The following collection of hands-on-labs on Qwiklabs has been made available to scholars of the Andela Learning Community (ALC) 4.0 program. A collaboration between Andela, Google and Pluralsight to grow with Google technology.

The links require that you're logged into your account on [Pluralsight](https://www.pluralsight.com/). Eventually, the links might stop to work after expiration of the program in January 2020. Alternatively, you can go directly to [Qwiklabs](https://www.qwiklabs.com/) and create an account on their platform.

Although phase 1 of the program has been concluded already I should have created the following set of URLs some weeks ago. Hence the article is more of a bookmark for my studies towards the [Associate Cloud Engineer](https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-engineer) exam than some instructions. Not sure whether it's going to be helpful for anyone outside the ALC 4.0 program.

Feedback is most welcome in the comment section below.

## Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform  
Lab: [Getting Started with Cloud Launcher](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab01)  
*Note*: Cloud Launcher has been renamed into **Marketplace**  
  
Virtual Machines and Networks in the Cloud  
Lab: [Getting Started with Compute Engine](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab02)  
  
Storage in the Cloud  
Lab: [Getting Started with Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab03)  
  
Containers in the Cloud  
Lab: [Getting Started with Kubernetes Engine](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab04)  
  
Applications in the Cloud  
Lab: [Getting Started with App Engine](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab05)  
  
Developing, Deploying, and Monitoring in the Cloud  
Lab: [Getting Started with Deployment Manager and Stackdriver](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab06)  
  
Big Data and Machine Learning in the Cloud  
Lab: [Getting Started with BigQuery](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course01_Lab07)

## Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation

Introduction to Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure  
Lab: [Console and Cloud Shell](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course02_Lab01)  
Lab: [Infrastructure Preview](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course02_Lab02)  
  
Virtual Networking  
Lab: [Virtual Networking](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course02_Lab03)  
Lab: [Bastion Host](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course02_Lab04)  
  
Virtual Machines  
Lab: [Creating Virtual Machines](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course02_Lab05)  
Lab: [Working with Virtual Machines](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course02_Lab06)

## Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services

Cloud IAM  
Lab: [Cloud IAM](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab01)  
  
Data Storage Services  
Lab: [Cloud Storage](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab02)  
Lab: [Cloud SQL](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab03)  
Lab: [Datastore](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab04)  
  
Resource Management  
Lab: [Examining Billing Data with BigQuery](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab05)  
  
Resource Monitoring  
Lab: [Resource Monitoring with Stackdriver](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab06)  
Lab: [Error Reporting and Debugging with Stackdriver](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course03_Lab07)

## Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation

Interconnecting Networks  
Lab: [Virtual Private Networks (VPN)](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course04_Lab01)  
  
Load Balancing  
Lab: [Virtual Machine Automation and Load Balancing](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course04_Lab02)  
  
Autoscaling  
Lab: [Autoscaling](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course04_Lab03)  
  
Infrastructure Automation with Cloud API  
Lab: [Google Cloud Platform API Infrastructure Automation](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course04_Lab04)  
  
Infrastructure Automation with Deployment Manager  
Lab: [Deployment Manager](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course04_Lab05)

## Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services

Containers  
Lab: [Kubernetes Load Balancing](https://plrsig.ht/GCP_Course05_Lab01)

<small>Image credit: Eliabe Costa</small>