Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Data Engineer
Is this course right for you?
It's thorough, official-aligned preparation, and the GCP Professional Data Engineer is a genuinely well-regarded, advanced cloud credential — so this is aimed at people already working in or toward GCP data roles, not newcomers to the platform.
Be clear on the two-part cost, because it's easy to miss: as a Google Professional Certificate the course runs on the ~$49/month Coursera subscription (not covered by Coursera Plus), so finishing faster costs less; and the actual certification is earned by passing Google's separate exam, about $200, booked with Google.
So treat the Coursera certificate as strong preparation and the Google exam as the real credential. You can audit the course free if you only want the knowledge (as of 2026).
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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.
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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.