PCDOE

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Official Certification Preparation

Google Cloud Platform

PROFESSIONAL

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

120 minutes

60 questions

A Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer implements processes and capabilities throughout the systems development lifecycle using Google-recommended methodologies and tools

Hands-On Labs

8 Available

Build real-world cloud skills with guided hands-on scenarios.

Prerequisites & Requirements

Before taking this exam, you should have:

Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD on Google Cloud using Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy
Practical familiarity with Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager, and Cloud KMS
Working knowledge of GKE (including multi-cluster or enterprise-scale operations) and Cloud Run
Ability to apply SRE practices: define SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, manage error budgets, and balance release velocity vs. reliability
Experience operating multi-environment setups (dev/staging/prod), including ephemeral environments and safe upgrade/patch strategies
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code on Google Cloud (e.g., Terraform, Config Connector, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, Helm) and automation with a scripting language (e.g., Python or Go)
Competence in observability: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring/Managed Service for Prometheus, Metrics Explorer, synthetic monitoring, dashboards, and alerting
Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure, application, CI/CD pipeline, and performance/latency issues on Google Cloud
Understanding of supply chain security and deployment safety (e.g., SLSA, Binary Authorization, vulnerability scanning in Artifact Registry)
Familiarity with organization-level governance: resource hierarchy design, IAM roles and org policies, and shared networking
Comfort setting up secure cloud development environments (e.g., Cloud Workstations, Cloud Shell, Cloud SDK, Cloud Code/Gemini Code Assist)

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Exam Domains

Focus areas and their weightings in the certification exam

•Bootstrapping and Maintaining a Google Cloud Organization

15%

•Building and Implementing CI/CD Pipelines for Applications and Infrastructure

27%

•Applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices to Applications

23%

•Implementing Observability Practices

20%

•Optimizing Performance and Troubleshooting

15%

Training Modes

Choose the practice mode that fits your learning style

Timed Mode

Simulate the real exam with time constraints

120 minutes

Review Mode

See explanations after each question

Self-paced

Section Based

Practice specific domains and tasks for targeted learning

5 domains

Need Improvement Mode

Focus on your weak areas with personalized practice questions

Focused learning

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Exam Stats

Passing Score70%

Official Exam Cost$200

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