PCDEProfessional Cloud DevOps Engineer 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
- PCDE
- 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.
- Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization20%24 verified
- Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing25%30 verified
- Applying site reliability engineering practices18%24 verified
- Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues25%30 verified
- Optimizing performance and cost12%12 verified
Where to focus: CI/CD and observability are 25 percent each, so half the exam sits in two sections that reward having actually built a pipeline and read a trace. Optimizing performance and cost is the smallest at 12 percent and the one most often skipped entirely.
Every Cloud DevOps Engineer 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 DevOps Engineer exam details ↗
Cloud DevOps Engineer 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 DevOps Engineer 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 Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing and Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues
Together the top two domains are 50% 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 DevOps Engineer exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
Free Cloud DevOps Engineer practice test
Ten real questions, playable now. No account, no card.
Cloud DevOps Engineer exam objectives
The full official blueprint, with practice pages on covered objectives.
Cloud DevOps Engineer passing score
The exact cut score, what kind of number it is, and the retake terms.
How hard is Cloud DevOps Engineer?
An honest difficulty read from the format, the clock and the weights.
Frequently asked questions
How much SRE theory is on it?
One section of five, at 18 percent, but the vocabulary runs through the whole exam. Service level indicators, objectives and error budgets appear in the observability section too, so treating SRE as a single block to revise underestimates it.
Is this a Kubernetes exam?
No. GKE appears throughout, but the exam is about pipelines, telemetry and incident response rather than cluster internals. Someone with CKA will still need the observability and FinOps material.
What is the largest section?
Two tie at 25 percent: building CI/CD pipelines, and implementing observability and troubleshooting. Together they are half the exam, and both are hands-on rather than conceptual.
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 PCDE?
Five questions from across every practice exam, plus 10 questions per certification in bank practice, with no account. Full explanations on every single one.