ADP practice questions — GCP Associate Data Practitioner

The exam

What ADP tests

Associate Data Practitioner validates a candidate's ability to secure and manage data on Google Cloud — using Google Cloud data services for data ingestion, transformation, pipeline management, analysis, machine learning, and visualization. It covers data preparation and ingestion, data analysis and presentation, data pipeline orchestration, and data management.

Who it is for

Built for associate-level candidates

The target candidate has experience using Google Cloud data services for tasks like data ingestion, transformation, pipeline management, analysis, machine learning, and visualization, and has a basic understanding of cloud computing concepts like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Google recommends 6+ months of hands-on experience working with data on Google Cloud before attempting the exam.

What it covers

The official domains, weighted as the exam weights them.

Your readiness map in the app is organised the same way, so what you see here is exactly what you study against.

Data Preparation and Ingestion
30%
Data Analysis and Presentation
27%
Data Pipeline Orchestration
18%
Data Management
25%

What Preppio gives you

Signal, not vibes.

1,127 questions

Across every domain above, in 5 formats: concept, scenario, ordering, multi-select, matching. Each one explains why the right answer is right and every distractor wrong.

A readiness map

Per domain, whether you are ready, weak, or not started — the same domains and weights as the exam itself.

Winston

Your study partner. He tracks where you are weak and drills exactly that, instead of serving you what you already know.

Try one

One of each format ADP uses, from the same bank.

Answer on the page. The explanation appears when you submit; use Next to move through the formats.

Sample 1 · Concept

Your team loads raw JSON files into BigQuery daily and then relies on scheduled queries to build cleaned, aggregated tables inside BigQuery itself. You want to describe this pattern accurately in a design review. What should you call this approach?

Pick one, then submit.

Sample 2 · Scenario

You need a query that returns each product's total sales and, in the same row, the overall total sales across all products so you can compute each product's percentage contribution. You want to avoid a self-join or subquery. What should you do?

Pick one, then submit.

Sample 3 · Ordering

You are onboarding a new analyst who needs only read access to query tables in a single BigQuery dataset. Put the following steps in the correct order to grant this access following least privilege.

Drag an item onto another to swap them, or use the arrows, then submit.

1Grant roles/bigquery.jobUser at the project level so the analyst can run query jobs
2Identify the specific dataset the analyst needs to query
3Verify the analyst can query the dataset and cannot access other datasets in the project
4Grant roles/bigquery.dataViewer to the analyst's user account scoped to that dataset
5Determine that roles/bigquery.dataViewer meets the read-only requirement at the dataset level

Sample 4 · Multi-select

Select all that apply: Your team wants to build SQL-based transformations inside BigQuery with built-in dependency graphs, version control integration, and column-level data lineage, using minimal operational overhead. Which two tool characteristics indicate Dataform is the right fit?

Select all that apply, then submit.

Sample 5 · Matching

Match each Google Cloud tool to the methodology stage it most typically performs:

Pick up a response below, then click a prompt to place it.

Response pool — click to pick up

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Study links

Official material

Official Exam Guide (Google)services.google.com Associate Data Practitioner Certification (Google Cloud)cloud.google.com Google Cloud Skills Boost — Associate Data Practitioner learning pathcloudskillsboost.google

FAQ

The things people ask about ADP

How many questions are on the ADP exam, and how long is it?

60 questions in 120 minutes.

What score do you need to pass ADP?

70%, a scaled score of 700.

What does ADP cover?

4 domains, weighted as the exam weights them: Data Preparation and Ingestion (30%), Data Analysis and Presentation (27%), Data Pipeline Orchestration (18%) and Data Management (25%). Your readiness map in the app is organised by the same domains, so what you study against is what the exam tests.

What question formats does ADP use?

Five formats: concept, scenario, ordering, multi-select and matching. The practice questions use every one of them, and the sample on this page shows one of each.

Is ADP free on Preppio.ai?

ADP is on the Single, Dual and All Access plans. You start on the free tier and add it from the plan picker inside the app. Three fundamentals exams (AZ-900, CLF-C02 and CDL) are always free, and the sample on this page is free to try.

Where do the ADP practice questions come from?

Every question is generated from the exam's published objectives, then checked for accuracy, answer key and explanation before it is served. Nothing is copied from any exam, questions rotate by how often they have been seen, and they are retired when the objectives change.

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