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

fully active-active synchronized distributed system

Topic in 1 exam domain

Also called: primary-primary

A deployment pattern where a single database operates in an active-active setup, with data updates being transactionally consistent and synchronously replicated across locations.

Where this appears on the exam

1 objective in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 3
Storing the data
~20% of exam
1. 3.4Designing for a data platform
  - Building a federated governance model for distributed data systems

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

fully active-active synchronized distributed system

Topic in 1 exam domain

Also called: primary-primary

A deployment pattern where a single database operates in an active-active setup, with data updates being transactionally consistent and synchronously replicated across locations.

Where this appears on the exam

1 objective in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 3
Storing the data
~20% of exam
1. 3.4Designing for a data platform
  - Building a federated governance model for distributed data systems

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 15, 2026