GCP•Professional•Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Implement processes for service monitoring, delivery, and optimization. Balance service reliability with delivery speed through monitoring, incident response, and post-incident analysis. Build and implement software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage incidents.

Note: This syllabus summary was last updated in November 2025. For the most current and detailed syllabus information, please visit the official certification provider's website.

Exam Summary

TIME

120

Minutes

TOTAL

Questions

PRICE

$200

USD

VALID

Years

PASS

70%

Required

Prerequisites (Optional)

Recommended experience before taking this exam

3+ years of industry experience
1+ year designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud
Experience with DevOps practices and tools

Exam Domains & Topics

Domain 1

20%

Apply Site Reliability Engineering Principles to a Service

Create and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Identify and implement SRE cultural practices

Design and implement toil reduction initiatives

Understand reliability concepts

Balance reliability with feature velocity

Domain 2

22%

Build and Implement CI/CD Pipelines for a Service

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines

Implement automated testing strategies

Deploy applications using various strategies

Use Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Binary Authorization

Implement infrastructure as code

Configure deployment approvals and gates

Domain 3

22%

Implement Service Monitoring Strategies

Configure monitoring with Cloud Monitoring

Implement logging with Cloud Logging

Configure alerting policies

Implement distributed tracing with Cloud Trace

Create and analyze dashboards

Configure uptime checks and SLO monitoring

Domain 4

20%

Optimize Service Performance

Identify and resolve performance issues

Optimize application and infrastructure costs

Implement autoscaling and load balancing

Analyze resource utilization

Implement caching strategies

Optimize database performance

Domain 5

16%

Manage Service Incidents

Coordinate incident response

Conduct blameless postmortems

Implement incident management processes

Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues

Document and communicate incidents

Implement preventive measures

GCP•Professional•Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Note: This syllabus summary was last updated in November 2025. For the most current and detailed syllabus information, please visit the official certification provider's website.

Exam Summary

TIME

120

Minutes

TOTAL

Questions

PRICE

$200

USD

VALID

Years

PASS

70%

Required

Prerequisites (Optional)

Recommended experience before taking this exam

3+ years of industry experience
1+ year designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud
Experience with DevOps practices and tools

Exam Domains & Topics

Domain 1

20%

Apply Site Reliability Engineering Principles to a Service

Create and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Identify and implement SRE cultural practices

Design and implement toil reduction initiatives

Understand reliability concepts

Balance reliability with feature velocity

Domain 2

22%

Build and Implement CI/CD Pipelines for a Service

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines

Implement automated testing strategies

Deploy applications using various strategies

Use Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Binary Authorization

Implement infrastructure as code

Configure deployment approvals and gates

Domain 3

22%

Implement Service Monitoring Strategies

Configure monitoring with Cloud Monitoring

Implement logging with Cloud Logging

Configure alerting policies

Implement distributed tracing with Cloud Trace

Create and analyze dashboards

Configure uptime checks and SLO monitoring

Domain 4

20%

Optimize Service Performance

Identify and resolve performance issues

Optimize application and infrastructure costs

Implement autoscaling and load balancing

Analyze resource utilization

Implement caching strategies

Optimize database performance

Domain 5

16%

Manage Service Incidents

Coordinate incident response

Conduct blameless postmortems

Implement incident management processes

Troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues

Document and communicate incidents

Implement preventive measures

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Exam Summary

Prerequisites (Optional)

Exam Domains & Topics

Apply Site Reliability Engineering Principles to a Service

Build and Implement CI/CD Pipelines for a Service

Implement Service Monitoring Strategies

Optimize Service Performance

Manage Service Incidents

Cloud Practice Test

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Exam Summary

Prerequisites (Optional)

Exam Domains & Topics

Apply Site Reliability Engineering Principles to a Service

Build and Implement CI/CD Pipelines for a Service

Implement Service Monitoring Strategies

Optimize Service Performance

Manage Service Incidents