Why This Cheat Sheet Matters for PDE
This cheat sheet covers the most important Data & Analytics concepts tested on the PDE (Data Engineer) certification exam. It contains 1 sections with 8 key points. Use this as a quick-reference guide during your final review sessions.
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8Key Points
Service Selection
- Streaming ingestion → Pub/Sub + Dataflow.
- Batch ETL → Dataflow or Dataproc.
- Data warehouse → BigQuery.
- Data lake → Cloud Storage.
- Time-series / IoT → Bigtable.
- Visual ETL → Cloud Data Fusion.
- Orchestration → Cloud Composer (Airflow).
- ML in SQL → BigQuery ML.
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Google Cloud Service Quick Reference
GCP organises services around Compute (GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions), Storage (Cloud Storage, Persistent Disk, Filestore), Databases (Cloud SQL, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, BigQuery), and Networking (VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Interconnect). Knowing which service fits each use case is essential for passing GCP exams.