Notes from my beta Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Exam

sathish vj
6 min readJan 8, 2019

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Update on Jan 24th, 2019: The Professional Cloud Developer exam is now out of beta. Also, I passed the exam!

Immediately after the exam I do a memory dump as notes. Hence it is also quite unordered. This is a sanitized list that gives general topics and questions I encountered. The intention is not to give you the questions, but to give you topics that you can be prepared for. I was often stumped by some questions; hopefully you can be more prepared based on my experience. Wish you the very best!

I didn’t really prepare for this exam. There was no material to prepare with either (at the time that I wrote the exam). But I hoped my preparation for the other three certifications would carry me through on this one. The results are out only in a few months and I cannot be certain I passed yet. Btw, because it was a beta exam, there were 102 questions for me and 4 hours to do it in. In the notes below I’ve mentioned topics from the exam outline.

My Certification

Update: the exam is out of beta now. I passed and got my certificate.

Google Cloud Certified — Professional Cloud Developer

Notes from each of my exams

For those appearing for the various certification exams, here is a list of sanitized notes (no direct question, only general topics) about the exam.

Overall notes across all GCP certification exams

Notes from the Professional Cloud Architect exam

Notes from the beta Professional Cloud Developer exam

Notes from the Professional Data Engineer exam

Notes from the Associate Cloud Engineer exam

Notes from the beta Professional Cloud Network Engineer Exam

Notes from the beta Professional Cloud Security Engineer Exam

Notes from the Professional Collaboration Engineer Exam

Notes from the G Suite Exam

Notes from the Professional DevOps Engineer Exam

Notes from the Professional Machine Learning Engineer Exam

Official Links

Main Link — https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-developer

Topics Outline — https://cloud.google.com/certification/guides/cloud-developer/

Practice Exam — https://cloud.google.com/certification/practice-exam/cloud-developer

Github Repo: awesome-gcp-certifications

A collection of posts, videos, courses, qwiklabs, and other exam details for all exams: https://github.com/sathishvj/awesome-gcp-certifications

Free Qwiklabs Codes to Practice

I’ve collected here a bunch of free Qwiklabs codes which are awesome to get lots of hands-on practice. Use them well.

More Questions?

Check the FAQs here: https://medium.com/@sathishvj/frequently-asked-follow-up-questions-on-google-cloud-gcp-certifications-438e1addb91d.

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sathish vj

tech architect, tutor, investor | GCP 12x certified | youtube/AwesomeGCP | Google Developer Expert | Go