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PCDE Professional Cloud Database Engineer exam guide

Use this PCDE guide to review Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions and Manage a solution that can span multiple database technologies, and additional exam domains, understand the practice format, and organize your preparation around the published skill areas.

About the PCDE certification path

Practice designing, managing, migrating, deploying, and troubleshooting scalable and highly available Google Cloud database solutions.

120 minutes70% practice target100 practice questions

Official exam domains

These are the published PCDE objective weightings.

Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions

Build practical confidence in Design innovative, scalable, and highly available cloud database solutions and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~32%.

Manage a solution that can span multiple database technologies

Build practical confidence in Manage a solution that can span multiple database technologies and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~25%.

Migrate data solutions

Build practical confidence in Migrate data solutions and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~23%.

Deploy scalable and highly available databases in Google Cloud

Build practical confidence in Deploy scalable and highly available databases in Google Cloud and use practice results to identify specific concepts that need more review. Official blueprint weighting: ~20%.

PCDE preparation workflow

  1. Use the free PCDE 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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