Professional Cloud Database Engineer — Requirements & Free Practice

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Google Cloud professional role-based certification for database engineering.

Licensing authority: Google, LLC

Initial by examination

Recommended Experience: 5+ years of overall database and IT experience, including 2 years of hands-on experience working with Google Cloud database solutions; no exam prerequisite is stated.

Examination outline

Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions (32%)
- Analyze relevant variables to perform database capacity and usage planning
- Evaluate database high availability and disaster recovery options given the requirements
- Determine how applications will connect to the database
- Evaluate appropriate database solutions on Google Cloud
Manage a solution that can span multiple database technologies (25%)
- Determine database connectivity and access management considerations
- Configure database monitoring and troubleshooting options
- Design database backup and recovery solutions
- Optimize database cost and performance in Google Cloud
- Automate common database tasks
Migrate data solutions (23%)
- Design and implement data migration and replication
Deploy scalable and highly available databases in Google Cloud (20%)
- Apply concepts to implement scalable and highly available databases in Google Cloud

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