Google Professional Cloud Architect
Unlimited Professional Cloud Architect practice exam retakes, each drawn fresh from a question pool weighted by the official exam domains — designing & planning architecture, managing & provisioning infrastructure, security & compliance, optimizing processes, managing implementation, and operational reliability on Google Cloud.
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- A 195-question pool — every attempt draws 65 fresh questions weighted by the official exam domains
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Exam domains
Every attempt draws questions in these official proportions. Open a domain to see the subtopics it covers.
Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture25%
- Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets business requirements
- Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
- Designing network, storage and compute resources
- Creating a migration plan (documents and architectural diagrams)
- Envisioning future solution improvements
Managing and provisioning a solution infrastructure18%
- Configuring network topologies
- Configuring individual storage systems
- Configuring compute systems
- Leveraging Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform for end-to-end ML workflows
- Configuring prebuilt solutions or APIs with Agent Platform
Designing for security and compliance18%
- Identity and Access Management (IAM) and resource hierarchy
- Data security (key management, encryption, secret management)
- Security controls (e.g., VPC Service Controls, organization policy, auditing)
- Secure remote access (e.g., Identity-Aware Proxy, Workload Identity Federation)
- Securing the software supply chain and securing AI
- Compliance with legislation and regulation (e.g., data privacy, data sovereignty)
- Commercial compliance for sensitive data such as card information and PII
- Industry certifications (e.g., SOC 2) and audits
Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes15%
- Software development lifecycle (SDLC) and CI/CD
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis best practices
- Testing and validation of software and infrastructure
- Service catalog and provisioning
- Disaster recovery and business continuity
- Stakeholder, change and customer success management
- Team assessment, skills readiness and decision-making processes
- Cost and resource optimization (CapEx/OpEx)
Managing implementation12%
- Advising development and operations teams to ensure successful deployment
- API management best practices (e.g., Apigee)
- Testing frameworks (load, unit, integration)
- Data and system migration and management tooling
- Interacting with Google Cloud programmatically
- Cloud Shell, Cloud Code, Google Cloud SDKs and Cloud Emulators
- Infrastructure as Code and Google API client libraries
Ensuring solution and operations reliability12%
- Operational excellence pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Observability solutions
- Deployment and release management
- Assisting with the support of deployed solutions
- Evaluating quality control measures
- Ensuring the reliability of solutions in production (e.g., chaos and load testing)
References
- Official exam page:cloud.google.com
- Official study guide:services.google.com (PDF)
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