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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Vertex ML Metadata

Topic in 4 exam domains

Vertex ML Metadata · Service · Google Cloud service
Vertex ML Metadata · Feature

Also called: ML Metadata, MLMD, Vertex ML Metadata API

A service for recording and analyzing metadata and artifacts generated by machine learning workflows.

Where this appears on the exam

2 objectives in 2 of 5 domains

Domain 2
Ingesting and processing the data
~25% of exam
1. 2.2Building the pipelines
  - AI data enrichment
Domain 4
Preparing and using data for analysis
~15% of exam
1. 4.2Preparing data for AI and ML
  - Preparing data for feature engineering, training and serving machine learning models (e.g., BigQueryML)

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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 service

Vertex ML Metadata

Topic in 4 exam domains

Vertex ML Metadata · Service · Google Cloud service
Vertex ML Metadata · Feature

Also called: ML Metadata, MLMD, Vertex ML Metadata API

A service for recording and analyzing metadata and artifacts generated by machine learning workflows.

Where this appears on the exam

2 objectives in 2 of 5 domains

Domain 2
Ingesting and processing the data
~25% of exam
1. 2.2Building the pipelines
  - AI data enrichment
Domain 4
Preparing and using data for analysis
~15% of exam
1. 4.2Preparing data for AI and ML
  - Preparing data for feature engineering, training and serving machine learning models (e.g., BigQueryML)

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 15, 2026

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