InFocus This Week: Google Skills Arcade December 2025

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As we step into the final month of this Google Skills Arcade season, December drops in with a new set of games to learn from. Here’s what’s in focus this week:

Copy of Arcade November 2025

Level 1: Applied Intelligence & Cloud Architecture
Modern systems process huge volumes of data and documents every day, and this challenge shows you how those pieces work together.
In this level, you will:

  • Extract insights with Document AI

  • Organize and govern datasets with Dataplex

  • Secure workloads using Cloud KMS

  • Build apps on Kubernetes Engine, Firebase, AppSheet, and Streamlit

A practical path that blends intelligence with architecture!

Level 2: Strategic Cloud Security & Intelligent Network Design
Security and network reliability sit at the heart of every cloud setup.
In this level, you will:

  • Manage Vault policies and tokens

  • Validate SQL Server workloads

  • Review alerts in Google SecOps

  • Build VPC-to-VPC and hybrid connectivity with Network Connectivity Center

  • Configure geolocation routing

  • Use ML APIs for translation, text analysis, and speech enhancement

A mix of tools that help you understand how secure and connected systems hold together!

Level 3: Cloud Development Essentials
Strong apps rely on solid fundamentals.
In this level, you will:

  • Continue through ACE App Dev labs

  • Write to Firestore with Python and TypeScript

  • Strengthen core networking concepts

  • Build confidence with everyday Linux commands

A set of skills every cloud developer needs!

Start exploring the December games and make steady progress toward your next Arcade Point!

See You In The Cloud!

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We will be glad if you guys give us a participation certificate in the arcade

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Will there be 2 point games this time are you going to skip them this time too like with you did with november month?

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After a Lot of time, really excited to see “InFocus This Week"

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i have a doubt, how do i complete the what’s next part in the base camp or any other camp because it is specifically written that i have to complete every activity in this game to earn a badge

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can anyone solve this problem that i am facing this problem in week 1 lab 3 (VPC Flow Logs - Analyzing Network Traffic) task 2 (instal apache server task is not working )

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bro can we expect special games for this month

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@Yugali

Can we expect special games for this month in account of Christmas or New year may be

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Chances are less as December games started late and last is date is 28th Dec 2025. Most probably Arcade season 2025 season also ends on 28th Dec 2025

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Petition to replace arcade Laptop Sleeve swag with something more useful please, we keep our laptops in our bags anyway please give something more useful. Also this year’s swags are duller, less exciting and not so useful compared previous season and cohort swags.

We put more effort this cohort yet we got lower quality swags!

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Don’t expect anything . Those are not fulfilling by the Arcade team unfortunately

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You could try and set to false the metadata in the compute engine vm that says os-enabled-login. (That worked for me)

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There should be hoodie :coat: for Ranger tier swag also.

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i just started the arcade games at the end of November. now im asking will i get a swag with just 12 point after i finish the december game

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@abelkihara8 ,
You need to earn minimum 25 points by 28th December to be eligible for Novice tier swags.

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okay​:cry::cry::cry:

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@abelkihara8
you can do skill badges . each skill badge - 0.5 points

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i have a total of 67 skill badges. Meaning i have more than enough

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67 skill badges = 33.5 points = will be considered as 33 points.

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I am getting this error when trying to complete “Monitoring in Google Cloud: Challenge Lab”. The list of VMs is unable to load.

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Is anyone else having this issue?