Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer standard exam — Information & Free Practice
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Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer standard exam
- Format
- multiple choice and multiple select questions
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 40–50.
- Time limit
- 2 hours
- Exam fee
- $200 (plus tax where applicable)
Examination outline
Designing data processing systems (22%)
- Designing for security and compliance
- Designing for reliability and fidelity
- Designing for flexibility and portability
- Designing data migrations
Ingesting and processing the data (25%)
- Planning the data pipelines
- Building the pipelines
- Deploying and operationalizing the pipelines
Storing the data (20%)
- Selecting storage systems
- Planning for using a data warehouse
- Using a data lake
- Designing for a data platform
Preparing and using data for analysis (15%)
- Preparing data for visualization
- Preparing data for AI and ML
- Sharing data
Maintaining and automating data workloads (18%)
- Optimizing resources
- Designing automation and repeatability
- Organizing workloads based on business requirements
- Monitoring and troubleshooting processes
- Maintaining awareness of failures and mitigating impact
Examination sources
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification page
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- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification page
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- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification page
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- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification page
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- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification page
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