Google ADP Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | |
| Exam Name: | Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner |
| Exam Number: | GCP-ADP |
| Real Exam Qty: | 50-60 |
| Exam Price: | $125 USD |
| Passing Score: | 70% |
| Exam Format: | Multiple choice, Multiple select |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Available Languages: | English, Japanese |
| Related Certifications: | Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Google Cloud Professional Data Analyst |
| Recommended Training: | Introduction to Data Engineering on Google Cloud Google Cloud Associate Data Practitioner Learning Path |
| Exam Registration: | Google Cloud Certification Registration |
| Sample Questions: | Google ADP Sample Questions |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored (remote) or onsite proctored at authorized test centers |
| Pre Condition: | No mandatory prerequisites; recommended 6+ months hands-on experience working with data on Google Cloud |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/data-practitioner |
Google ADP Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Data Management and Governance | 25% | - Compliance and governance
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| Data Preparation and Ingestion | 30% | - Storage solutions selection
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| Data Pipeline Orchestration | 18% | - Data transformation concepts
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| Data Analysis and Presentation | 27% | - Data visualization and reporting
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Google Associate Data Practitioner Sample Questions:
1. You need to transfer approximately 300 TB of data from your company's on-premises data center to Cloud Storage. You have 100 Mbps internet bandwidth, and the transfer needs to be completed as quickly as possible. What should you do?
A) Request a Transfer Appliance, copy the data to the appliance, and ship it back to Google.
B) Use the gcloud storage command to transfer the data over the internet.
C) Use Cloud Client Libraries to transfer the data over the internet.
D) Compress the data, upload it to multiple cloud storage providers, and then transfer the data to CloudStorage.
2. Your organization has several datasets in their data warehouse in BigQuery. Several analyst teams in different departments use the datasets to run queries. Your organization is concerned about the variability of their monthly BigQuery costs. You need to identify a solution that creates a fixed budget for costs associated with the queries run by each department. What should you do?
A) Assign each analyst to a separate project associated with their department. Create a single reservation for each department by using BigQuery editions. Create assignments for each project in the appropriate reservation.
B) Assign each analyst to a separate project associated with their department. Create a single reservation by using BigQuery editions. Assign all projects to the reservation.
C) Create a single reservation by using BigQuery editions. Assign all analysts to the reservation.
D) Create a custom quota for each analyst in BigQuery.
3. Your organization has decided to migrate their existing enterprise data warehouse to BigQuery. The existing data pipeline tools already support connectors to BigQuery. You need to identify a data migration approach that optimizes migration speed. What should you do?
A) Create a temporary file system to facilitate data transfer from the existing environment to Cloud Storage. Use Storage Transfer Service to migrate the data into BigQuery.
B) Use the Cloud Data Fusion web interface to build data pipelines. Create a directed acyclic graph (DAG) that facilitates pipeline orchestration.
C) Use the BigQuery Data Transfer Service to recreate the data pipeline and migrate the data into BigQuery.
D) Use the existing data pipeline tool's BigQuery connector to reconfigure the data mapping.
4. Your organization has several datasets in BigQuery. The datasets need to be shared with your external partners so that they can run SQL queries without needing to copy the data to their own projects. You have organized each partner's data in its own BigQuery dataset. Each partner should be able to access only their dat a. You want to share the data while following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
A) Grant the partners the bigquery.user IAM role on the BigQuery project.
B) Use Analytics Hub to create a listing on a private data exchange for each partner dataset. Allow each partner to subscribe to their respective listings.
C) Export the BigQuery data to a Cloud Storage bucket. Grant the partners the storage.objectUser IAM role on the bucket.
D) Create a Dataflow job that reads from each BigQuery dataset and pushes the data into a dedicated Pub /Sub topic for each partner. Grant each partner the pubsub. subscriber IAM role.
5. Your company uses Looker as its primary business intelligence platform. You want to use LookML to visualize the profit margin for each of your company's products in your Looker Explores and dashboards.
You need to implement a solution quickly and efficiently. What should you do?
A) Create a derived table that pre-calculates the profit margin for each product, and include it in the Looker model.
B) Create a new dimension that categorizes products based on their profit margin ranges (e.g., high, medium, low).
C) Apply a filter to only show products with a positive profit margin.
D) Define a new measure that calculates the profit margin by using the existing revenue and cost fields.
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: A | Question # 2 Answer: A | Question # 3 Answer: D | Question # 4 Answer: B | Question # 5 Answer: D |

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