How I Passed Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam

Vidushraj Chandrasekaran
3 min readAug 12, 2022
Source: https://tzamtzis.gr/2018/digital-analytics/becoming-gcp-data-engineer/

Hi!

I’ve passed the GCP Professional Data Engineer certification exam with nearly 60 days of preparation while working full-time as a data engineer. I was able to crack this exam in a single sitting. As a data engineer who wants to upgrade their skills in google cloud, I would recommend following this exam syllabus. With the growth of cloud computing, companies have been migrating their on-premises infrastructure to the cloud which offers scalability, unlimited data storage, failover recovery, and so on ..!

Available Google Cloud Certifications

The GCP Data Engineer Exam assesses your ability to:

  1. Design data processing systems.
  2. Building and operationalizing data processing systems.
  3. Operationalizing machine learning models.
  4. Ensuring solution quality.

In this exam, you will get 50 questions and 120 minutes to answer them which means you can get 2.4 minutes per question. The cost of taking this exam is 200 USD. For more details about the exam, you can refer to this link.

Study Materials

  1. Google Cloud Partner Kickstart Program — Data Engineering
  2. Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer Study Guide.
  3. Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Course — Learn how to design, build and operate powerful big data and machine learning solutions using GCP.
  4. Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer (LA) — Learn how to master data and machine learning services on the Google Cloud Platform to become a certified Professional Data Engineer.
  5. Awesome GCP — YouTube Channel
  6. Exam Topics — Practice Questions

Tips

  1. Take as many practice questions on the internet.
  2. Understand the basic concepts of all google provided services.

I used the above-mentioned materials to prepare for my exam. I believe the preparation time for any quick learner and who understands the concept clearly by going through one time would be less than 2 months.

You will see your results within 2–3 minutes after submitting your answers. Google will send you an email saying that need to verify our results. It takes nearly 7–10 days to get your certification from Google.

That’s all folks

All the best for your preparation!😊

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Vidushraj Chandrasekaran

Graduated in Electrical & Telecommunication Engineering | Data Engineering | Machine Learning | Deep Learning Enthusiast