Prepare to apply comprehensive IT automation skills learned throughout this program. This course challenges you with real-world scenarios in Qwiklabs, where you will use multiple abilities at once, including external Python modules like PIL and data serialization for APIs. This is the sixth and final course in the Google IT Automation with Python Certificate, a series designed to prepare you for an entry-level IT support role.

Syllabus

Manipulating images

Course introduction
Welcome to the Course!
Module 1 Introduction
Distributed systems
NALSD
Built-In Libraries vs. External Libraries
What is an API?
How to Make Sense of an API?
Generate and manage containers
Generate and manage containers: VS Studio & Docker
How to Use PIL for Working With Images
Project Problem Statement
Glossary terms from course 6, module 1
Qwiklabs Guidelines and Troubleshooting Steps
Scaling and converting images using PIL
Exemplar: Scale and convert images using PIL
Graded Quiz: Module 1 challenge: Scale and convert images using PIL

Interacting with web services

Module 2 Introduction
Web Applications and Services
RESTful APIs
What is REST architecture?
Using REST APIs to access web data
Python tools for REST APIs
What is Flask?
How to use Flask
Data Serialization
Data Serialization Formats
More About JSON
The Python Requests Library
Useful Operations for Python Requests
HTTP GET and POST Methods
What is Django?
Project Problem Statement
Glossary terms from course 6, module 2
Processing Text Files with Python Dictionaries and Uploading to Running Web Service
Exemplar: Process text files with Python dictionaries and upload to running web service
Graded Quiz: Module 2 challenge: Process Text Files with Python Dictionaries and Upload to Running Web Service

Automatic output generation

Module 3 Introduction
Logging
The logging module
Exception handling
Exception handling examples
Introduction to Python Email Library
Adding Attachments
Sending the Email Through an SMTP Server
Introduction to Generating PDFs
Adding Tables to our PDFs
Adding Graphics to our PDFs
Project Problem Statement
Automatically Generate a PDF and sending it by E-mail
Exemplar: Automatically Generate a PDF and send it by email
Graded Quiz: Module 3 challenge: Automatically Generate a PDF and Send it by Email
DevOps
SLAs
SLOs
SLIs
Error budgets
DevOps review
Practice Quiz: DevOps
Glossary terms from course 6, module 3
IT skills in action reading