Overview
349 real exam questions for the Google Professional Data Engineer (PDE).
The questions you've seen on my YouTube channel come from this PDF - but I only share 20 to 30% of the bank publicly. This is the complete set: every question from the actual exam, word for word.
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349 real exam questions - pulled from the actual PDE exam
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Instant delivery - sent to your email immediately after purchase
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Full refund if you fail - no questions asked
Fail the PDE and it's another US$200 plus weeks of restudying. This PDF is US$39 - once, with a refund if you fail anyway.
Last updated: July 2026 - 349 questions
Deep Dive
Every question on the PDE is a storage-and-processing decision wearing a business scenario as a disguise.
The pattern: a company with specific latency, cost, and consistency requirements, and four Google services that all technically hold data. BigQuery versus Bigtable versus Spanner versus Firestore is the exam's favourite fork, followed closely by Dataflow windowing and late-data handling for streaming pipelines, Pub/Sub delivery semantics, and when Dataproc exists purely because the scenario said "existing Hadoop jobs".
Two hours of these, plus IAM, encryption, DLP, and a layer of Vertex AI questions that surprises people who came for pure data engineering. This PDF has 349 real questions from the actual PDE exam covering the exact service-selection and pipeline scenarios Google rotates through.
Exam Info
The Professional Data Engineer certifies designing, building, securing, and operationalising data processing systems on Google Cloud. Google recommends 3+ years of industry experience. Valid for 2 years.
Exam domains
- Designing data processing systems
- Ingesting and processing the data
- Storing the data
- Preparing and using data for analysis
- Maintaining and automating data workloads
Around 50 to 60 questions, 2 hours, multiple choice and multiple select, US$200 per attempt, online proctored or test centre, valid 2 years.
