Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Questions and Answers
400 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
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GCP-PDE
400 questions
5 topics
Updated Jul 2026Designing data processing systems
88 questions17 easy40 medium31 hard~22% of exam
An enterprise wants a centralized governance layer that connects to BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Spanner, then ...Analysts need to build ELT workflows in BigQuery using SQL, keep the code in version control, define dependencies betwee...A data platform team needs an asynchronous, scalable service that decouples event producers from event consumers and is ...
Ingesting and processing the data
103 questions20 easy50 medium33 hard~25% of exam
Pub/Sub uses per-message parallelism instead of partition-based messaging. What is a primary benefit of that design?Which statement about Pub/Sub dead-letter delivery attempts is accurate?A team wants to trigger DAG executions when objects arrive in a Cloud Storage bucket while keeping the orchestration log...
Storing the data
78 questions13 easy38 medium27 hard~20% of exam
Preparing and using data for analysis
60 questions12 easy28 medium20 hard~15% of exam
Maintaining and automating data workloads
71 questions15 easy36 medium20 hard~18% of exam
A serverless orchestration workflow is failing intermittently. Which built-in observability feature can help identify th...A governance team wants alerts when scheduled data quality scans fail or when scores fall below a target. Which capabili...A company wants data quality scans to run with least privilege, respect row-level and column-level access policies, prov...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pub/Sub uses per-message parallelism instead of partition-based messaging. What is a primary benefit... | Ingesting and processing the data | medium |
| 2 | Cloud Storage lifecycle management rules apply at what scope? | Storing the data | easy |
| 3 | Which statement about Pub/Sub dead-letter delivery attempts is accurate? | Ingesting and processing the data | hard |
| 4 | A publisher enables data egress restrictions on a shared BigQuery dataset. Which subscriber action c... | Preparing and using data for analysis | hard |
| 5 | What is stored in BigQuery when you create an external table? | Storing the data | medium |
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