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

Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication

Topic in 1 exam domain

A replication feature that asynchronously copies data from a primary disk in one region to a secondary disk in another region.

Where this appears on the exam

1 objective in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 5
Maintaining and automating data workloads
~18% of exam
1. 5.5Maintaining awareness of failures and mitigating impact
  - Preparing for data corruption and missing data

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

Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication

Topic in 1 exam domain

A replication feature that asynchronously copies data from a primary disk in one region to a secondary disk in another region.

Where this appears on the exam

1 objective in 1 of 5 domains

Domain 5
Maintaining and automating data workloads
~18% of exam
1. 5.5Maintaining awareness of failures and mitigating impact
  - Preparing for data corruption and missing data

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 15, 2026