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Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

We do not teach just for the test.Worked examples and real discussion, not a question bank. The exam is then delivered in the classroom — 98% pass it first time.
$2,595catalog price — your starting point
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Next date
  • 14 Dec 2026Atlanta, GA
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50% labs50% lecture
24 monthsfree retakes

Course overview

Download the course datasheetThe full outline for Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, as a PDF.
thinQtank® Learning is offering a unique four-day training camp comprised of four days of instructor-led learning that gives students the knowledge and skills needed to bootstrap and maintain a Google Cloud organization, build CI/CD pipelines with continuous testing, apply site reliability engineering practices, implement observability and troubleshooting, and optimize performance and cost.

The camp follows the five sections of the current Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam guide, with hands-on labs and design case studies on live Google Cloud projects throughout.

Google Cloud, Google Workspace, BigQuery, Gemini and related marks are trademarks of Google LLC.

This course prepares students to take the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification exam.

What's included

13 items
thinQtank® Learning Accelerated Custom Exam Study Guide for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Hands-on labs and design case studies on live Google Cloud projects
Custom and focused exam preparation software and materials
Course specific thinQtank® Learning publications to promote a fun and exciting learning
Membership to the thinQtank® Learning University Online
WE DO NOT "TEACH THE TEST" - Students will receive valuable examples and discussion
All courses taught by Google Cloud-certified practitioners
Additional hours of remote lab access
Custom video recordings with even more in-depth learning of course topics
Customized practice exam software
Digital courseware
Retake any or all portions of the course as many times as you like in person or live on-line for 24 months
Six months mentoring access to our engineers after completing the course

What you'll be able to do

19 objectives
  • Design the resource hierarchy and manage infrastructure and multiple environments
  • Design CI/CD architecture for Google Cloud, hybrid and multi-cloud
  • Design, implement and secure CI/CD pipelines including configuration and secrets
  • Balance change, velocity and reliability and manage the service lifecycle
  • Mitigate incident impact on users
  • Instrument telemetry and manage logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts and traces
  • Troubleshoot issues and apply FinOps practices to optimize performance and cost
  • Resource Hierarchy and Infrastructure Management
  • CI/CD Architecture and Environments
  • Secure Cloud Development Environments
  • Designing CI/CD Pipelines
  • Implementing Pipelines, Configuration and Secrets
  • Securing the Deployment Pipeline
  • SRE: Balancing Change, Velocity and Reliability
  • Service Lifecycle and Incident Mitigation
  • Telemetry, Logs and Metrics
  • Dashboards, Alerts and Distributed Tracing
  • Troubleshooting
  • Performance and FinOps Cost Optimization

The exam

120minutes to complete
  • Five sections: bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization (20%); building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing, for application, infrastructure, and machine learning workloads (25%); applying site reliability engineering practices (18%); implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues (25%); optimizing performance and cost (12%)
  • Delivered online proctored or at a Pearson VUE test center
  • Exam fee: $200 (set by Google Cloud)
  • Valid 2 years; renew with Google Cloud's recertification options before it expires

Who it's for, and what you need first

Target Audience

  • DevOps engineers
  • Site reliability engineers (SREs)
  • Platform / release engineers
  • Cloud operations engineers
  • Service members, veterans and military spouses using AF COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0

Prerequisites

  • No certification is required
  • 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing production systems using Google Cloud (Google's recommendation)
  • Associate Cloud Engineer, or equivalent hands-on Google Cloud experience, is a strong foundation

How it's delivered

Instructor-Led Training
Immersive Live-Online Training
On-Site and Custom Delivery

Dates and locations

20 scheduled
Guaranteed to run means the class goes ahead whatever the enrollment.
Prices shown are MSRP. Qualified military personnel funding through Air Force COOL, Army Credentialing Assistance, MyCAA or VET TEC 2.0 pay a flat $1,500 per class, whatever the listed price. Everyone else — call 855-868-4467 about group pricing, discounts and current promotions.