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Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Data Engineer
Advanced 200 hours English Professional Certificate Certificate
About this course
This Coursera Professional Certificate prepares you for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer exam, covering the full GCP data stack: ingesting data with Pub/Sub, processing with Dataflow and Dataproc, storing in BigQuery and Bigtable, and building ML pipelines with Vertex AI.
The curriculum covers data architecture patterns for real-time and batch processing, data governance with Data Catalog, and optimizing BigQuery for cost and performance — the practical skills GCP data engineers use daily.
What you'll learn
Design data pipelines using GCP services for batch and streaming data
Write and optimize BigQuery SQL for large-scale analytics
Build streaming pipelines with Pub/Sub and Dataflow
Process big data with Dataproc (managed Hadoop and Spark on GCP)
Pass the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification exam
This course includes
200h
On-demand video
Yes
Certificate
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Mobile access
English
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Developed by Google Cloud training team with input from Google engineers who designed the GCP data services covered in the curriculum.
Requirements
- SQL proficiency; basic programming experience; cloud fundamentals helpful
Who this course is for
- Data engineers building pipelines on Google Cloud Platform
- Analytics engineers targeting the GCP Data Engineer certification
- Data architects designing cloud-native data platforms
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Frequently asked questions
Both are professional-level cloud data certs. GCP's BigQuery has significant advantages for large-scale SQL analytics; choose based on your organization's cloud platform.
No — the exam covers the full data engineering stack. All services need coverage for the certification.