Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Practice Exam (GCP)

Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP) exam has been designed to test technical skills related to the job role. Candidates preparing for the exam should have hands-on experience. Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam assesses the candidates 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

Who should take the exam?

Candidates planning to go for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer will be responsible for efficient development operations that can balance service reliability and delivery speed. Also they should have the skills to use Google Cloud Platform to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage and learn from incidents.

Course Structure

Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP) Exam covers the following topics -

1. Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service

• 1.1 Balance change, velocity, and reliability of the service
• 1.2 Manage service life cycle
• 1.3 Ensure healthy communication and collaboration for operations

2. Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service

• 2.1 Design CI/CD pipelines
  
• 2.2 Implement CI/CD pipelines
• 2.3 Manage configuration and secrets
• 2.4 Manage infrastructure as code
• 2.5 Deploy CI/CD tooling
• 2.6 Manage different development environments
• 2.7 Secure the deployment pipeline

3. Implementing service monitoring strategies

• 3.1 Manage application logs
• 3.2 Manage application metrics with Stackdriver Monitoring
• 3.3 Manage Stackdriver Monitoring platform
• 3.4 Manage Stackdriver Logging platform
• 3.5 Implement logging and monitoring access controls

4. Optimizing service performance

• 4.1 Identify service performance issues
• 4.2 Debug application code
• 4.3 Optimize resource utilization

5. Managing service incidents

• 5.1 Coordinate roles and implement communication channels during a service incident
• 5.2 Investigate incident symptoms impacting users with Stackdriver IRM
• 5.3 Mitigate incident impact on users
• 5.4 Resolve issues
• 5.5 Document issue in a postmortem