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Are you preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer Certification and looking for the most realistic, updated, and exam-accurate practice tests?
This course is designed to help you pass confidently on the first attempt by giving you full-length practice exams that mirror the real 2026 Google Cloud Developer exam in format, difficulty, and domain coverage.

A Professional Cloud Developer builds and deploys secure, scalable, cloud-native applications using Google-recommended tools, APIs, and managed services. This certification validates your ability to design high-performance applications, integrate Google Cloud services, manage CI/CD pipelines, secure workloads, and troubleshoot production systems. These practice tests are built to help you master those exact skills.

Each question has been created to reflect real exam scenarios, and every answer includes a clear, detailed explanation—helping you understand why a choice is correct and why others are not. Whether you are an application developer, cloud engineer, DevOps professional, or architect, this course will strengthen your knowledge across the entire GCP developer ecosystem.

Why This Practice Test Course Is Different

This practice test package is crafted with three goals:

1. Match the real exam difficulty and style
   You’ll see questions involving Cloud Run, GKE, Apigee, API Gateway, Secret Manager, Cloud Build, Cloud Storage, IAM, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, Workflows, and more.

2. Teach through explanations, not just answers
   Every question includes a clear explanation so you can strengthen your understanding—not just memorize.

3. Increase retention and exam performance
   Repeated exposure to realistic exam patterns improves recall, accuracy, and confidence.

What This Course Prepares You For

By working through these tests, you will learn to:

• Architect reliable, scalable, and cloud-native applications on Google Cloud.

• Build APIs using HTTP, REST, gRPC, Apigee, and API Gateway.

• Develop applications for Cloud Run, GKE, and Compute Engine.

• Use caching, load balancing, traffic splitting, and gradual rollouts.

• Secure applications with IAP, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, and service accounts.

• Manage vulnerabilities using Web Security Scanner, Artifact Analysis, and Security Command Center.

• Choose the right datastore (Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, Cloud Storage).

• Implement schemas for structured and unstructured data.

• Use Pub/Sub, Eventarc, Cloud Tasks, and Workflows for event-driven architectures.

• Use Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, provenance, and Binary Authorization.

• Write, run, and automate unit and integration tests.

• Deploy and manage containerized apps on GKE with appropriate resource limits, autoscaling, and health checks.

• Deploy secure, scalable Cloud Run services with event triggers.

• Integrate applications with Cloud APIs using client libraries, REST, or gRPC.

• Handle pagination, caching, batching, rate limiting, retries, and errors.

• Implement logs, metrics, traces, and error monitoring using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Trace.

• Troubleshoot distributed applications using trace IDs and observability signals.

These are the exact skills measured in the official exam guide, and this practice test set is designed to reinforce every domain.

Course Structure

This course includes:

• Multiple full-length practice exams

• Real-world scenario questions across all exam domains

• Detailed explanations for every answer choice

• Lifetime access with updates for new exam changes

• Repeatable practice to build confidence and accuracy

• High-quality questions that reflect modern cloud-native development standards

This practice test course is fully mapped to the four domains of the Professional Cloud Developer exam:

Section 1: Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications (~36% of the exam)

1.1 Designing high-performing applications and APIs.

1.2 Designing secure applications.

1.3 Storing and accessing data.

Section 2: Building and testing applications (~23% of the exam)

2.1 Setting up your development environment.

2.2 Building.

2.3 Testing.

Section 3: Deploying applications (~20% of the exam)

3.1 Deploying applications to Cloud Run.

3.2 Deploying containers to GKE.

Section 4: Integrating applications with Google Cloud services (~21% of the exam)

4.1 Integrating applications with data and storage services.

4.2 Consuming Google Cloud APIs.

4.3 Troubleshooting and observability.Troubleshooting and observability.

Who This Course Is For

This course is ideal for:

• Software Developers building cloud-native apps

• Cloud Developers working with GCP services

• DevOps Engineers deploying and automating backend systems

• Backend Engineers and API developers

• Professionals preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer exam

• Anyone wanting to master serverless, containerized, and event-driven development

No prior certification is required. If you understand the basics of application development and want to scale your skills into Google Cloud, this practice test set is the perfect step.

What You’ll Gain

By the end of this practice test course, you will:

• Have a deep understanding of GCP developer tools

• Recognize how to architect and deploy cloud-native applications

• Know how to integrate application workloads with Google Cloud services

• Understand best practices for reliability, performance, CI/CD, observability, and security

• Be fully prepared to pass the Professional Cloud Developer exam

About this certification exam

Length: Two hours

Registration fee: $200 (plus tax where applicable)

Languages: English and Japanese

Exam format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions

Exam delivery method:

a. Take the online-proctored exam from a remote location

b. Take the onsite-proctored exam at a testing center

Prerequisites: None

Recommended experience: 3+ years of industry experience including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using Google Cloud.

Certification renewal: Candidates may renew their certification within the renewal eligibility period. For more information about the renewal process, eligibility period, and certification validity timeline, please refer to the Renewal FAQs below.

Take the Next Step Toward Your Certification

The Professional Cloud Developer exam validates some of the most in-demand skills in today’s cloud job market. Whether you’re building microservices, APIs, serverless workloads, or containerized applications, this certification will significantly improve your professional credibility.

Start practicing today and move one step closer to becoming a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer.

Who this course is for:

• Software Developers:
• Developers who want to build and deploy cloud-native applications on the Google Cloud Platform. This certification helps validate their GCP specific skills and add in-demand cloud credentials to their profile.
• DevOps Engineers:
• Professionals focused on continuous integration, delivery, and management of applications on GCP. This certification can deepen their skillset and understanding of GCP-based automation.
• Cloud Architects:
• Architects who design cloud solutions and want to specialize in Google Cloud technologies. This demonstrates expertise in building scalable and efficient solutions within the GCP ecosystem.
• Solutions Architects (with development focus):
• Architects responsible for designing both software and cloud infrastructure on GCP. The certification helps them translate solution requirements into a cloud-native designs effective on Google Cloud.
• IT Professionals Transitioning to Cloud Development Roles:
• Individuals with some development experience seeking to specialize in Google Cloud for career growth and advancement in the cloud industry.