Google Cloud DevOps Engineer - Professional

Overview of Google Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Understanding DevOps principles and culture

Google Cloud's role in DevOps and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)

Core tools and technologies in Google Cloud for DevOps

Designing resource hierarchy: projects, folders, and shared networking

Managing IAM roles, policies, and service accounts

Multi-project monitoring and logging

Using Cloud Workstations and Cloud Shell for development

Setting up Cloud Build for CI/CD pipelines

Using Cloud Source Repositories for version control

CI/CD pipeline triggers and approval flows

Artifact management with Artifact Registry

Applying CI/CD to infrastructure (Terraform, Deployment Manager)

Using Terraform with Google Cloud

Managing configurations with Config Connector

Automating infrastructure provisioning with Deployment Manager

Secure infrastructure deployments and policy management

Defining SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

Managing error budgets and risk assessment

Incident response, post-mortem analysis, and service lifecycle

Autoscaling techniques (Managed Instance Groups, GKE, Cloud Run)

Managing logs with Cloud Logging and Audit Logs

Metrics collection with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus

Creating dashboards and configuring alerts

Multi-cloud and hybrid observability strategies

Securing CI/CD pipelines with Binary Authorization and SLSA framework

Secret management with Secret Manager and Certificate Manager

IAM policies based on environment

Cloud Security Command Center for threat detection

Google Cloud Recommenders for cost and performance optimization

Infrastructure cost planning (committed-use, sustained-use discounts)

Troubleshooting CI/CD, application, and observability issues

Optimizing network performance and resource utilization

Exam structure and key focus areas

Practice questions and mock tests

Hands-on labs and real-world projects

DevOps leadership best practices