NEW Google Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Exam

UPDATED-Confidently Achieve Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer Certificate in your first attempt with this course

** Updated January 2026
** Updated December 2025

--- Know Your Exam ---

Purpose:
To validate your expertise in using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to optimise the development, deployment, operation, and reliability of cloud solutions. To show you can design and implement Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and monitoring strategies within the GCP ecosystem.

Skills Assessed:

• Bootstrapping a Google Cloud Organisation for DevOps

• Designing the resource hierarchy

• Configuring IAM (Identity and Access Management)

• Establishing billing and project structures Building and Implementing CI/CD Pipelines for a Service

• Designing, managing, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines using tools like Cloud Build, Cloud Source Repositories, and related services

• Incorporating automated testing and security checks directly into the pipelines. Applying Site Reliability Engineering Practices to a Service

• Demonstrating knowledge of SRE fundamentals (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)

• Finding the right balance between reliability, change speed, and overall service stability. Implementing Service Monitoring Strategies

• Utilising Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and other necessary tools

• Configuring alerts and visualisation dashboards

• Troubleshooting issues effectively using monitoring data. Optimising Service Performance

• Analysing and interpreting service performance data

• Scaling and optimising services for maximum performance and cost efficiency

Exam Details:

• Format: 50-60 questions (mix of multiple-choice and multiple-select)

• Length: 2 hours Registration Fee: $200 (plus applicable taxes)

• Languages: English, Japanese

• Prerequisites: None (though strong foundational GCP knowledge is highly recommended).

Preparation:

• Thoroughly review the official Exam Guide.

• Complete Google Cloud Training Courses.

• Utilize Practice Labs and Exams.

• Consult Google Cloud Documentation to deep-dive into the services mentioned in the guide.
  

--- Instructions & Tips ---

• The exam strongly emphasizes your practical ability and hands-on experience with GCP.

• This is considered a demanding and rigorous certification.

• It's an excellent credential for GCP DevOps roles, effectively showcasing your specialised skills to employers.

• Focus on applying GCP services within the CI/CD and SRE context, rather than just memorising isolated facts.

• Make sure to get significant, real-world hands-on practice with GCP.

• Familiarise yourself with the testing environment well before the exam date.

--- Course Features and Advantages ---

• Exam-Aligned & Current Questions: Our practice questions are continuously updated to perfectly match the latest official exam syllabus, ensuring they reflect the difficulty, format, and content areas of the actual test.

• Constant Updates: The practice exam is regularly refined to incorporate the most recent changes to the syllabus, guaranteeing you always have the most up-to-date preparation materials.

• Detailed Answer Explanations: We provide more than just right or wrong feedback; every answer comes with a clear, detailed explanation to reinforce key concepts and help you precisely identify your weak areas.

• Scenario-Based Challenges: Test your skill in applying principles within complex, real-world situations, accurately simulating the practical challenges you will face during the actual certification exam.

• Performance Monitoring: Easily track your progress over time and clearly see which specific topics or domains require additional study and focus.