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CDL Practice Exam — Cloud Digital Leader
Cloud Digital Leader tests whether you can explain what Google Cloud does for a business rather than how to operate it: why organisations move to the cloud, which data, AI and infrastructure products fit a given need, and how security and spending are governed. Practise across all six official sections with full 50-question papers and a score breakdown per section.
CDL exam at a glance
- Questions per paper
- 50
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Passing score
- Not published by Google
- Question format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
- Official exam fee
- USD $99
- Certification valid for
- 3 years
- ReadyForCert access
- 60 days · $8.99 AUD
- Free sample
- 20 questions
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What the CDL exam covers
Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
Why organisations move to the cloud, Google Cloud's differentiators, cloud and network fundamentals, and the trade-offs between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
18%Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
The value of data, databases versus warehouses versus data lakes, Google Cloud's data products, and analytics with BigQuery and Looker.
18%Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
AI, ML and generative AI concepts, responsible AI, and when a pre-trained API, AutoML, BigQuery ML or a custom model fits.
18%Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
Migration approaches, virtual machines, containers, GKE and serverless options, hybrid and multicloud products, and the business value of APIs.
18%Trust and Security with Google Cloud
Security threats and controls, identity and access, encryption, Google's layered defences, and compliance and data residency.
18%Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Managing cloud spend and the resource hierarchy, observability, reliability, and SRE ideas such as SLIs and SLOs.
10%
A sample CDL question
One question written for this page, in the same style as the questions in the bank.
Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
Cloud spending at a retail company doubled after several teams started new projects. Finance wants to be warned automatically when any project's monthly spend approaches its planned amount, without stopping teams from working. What should the company set up?
- ACloud Billing budgets with alert thresholds for each project. — Correct answer
- BOrganization policies that block resource creation once a project exceeds its cost limit.
- CA monthly export of billing data that finance reviews at the end of each month.
- DResource quotas set to each project's current usage.
About the CDL exam
How many questions are on the Cloud Digital Leader exam?
50–60 multiple choice and multiple select questions in 90 minutes. ReadyForCert papers use 50 questions in 90 minutes.
What score do I need to pass the CDL exam?
Google does not publish a passing score or your numeric result — you receive a pass or fail. Because there is no published bar, aim comfortably above a bare pass: ReadyForCert scores you against a 72% threshold so you have a concrete target.
How much does the exam cost and how long is it valid?
Registration is USD $99 plus tax where applicable, and the certification is valid for 3 years.
Are these the real Google CDL exam questions?
No. These are practice questions written against the current official exam guide. Google's exam content is confidential and the bank is rotated, so practising against leaked questions does not survive an exam refresh.
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