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Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Google Cloud professional role-based certification for DevOps engineering; issued after a passing exam result is verified.

Licensing authority: Google Cloud

Initial by examination
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam
Exam Result
Pass, subject to Google Cloud verification.
Minimum Age
18
Prerequisites
None; recommended experience is not required.

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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