Google Professional Cloud Developer — Study Guide

Google released a new certification. It is called Professional Cloud Developer and it is in beta until December 2018.

Here is the Google official guide and the Sample Case Study: HipLocal.

I applied the steps described on my Associate Cloud Engineer post and I have now a study guide spreadsheet and document to be filled preparing to the exam.

If you study using these documents keep them open and do not update them after taking the exam to avoid breaking NDA.

The Cloud Developer have scope gets deeper into:

• Monitoring tools
• CI/CD tools
• Modeling database schemas and keys for database products

It will require a mix of knowledge needed for all the other exams.
Knowledge only adds up.

The case explores a really interesting existing technical environment.

• Read the case before the exam
• Make drawings
• Make questions about how to achieve the business requirements with the technical requirements
• Present your solution to others answering their questions about your solution to the case

Reading the topics I even thought about istio and if that’s really the case it is great to require the student to acquire that knowledge.

3.1.2 — Implementing appropriate deployment strategies based on the target compute environment Kubernetes Engine. Strategies include:
3.1.2.1 — Blue-green deployments
3.1.2.2 — Traffic splitting deployments
3.1.2.3 — Rolling deployments
3.1.2.4 — Canary deployments

Studying to this new exam will only add up with the knowledge needed to CKAD exam.

Knowledge only adds up.