# Google Certified Professional DevOps Engineer
A Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer is responsible for efficient development operations that can balance service reliability and delivery speed. They are skilled at using Google Cloud Platform to build software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage and learn from incidents.

# Abilities validated by the certification
* Apply site reliability engineering principles to a service
* Optimize service performance
* Implement service monitoring strategies
* Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for a service
* Manage service incidents

# Recommended experience
3+ years of industry experience, including 1+ year designing and managing solutions on GCP.

# Prepare for the exam
# 1. Exam guide
You can review the exam guide [here](https://cloud.google.com/learn/certification/guides/cloud-devops-engineer/).
# 2. Training
You can view the preferred learning path [here](https://cloud.google.com/learn/training/application-development/),
# 3. Webinar
You can attend a webinar by registering [here](https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/cloud-devops-engineer?utm_source=cgc&utm_medium=et&utm_campaign=-&utm_content=devops-eng-cgc-cert-devops-eng&utm_term=-).
# 4. Additional resources
You can view the additional resources on the *concepts and critical components* of GCP by visiting, 
[**Google Cloud Documentation**](https://cloud.google.com/docs)
[**Google Cloud Solutions**](https://cloud.google.com/docs/tutorials).

# 5. Sample questions
You can view the sample questions for this certification [here](https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-devops-engineer/),

# 6. Schedule your exam
You can register for your exam [here](https://www.webassessor.com/googlecloud/).

How to become a certified Google Professional DevOps Engineer

Certified Google DevOps Engineers build delivery pipelines, optimize service performance, and manage incidents using Google Cloud; 1+ year GCP experience recommended.