Professional Data Engineer

Build and operate the data processing systems behind analytics and ML on Google Cloud, including BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, and track your readiness for the Professional Data Engineer exam.

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Advanced

Prepare and test your skills

Google Cloud feature

Cloud Billing budgets

Topic in 2 exam domains

Also called: Alerts-only budgets, alerts-only Cloud Billing budgets

A feature that allows users to track actual costs against planned costs and configure alert threshold rules.

Where this appears on the exam

2 objectives in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 5
Maintaining and automating data workloads
~18% of exam
1. 5.4Monitoring and troubleshooting processes
  - Monitoring planned usage
  - Troubleshooting error messages, billing issues, and quotas

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 15, 2026

Professional Data Engineer

Build and operate the data processing systems behind analytics and ML on Google Cloud, including BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, and track your readiness for the Professional Data Engineer exam.

Advanced

Prepare and test your skills

Advanced

Prepare and test your skills

Google Cloud feature

Cloud Billing budgets

Topic in 2 exam domains

Also called: Alerts-only budgets, alerts-only Cloud Billing budgets

A feature that allows users to track actual costs against planned costs and configure alert threshold rules.

Where this appears on the exam

2 objectives in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 5
Maintaining and automating data workloads
~18% of exam
1. 5.4Monitoring and troubleshooting processes
  - Monitoring planned usage
  - Troubleshooting error messages, billing issues, and quotas

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 15, 2026