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

Limit

default boot disk size

Topic in 1 exam domain

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The default 25 GB boot disk size allocated to worker VMs for each Dataflow batch job.

Where this appears on the exam

1 subdomain in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 2
Ingesting and processing the data
~25% of exam
1. 2.2Building the pipelines
  - Batch

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 24, 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

Limit

default boot disk size

Topic in 1 exam domain

X LinkedIn Facebook Reddit

The default 25 GB boot disk size allocated to worker VMs for each Dataflow batch job.

Where this appears on the exam

1 subdomain in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 2
Ingesting and processing the data
~25% of exam
1. 2.2Building the pipelines
  - Batch

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 24, 2026