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| Certification Vendor: | Google Cloud |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Professional Cloud Database Engineer Exam |
| Exam Number: | Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Available Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Real Exam Qty: | 50-60 |
| Exam Format: | Multiple select, Multiple choice |
| Exam Price: | $200 USD (plus tax where applicable) |
| Related Certifications: | Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Passing Score: | Not publicly disclosed |
| Recommended Training: | Google Cloud Professional Cloud Database Engineer Learning Path |
| Exam Registration: | Google Cloud Certification Registration |
| Sample Questions: | Google Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer Sample Questions |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored (remote) or onsite proctored (testing center) |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites; recommended: 5+ years of overall database and IT experience, including 2 years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud database solutions |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/cloud-database-engineer |
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Deploy scalable and highly available databases in Google Cloud | 20% | - Automate deployment and scaling
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| Topic 2: Migrate data solutions | 14% | - Validate and cut over migration
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| Topic 3: Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions | 32% | - Design for backup and recovery
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| Topic 4: Manage a solution that spans multiple database technologies | 25% | - Manage database operations and maintenance
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The Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer exam, officially titled Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer, is the qualifying exam for the Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer certification, which sits at the Professional level. Earning it shows employers that you have the skills the credential stands for, and it is a solid step forward on a Google career path. It also connects to Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Certified - Professional Data Engineer, so the effort you put in now keeps paying off as you advance.
The Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer exam gives you 50-60 questions to complete within 120 minutes. Do the math before exam day: divide the total time by the question count to set a steady per-question pace, and flag any item that stalls you so you can return to it after securing the easier points. The most reliable way to build that rhythm is a full timed practice test under the same limit, which is exactly what TestSimulate's test engines are designed for.
The passing score for Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer is Not publicly disclosed, and the official registration fee is $200 USD (plus tax where applicable). Keep in mind that a retake means paying that fee again in full, which makes an honest self-check worthwhile: before you book, sit a timed practice test and make sure you are consistently scoring above the passing line with some margin to spare.
According to the official requirements: No mandatory prerequisites; recommended: 5+ years of overall database and IT experience, including 2 years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud database solutions. Eligibility rules do change from time to time, so confirm the current details on the official exam page before you register.
Registration for the Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer exam is handled through the official channels below:
The exam is delivered in the following format: Online proctored (remote) or onsite proctored (testing center). Pick a date that leaves room for at least one full timed practice test beforehand.
Google recommends the following official training options for candidates preparing for Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer:
Courses build the foundation, but they work best alongside question practice. That is where TestSimulate comes in: the 220 practice questions in our Professional-Cloud-Database-Engineer package let you rehearse the exam format at your own pace and see exactly where you stand.
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The current Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Database Engineer syllabus is organized into 4 exam domains. The first three are:
For the full domain and subtopic breakdown, see the Exam Topics section above — that is the outline your TestSimulate practice questions are mapped to.
Question 1
Riverton Analytics runs Microsoft SQL Server on premises with two read-only replicas, and the nightly differential backups for 28 databases have become expensive and difficult to manage.
They plan to move to Google Cloud following recommended practices and they must keep the cutover window under 20 minutes with minimal disruption. What should you do?
A. Take a native SQL Server backup to Cloud Storage and restore it into a new Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance
B. Configure Cloud SQL for SQL Server as a subscriber to the on premises publisher and replicate continuously until you cut over
C. Create a Compute Engine VM, install SQL Server, and import the backup file
D. Create a Google Kubernetes Engine cluster, deploy SQL Server, and restore the backup file
Question 2
Your organization has a ticketing system that needs an online marketing analytics and reporting application. You need to select a relational database that can manage hundreds of terabytes of data to support this new application. Which database should you use?
A. BigQuery
B. Cloud Spanner
C. Bigtable
D. Cloud SQL
Question 3
You have a transactional system on PostgreSQL that is being overwhelmed with analytic queries during the work day. You want to move this workload to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL and need to find the most cost-effective solution that supports the transactional and analytic workloads with minimal downtime.
What should you do?
A. Define a primary instance for the transactional workload and a small read pool that you scale out before the work day starts and scale back at night for the analytic workload.
B. Define a primary instance for the transactional workload, and a large read pool instance for the analytic workload.
C. Define a primary instance for the transactional workload and a small read pool instance that you scale up when the read pool instance is over 80% CPU busy for the analytic workload.
D. Define a large primary instance to accommodate the transactional and analytic workloads.
Question 4
You are designing a new gaming application that uses a highly transactional relational database to store player authentication and inventory data in Google Cloud. You want to launch the game in multiple regions. What should you do?
A. Use Cloud Spanner to deploy the database.
B. Use Cloud SQL with a regional read replica to deploy the database.
C. Use BigQuery to deploy the database
D. Use Bigtable with clusters in multiple regions to deploy the database
Question 5
Your company is migrating all legacy applications to Google Cloud. All on-premises applications are using legacy Oracle 12c databases with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) for high availability (HA) and Oracle Data Guard for disaster recovery. You need a solution that requires minimal code changes, provides the same high availability you have today on-premises, and supports a low latency network for migrated legacy applications. What should you do?
A. Migrate the databases to Cloud Spanner.
B. Migrate the databases to Bare Metal Solution for Oracle.
C. Migrate the databases to Cloud SQL, and enable a standby database.
D. Migrate the databases to Compute Engine using regional persistent disks.
Solutions:
| Question 1 Answer: B | Question 2 Answer: A | Question 3 Answer: A | Question 4 Answer: A | Question 5 Answer: B |
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