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Professional Google Cloud certification for SRE practices, CI/CD, monitoring, performance optimization, and incident management.
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About this exam
Validates SRE, delivery automation, observability, optimization, and incident management on Google Cloud.
Who should take this exam
DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers, and cloud engineers.
Career benefits
Demonstrates Google Cloud reliability and operations skill.
How to prepare
Use the official exam page, SRE resources, and hands-on Google Cloud operations practice.
Quick facts
Exam cost$200 USD
Valid for2 years
Length120 minutes
Questions on exam60
Passing scoreNot publicly disclosed by Google Cloud
FormatMultiple choice and multiple select
Practice questions125
Objectives5
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What's covered
1. Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
20%- 1.1 Balance change, velocity, reliability, and service objectives
- 1.2 Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- 1.3 Apply incident response and postmortem practices
2. Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
25%- 2.1 Design and operate CI/CD pipelines
- 2.2 Manage artifacts, configuration, and environments
- 2.3 Use deployment strategies that reduce risk
3. Implementing service monitoring strategies
18%- 3.1 Instrument services and define observability signals
- 3.2 Configure alerts, dashboards, and log-based metrics
- 3.3 Troubleshoot services using observability data
4. Optimizing service performance
22%- 4.1 Identify performance bottlenecks and scaling constraints
- 4.2 Improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- 4.3 Plan capacity and load testing
5. Managing service incidents
15%- 5.1 Respond to incidents and coordinate communication
- 5.2 Analyze root causes and implement corrective actions
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