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Official Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
Study Guide
Dan Sullivan
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Acknowledgments
I have been fortunate to work again with professionals from Waterside Productions, Wiley, and Google to create this Study Guide.
Carole Jelen, vice president of Waterside Productions, and Jim Minatel, associate publisher at John Wiley & Sons, continue to lead the effort to create Google Cloud certification guides. It was a pleasure to work with Gary Schwartz, project editor, who managed the process that got us from outline to a finished manuscript. Thanks to Christine O’Connor, senior production editor, for making the last stages of book development go as smoothly as they did.
I was also fortunate to work with Valerie Parham-Thompson again. Valerie’s technical review improved the clarity and accuracy of this book tremendously.
Thank you to the Google Cloud subject-matter experts who reviewed and contributed to the material in this book:
| Name | Title |
| Damon A. Runion | Technical Curriculum Developer, Data Engineering |
| Julianne Cuneo | Data Analytics Specialist, Google Cloud |
| Geoff McGill | Customer Engineer, Data Analytics |
| Susan Pierce | Solutions Manager, Smart Analytics and AI |
| Rachel Levy | Cloud Data Specialist Lead |
| Dustin Williams | Data Analytics Specialist, Google Cloud |
| Gbenga Awodokun | Customer Engineer, Data and Marketing Analytics |
| Dilraj Kaur | Big Data Specialist |
| Rebecca Ballough | Data Analytics Manager, Google Cloud |
| Robert Saxby | Staff Solutions Architect |
| Niel Markwick | Cloud Solutions Architect |
| Sharon Dashet | Big Data Product Specialist |
| Barry Searle | Solution Specialist - Cloud Data Management |
| Jignesh Mehta | Customer Engineer, Cloud Data Platform and Advanced Analytics |
My sons James and Nicholas were my first readers, and they helped me to get the manuscript across the finish line.
This book is dedicated to Katherine, my wife and partner in so many adventures.
About the Author
About the Technical Editor
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