Pass the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Exam (2023)
Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well. Recently, I passed the very famous Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer certification exam. In this article, I will share the strategy and resources that helped me achieve this.
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About the exam
The Professional Cloud Developer exam assesses your ability to:
Design highly scalable, available, reliable cloud-native applications
Build and test applications
Deploy applications
Integrate Google Cloud services
Manage application performance monitoring
The price of the exam is $200 and the duration is 2 hours. You can expect 60 questions to be answered within the given time.
My Background
I have been tinkering around Google Cloud services for the past 2 years and am working as a Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer. This ensured that my work experience also contributed to the knowledge base I possess which helped me with understanding security at a detailed level.
Preparation Strategy
I have been preparing for the exam bit by bit for around 3 months since I had been preparing for other certifications in parallel.
- Visit the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer page on Google. This will give you an overview of the exam and what is required to complete the certification.
- Understand what the exam is all about. Visit the exam guide to see the contents in detail. You will get a solid understanding of the content you will need to prepare for the exam.
- Visit the official Google Cloud Platform documentation to have a crystal clear understanding of each of the GCP services. These would make your GCP knowledge but you still have another essential factor to cover: “Hands-on experience”.
“No technical certification in the world will be useful for you if you don’t know how to implement it in the real world scenario.”
Exam Experience
The exam was pretty much broad towards the development side of Google Cloud Platform services. The main topics according to me would be Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), developer tools like Cloud Build, and managed serverless platforms like Cloud Run and App Engine. There were also questions about integrating various GCP services, for example, connecting a Cloud SQL instance with Cloud Run.
I was surprised to see 60 questions in the exam because I hadn’t been paying attention to the number of questions. I had an assumption that all exams would only have 50 questions, which was destroyed during the exam. It was also a bit confusing for me as many choices for questions were somewhat similar and I had to challenge myself to see if that was the correct one or not. Nonetheless, once I submitted the exam, it was a moment of relief.
Resources
Practice, practice, and practice
Result
Soon after the exam, I got the result as PASS. After a few days, I got the certificate from Google Cloud.
Here’s my certificate:
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I hope this helps you in your preparation and to pass your exam. Thank you for reading. Perform well and all the best!
