Pass the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Exam (2023)

3 min readOct 14, 2022

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Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing well. Recently, I passed the very famous Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer 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 DevOps Engineer exam assesses your ability to:

Apply site reliability engineering principles to a service
Optimize service performance
Implement service monitoring strategies
Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for a service
Manage service incidents

The exam price is $200 and the duration is 2 hours. You can expect 50 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 my knowledge base which helped me with understanding security at a detailed level.

Preparation Strategy

I have been preparing for the exam for around 3 months since I had been preparing for other certifications in parallel.

Visit the Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer 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 clearly understand 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 heavily hovered around Google Kubernetes Engine, SRE best practices, incident management, and CI/CD. Since these topics were some of my interests, I was able to apply some knowledge I had gained before I was preparing for the certification. Some of the questions were challenging and I had to re-read the options to make sure that I chose the correct answer.

Another highlight was the abundance of questions over the Cloud Operations tool stack that included Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Alerting, Debugging, and Profiling. Overall, it had a good overlap with the Cloud Developer Exam but was good enough to challenge my confidence.