Foundational2–4 weeks
Cloud Digital Leader
The business-literacy exam. No hands-on experience required.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 5 questions
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Three tiers, differing mainly in how much hands-on experience the questions assume.
Foundational
No hands-on experience required. Best for understanding what cloud is, what it is for, and how organisations use it.
Foundational2–4 weeks
Generative AI Leader
Business-level fluency in generative AI, without writing code.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 3 questions
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Associate
For people who deploy and operate workloads. Expects real console and command-line practice.
Associate6–10 weeks
Associate Cloud Engineer
The hands-on baseline. The most widely useful place to start.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 32 questions
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Professional
Design-level exams with long scenario questions. Expects production experience and trade-off judgement.
Professional10–16 weeks
Professional Cloud Architect
The flagship design exam. Long scenarios, real trade-offs.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 37 questions
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Professional8–12 weeks
Professional Cloud Developer
For engineers who build and ship cloud-native applications.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 17 questions
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Professional8–14 weeks
Professional Data Engineer
Pipelines, warehouses and the systems analytics runs on.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 14 questions
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Professional8–12 weeks
Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
CI/CD, SRE practice and running services that stay up.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 18 questions
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Professional8–14 weeks
Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Identity, boundaries, data protection and compliance.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 14 questions
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Professional10–16 weeks
Professional Cloud Network Engineer
The deepest networking exam. Specialist, and valued for it.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 10 questions
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Professional10–16 weeks
Professional Machine Learning Engineer
Production machine learning: pipelines, serving and monitoring.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 6 questions
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Professional8–14 weeks
Professional Cloud Database Engineer
Database design, migration and operations at production scale.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 6 questions
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Professional8–14 weeks
Security Operations Engineer
Detection engineering, investigation and response at scale.
- Difficulty
- Practice questions
- 2 questions
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Cloud Fundamentals
Regions, hierarchy, billing and shared responsibility.
IAM
Roles, inheritance, service accounts and least privilege.
Compute
Virtual machines, serverless runtimes and instance groups.
Storage
Object, block and file storage, classes and lifecycle.
Networking
VPC, firewall rules, load balancing and DNS.
Databases
Relational, document and wide-column store selection.
Kubernetes
Workloads, scheduling, autoscaling and cluster security.
Security
Encryption, secrets, perimeters and detection.
Data & Analytics
Warehousing, streaming, pipelines and cost control.
AI & Machine Learning
Metrics, MLOps, serving and generative AI techniques.
DevOps
Pipelines, deployment strategy and SRE practice.
Monitoring
Metrics, logs, traces, SLOs and alert design.
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Compute
Virtual machines, containers and serverless runtimes.
Storage
Object, block and file storage, and choosing between them.
Networking
Private networks, load balancing, DNS and content delivery.
Security
Identity, encryption, and detecting what goes wrong.
Data & Analytics
Warehousing, messaging and pipeline processing.
AI & Machine Learning
Model fundamentals, the ML platform and generative AI.
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The Complete Google Cloud Certification Guide
An independent guide to every Google Cloud certification — what each one covers, who it suits, how hard it is, and how to choose between them.
Read guideGoogle Cloud Certification Roadmap
Sequenced certification paths for cloud engineering, architecture, data, security, DevOps and machine learning careers.
Read guideGoogle Cloud Certification Cost
What Google Cloud certifications cost, including exam fees, training, retakes and the expenses people forget to budget for.
Read guideGoogle Cloud Certification Renewal
How Google Cloud certification renewal works, when to start, and how to decide whether a certification is worth keeping.
Read guideThe Best Google Cloud Certification for Beginners
Which Google Cloud certification to start with, depending on your background and what you actually want the certification to do for you.
Read guideHow to Prepare for a Cloud Certification
A practical preparation method: reading the exam guide properly, building hands-on habits, using practice questions well, and knowing when to book.
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