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PCD Practice Exam — Professional Cloud Developer
Professional Cloud Developer tests how you build applications for Google Cloud: designing scalable, secure services and APIs, building and testing them, deploying to Cloud Run and GKE, and integrating with Google Cloud's data, messaging and observability services. Practise across all four official sections with full 50-question papers and a score breakdown per section.
PCD exam at a glance
- Questions per paper
- 50
- Time limit
- 120 minutes
- Passing score
- Not published by Google
- Question format
- Multiple choice and multiple select
- Official exam fee
- USD $200
- Certification valid for
- 2 years
- ReadyForCert access
- 60 days · $8.99 AUD
- Free sample
- 20 questions
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What the PCD exam covers
Designing highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native applications
Designing performant applications and APIs, securing them, and choosing how to store and access data.
32%Building and testing applications
Setting up a development environment, building with Cloud Build and Artifact Registry, and testing.
23%Configuring cloud-native applications for deployment
Deploying and configuring applications on Cloud Run and containers on GKE.
24%Integrating applications with Google Cloud services
Using data, storage and messaging services, calling Google Cloud APIs, and troubleshooting with logging, monitoring and tracing.
21%
A sample PCD question
One question written for this page, in the same style as the questions in the bank.
Integrating applications with Google Cloud services
A service publishes order events that three independent downstream services must each receive, and one slow consumer must not hold up the others. What should you use?
- AOne Pub/Sub topic with a separate subscription for each downstream service. — Correct answer
- BOne Pub/Sub topic with a single subscription that all three services pull from.
- CDirect HTTP calls from the publisher to each service, one after another.
- DA Cloud Storage bucket that each service polls for new order files.
About the PCD exam
How many questions are on the Professional Cloud Developer exam?
50–60 multiple choice and multiple select questions in two hours. ReadyForCert papers use 50 questions in 120 minutes.
What score do I need to pass the PCD 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 $200 plus tax where applicable, and the certification is valid for 2 years.
Are these the real Google PCD 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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