Google Professional Data Engineer — free practice exam
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Exam domains
| Domain | Weight |
|---|---|
| Designing data processing systems | 30% |
| Ingesting and processing data | 25% |
| Storing and analyzing data | 25% |
| Reliability, policies, and processes | 20% |
Sample practice questions
- An audit found gaps: the organization must warehouse analytics. Which option addresses this?
- A cloud engineer needs to govern data lakes.
- A cloud engineer needs to orchestrate batch pipelines.
- A cloud engineer needs to real-time messaging.
- A cloud engineer needs to train models on structured data.
- For cost-aware operations, you should batch and stream with Apache Beam.
- For cost-aware operations, you should stream into BigQuery.
- For cost-aware operations, you should wide-column low-latency store.
- For cost-aware operations, you should monitor pipeline SLAs.
- For cost and security, the team must govern data lakes. What is the recommended approach?
- A data team must monitor pipeline SLAs.
- A data team must orchestrate batch pipelines.
- A data team must real-time messaging.
- A data team must train models on structured data.
- A data team must warehouse analytics.
- After a design review, leadership requires the team to stream into BigQuery. Which approach is MOST reliable?
- Two designs were proposed. Design A would batch and stream with Apache Beam. Design B would orchestrate batch…
- Two designs were proposed. Design A would orchestrate batch pipelines. Design B would batch and stream with Apache…
- Two designs were proposed. Design A would wide-column low-latency store. Design B would train models on structured…
- Two designs were proposed. Design A would train models on structured data. Design B would wide-column low-latency…
- Two designs were proposed. Design A would govern data lakes. Design B would monitor pipeline SLAs. The team must pick…
- Two designs were proposed. Design A would monitor pipeline SLAs. Design B would govern data lakes. The team must pick…
- The DevOps team is automating releases and must real-time messaging. Which design fits best?
- Which Google Cloud service should you use to batch and stream with Apache Beam?
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