How to become a Google Professional Cloud Developer

Google Professional Cloud Developer

A Professional Cloud Developer builds scalable and highly available applications. This individual has experience with cloud-native applications, developer tools, managed services, and next-generation databases. They are also skilled at producing meaningful metrics and logs to debug and trace code.

Abilities validated by the certification

  • Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications
  • Build and test applications
  • Deploy applications
  • Integrate Google Cloud services
  • Manage application performance monitoring

Recommended experience

3+ years of industry experience including 1+ year designing and managing solutions on GCP.

Prepare for the exam

0. Practice

Before you attempt the exam, it’s recommended to have hands-on experience with Google Cloud products and solutions. You can build for free here.

1. Exam Guide

You can review the exam guide here.

2. Training

You can view the preferred learning path.

3. Webinar

You can attend a webinar, register.

4. Additional Resources

You can view the additional resources on the concepts and critical components of GCP by visiting:

5. Sample questions

You can view the sample questions on this certification here.

Register for your exam here.

Free Resources

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