Professional Cloud Architect is Google Cloud’s flagship design exam: case studies, org/folder/project design, networking, reliability, and operations.
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Do not sit this as exam one. Take ACE unless you already operate production GCP. Roadmap: GCP certification path.
Exam overview
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Cost | ~$200 USD |
| Style | Multiple choice + published case studies (read them before test day) |
Official: Professional Cloud Architect.
How to study
- Memorize the current case studies on Google’s exam page — they are fair game.
- Design: Shared VPC, IAM hierarchy, GKE vs Cloud Run vs GCE, data (BigQuery vs Cloud SQL vs Spanner), DR.
- Ops: Cloud Monitoring, SRE ideas, cost, compliance.
- 8 weeks if you hold ACE; 12+ if you are mapping from AWS/Azure only.
- Practice · Flashcards · Notes · Exams
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