Official blueprint
The GCDL exam covers 4 domains. Each domain has a defined weight — the percentage of exam questions it contributes. Courseiva has 917 practice questions mapped across these objectives.
Click any objective to see practice questions for that domain.
This domain covers how cloud computing changes business models, cost structures and innovation cycles, and why organisations migrate to Google Cloud. The exam tests it through scenario questions contrasting on-premises versus cloud economics, Google Cloud's global infrastructure, and specific products like Compute Engine, BigQuery and Vertex AI, asking you to identify the business benefit rather than configure anything.
103 practice questions available
This domain covers the Google Cloud product portfolio: compute, storage, databases, networking, data analytics, and AI/ML, plus how each maps to business needs. The exam tests this through scenario questions asking which Google Cloud service best fits a stated requirement, cost, or workload, rather than deep configuration detail.
105 practice questions available
This domain covers how Google Cloud keeps workloads running and observable: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, budgets and quotas, autoscaling, and SLOs. The exam tests it through scenario questions where you pick the right tool for cost control, capacity, or troubleshooting, and distinguish operational services from deployment or security ones.
105 practice questions available
This domain covers Google Cloud's shared responsibility model, IAM, encryption, and compliance tooling, and accounts for roughly 12% of the Cloud Digital Leader exam. Questions are scenario-based: you choose the right Google Cloud security control, identity mechanism, or governance tool for a stated business or regulatory need, rather than configuring products hands-on.
103 practice questions available
Start with the highest-weight domain — that's where most of your exam questions will come from. Work through each objective's practice questions until you can answer at least 85% correctly. Return to lower-weight domains last, and use the full practice test to test cross-domain recall.