Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

The Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification validates your ability to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, build and manage CI/CD pipelines, balance service reliability with delivery speed, and define service level objectives. It covers Google Cloud's DevOps toolchain including Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, GKE, and the Cloud Operations suite. This certification is ideal for DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform engineers who are responsible for deploying, operating, and maintaining cloud-native applications at scale on Google Cloud.

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What is the Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification?

Who Should Take This Course?

DevOps engineers building CI/CD pipelines on GCP
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) managing production systems
Platform engineers designing developer platforms on GCP
Cloud operations engineers managing containerized workloads
Software engineers responsible for deployment automation
Infrastructure engineers modernizing delivery pipelines
Engineering managers overseeing cloud operations teams

What You Will Learn in the PCDE Course

A comprehensive curriculum covering all exam objectives with hands-on labs and real-world practice.

Bootstrapping a Google Cloud Organization

Set up and manage GCP organization resources, policies, and infrastructure as code.

Resource hierarchy: organizations, folders, projects
Managing infrastructure as code with Terraform on GCP
Shared VPC and VPC peering for organization-level networking
Policy management with Organization Policy Service

Building and Implementing CI/CD Pipelines

Design and build automated CI/CD pipelines using GCP-native tooling.

Cloud Build: triggers, build configs, and custom workers
Cloud Deploy for progressive delivery to GKE, Cloud Run, and GCE
Artifact Registry for container images and language packages
GitHub and GitLab integration with Cloud Build

Applying Site Reliability Engineering Practices

Implement SRE principles to improve reliability and reduce toil.

Defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
Toil reduction through automation and runbooks
Incident management: postmortems and blameless culture
Capacity planning and load testing strategies

Implementing Service Monitoring Strategies

Build comprehensive observability for cloud-native applications.

Cloud Monitoring: metrics, dashboards, and alerting policies
Cloud Logging: log-based metrics, sinks, and log analytics
Cloud Trace and Cloud Profiler for distributed tracing
Synthetic monitoring and uptime checks

Managing Application Deployments

Manage containerized and serverless deployments using GKE and Cloud Run.

GKE workload management: rolling updates, blue-green, canary
Cloud Run for serverless container deployments
Config Connector and GitOps with Anthos Config Management
Feature flags and progressive delivery strategies

Course Prerequisites

Pre-requisites training is free when you purchase the course from ProSupport

Associate Cloud Engineer certification or equivalent GCP hands-on experience
2+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
Experience with Kubernetes (GKE) and containerized applications
Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and pipeline tools
Understanding of observability: monitoring, logging, and tracing

Exam Information

Everything you need to know about the PCDE certification exam.

Exam Component	Details
Exam Name	Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Exam Code	PCDE
Exam Type	Multiple Choice and Multiple Select
Total Questions	60
Passing Score	Approximately 70%
Exam Duration	120 minutes
Language	English, Japanese
Exam Provider	Google Cloud / Kryterion (online proctored or test center)
Exam Focus	CI/CD pipelines, SRE practices, service monitoring, and managing GKE-based deployments
Exam Registration	Register at cloud.google.com/certification via Kryterion Webassessor portal
Retake Policy	14-day wait after first failure; 60-day wait after second; 365-day wait after third
Certification Validity	3 years (recertification required)