Exam objectives
PCDEProfessional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam objectives
The published blueprint is the contract: the exam can only test what is on this list. Domains carry their official weightings, and objectives with a practice page link straight to questions written for that objective.
Titles and weightings from the official objectives. Google Cloud exam page ↗
Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization
20%of exam- 1.1 Designing the overall resource hierarchy for an organizationPractice
- 1.2 Managing infrastructurePractice
1.3 Designing a CI/CD architecture stack in Google Cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments
- 1.4 Managing multiple environmentsPractice
- 1.5 Enabling secure cloud development environmentsPractice
Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing
25%of examApplying site reliability engineering practices
18%of examImplementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues
25%of examOptimizing performance and cost
12%of examObjectives marked Practice open a page of original questions written for that objective, each with a full explanation cited to Google Cloud documentation.
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