ADPGoogle Cloud Associate Data Practitioner
What the exam covers
Study guide
From Google
About ADP
An entry-level data exam: loading and cleaning data, querying and optimising BigQuery, building simple pipelines, and managing access and lifecycle for data on Google Cloud.
Who it's for. Analysts and junior data engineers working with Google Cloud data services.
How to prepare
- Practise BigQuery SQL and know how partitioning and clustering cut the bytes scanned.
- Know the ingestion options: Storage Transfer Service, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Datastream and Pub/Sub.
- Data management covers IAM roles on datasets, retention and lifecycle rules.
Sample ADP questions
Try these with the answers on the page, then practise the full bank.
- Which statement correctly distinguishes Looker from Looker Studio? Data analysis and presentation
- A data scientist wants to run SQL in BigQuery over Parquet files that remain in a Cloud Storage bucket, with no copy made into BigQuery storage. Which table type supports this? Data preparation and ingestion
- A telemetry service pushes rows into BigQuery through the streaming API. After a client library retry, some events appear twice in the destination table. Which field in the streaming request helps BigQuery suppress such repeats on a best-effort basis? Data preparation and ingestion
- A reporting team wants to join a live customer table in a Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance with BigQuery sales data, without copying the customer table into BigQuery. Which capability should it use? Data analysis and presentation
- A healthcare analytics team keeps all clinic visits in one BigQuery table. Each regional manager should see only their own region's rows, and the team does not want copies of the table. Which DDL statement defines that restriction on the table itself? Data management
- A FinOps analyst needs the top spenders by compute usage over the last week, broken down by user and by job, using BigQuery metadata. Which source provides per-job compute totals? Data analysis and presentation
- A payments platform streams card-transaction events through Pub/Sub into BigQuery. Duplicate records would corrupt account balances, so each event must land exactly once. Which pipeline design best meets this requirement? Data pipeline orchestration
- A healthcare company stores patient records in BigQuery. Auditors worry that an insider with valid credentials could copy the data to a personal project outside the company. Which control creates a boundary that blocks such copies even when IAM permits access? Data management
- All 8 sample questions
Questions people ask
Is this ADP practice exam free?
Yes. All 100 questions, the timed mock exam and the explanations are free, and there's no account to create.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are confidential under the Google Cloud candidate agreement. These are practice questions written to cover the same domains in the same scenario style, each with an explanation of why the answer is right.
How is the ADP mock exam scored?
Questions are drawn from every domain in proportion to the exam guide, and you get a raw percentage with a breakdown by domain. Google Cloud uses scaled scoring, so treat 75% or more here as a sign you're ready rather than a predicted score.
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