PCDProfessional Cloud Developer practice exams
Original questions written from the published objectives and cited to official documentation, never recalled exam content. How we verify, why not dumps.
What is ready now
- Exam code
- PCD
- Cost
- $200USD
- Questions
- 50-60
- Duration
- 120minutes
- Passing score
- Not published by Google Cloud
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
Fail and the retake is another $200. Practising until you are ready is the cheapest part of this.
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
From the official Google Cloud exam guides. Put your study time where the weight is.
The percentage is the exam weighting. The bar is our verified questions in that domain against the best covered one, so a short bar is where the bank is thin.
- Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications32%36 verified
- Building and testing applications23%30 verified
- Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment24%30 verified
- Integrating applications with Google Cloud services21%24 verified
Where to focus: Designing applications is a third of the exam on its own, and its three sub-objectives split evenly across performance, security and data access. The deployment section is entirely Cloud Run and GKE, so time spent on other compute options pays nothing here.
Every Cloud Developer objective, with practice questions mapped to each one
What the exam actually asks you to do
Multiple choice and multiple select, in Google's own words. No labs, no console access, and nothing to configure during the exam.
Item formats
- Multiple choice
- Multiple response
Nothing here needs a lab. Reading carefully and eliminating options is the whole skill. Google Cloud, Professional Cloud Developer exam details ↗
Cloud Developer practice exams
Full-length forms, 50 questions each, apportioned to the published domain weightings so every one stands alone as a representative sample. The questions in a numbered form are fixed, so two attempts on the same form are comparable.
Sit any of them under exam conditions, with the clock running and nothing revealed until you submit, or in study mode, with the full explanation after every answer. You choose when you start. 5 questions from across every form are free, with no account and no card.
Between sittings
The same bank the numbered forms are assembled from.
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Quick Practice
All 120 verified questions, untimed, with the explanation after each answer.
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Domain Drill
Every domain on its own, for the area a score report says is weakest.
Fills as you go
Review Missed
Re-asks the questions you got wrong. Nothing to review until you miss something.
Where Cloud Developer fits
An honest study plan
1. Read the official objectives first
Download the official objectives from Google Cloud and skim every line. The exam can only test what’s listed there, it’s the contract.
2. Weight your study toward Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications and Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment
Together the top two domains are 56% of the exam. Practise them until your accuracy is consistently above 80%.
3. Drill weak domains, then sit a numbered practice exam
Use Domain Drill on your weakest areas, then sit a full-length form under exam conditions: 50 questions in 120 minutes, scored against the published pass mark. Book the real exam when you are consistently clearing that, not before.
Official free resources
Study from the source. These are Google Cloud’s own materials:
Official Cloud Developer exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
Free Cloud Developer practice test
Ten real questions, playable now. No account, no card.
Cloud Developer exam objectives
The full official blueprint, with practice pages on covered objectives.
Cloud Developer passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
How hard is Cloud Developer?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to know a specific language?
No single language is required, but you need to read code comfortably. The exam asks which client library call or deployment setting fits a described requirement, so the questions are language-shaped even when they are not language-specific.
Is it Cloud Run or GKE?
Both, and the guide splits them into their own sub-objectives inside the deployment section. Knowing which one a described constraint points at is worth more marks than deep knowledge of either.
How much is design versus hands-on?
Design is the largest single section at 32 percent, but the other 68 percent is building, deploying and integrating. Treating it as an architecture exam is the common way to underprepare.
How long is it valid?
Two years, one less than the foundational and associate certifications. Renewal means passing the full exam again.
Ready to practice for PCD?
Five questions from across every practice exam, plus 10 questions per certification in bank practice, with no account. Full explanations on every single one.