Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Questions and Answers

200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations

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GCP-PCDOE

200 questions

5 topics

Updated May 2026

Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization

40 questions12 easy19 medium9 hard~20% of exam

An external CI system uses an OIDC identity provider and must access Google Cloud without storing long-lived service acc...An external automation platform must access Google Cloud without keys. Some target services support direct federation, b...A service project administrator needs to create VM instances that use subnets from a Shared VPC host project. Which IAM ...

Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing, for application, infrastructure, and machine learning workloads

51 questions12 easy28 medium11 hard~25% of exam

A platform team needs to block deployments of container images unless they satisfy an approved attestation policy. Which...A build pipeline must reach private resources that aren't exposed to the public internet. Which Cloud Build feature is d...When selecting initial canary metrics for a frontend service, which pair most directly reflects user-impacting problems ...

Applying site reliability engineering practices

37 questions9 easy18 medium10 hard~18% of exam

Why is a 100% SLO generally considered a poor target in SRE guidance?A service is close to exhausting its error budget. According to SRE guidance, which action is most appropriate?A service has a 99.9% SLO over its compliance period. What error budget does that imply?

Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues

49 questions12 easy24 medium13 hard~25% of exam

You need an alert when more than 50 WARNING log entries appear during the last 60 minutes across many entries. Which ale...You want an alert if a monitored time series stops reporting data for a defined period. Which alert condition type shoul...What does a log-based alerting policy evaluate?

Optimizing performance and cost

23 questions7 easy11 medium5 hard~12% of exam

Which statement about Spot VMs is correct?A team runs a steady baseline of predictable Compute Engine capacity all month. Which discount model is the best primary...Managed Service for Prometheus is scraping targets every 15 seconds, and cost needs to drop without changing label cardi...

All Questions

#	Question	Topic	Difficulty
1	Why is a 100% SLO generally considered a poor target in SRE guidance?	Applying site reliability engineering practices	medium
2	You need an alert when more than 50 WARNING log entries appear during the last 60 minutes across man...	Implementing observability practices and troubleshooting issues	medium
3	An external CI system uses an OIDC identity provider and must access Google Cloud without storing lo...	Bootstrapping and maintaining a Google Cloud organization	easy
4	A platform team needs to block deployments of container images unless they satisfy an approved attes...	Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing, for application, infrastructure, and machine learning workloads	medium
5	Which statement about Spot VMs is correct?	Optimizing performance and cost	easy

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