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Professional Cloud Developer
Licensing authority: Google, LLC
Initial by examination
- Prerequisites
- None.
- Score Validation
- Google validates a passing exam score before awarding certification.
Professional Cloud Developer
- Provider
- Google Cloud
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 50–60.
- Time limit
- Two hours
- Exam fee
- $200 plus applicable tax
Examination outline
Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications (32%)
- Designing high-performing applications and APIs
- Designing secure applications
- Storing and accessing data
Building and testing applications (23%)
- Setting up your development environment
- Building
- Testing
Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment (24%)
- Deploying applications to Cloud Run
- Deploying containers to GKE
Integrating applications with Google Cloud services (21%)
- Integrating applications with data and storage services
- Consuming Google Cloud APIs
- Troubleshooting and observability
Examination sources
- Professional Cloud Developer certification
Exam overview / Understand what's on the exam
- Professional Cloud Developer certification exam guide
pages 1-4, Sections 1-4
- Professional Cloud Developer certification
About this certification exam / Exam format
- Google Cloud certification terms
section 1(c)
- Professional Cloud Developer certification
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