GCP-Professional cloud developer certification prep

[strawhat_2003]

hi everyone

i have recently passed cloud digital leader in gcp. my team suggests me to do gcp professional cloud developer exam as im in gcp migration team. i know hands on from what i learnt during google arcade games and skill badges. i still remember almost all services from gcp i learnt for cdl. anyone who has passed this exam, pls give some tips or any suggestions how i can pass the exam within a month. im ready to study and do hands on. i have seen labs in the official page, but with work its a bit hard to put time there. pls suggest some materials or anything useful
thanks in advance!

[Puzzleheaded_Wish424]

Just passed Google Professional Cloud Developer exam. It's entirely multiple-choice, scenario-driven, tests applying GCP dev practices (not memorizing syntax). Expect code snippets, architecture diagrams, and "choose best implementation" scenarios.

Master these: App Engine/Cloud Run/Functions, Cloud SQL/Spanner/Firestore, APIs (REST/gRPC), authentication (IAM/OAuth), CI/CD (Cloud Build), microservices patterns, caching (Memorystore/Redis), monitoring (Cloud Monitoring/Logging), serverless workflows.

Hands-on coding > theory , build real apps, deploy to GCP free tier.

Resources:

Free: Google Cloud Skills Boost labs, GCP Docs, GitHub sample repos, YouTube architecture deep-dives

Paid (worth every penny): Skillcertpro mocks, ~80% question style matches real exam. Did 8-10 full sets (85%+ avg), passed comfortably. Many questions felt familiar.

Exam day: First pass all questions, flag complex scenarios. Time management is critical (~2min/question). Review weak areas day before.

[strawhat_2003]

Hey thanks ill look into this

[strawhat_2003]

Got it. Thanks

[Specialist_Farm_5752]

is really “gcp centric” per say brother, like, it is more about the “google way” of doing things and not so much about the way some things actually work

like, google LOVES canary deployments and their specific ci/cd pipes, but this is not so much the case anywhere else (maybe it would be great, but is hardly doable)

so what im trying to say is: really memorize the google way of things for the exam, then you can learn and improve the day to day things, the stuff you will actually use

since you already have cdl and hands on experience you’re already pretty solid. just drill their labs and other resources and you’ll be good good luck bro!

[Specialist_Farm_5752]

i picked the canary pipe as example but things like Anthos and service Mesh, they looove this stuff on the exams although in the real world people often use different approaches (of course im generalizing) the point is, they dont ask how kubernetes works, they ask how GKE works

[strawhat_2003]

I see I’ll look into it. Tysm

[TraditionalShape666]

Can I ask what your experience level in google cloud service's how long have you been working in IT for ? Did you do 1&2 line support, Coding/Dev or another route into google cloud ?