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Site reliability engineering on Google Cloud: bootstrapping an organisation for DevOps, building CI/CD pipelines, applying SRE practices, and monitoring and optimising services.
Google Cloud does not publish numeric exam codes — PCDOE is the common abbreviation.
Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer is Google Cloud's professional-level devops & sre certification, referred to across the industry by the shorthand PCDOE. The exam runs for 2 hours and presents up to 55 questions, with a pass mark of not published by Google. It costs US$200 at the standard rate.
The published exam guide lists 5 sections but does not assign public weightings, so plan to cover each in similar depth rather than betting on one being dominant.
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The published exam guide for PCDOE, in the vendor's own order.
01Bootstrapping a Google Cloud organization for DevOps
02Building and implementing continuous integration and delivery pipelines
03Applying site reliability engineering practices to services
04Implementing service monitoring strategies
05Optimizing service performance
Three or more years of experience including at least one year managing Google Cloud environments.
Professional level — Advanced credentials covering design, scale and trade-off decisions.
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Google Cloud lists up to 55 questions, to be completed in 2 hours. Question counts can vary slightly between exam forms, and unscored trial questions are sometimes included.
Not published by Google. Confirm the current figure on the official exam page before booking, as vendors adjust cut scores when an exam form is refreshed.
The standard price is US$200. Local pricing, taxes and any retake policy vary by region, so check the official page for the figure that applies to you.
Three or more years of experience including at least one year managing Google Cloud environments.
The exam guide covers Bootstrapping a Google Cloud organization for DevOps, Building and implementing continuous integration and delivery pipelines, Applying site reliability engineering practices to services, Implementing service monitoring strategies and Optimizing service performance. The full weighted breakdown is listed above.
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