The Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam covers five primary sections, each aligned with essential competencies in a DevOps role on Google Cloud:

Section 1: Bootstrapping and Maintaining a Google Cloud Organization

Setting up resource hierarchies (organizations, folders, projects).
Managing Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Implementing billing accounts and policies.
Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Deployment Manager.

Section 2: Building and Implementing CI/CD Pipelines

Designing and managing continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
Using Google Cloud tools such as Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and Artifact Registry.
Automating infrastructure and application deployments.
Ensuring secure software delivery practices.

Section 3: Applying Site Reliability Engineering Practices

Defining and tracking Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Managing error budgets.
Performing incident response and blameless postmortems.
Reducing toil and improving system reliability.

Section 4: Implementing Observability Practices

Setting up and configuring monitoring, logging, and alerting using Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.
Instrumenting applications for observability.
Analyzing metrics and logs to diagnose system behavior.

Section 5: Optimizing Performance and Troubleshooting

Diagnosing and resolving system bottlenecks.
Performing root cause analysis.
Leveraging Google Cloud tools like Profiler, Trace, and Debugger.
Implementing performance optimizations.
ing 1+ year with Google Cloud production systems