Free PCD practice test — 713+ PCD practice questions with detailed explanations across all 4 official PCD exam domains. Every set is scored and drawn from the live question bank — so you practise exactly what the exam tests, not outdated dumps.
Courseiva includes 713+ Google Professional Cloud Developer practice questions across the official exam domains.
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This free PCD practice test mirrors the structure and difficulty of the real Google Professional Cloud Developer exam. Every question is written against the official 2026 exam blueprint published by Google Cloud, ensuring you practise exactly what the exam tests — not last year's objectives.
The PCD blueprint is divided into 4weighted domains. Questions on this page are distributed proportionally across each domain, so the mix you see here reflects the same weighting you'll face on exam day. High-weight domains like Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications and Deploying applications contribute the most questions, meaning focused practice on these areas gives you the highest return on study time.
PCD Exam Blueprint — 4 Domains
Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications
Deploying applications
Building and testing applications
Integrating Google Cloud services
50 numbered sets, 4 domain question banks, and targeted sessions — every page is a unique set of questions.
Choose all correct answers
Each chapter page covers one topic in depth — theory, key concepts, and focused practice questions. Use these to close knowledge gaps before returning to full practice tests.
Getting the most from practice questions requires more than just clicking through answers. Here is the study method used by candidates who pass PCD on their first attempt:
Answer before revealing
Read each PCD question fully, eliminate obviously wrong choices, then commit to an answer before clicking to reveal. This active recall process is what builds lasting knowledge.
Read every explanation
Even when you answer correctly, read the full explanation. Knowing WHY the right answer is correct — and why the distractors are wrong — is what separates a 750 score from a 900 score.
Track weak domains
Note which PCD domains you get wrong most often. Then do a targeted 20-30 question session focused only on that domain until your accuracy improves.
Simulate exam pacing
The real PCD gives you roughly 2 minutes per question. Use the 60 or 120-question sessions to practise hitting that pace comfortably.
Most candidates who pass PCD on their first attempt report doing between 400 and 800 practice questions over 4–8 weeks of preparation. With 713+ questions in the Courseiva bank, you have more than enough material to build that repetition without seeing the same question twice.
Answer each question to reveal the full explanation and correct answer. This starter set is drawn from all 4 exam domains in blueprint proportion. Use the session selector to start a longer focused practice run.
A team is designing a disaster recovery plan for a critical application on Google Cloud. The application runs on Compute Engine with a regional persistent disk. They want to minimize data loss in case of a regional outage. Which strategy should they use?
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A startup is developing a new web application that will be deployed on Google Cloud. They expect the application to have unpredictable traffic patterns, with periods of no traffic followed by sudden spikes. The development team wants to minimize operational overhead and only pay for resources when the application is handling requests. They also need the application to scale automatically to handle the spikes. Which Google Cloud service should they use for the application's frontend?
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A company is running a global application on Cloud Spanner. They notice high write latency on a specific table because a frequently updated row is being accessed by many clients simultaneously. Which design pattern should they implement to distribute writes across multiple nodes and reduce contention?
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A company is designing a microservices application. They want to ensure that if one service fails, it does not cascade to other services. Which pattern should they implement?
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A developer needs to store session state for a user in a cloud-native application. Which storage solution is most appropriate?
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A company runs a batch job that processes large files from Cloud Storage every night. The job must complete within a 2-hour window. If the job fails, it should retry automatically. Which Google Cloud service should they use to orchestrate this job?
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A developer deploys a containerized application on Cloud Run. The application needs to access a Cloud SQL instance securely without exposing it to the internet. What is the best practice?
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A developer wants to automatically deploy a new version of an application to App Engine Standard every time code is pushed to the main branch of a Cloud Source Repositories repository. Which service should be used?
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You are deploying a Node.js application on Cloud Run. The container image is stored in Artifact Registry. After deploying with gcloud run deploy, the revision fails with 'Container failed to start. Failed to start and then listen on the port defined by the PORT environment variable.' The application listens on port 8080 by default. The Dockerfile uses EXPOSE 8080. The Cloud Run service is configured with container port 8080. You have verified that the container starts locally using docker run -p 8080:8080. What is the most likely cause of the startup failure?
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A team is deploying a microservice on Cloud Run that requires environment variables with sensitive information, such as database passwords. What is the recommended way to provide these secrets?
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A developer wants to store secrets (e.g., API keys) for use in Cloud Functions without exposing them in the source code. Which Google Cloud service should they use?
