Free Google GCP-DE Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: GCP-DE
Exam Name/Title: Data Engineer
Certification Provider: Google
Corresponding Certification: Google Cloud Certified

Exam Questions: 77
Updated On: Jul 05, 2026

Question #33

Your company maintains a hybrid deployment with GCP, where analytics are performed on your anonymized customer dat a. The data are imported to Cloud Storage from your data center through parallel uploads to a data transfer server running on GCP. Management informs you that the daily transfers take too long and have asked you to fix the problem. You want to maximize transfer speeds. Which action should you take?

A. Increase the size of the Google Persistent Disk on your server.

B. Increase your network bandwidth from Compute Engine to Cloud Storage.

C. Increase the CPU size on your server.

D. Increase your network bandwidth from your datacenter to GCP.

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #34

What Dataflow concept determines when a Window's contents should be output based on certain criteria being met?

A. Sessions

B. OutputCriteria

C. Windows

D. Triggers

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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Question #35

Which is not a valid reason for poor Cloud Bigtable performance?

A. The Cloud Bigtable cluster has too many nodes.

B. The workload isn't appropriate for Cloud Bigtable.

C. There are issues with the network connection.

D. The table's schema is not designed correctly.

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

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Question #36

You are implementing several batch jobs that must be executed on a schedule. These jobs have many interdependent steps that must be executed in a specific order. Portions of the jobs involve executing shell scripts, running Hadoop jobs, and running queries in BigQuery. The jobs are expected to run for many minutes up to several hours. If the steps fail, they must be retried a fixed number of times. Which service should you use to manage the execution of these jobs?

A. Cloud Scheduler

B. Cloud Dataflow

C. Cloud Composer

D. Cloud Functions

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #37

You are building a new data pipeline to share data between two different types of applications: jobs generators and job runners. Your solution must scale to accommodate increases in usage and must accommodate the addition of new applications without negatively affecting the performance of existing ones. What should you do?

A. Use a Cloud Pub/Sub topic to publish jobs, and use subscriptions to execute them

B. Create a table on Cloud SQL, and insert and delete rows with the job information

C. Create an API using App Engine to receive and send messages to the applications

D. Create a table on Cloud Spanner, and insert and delete rows with the job information

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #38

You are designing storage for two relational tables that are part of a 10-TB database on Google Cloud. You want to support transactions that scale horizontally. You also want to optimize data for range queries on nonkey columns. What should you do?

A. Use Cloud SQL for storag

B. Add secondary indexes to support query patterns.

C. Use Cloud Spanner for storag

D. Use Cloud Spanner for storag

E. Use Cloud SQL for storag

F. Add secondary indexes to support query patterns.

G. Use Cloud Dataflow to transform data to support query patterns.

H. Use Cloud Dataflow to transform data to support query patterns.

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Correct Answer: G Vote an answer

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Question #39

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding Bigtable access roles?

A. You can configure access control only at the project level.

B. Using IAM roles, you cannot give a user access to only one table in a project, rather than all tables in a project.

C. To give a user access to only one table in a project, grant the user the Bigtable Editor role for that table.

D. To give a user access to only one table in a project, you must configure access through your application.

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

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Question #40

Suppose you have a dataset of images that are each labeled as to whether or not they contain a human face. To create a neural network that recognizes human faces in images using this labeled dataset, what approach would likely be the most effective?

A. Build a neural network with an input layer of pixels, a hidden layer, and an output layer with two categories.

B. Use feature engineering to add features for eyes, noses, and mouths to the input data.

C. Use deep learning by creating a neural network with multiple hidden layers to automatically detect features of faces.

D. Use K-means Clustering to detect faces in the pixels.

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

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