September 20, 2019

Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

This is part of Cloud Engineering with Google Cloud Professional Specialization

This accelerated on-demand course introduced the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, we explored and deploy solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, systems and applications services. This course also covered deploying practical […]

August 17, 2019

Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services

This is part of Architecting with Google Compute Engine Specialization

In this course, we explored services provided to applications built on GCP that enhance the scalability and maintainability. We worked with services like Google Cloud Pub/Sub and Google Cloud Functions to make applications more efficient. We explored the use of containers on GCP. Learnings: Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals. Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation. Essential Cloud Infrastructure: […]

July 12, 2019

The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking

This is part of the Google IT Support Professional Specialization

This course is designed to provide a full overview of computer networking. We covered everything from the fundamentals of modern networking technologies and protocols to an overview of the cloud to practical applications and network troubleshooting. Learnings: Describe computer networks in terms of a five-layer model. Grasp powerful network troubleshooting tools and techniques. Understand all […]

July 12, 2019

Google IT Support Professional Specialization

This program includes over 100 hours of instruction and hundreds of practice-based assessments, which helps simulate real-world IT support scenarios that are critical for success in the workplace. Through a mix of videos, assessments, and hands-on labs, we’re introduced to troubleshooting, customer service, networking, operating systems, and security — foundational IT skills. Skills include: Network […]

April 26, 2019

Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User

This is part of the Google IT Support Professional Specialization

In this course — through a combination of video lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice — we learn about the main components of an operating system and how to perform critical tasks like managing software and users, and configuring hardware. Learnings: Configure disk partitions and filesystems. Set up users, groups, and permissions for account access. Install, […]

April 21, 2019

System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services

This is part of the Google IT Support Professional Specialization

This course transition IT specialists from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computers systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, we learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We deep dive […]

April 12, 2019

Technical Support Fundamentals

This is part of the Google IT Support Professional Specialization

This course is the first of a series that aims to prepare for a role as an entry-level IT Support Specialist. In this course, we’re introduced to the world of Information Technology, or IT. We learned about the different facets of Information Technology, like computer hardware, the Internet, computer software, troubleshooting, and customer service. This […]

March 30, 2019

How Google does Machine Learning

This is part of the Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization

What is machine learning, and what kinds of problems can it solve? Google thinks about machine learning slightly differently — of being about logic, rather than just data. We talk about why such a framing is useful for data scientists when thinking about building a pipeline of machine learning models. Then, we discuss the five […]

March 10, 2019

Essential Google Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation

This is part of Architecting with Google Compute Engine Specialization

Through this accelerated on-demand course, we got introduced to participants to the comprehensive and flexible infrastructure and platform services provided by Google Cloud with a focus on Compute Engine. Through a combination of video lectures, demos, and hands-on labs, we explored and deployed solution elements, including infrastructure components such as networks, virtual machines and applications […]

February 4, 2019

Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

This is part of Cloud Architecture with Google Cloud Professional Specialization

We got introduced you to important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We learned about, and compared, many of the computing and storage services available in Google Cloud Platform, including Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. We learned about important […]