Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (PCDE) ® 2026
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Quick Answer: The Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam has 50-60 questions, a 2 hour time limit and costs $200 USD. Google does not publish a passing score, so results are pass or fail only. CI/CD pipelines and observability carry ~25% each - half the paper between them. ExamCert has 500–1,000+ free practice questions, a full study guide, and a money-back guarantee.
GCP DevOps Engineer (PCDE) Study Materials
The Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer covers running reliable services on Google Cloud: bootstrapping an organisation with IaC, building CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build and progressive delivery, applying SRE practice around SLOs and error budgets, observability and troubleshooting, and performance and cost optimisation.
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Scenario-based questions covering Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization, Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, Applying site reliability engineering practices, Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues, and Optimizing performance and cost
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GCP DevOps Engineer (PCDE) Exam Domains
50-60 questions in 2 hours. Google publishes no passing score - results are pass or fail only. Exam fee: $200 USD. Weightings are from the official exam guide PDF and are approximate.
Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization
Resource hierarchy design, infrastructure as code, CI/CD architecture across cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud, managing staging and production environments, and secure cloud development environments.
Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines
Pipeline design for application, infrastructure and ML workloads, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy and Artifact Registry, pipeline configuration and secrets, and supply-chain security with Binary Authorization and SLSA.
Applying site reliability engineering practices
Balancing change, velocity and reliability, SLIs, SLOs and error budgets, service lifecycle management, and mitigating incident impact on users.
Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues
Instrumenting and collecting telemetry, log analysis, metrics, dashboards and alerting, distributed tracing, and OpenTelemetry with Managed Service for Prometheus.
Optimizing performance and cost
Collecting performance information on Google Cloud and applying FinOps practice to resource utilisation and spend.
Why GCP DevOps Engineer?
The Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer covers running reliable services on Google Cloud: bootstrapping an organisation with IaC, building CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build and progressive delivery, applying SRE practice around SLOs and error budgets, observability and troubleshooting, and performance and cost optimisation. A respected Google Cloud credential for DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer.
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Who Is the GCP DevOps Engineer Exam For?
Target Audience
For DevOps and SRE practitioners running services on Google Cloud — building pipelines, defining SLOs and error budgets, instrumenting monitoring, and handling incidents and performance work.
Recommended Prerequisites
- •No prerequisites required
- •Recommended: 3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing production systems on Google Cloud
- •Comfort with Terraform, containers and CI/CD tooling
Official Exam Details
Format: Multiple choice & multiple select (online-proctored or onsite)
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