Course map
2 of 6 GCP courses
02 / 32

Six chapters, covering PCDE exam sections 1 and 2.

Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer weights five sections — this course covers the first two, roughly 45% of the exam, in full depth.

Bootstrap an org

~20%

Ch 1-2: tooling project, IaC, GitOps

Build CI/CD pipelines

~25%

Ch 3-6: build, deploy, config, security

SRE practices

~18%

Course 3: GCP SRE & Observability

Observability + cost

~37%

Course 3: GCP SRE & Observability

1. DevOps org designTooling project, env policy
2. IaC & GitOpsTerraform, Config Connector
3. Cloud BuildCI, triggers, Artifact Registry
4. Cloud DeployCanary, approval, rollback
5. Environments & secretsSecret/Parameter Manager
6. Pipeline securitySLSA, Binary Authorization
This is course 2 of 6 in the GCP track, built directly on Foundations (course 1). SRE & Observability (course 3) picks up PCDE's remaining sections next.