This course uses a top-down approach to recognize knowledge and skills already known, and to surface information and skill areas for additional preparation. Students can use this course to help create their own custom preparation plan. It helps distinguish what they know from what they don't know. And it helps students develop and practice skills required of practitioners who perform this job. The course follows the organization of the Exam Guide outline, presenting highest-level concepts, 'touchstones', for students to determine whether they feel confident about their knowledge of that area and its dependent concepts, or if they want more study. They also will learn about and have the opportunity to practice key job skills, including cognitive skills such as case analysis, identifying technical watchpoints, and developing proposed solutions. These are job skills that are also exam skills. They will also test their basic abilities with Activity Tracking Challenge Labs. And they will have many sample questions similar to those on the exam, including solutions. The end of the course contains an ungraded practice exam quiz, followed by a graded practice exam quiz that simulates the exam-taking experience.
 

Upon completion of the Preparing for the Professional Data Engineer Examination course, students will be able to:

• Position the Professional Data Engineer Certification
• Provide information, tips, and advice on taking the exam
• Review the sample case studies
• Review each section of the exam covering highest-level concepts sufficient to build confidence in what is known by the candidate and indicate skill gaps/areas of study if not known by the candidate
• Connect candidates to appropriate target learning

Understanding the Professional Data Engineer Certification

• Establish basic knowledge about the certification exam and eliminate any confusion or misunderstandings about the process and nature of the exam itself.

Sample Case Studies for the Professional Data Engineer Exam

• In-depth review of the Case Studies provided for exam preparation

Designing and Building (Review and preparation tips)

• Tips and examples covering data processing systems design skills, data structures, and database skills that could be tested on the exam.

Analyzing and Modeling (Review and preparation tips)

• Tips and examples covering data analysis, analysis and optimization of business processes, and machine learning skills that could be tested on the exam.

Reliability, Policy, and Security (Review and preparation tips)

• Tips and examples covering reliability, policies, security, and compliance skills that could be tested on the exam.

Resources and next steps

• Resources for learning more about identified subjects that could be tested on the exam.

Cloud professionals who intend to take the Professional Data Engineer certification exam Knowledge and experience with GCP, equivalent to GCP Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals course Knowledge of data engineering and ML solutions, equivalent to Data Engineering on GCP course Industry experience with data engineering and cloud computing .
 

No certification available.

• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform to the level of the Data Engineering on Google Cloud Platform course (suggested, not required)