Google Professional Cloud Developer Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
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GCP-PCD
200 questions
4 topics
Updated May 2026Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications
72 questions22 easy34 medium16 hard~36% of exam
An internal HTTPS application should use application-level access control instead of relying only on network firewalls. ...A team wants to validate a new Cloud Run revision in production before any user traffic reaches it, then gradually shift...Application data must be written to a serverless analytics platform for SQL analysis and machine learning workloads. Whi...
Building and testing applications
48 questions12 easy25 medium11 hard~23% of exam
In Cloud Build, how are individual build steps executed?A developer wants a browser-based shell with gcloud already installed and a persistent home directory between sessions. ...A developer needs a local ADC file in the well-known location for client libraries during development. Which command sho...
Deploying applications
40 questions8 easy21 medium11 hard~20% of exam
Which gcloud command pattern deploys a Cloud Run service directly from source code?An operator deletes an HPA object from a deployment that currently has 7 replicas. What happens immediately after deleti...A Cloud Run service should react to Google Cloud events after filtering on event type and other attributes. Which Eventa...
Integrating applications with Google Cloud services
40 questions10 easy20 medium10 hard~21% of exam
A team can call a Google Cloud API either with raw REST or with supported libraries. Why is the library approach usually...An application uses IAP and needs sign-in for external customers using email and password or social identities. Which Go...Which option is Google's recommended approach for programmatic access to Cloud APIs when it is available?
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An internal HTTPS application should use application-level access control instead of relying only on... | Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications | easy |
| 2 | Which gcloud command pattern deploys a Cloud Run service directly from source code? | Deploying applications | easy |
| 3 | In Cloud Build, how are individual build steps executed? | Building and testing applications | easy |
| 4 | A developer wants a browser-based shell with gcloud already installed and a persistent home director... | Building and testing applications | easy |
| 5 | A developer needs a local ADC file in the well-known location for client libraries during developmen... | Building and testing applications | medium |
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