Google Cloud Platform - Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

The Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification validates the ability to apply DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices on Google Cloud: bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization, building and implementing CI/CD pipelines (with continuous testing for application, infrastructure, and machine learning workloads), applying SRE practices such as SLI/SLO/error-budget management, implementing service monitoring and observability, and optimizing service performance and cost. The exam assesses candidate knowledge of Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Secure Source Manager, Terraform / Infrastructure Manager, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Error Reporting, Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Service Mesh, Binary Authorization, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, and FinOps-oriented cost-optimization patterns across the five official domains.