Google Cloud Digital Leader
Validates knowledge of cloud computing basics and how Google Cloud products and services can be used to achieve organizational goals. Covers digital transformation, data and AI fundamentals, infrastructure modernization, security and trust, and cloud operations. 50-60 multiple-choice questions in 90 minutes. No prerequisites; 3-year validity.
Exam domains
- Scaling with Google Cloud Operations17%
Identify financial governance challenges with cloud computing and how to address them (billing, cost management, budgets, alerts, FinOps practices). Describe Cloud's operational excellence approach - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles - SLI/SLO/SLA, error budgets, toil reduction, blameless postmortems. Google Cloud's operations products (Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler, Cloud Debugger - now Observability/Application Performance Management). Customer Care support tiers (Basic, Standard, Enhanced, Premium). Sustainability and Google Cloud (carbon-free energy, sustainability dashboards, environmental impact).
- Trust and Security with Google Cloud17%
Identify trust and security challenges that organizations face when moving to the cloud (data privacy, regulatory compliance, threat landscape, shared responsibility). Describe the shared responsibility model in Google Cloud. Google Cloud approach to security - Zero Trust, BeyondCorp Enterprise, encryption at rest and in transit, key management with Cloud KMS, identity and access management with Cloud IAM. Identify how Google Cloud helps organizations to meet compliance and regulatory requirements (HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC reports, FedRAMP). Cloud Security Command Center (Security Command Center Premium) for threat detection and posture management.
- Digital Transformation with Google Cloud17%
Explain why and how cloud technology is revolutionizing business (digital transformation drivers, organizational transformation, customer/employee experience transformation). Cloud computing fundamentals - IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, total cost of ownership (TCO), capital vs operating expenses, cloud deployment models (public/private/hybrid/multi-cloud). Common business and technical terms for cloud computing (regions, zones, edge, latency, availability, durability, scalability, elasticity). Identify common business challenges and the cloud solutions that address them (cost optimization, scaling globally, business agility, accelerating innovation, disaster recovery, modernization).
Sources
Questions are grounded in 100 references from official and authoritative materials.
- Choose an App Engine environment | Google Cloud Documentation
- Well-Architected Framework: Operational excellence pillar | Cloud Architecture Center | Google Cloud Documentation
- Well-Architected Framework: Cost optimization pillar | Cloud Architecture Center | Google Cloud Documentation
- Well-Architected Framework: Reliability pillar | Cloud Architecture Center | Google Cloud Documentation