Guide to Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification

See the accompanying blog post: goo.gle/pde-guide
Companies are ramping up the search for cloud experts who can take vast amounts of data and put it to work solving top business challenges, including customer satisfaction, production quality, and operational efficiency.
By earning the Professional Data Engineer Certification, you can demonstrate your skills and distinguish yourself among your peers with your ability to design data solutions that ensure maximum flexibility and scalability, meet security and compliance requirements, and enable data-driven decision making.
Get ready to pass the exam with Cloud Data Warehouse Engineer, Andrew Fleischer, and Learning Services Community & Outreach Manager, Carrie Browde. You'll:
- Learn how the Professional Data Engineer Certification helps validate your expertise and elevate your career
- Receive expert recommendations and resources to best prepare for the exam, including the topics covered on the exam
- Get your questions answered with live Q&A
01:36 About Google Cloud Certifications and exams
05:41 About the Professional Data Engineer Certification
07:10 Why Google Cloud certification? Benefits
09:47 How to register for the exam
11:34 Example question structure and how to approach finding the right answer
14:31 Test taking tips
17:06 6 steps to preparing for the exam (your workback list)
20:46 Data Engineer Learning Path
23:20 Additional study materials and resources
25:27 Study tips focused on what's on the Data Engineer Certification exam
25:38 Understand open source vs Google Cloud managed solutions
27:50 Understand common data engineering patterns
29:05 Study the data flow charts
32:09 Opt for answers that reduce operational overhead
33:28 Study the Google Cloud Resource Hierarchy
35:09 Apply the principle of least privilege
36:04 What's next
38:03 Q&A
Resources:
Join, learn, and engage with the Google Cloud Community → goo.gle/google-cloud-community
Learn alongside peers and Googlers in the Learning & Certification hub → www.googlecloudcommunity.com/...
See information about the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification: cloud.google.com/certificatio...

[@stanrock8015]

And now it a changes focus so be aware. Less operational AI and more data prep.

[@shouryasood5971]

Hi, that's quite an informative video. I am preparing for the GCP ML Trach and must go through the Data Engineer track before that. It would be constructive if you provided me these slides.

[@stanrock8015]

Read my post above if your going to take the new exams

[@shouryasood5971]

@@stanrock8015 Thank you 😁

[@sandikaawale7990]

Hi. I would like to take Data engineer certifiation ( professional) but I don't have industry experience. Can I proceed for these or any other recomedation certification can you suggest. As I have Power Bi with Excel/ macro , python certification.