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

Concept

facade views

Topic in 2 exam domains

Also called: facade view

Views that mask underlying tables to abstract away schema changes from downstream processes during migration.

Where this appears on the exam

1 objective in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 1
Designing data processing systems
~22% of exam
1. 1.4Designing data migrations
  - Analyzing current stakeholder needs, users, processes, and technologies, and creating a plan to get to desired state

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

Concept

facade views

Topic in 2 exam domains

Also called: facade view

Views that mask underlying tables to abstract away schema changes from downstream processes during migration.

Where this appears on the exam

1 objective in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 1
Designing data processing systems
~22% of exam
1. 1.4Designing data migrations
  - Analyzing current stakeholder needs, users, processes, and technologies, and creating a plan to get to desired state

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 15, 2026