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.
- Exam code
- PCDE
- Cost
- $200USD
- Questions
- 50-60
- Duration
- 120minutes
- Passing score
- Not published by Google Cloud
- Level
- Advanced
- Study guide
- How to prepare
- Sources
- 20official pages
- Format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
Cloud DevOps Engineer practice exams
2 full-length forms, 50 questions each, apportioned to the published domain weightings.
An engineer asks where rendered manifests live between a release being created and a promotion hours later. Where are they kept?
The answer
In a Cloud Storage bucket for the pipeline
Checked against
cloud.google.com, checked August 2026Cloud Deploy stores rendering source and rendered manifests in a Cloud Storage bucket.
What the exam tests
Exam domains and official weightings
The percentage is the exam weighting; the bar is how many verified questions we hold there, so a short bar is where our 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 ↗
Between sittings
The same bank the numbered forms are assembled from.
Quick Practice
Open now
All 120 verified questions, untimed, with the explanation after each answer.
Domain Drill
Open now
Every domain on its own, for the area a score report says is weakest.
Review Missed
Fills as you go
Re-asks the questions you got wrong. Nothing to review until you miss something.
Google Cloud’s free resources
Study from the source. The page below is free to read, and it is what our own questions are written from.
Official Cloud DevOps Engineer exam page & objectives ↗Keep reading
- Free Cloud DevOps Engineer practice test
10 original 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 exam format
How many questions, how long, what the items look like, and how long it stays valid.
- 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.
- What Cloud DevOps Engineer costs
The voucher price, the retake, and what renewal costs across the cycle.
- Cloud DevOps Engineer guide
Who it is for, study plans by experience level, and whether it is worth it.
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.