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A company is migrating a monolithic Java application to microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application uses a shared MySQL database. The team wants to adopt a testing strategy that validates service interactions without deploying to a full cluster. Which testing approach is most appropriate?
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A developer is writing a Cloud Function in Node.js that is triggered by HTTP. They want to test the function locally by sending an HTTP request. Which tool should they use?
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A developer is building a containerized application that will be deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). They want to run unit tests for a Go package that interacts with the Kubernetes API. Which approach should they use to test the code without a running cluster?
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You are designing a CI/CD pipeline using Cloud Build. You want to automatically trigger a build when code is pushed to a specific branch in Cloud Source Repositories. What is the correct configuration?
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A company is running a critical application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that stores state in a Cloud SQL PostgreSQL instance. The application's latency-sensitive frontend needs to read data from Cloud SQL with minimal latency. The team wants to reduce read latency and offload read traffic from the primary database. What should they do?
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Refer to the exhibit. A developer configured a Pub/Sub push subscription to a Cloud Run service. Messages are not being delivered to the Cloud Run service. The developer verified that the service is running and the IAM permissions are correct. What is the most likely issue?
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Refer to the exhibit. A team is using Cloud Monitoring with MQL to alert on CPU utilization per zone. They notice that the alert fires even when no single instance in a zone has CPU>80%, because the average across instances in the zone exceeds 80%. What change should they make to the MQL query to alert only when any individual instance exceeds 80%?
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A database administrator is using Liquibase for schema versioning during a migration to Cloud SQL. What is the primary benefit of using Liquibase?
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An engineer needs to create a Cloud SQL instance with SSD storage. Which storage type should they select for best performance?
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Answer all 20 questions to see your domain score breakdown
A structured study plan dramatically increases your chances of passing PCD on the first attempt. The most effective approach combines reading the official Google Cloud documentation or a study guide, watching video explanations for difficult concepts, and then reinforcing everything with daily practice questions.
We recommend the following weekly structure for PCD preparation:
Cover each PCD domain systematically. Read the exam objectives, watch explanatory content, and do 10–20 practice questions per domain to test understanding as you go.
Run full 50–60 question mixed sessions daily. Review every wrong answer in detail. Identify which domains are consistently scoring below 70% and revisit those study materials.
Do 100–120 question timed sessions to simulate real exam conditions. Aim for consistent scores above 80% before booking your exam date. A score above 80% in practice typically translates to a passing PCD score.
On exam day, the PCD tests your ability to apply knowledge to realistic scenarios — not just recall definitions. This is why reading explanations and understanding the reasoning behind every answer matters more than simply grinding question volume. Use the high-count sessions (100, 120) in the final weeks as your confidence benchmark.
Questions
60
On the real exam
Time limit
120 min
2 min per question
Passing score
720/1000
Scaled scoring
The PCD exam uses a scaled scoring system — your raw score of correct answers is converted to a score out of 1000. A passing score of 720/1000 does not mean you need 72% of questions correct; the conversion accounts for question difficulty. Consistently scoring above 75–80% on practice tests puts you in a strong position to achieve 720/1000 on the real exam.
Scenario-based questions covering exam objectives with detailed answer explanations.
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Every question is written against the official PCD exam blueprint published by Google Cloud. Our questions follow the same wording style, scenario complexity, and answer structure as the actual exam. They are original questions — not brain dumps — so you learn the underlying concepts and reasoning, not just memorised answers. Candidates who study with brain dumps often pass but have no transferable knowledge; Courseiva questions make you genuinely competent.
Most candidates who pass PCD on their first attempt do 30–60 questions per day. Use the Quick 10 session for daily warm-ups when you are short on time. On study days, run a 50 or 60-question session to build stamina. Reserve 100 and 120-question sessions for the final two weeks when you want to simulate real exam conditions and benchmark your readiness.
The PCD covers 4 domains: Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications (32%), Deploying applications (24%), Building and testing applications (23%), Integrating Google Cloud services (21%). Each domain carries a different weight, so allocate your study time accordingly. The highest-weighted domains — Designing highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud-native applications and Deploying applications — should receive the most attention.
Exam dumps are memorised question-and-answer lists taken from actual exam papers, often obtained illegally and shared without Google Cloud's authorisation. Using them violates your NDA and Google Cloud's certification agreement, and can result in certification revocation. Courseiva questions are original — AI-assisted, checked against the official exam objectives, and published under the editorial oversight of an engineer with 12+ years' experience. They test the same knowledge areas using new scenarios and wording. You learn the material, not just the answers.
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