This guide is created for the preparation/revision for the Google Professional Data Engineering certification exam.

• Udemy - GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Course
  • Helped me to get basic knowledge about GCP
• Udemy - Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification Course by Ankit Mistry
  • After the above course, this course helped me to dive deeper in GCP and helped understand the cloud platform with exam's point of view.
  • The course se really detailed and I had no problems in understanding it in 2x speed as well.
• Udemy - Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer - Get Certified Course by Dan Sullivan
  • This is what I used for quickly revising my concepts and also this helped gain some more insights about exam related questions
  • At the end of the course, there is a 2 hrs long Mock Test with 50 questions which helped me get into the mindset of giving the exam.
• Practice Question Bank with more than 200 questions

Note: Even though the answers are mentioned here, some of the answers might be wrong. So Google the questions or discuss it with peers to be 100% sure of the right answer.

• Videos on how to solve the questions in PDE

Even though you can find all the topics inside the study material folder, the suggested sequence for studying is as follows:

1. Non-mandatory prerequisite(s)
   • Hadoop Ecosystem
   • AI ML terminologies
   • Other Important Terminologies
   • Miscellaneous Facts
2. Data Lifecycle
3. Data Transfer
   • Cloud Storage Transfer Tools
   • Storage Transfer Service
   • Transfer Appliances
   • BigQuery Data Transfer Service
4. Storage
   • Cloud Storage
   • DataStore
   • FireStore
   • Cloud SQL
   • Cloud Spanner
   • Bigtable
   • BigQuery
5. Data Processing and Pipelines
   • DataFlow
   • DataProc
   • Pub/Sub
   • Cloud Data Fusion
   • DataPrep
   • Cloud Composer
   • DataProc vs DataFlow vs DataPrep
6. Machine Learning in GCP
   • Machine Learning Basics
     • Pre-Trained Models
     • Auto-ML
   • Deployment
7. Data Visualization
   • Data Lab
   • Data Studio
8. Management
   • IAM
   • Stackdriver
   • Cloud Deployment Manager
   • Data Catalog
9. Compute Stack in GCP
   • Google Compute Engine (GCE) — IaaS
   • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) — (CaaS)
   • Google App Engine (GAE) — (PaaS)
   • Google Cloud Functions — (FaaS)
   • Comparison in GCP Compute Services