A Professional Data Engineer empowers data-driven decisions by collecting, transforming, storing, and delivering data for diverse applications. A Professional Data Engineer designs and builds robust data infrastructure, optimizing for performance and security. This individual evaluates and selects solutions to meet business and regulatory needs, and administers data platforms effectively. A Professional Data Engineer leverages the latest technologies for data processing, cleaning, enrichment, and query generation and translation. A Professional Data Engineer understands the intricacies of data storage and processing, and is adept at designing, building, deploying, monitoring, maintaining, optimizing, and securing complex workloads.
The Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer exam assesses your ability to:
- Design data processing systems
- Ingest and process the data
- Store the data
- Prepare and use data for analysis
- Maintain and automate data workloads
Prerequisites
Recommended experience: 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud.
Recommended training for this certification
Exams
About this certification exam
- Length: 2 hours
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Exam format: 40-50 multiple choice and multiple select questions
1. Review the exam guide
The exam guide contains a list of topics that may be included on the exam, helping you determine if your skills align with the topics on the exam.
2. Training
Prepare for the exam by exploring online training, in-person classes, hands-on labs, and other resources from Google Cloud.
3. Sample questions
Review sample questions to familiarize yourself with the format of exam questions and example content that may be covered on the Data Engineer exam.
4. Schedule an exam
Register and select whether to take the exam remotely or at a nearby testing center.
Recertification
Certification is valid for two years.
If you are renewing your certification, you can choose to take the shorter renewal exam or the standard exam starting 60 days before your expiration date. Once you have chosen either the standard or renewal exam path, you will stay in that path until you pass or your certification expires.