Free GCP Data Engineer Exam Prep
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
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- •Certification valid for 2 years; renewal required
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Time to Get Licensed
6-10 weeks for most candidates
From start to license in hand
Exam Provider
Pearson VUE (test center and online proctored); registration through Google Cloud CM Connect
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Associate and professional exams allow up to 4 attempts in a 2-year period: wait 14 days after the first failed attempt, 60 days after the second, and 365 days after the third. Every attempt counts regardless of exam language or delivery method, and the full fee is payable each time.
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What You'll Study
15 chapters covering the exam topics in this guide
Chapter 1: Security, IAM, and Data Protection
3 sections
Chapter 2: Reliability and Compliance Architecture
3 sections
Chapter 3: Cross-Cloud and Federated Governance
3 sections
Chapter 4: Data Ingestion and Pipeline Planning
3 sections
Chapter 5: Streaming Ingestion with Cloud Pub/Sub
3 sections
Chapter 6: Pipeline Processing with Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow
3 sections
Chapter 7: Advanced Dataflow: Robustness and Exactly-Once Semantics
3 sections
Chapter 8: Managed Data Processing: Cloud Dataproc and Cloud Data Fusion
3 sections
Chapter 9: Storage Selection and Cloud Storage Architecture
3 sections
Chapter 10: Relational Cloud Databases: Cloud Spanner and Cloud SQL
3 sections
Chapter 11: Scalable NoSQL Databases: Cloud Bigtable and Firestore
3 sections
Chapter 12: Enterprise Data Warehousing with BigQuery
4 sections
Chapter 13: Advanced Analytical Queries and Transformations in BigQuery
3 sections
Chapter 14: Machine Learning and Feature Engineering with BigQuery ML
3 sections
Chapter 15: Operations, Orchestration, and Data Governance
3 sections
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GCP Data Engineer Exam Details
Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
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Exam Content Breakdown
Based on the official Google Cloud content outline
Security and compliance, reliability and fidelity, flexibility and portability, and data migration design
Pipeline planning, building pipelines with Dataflow, Dataproc, Data Fusion and Pub/Sub, then deploying and operationalizing them
Selecting storage systems, data warehouse planning and modeling, data lake management, and data platform design
Preparing data for visualization, preparing data for AI and ML, and sharing data through Analytics Hub
Resource optimization, automation and repeatability, workload organization, monitoring and troubleshooting, and failure mitigation
What's Included
15 Chapters
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