1. The exam #
Format and domains.
Format #
| Item | Indicative value |
|---|---|
| Questions | 50 to 60 multiple-choice questions |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Price | 125 USD |
| Validity | 3 years |
2. Skills #
What you must be able to do.
Summary #
| Domain | To be able to do |
|---|---|
| Setup | Projects, billing, APIs, basic IAM, gcloud and Cloud Shell |
| Planning | Choose compute, storage, database, network, estimate costs |
| Deployment | Compute Engine and MIGs, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, databases, VPC, firewall, load balancers, Terraform |
| Operations | Snapshots, updates, logs, alerts, Cloud Monitoring |
| Security | IAM, service accounts, roles, audit logs |
Key commands #
gcloud config configurations create prod && gcloud config set project mon-projet
gcloud compute instances list --filter="zone:europe-west9-a" --format="table(name,status)"
gcloud container clusters get-credentials prod --region europe-west9
gcloud storage ls -L gs://mon-bucket
gcloud projects get-iam-policy mon-projet --flatten=bindings --filter="bindings.members:user:alice@exemple.fr"3. Method #
Succeeding.
Advice #
- Practice each domain in a trial project, then the course's local labs.
- Know the differences between similar services (Cloud Run and GKE, Cloud SQL and Spanner).
- Read the question's main constraint: cost, operational effort, security.
- Aim for a consistent 80% in mock exams before booking the exam.
