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Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
The Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer (PDE) certification validates your skills in designing, building, deploying, monitoring, maintaining, and securing data processing workloads on Google Cloud.
Exam code
Google Clou
Duration
120 min
Questions
60
Official Prerequisites
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud data services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Dataproc
Targeted Professions
Data Engineer Big Data Engineer Cloud Data Architect Machine Learning EngineerDomain blueprint
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Design data processing architectures with security and compliance considerations, including IAM policies, encryption and key management, privacy (DLP API), regional data sovereignty, and legal/regulatory requirements.
Build and operationalize data ingestion pipelines using batch and streaming services (e.g., Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc), perform ETL/ELT transformations, and orchestrate workflows for reliable data processing.
Select and configure appropriate storage solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, Cloud SQL), design schemas and partitioning strategies, and optimize for performance, scalability, and cost.
Prepare datasets for analytics and ML by cleansing and transforming data (e.g., Dataprep, BigQuery SQL), create materialized views, integrate with BI tools, and implement data pipelines to support analysis and visualization.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines, automate deployment and orchestration (e.g., Cloud Composer/Workflow, CI/CD), manage job scheduling, and optimize for reliability and cost efficiency.
Domain 5
Section 5: Maintaining and automating data workloads
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines, automate deployment and orchestration (e.g., Cloud Composer/Workflow, CI/CD), manage job scheduling, and optimize for reliability and cost efficiency.
Study Tip
Align study to the official exam blueprint, take timed practice tests, perform weak-area drills with hands-on labs, review answer rationales carefully, and repeat timed blocks to build pacing and confidence.
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