Supercharge your learning in Qwiklabs, with these 5 tips

Weiyuan
The Startup
Published in
6 min readApr 19, 2020

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GCP with Qwiklabs, source: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qwiklabs-inc-/

Learning about the cloud platforms and managed tools within Google Cloud Platform (GCP), has never been easier with Qwiklabs. As compared to traditional means of reading through numerous pages of documentation, followed by using the tools without much guidance, Qwiklabs offer users temporary sessions to try out different tools via their “labs”. These sessions provides the users with a hands-on perspective in using these tools, with diverse lesson plans for different Cloud topics suited for each student.

On top of the guided labs, users can also complete “quests”, which are a collection of labs. Each completed quest can earn you a badge, which will be displayed on your own public profile.

I’ve been following Qwiklabs for close to two years now, and have discovered different tips and tricks to supercharge my experience 😆 . Here are 5 tips and tricks to supercharge your learning experience with Qwiklabs.

Disclaimer: I’m not sponsored by Qwiklabs, but I really love this learning platform XD

Tip #1: Cloud Shell is magical, so make it bigger!

When using Google Cloud Platform, one of the “magical” tools that gets featured often in different Qwiklabs sessions, is the Cloud Shell. Instead of installing the Google Cloud…

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Weiyuan
The Startup

Senior Engineering Manager, Ascenda Loyalty | Former Engineering Manager, Grab | Former Director of Engineering, ZilLearn | bit.ly/weiyuan