Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Practice Exams

PCDE

⭐ Most popularAdvancedProfessionalDevOps Engineer

Validates the ability to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to balance reliability and delivery speed on Google Cloud — the professional-level credential for DevOps and SRE roles.

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 DevOps Engineer certification validates the ability to implement development and operations practices that balance service reliability with delivery speed using Google Cloud. It covers bootstrapping a Google Cloud organization for DevOps (resource hierarchy, IAM, and Infrastructure as Code), building CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Artifact Registry, applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices — SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, and incident management — implementing service monitoring with the Cloud Operations suite (Monitoring, Logging, Trace, Managed Service for Prometheus), and optimizing service performance. The exam is 50–60 questions in 2 hours, and Google recommends 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ year on Google Cloud.

Why should I take the exam?

What this credential does for your career.

1The definitive credential for DevOps and SRE roles on Google Cloud — reliability and delivery velocity together
2SRE and CI/CD skills are among the most sought-after and highest-paid in the industry
3Teaches the SLO/error-budget discipline and observability practices used to run production at scale
4Complements the Cloud Engineer, Architect, and Developer credentials with an operations focus

Skills measured

What you need to know to pass this exam.

✓Bootstrap a Google Cloud organization: resource hierarchy, IAM, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
✓Build and secure CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, and Binary Authorization
✓Implement progressive delivery: canary, blue-green, and rolling deployments with fast rollback
✓Define SLIs and SLOs and manage error budgets to balance reliability and feature velocity
✓Reduce toil through automation and practice effective, blameless incident management
✓Instrument services and build monitoring with Cloud Monitoring, Logging, and Managed Service for Prometheus
✓Configure alerting, including SLO burn-rate alerts, and dashboards for the four golden signals
✓Debug and optimize service performance with Cloud Trace, Profiler, and Error Reporting
✓Apply autoscaling, caching, and load balancing to meet performance and cost targets

About our PCDE practice exams

Our Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer PCDE question bank holds 50 exam-style questions with a written explanation on every answer, mapped to the five exam domains published for PCDE, covering Bootstrapping a Google Cloud organization for DevOps, Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, Applying site reliability engineering practices, Implementing service monitoring strategies and Optimizing service performance.

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 1 multiple-response question, 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 PCDE 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 PCDE bank cites 45 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 PCDE exam guide

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