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The course left me with rather strange impressions. I have quite a lot of experience in this area, and I am taking the course because it is within the specialization I need. So, everything that is said in this course is correct and good, but I just think that beginners mostly do not need this information. This is what you usually get with experience, and if you just listened to it as part of the course, then most likely you will not even understand what it is and why it is needed, and you will forget it very quickly. Cons: - the presenter has a lot of movement and facial expressions, and this is very distracting. And considering that 80% of the video is the presenter's conversations and a minimum of diagrams, graphs and code, then for the most part the video is the presenter, who distracts you from what she is saying. - the topics are good, but there is no general structure, no diagrams or steps that graphically show something, almost always it is just talk. Information is perceived much better when you simultaneously see a picture on the topic (diagram, graph) and hear the information. And here it is just talk. - quizzes are just awful. I am not a native English speaker, although I do not have any particular problems with perception, I freely watch videos (including in this course), read, take quizzes in other courses, and sometimes I can come across an unfamiliar word and find a translation, this is not a problem. But here the questions in the quizzes are formulated very strangely, I read them several times to understand what they wanted from me, and still sometimes I did not understand, while all the words are clear to me. And this was very annoying, because you are not thinking about the topic of the course, but about what was written in the question. - quizzes again. Often, having finally understood the question, you already know the correct answer in your head, all that's left is to choose it from the suggested ones, but even here it's not that simple. Sometimes none of the suggested answers is correct, and you have to choose the least incorrect one. And sometimes several are correct at once, but you need to choose one, and you need to guess which of the correct ones is more correct according to the authors. I've already taken quite a few courses, but I encountered such a problem for the first time.

This was a great course and the instructor came across as really well prepared and very knowledgable. Unfortunately a big chunk of the content was top be consumed in 'listen only' mode because there was no way how one could replicate the examples on one's own computer.

I am not an expert enough to know how this could be done technically but I am sure there is a way, perhaps starting with giving students the opportunity to download all the scripts used in this course o0n their computer.

And once again, the tasks in the Qwiklabs lab fluctuated from ridiculously easy to far too complex. I think you urgently need to think about the connection between what is being learned in a given segment of a course and what you ask for in a task. It is frustrating if one experiences to be totally stuck because unable to recall knowledge that was being taught three courses ago.

One of Google's better courses, with the usual inscrutable fails seemingly endemic to these Google IT cert programs. While the content tails off a bit at the end in terms of complexity, it is an excellent overview of troubleshooting and debugging. Amanda is an engaging and focused instructor, and the vast majority of video tasks put you right into the problem-solving mindset you'll need to succeed in IT. The course does suffer from the same sort of Qwiklab bitrot I've seen in other Google IT courses -- the last assignment's Google-hosted .csv file was missing when I completed this course. Perhaps Google should troubleshoot and fix that?

This is a good course on troubleshooting and debugging. I think the subject is so vast that the deeper aspects of performance may not be covered at the hardware level or application level. Scenarios with cloud and on-premise examples would have been great. If there is a broader course covering these concepts of performance in on-premise and cloud would be great.

The course itself was very informative, and you learn really to use cool methods, tools, and get a solid explanation of how to approach troubleshooting and debugging techniques. A downside: Qwiklabs assessments was either too easy, or as in week 4 disconnected material and therefore way too hard for me. Learned a lot, 4 out of 5!

Good class. Take notes and record the commands used in the online exams. Instead of trying to duplicate the programs, debug your own to explore the commands discussed. The section on Linux Performance Observability and Performance Tuning Tools is most useful. I wrote a program to process the video text for important items.

This course covered a lot of very important technical content quite well, but the problem was that not a lot of opportunities were presented to practice these new concepts. I would have loved it so much more if there were some more exercise to try out. It was a little too esoteric for my taste (just a "little" bit).

Generally, the course was great. I've learned a lot of technical details related to troubleshooting, code optimization and solving different kinds of problems. I won't give it 5 stars only because there was too much theory and very little practice - I would love to see more programming challenges along the way.

Great course! The only reason im giving 4 stars is because there were many times I wished I could play around with the scripts Amanda was using but I couldn't download it on my pc. Other than that, it was a very informative course, loved learning about the different troubleshooting and debugging techniques.

The course provides a good overview on debugging and troubleshooting and in some cases deeper insights into Linux commands that help to pinpoint the root cause of a problem. However, some of the quizzes and especially the labs are too easy and in some cases don't match the course content well.

The content was good and it was presented well. There is very little Python in this course and some is above the specialization (so far) and some is much more approachable. While troubleshooting and debugging are very important, this course seemed focused on such a wide set of potential issues.

Good course, though not a ton of technical material. It's more focused on general, abstract ways to think through how to solve problems. You get to practice with Python which is nice, but otherwise do not receive a ton of new technical knowledge.

The structure of the course is very good, many subjects are treated in a didactic and striking way. There is confusion in the practice exercises, it is recommended to improve them. Otherwise, I think it is a very good course.

there were some elements in the code where based on information given and research asked the praticals required an advanced understanding. Am still deciding if that was a good or bad thing. Otherwise it was brilliant

It is very interesting course, I like the course material, the organisation and the way it was presented.

However, the last lab assessment had some issues and took me more than a week for the issues to be resolved.

Since the Qwiklabs are not graded, it would be nice to see a correct or working code in the exemplar, especially since the exemplar are also for those who are not able to do or finish the Qwiklab activities.

A lot of information and tools to fix typical problems in IT environments. The course goes not deep because some subjects would take entire courses, so it's a good big picture course.

All the contents are very relevant to troubleshooting and debugging. However, I felt there could have been more elaboration to address the knowledge needed to pass the Qwiklabs.

Knowledgeable content, but they should show more practical exercises and after taking 2-3 test of students on practical knowledge, they should give him the graded assessment.

I didn't learn more about troubleshooting, but I did learn a bit. Also, I really like the animations in the videos. My brother thought that some of them were hilarious!