🎓 2019 Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Exam

That’s pretty intense exams! (•̀ᴗ•́)و I thought I wouldn’t pass but it turns out well so if I can do it you can do it too! Let’s start!

look ma! a designer got an engineer certificate!

1. Register

https://inthecloud.withgoogle.com/cloud-certification/

Try to get the voucher by complete the challenge which is just 2 Qwick labs! For me I got $120 voucher which save me a lot from a fear to lose money and get nothing. 😆

I ❤️voucher

2. Practise everyday

Here’s a list that you can’t skip reading, and you should keep revisit them as much as possible.

1. Professional Data Engineer Certification exam guide
2. Data Engineering on GCP
3. Qwiklabs Baseline: Data, ML, AI
4. Qwiklabs Data Engineering
5. Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam
6. Partner Certification Kickstart
7. Live Q&A office hours #1
8. Live Q&A office hours #2
9. Practice Exam
10. Google Machine Learning Crash Course

3. Learn from others

Many of them are a bit outdated but still worth reading

• GCP Data Engineer
• Google Data Engineering Cheatsheet
• A Study Guide to the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Path
• How I Passed the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Exam
• On Passing All Google Cloud Certifications
• Notes from my Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam (this one is most accurate other is outdated)
• A GCP flowchart a day
• Deconstructing a Customer Case: Data Engineer Exam
• Every Google Cloud product described in 4 words or less

4. Make your own cheat sheet

I did my own brain dump version via draw.io and it help a lot

02-Leveraging Unstructured Data with Cloud Dataproc on Google Cloud Platform

03-Serverless Data Analysis with Google BigQuery and Cloud Dataflow

04-Serverless Machine Learning with Tensorflow on Google Cloud Platform

05-Building Resilient Streaming Systems on Google Cloud Platform

FYI

1. There’s no shortcut! I’m not a genius in any way. I just keep trying again and again (I actually had a dream to become a designer!)
2. Don’t underestimate your brain. I’m 39 years old and it’s still function.
3. English is a door to knowledge. I’m not a native speaker but I keep practicing every day so don’t give up especially if you were born with the English language.
4. I just learn Machine Learning start from JAN (along with running startup) so even they recommend experienced 3 or more years in Data Engineer field, I would say self-learner and inexperienced like me still can nailed it! So you will!
5. The questions is more like Practice Exam but 3x harder + 4x complexity. no coding, no labs just multiple choices to click through.

Fun facts

There’s only Professional Data Engineer 10 in Thailand which is seem to not accurate. At least 2 of my known friends didn’t list there.

https://googlecloudcertified.credential.net/?order=updated_at%20DESC&groups=69661&location=Bangkok,%20Thailand&lat=13.7563309&lng=100.5017651

Recap

The exam just get updated so other blog I read is somehow outdated already I would recommend this one for your preparation.

Notes from my Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Exam

Good luck!

UPDATE 2020 : Data Engineering Learning Path now include Data Fusion and Cloud Composer. More labs on advanced BigQuery, BigQuery ML, and Bigtable streaming

Google Cloud's data engineering learning path is now updated | Google Cloud Blog