Professional Cloud Developer Practice Exams

PCD

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Validates the ability to build scalable, highly available, cloud-native applications on Google Cloud using recommended tools and best practices — the professional-level credential for application developers.

120

minutes

70%

passing score

$200

exam fee

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5 flashcard sets · 5 learning tests · 2 timed exams · 50-question bank

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Overview

What this certification is and how the exam works.

The Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer certification validates the ability to design, build, test, deploy, and manage scalable and highly available cloud-native applications on Google Cloud. It emphasizes developer practices: twelve-factor and microservice design, choosing the right runtime (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, App Engine), building and testing with CI/CD (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry), integrating managed services (Pub/Sub, Firestore, Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks, Secret Manager), and operating apps with observability (Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace, Profiler, Error Reporting). The exam is 50–60 questions in 2 hours, and Google recommends 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ year building applications on Google Cloud.

Why should I take the exam?

What this credential does for your career.

1The definitive credential for application developers on Google Cloud — build cloud-native, not just deploy
2Serverless and container skills (Cloud Run, GKE, Functions) are among the most in-demand in the market
3Hands-on preparation teaches the SDKs, CI/CD, and integration patterns used in daily cloud development
4Pairs naturally with the Associate Cloud Engineer and Professional DevOps Engineer credentials

Skills measured

What you need to know to pass this exam.

✓Design cloud-native, twelve-factor, loosely-coupled microservice applications
✓Choose the right runtime — Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, or App Engine — for each workload
✓Build and containerize applications and run automated tests in CI
✓Deploy with CI/CD using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, and progressive rollouts
✓Integrate managed services: Pub/Sub, Firestore, Cloud SQL, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Scheduler, and Memorystore
✓Secure applications with IAM, Workload Identity, and Secret Manager — no keys in code
✓Design resilient APIs with retries, exponential backoff, idempotency, and graceful degradation
✓Instrument applications for observability with Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace, Profiler, and Error Reporting
✓Manage revisions, traffic splitting, and blue-green/canary deployments

About our PCD practice exams

Our Professional Cloud Developer PCD question bank holds 50 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the five exam domains published for PCD, covering Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications, Building and testing applications, Deploying applications, Integrating Google Cloud services and Managing deployed applications.

Alongside the bank there are two full-length timed exams at the real 120-minute limit and 70% pass mark, plus five topic-based learning tests for working a single domain at a time. The bank includes 3 multiple-response questions, so the interactive formats are not a surprise on exam day. Randomised mock exams are dealt on demand from the full 50-question pool, so you never run out of fresh papers.

Questions: 50
Exam domains: 5
Timed exams: 2
Pass mark: 70%

How our practice content is created

Practice questions are independently developed using the official Google Cloud PCD exam guide and Google Cloud documentation. Each question is checked for alignment with the current exam objectives and reviewed for technical accuracy before publication.

The PCD bank cites 44 distinct Google Cloud documentation pages, and every question links the source it was written against — so you can check any answer at first hand.

Official PCD exam guide

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