SPEAKER: Let's get started with Coursera.
The architecting with Google Cloud Platform
specialization on Coursera comprises six courses as shown.
When your email address has been added,
you will get an invitation email.
To start learning on Coursera, open the Google Cloud Coursera
invitation email.
The email has the subject line, "Join the Associate Cloud
engineer track offered by Google Cloud."
In the email, click "Join Now" to join the Associate Cloud
engineer track.
You will then create or sign into your Coursera account
and agree to join the program.
Enroll in the first course, Google Cloud Platform
Fundamentals core infrastructure.
Courses have videos, hands on Qwiklabs, and quizzes.
The courses provide an in-depth explanation of key concepts
through videos.
You then learn to apply the concepts by practicing
with hands on labs.
Here's my colleague Philip Meyer giving you
an overview of Qwiklabs.
PHILIPP MAIER: Hello, and welcome.
I'm Philipp Maier, a course developer with Google Cloud
Platform.
And this is a brief tutorial on using Qwiklabs in this course.
I'm about to show you the interactive hands
on labs platform called Qwiklabs,
which is part of Google Cloud.
Qwiklabs allows you to get practical hands on experience
with GCP and provisions you with Google account credentials
so you can access a GCP console at no cost.
The first step is to log into Coursera
in an incognito window.
Depending on your browser, it may also
be called private browsing or InPrivate browsing.
Logging into Coursera from a private window
ensures that you don't accidentally
use your own Google account while accessing the Google
Cloud console.
We don't want you to get any unexpected bills
at the end of the month.
Check out the links below this video for different browser
support articles.
Once logged into Coursera using an incognito window,
return to your course and go to the lab activity page.
So if prompted, you want to accept the honor code,
and you might even have to enter your name.
Then you want to click the "open tool" button
to open the lab in a new tab.
So within the new tab, you can now click "start lab,"
and you want to wait until the "lab running" is displayed.
For each lab you will have a timer in the top right
with the remaining access time.
Your lab will automatically end when the timer runs out.
On the left, you have the connections detail.
Click "open Google console," and then
sign in with the username and password provided
in the connections detail pane.
So I'm going to copy the username, paste that in here.
I'm also going to take the password, paste it in here too.
Now Qwiklabs creates a new account for you each time
you launch a lab.
Therefore you need to click through the initial account set
up windows.
So essentially any to accept this.
I don't need to add any recovery phone number,
so I can just click done.
I'm going to agree to the terms and services,
and I don't need any emails.
Now I can verify that I'm using the Qwiklabs provided
account and project within the GCB console.
So up here I see the project ID, and over here I
can see the username.
And these are the same ones that I
was provided with in the connections detail pane.
You can also see that the timer is still running.
Now some labs track you work within the Qwiklabs provided
GCP project.
If this is enabled, you'll see a score
in the top right corner of the window,
as you can see right here.
Your score increases as objectives are met,
and you can click on the score to view the individual steps
to be scored.
Now that I've completed the lab, I
can see my score has been updated,
and I'm ready to click "end lab."
Once I click "end lab," the Qwiklabs
provided project and any resources within that project
will be deleted.
I can close a Qwiklabs lab page, and my grade
will be updated with my lab score in Coursera.
That's it for this tutorial.
Remember to launch Coursera in an incognito window
and use the Qwiklabs provided credentials
to sign into the GCP console.
Good luck with the labs, and enjoy the rest of this course.
SPEAKER: To summarize, complete the architecting with Google
Cloud Platform specialization on Coursera,
practice with hands on labs on Qwiklabs,
and review related product documentation.