

I'll encourage all new learners here to enroll in this quest and have that fun while learning that never had before.

Happy learning.

vruhela

All aboard the #QwiklabsExpress!

Hello @emily927 Ma'am and Google Cloud Community (GCC) !!

I have completed the "Google Cloud Essentials Quest".

Badge Link :-

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/2022eaa1-359f-4a3e-ad32-92acf375bb33/badges/1600178

Skill Boost Profile Link :-

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/2022eaa1-359f-4a3e-ad32-92acf375bb33

I learned the fundamentals of Google cloud and I have a very strong foundation of Google Cloud. Thanks to Google Cloud and Qwiklabs for giving me this wonderful opportunity to learn about Google Cloud. I would like to give 5 start rating to this quest because it gave me a very good understanding of GCP.

Shree_Fandat30

Great recs 👍 if you like mine to hit the like button on my post☺️

vruhela

Sure I'll do that

sumithprabhu

I will do urs too

If u do mine

sumithprabhu

Sure I will if do for mine..

Let's see

SOURABH

#QwiklabsExpress: 5-star labs

Greetings! @emily927
That one quest that I would give a five-star recommendation is "

Networking in Google Cloud

". This is the very first lab that I did. It brought my interest in the field and made me know more about the topic. It was a whole new experience. That course gave a vivid clear conception with proper instructions. This is the very first lab that I did. It brought my interest in the field and made me know more about the topic. It was a whole new experience. That course gave a vivid clear conception with proper instructions. I'll encourage all new learners here to enroll in this topic. Happy learning.

I learned through out this lab Multiple VPC Networks, User Authentication: Identity-Aware Proxy, VPC Networks - Controlling Access, HTTP Load Balancer with Cloud Armor, Create an Internal Load Balancer, Google Cloud Packet Mirroring with OpenSource IDS all these lab very help give some knowledege and develop skills

My Public Profile url:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f6bc090f-8b8f-4947-ad36-dfa315318f75

My Badge Link:

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/f6bc090f-8b8f-4947-ad36-dfa315318f75/badges/1608494

Also i would like to give it a 5 star as much basic knowledge we get to it by completing the quest.

@emily927 thnks very much.

emily927

Your first badge ever was Networking? I'm impressed! Nice work and thank you for sharing your experience!

Anish121

Hello @emily927

#QwiklabsExpress

The Quest I can give 5 Star and recommend is Create and Manage Cloud Resources.

In this Lab teaches you how to write gcloud commands and use Cloud Shell, You learn how to create and deploy virtual machines in Compute Engine, run containerized applications on Google Kubernetes Engine, and configure network and HTTP load balancers.

You learn about Kubernetes Engine and Create A Cluster, Deploy Application to It.

Kubernetes as a topic is very interesting and i loved to learn more and more about it.

This was My Second Qwiklabs Skill Badge.

I loved the overall quest and the challenge Lab.

Qwiklabs Profile: - https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/3a05a0fd-10b0-4dca-aea7-6ef7d170a853

Glad to Share the skilled Badge with you all.

I definitely recommend anyone learning Google Cloud to try this lab Once.

Thank You,

Anish.

chaitanya123

Hello @emily927 Ma'am,

Qwiklabs is a great learning platform which helps students, developers and IT professionals can get hands-on experience. I will surely recommended all that give your 100% efforts to this hands-on practices and learn new technology. It is great source to learn new things about Cloud and many more.
I have successfully completed the challenge of Confluent on Google which was provided by Qwiklabs, Confluent and Google Cloud .By participating in this Challenge I learned to deploy and create a streaming data pipeline with Apache Kafka® and performed various hands-on labs on the different functionalities of Confluent on Google Cloud.

My Badge Link: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d2fcb8dd-fa5e-4921-b2c9-45535ffa00a0/badges/1592...

My Qwiklabs Profile : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/public_profiles/d2fcb8dd-fa5e-4921-b2c9-45535ffa00a0

Thank you Confluent , Google Cloud and Qwiklabs for organizing such a wonderful opportunity.

Shubham24

https://www.qwiklabs.com/public_profiles/4324e3de-2a47-46ac-90d4-115d8ab42d70

#QwicklabExpress ,

(GOOGLE CLOUD ESSENTIALS) -LAB NAME

Glad to show you all that i completed my Badge for Google Cloud Essentials.

Further i would like to add that i got to know much knowledge about google cloud, virtual machine and much more during the time when i was completing it.

Also i would like to give it a 5 star as much basic knowledge we get to it by completing the quest.

Thanks @emily927 .

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