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IT administration

Establish administrators, billing accounts, and other settings in your Google Cloud environment.

FinOps administration

Set up billing, spending notifications, and resource structure to facilitate cost monitoring and optimization.

Security engineering

Familiarize yourself with core security concepts and tools that impact your security, privacy, and compliance controls.

DevOps engineering

Start automating infrastructure and secure collaboration with teammates using Google Cloud tools and best practices.

Application development

Get basic API access and set up a development environment that can interact with Google Cloud services.

Data analysis

Analyze sample data using Google Cloud products with minimal setup.

Begin building

Explore products

Grow skills

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