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PCA Professional Cloud Architect exam guide

Use this PCA guide to review Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture and Managing and provisioning a solution infrastructure, and additional exam domains, understand the practice format, and organize your preparation around the published skill areas.

About the PCA certification path

Practice designing, provisioning, securing, optimizing, implementing, and operating robust Google Cloud architectures.

120 minutes70% practice target100 practice questions

Official exam domains

These are the published PCA objective weightings.

Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture

Build practical confidence in Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~25%.

Managing and provisioning a solution infrastructure

Build practical confidence in Managing and provisioning a solution infrastructure and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~18%.

Designing for security and compliance

Build practical confidence in Designing for security and compliance and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~19%.

Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes

Build practical confidence in Analyzing and optimizing technical and business processes and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~15%.

Managing implementation

Build practical confidence in Managing implementation and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~11%.

Ensuring solution and operations excellence

Build practical confidence in Ensuring solution and operations excellence and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~12%.

PCA preparation workflow

  1. Use the free PCA practice test to establish a baseline.
  2. Review every explanation and group misses by the skill areas shown above.
  3. Study the official Google Cloud objectives and build hands-on experience.
  4. Repeat mixed practice and track whether weak areas improve.
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