Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam — Information & Free Practice
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Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple select questions, online or onsite proctored
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 50–60.
- Time limit
- Two hours
- Exam fee
- $200 plus applicable tax
Examination outline
Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization (20%)
- Designing the overall resource hierarchy for an organization
- Managing infrastructure
- Designing a CI/CD architecture stack in Google Cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
- Managing multiple environments
- Enabling secure cloud development environments
Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing, for application, infrastructure, and machine learning workloads (25%)
- Designing pipelines
- Implementing and managing pipelines
- Managing pipeline configuration and secrets
- Securing the deployment pipeline
Applying site reliability engineering practices (18%)
- Balancing change, velocity, and reliability of the service
- Managing service lifecycle
- Mitigating incident impact on users
Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues (25%)
- Instrumenting and collecting telemetry
- Managing and analyzing logs
- Managing metrics, dashboards, and alerts
- Capturing and analyzing distributed traces
- Troubleshooting issues
Optimizing performance and cost (12%)
- Collecting performance information in Google Cloud
- Implementing FinOps practices for optimizing resource utilization and costs
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