Chapter PCD professional tier

Professional Cloud Developer

Editor's note — A study companion for the Professional Cloud Developer exam — every domain rebuilt from scratch, with worked practice questions and an exam-grade timed simulation.

60 questions 120 minutes threshold 70/100 5 domains official guide

begin — Practice Twenty questions, untimed, with full explanations after every answer. begin — Mock Examination 60 questions in 120:00, timed, scored.

5 domains · 20 topics

I. Design Cloud Native Apps 25% weight

Cloud-Native Application Design Patterns Microservices Architecture on Google Cloud Caching with Memorystore Testing in a Cloud Environment

II. Build Test Apps 20% weight

Google Cloud Pub/Sub for Messaging Google Cloud Functions (Serverless) Secret Manager and KMS IAM for Application Identities

III. Deploy Apps 25% weight

Cloud Run for Containerized Apps App Engine Standard and Flexible GKE for Developers Cloud Build for CI/CD Artifact Registry and Container Registry

IV. Integrate Gcp Services 20% weight

Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner Firestore and Cloud Bigtable Cloud Endpoints and API Gateway Cloud Deployment Manager and Terraform

V. Manage Performance Monitoring 10% weight

Cloud Logging and Error Reporting Cloud Monitoring, Trace, and Debug Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)