Professional Cloud DevOps Engineers implement processes throughout the systems development lifecycle using Google-recommended methodologies and tools. They build and deploy software and infrastructure delivery pipelines, optimize and maintain production systems and services, and balance service reliability with delivery speed.
The Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam assesses your ability to:
- Bootstrap a Google Cloud organization for DevOps
- Apply site reliability engineering practices to a service
- Optimize service performance
- Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for a service
- Implement service monitoring strategies
Prerequisites
Recommended experience: 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing production systems using Google Cloud.
Recommended training for this certification
- Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (GCF-CI)
- Developing a Google SRE Culture
- Architecting with Google Cloud: Design and Process (AGCP-DP)
- Logging, Monitoring, and Observability in Google Cloud (LMOGC)
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- Cloud Operations and Service Mesh with Anthos
Exams
About the current GA certification exam:
- Length: Two hours
- Registration fee: $200 (plus tax where applicable)
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Exam format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions
Recertification
Candidates must recertify in order to maintain their certification status. Unless explicitly stated in the detailed exam descriptions, all Google Cloud certifications are valid for two years from the date of certification. Recertification is accomplished by retaking the exam during the recertification eligibility time period and achieving a passing score. You may attempt recertification starting 60 days prior to your certification expiration date.