Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
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GCP-PDE
200 questions
5 topics
Updated May 2026Designing data processing systems
44 questions12 easy21 medium11 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
53 questions13 easy28 medium12 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
38 questions9 easy20 medium9 hard~20% of exam
Preparing and using data for analysis
30 questions8 easy15 medium7 hard~15% of exam
Maintaining and automating data workloads
35 questions9 easy18 medium8 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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