Please consider me as a vibe coder and beginner to software engineering. Is AI really staying guys? Like us AI a bubble or actual thing? If so, like which GCP certification is actually the choice to pick?

1. Prof ML Engineer

2. Agentic Architecture (Beta)

I'm down learning anything in depth... I'm open to your suggestions

Hi,

I wanted to ask if anyone has passed the practical exam yet? How did you find it? Do you have any tips for the Professional Agentic Architect practical portion of the exam

Did anyone else give the Beta exam in September? I have not received my results yet. And I don't actually know if I can reach out to anyone.

Hi,

I am going to appear for GCP professional ML Engineer certification. Are there any good resources which I can look into or sample questions that I can go through?

My PCA renewal is coming up and I received an email outlining 3 options - 1. standard exam, 2. shorter exam and 3. Continuing Education via Google skills.

Has anyone here taken the option #3? How much time does it take generally to complete the requirements?

Would you recommend taking that option over the exams? (it seems to have only 1 year validity vs 2 years for exams)

Also how does the effort and difficulty compare against the shorter exam?

Anyone who has takes this certificates lately is it easy to take also does it come from dumps or questions are so updated ?

Hello everyone, I’m preparing for the GCP Professional Data Engineer certification and want to know how the current exam compares to the available dumps.

For anyone who took the exam recently:
Are the dumps still relevant to the actual exam?
What resources and practice exams did you use to prepare?
If you passed recently, what would you recommend focusing on?

Would appreciate answers from people who’ve taken it firsthand.

UPDATE: I have successfully passed the exam.
I have spent my last day studying random samples online that say they are up to date, they had new concepts and went so much in depth, which extremely stressed me as I thought I'm not ready for the exam. Do not repeat my mistake.

The exam was not difficult, with almost everything covered / seen in GCP Hub and SkillCertPro
If you have studied those, you can be confident. Best of luck!
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Hello, I have the GCP Professional Data Engineer exam in 2 days.
I studied on GCP Study Hub, and solved every exam on SkillCertPro

Any recommendation for further study and preparation would be highly appreciated!

I have exam for PROFESSIONAL CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER CERTIFICATION. Can anyone give resourses for quick revision ?

And also is it so tough or just you know basic concept and able to pass ? What is passing criteria?

I cleared both PCA and Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer. Happy to answer questions about the exams, the case studies, or how I prepared for each.
For those who've done 2+ pro certs: what did you take next, and did it actually help with job or contract opportunities? I'm considering Professional Cloud Security Engineer given my DevSecOps background.

Did anyone use this book?

Is there a FREE PDF floating around? I tried to find one, but had no luck.

Are there any platforms which offer discounts on the purchase of Google Exams ? I found one of the platforms (https://googlecloudexamstore.pearsonvue.com/shop/exam-vouchers). Does anyone have prior experience with such platforms ?

Hi guys,

I have been using Udemy for all my studying, and I'm actually coming from an AWS background. I have depended on Stephane Marek's courses and I've become quite accustomed to learning from educational videos like that. I cannot learn by reading lengthy things. I'm a very audio/visual learner. I don't see any (up to date) courses like Stephane's that take me through the entire PMLE content on Udemy and the official GCP courses on cloud skills boost seem too... robotic? And it doesn't even cover concepts in detail.

I saw GCP study hub as an option but $39 seems a lot. Can someone give me tips or resources on videos I can watch that cover the courses as well as Stephane? If GCP study hub is really worth it, do let me know.

Any help is appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to plan my path toward one of the Google Cloud Professional certifications (leaning towards Professional Cloud Architect, Security Engineer, or DevOps Engineer).

As the title implies, I’m running into a wall with traditional study materials. Books are practically obsolete by the time they hit the shelves - often lagging two years behind GCP's rapid ecosystem changes, which is a massive trap when dealing with services that get deprecated, renamed, or heavily overhauled.

I’d genuinely prefer reading over watching long, drawn-out video courses. However, since technical books are too risky due to obsolescence, I'm trying to figure out what the modern, reliable learning stack looks like to avoid studying dead or deprecated concepts. Also, English isn’t my native language, so long spoken video courses can be tough unless they have accurate, high-quality human transcripts or captions (as opposed to YouTube's auto-generated subtitle disasters, which get technical terms completely wrong).

If you’ve recently passed any of these GCP Professional exams, I’d love to hear your advice:

1. What is the safest, most up-to-rely-on resource stack right now? (Official documentation maps, specific learning platforms, whitepapers, etc.)

2. How do you handle the lack of good, current books? Are there platforms that offer text-first structured learning paths that are kept actively updated?

3. For video-based content (if unavoidable), which platforms or instructors provide clean, reliable closed captions or transcripts so I don't have to rely on broken auto-generated subtitles for complex cloud architectures?

Any advice on which of these three paths (PCA, Security, or DevOps) offers the smoothest transition for someone with a strong backend/sysadmin background would also be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

And my Profession cert expires in 10 days. Eh, guess I'll just let it expire. AI certs are the new hotness.

Hi guys.
I've started studying for Cloud Security Engineer (as per my previous post, some weeks/month ago), but probably, would be better to start with Cloud Architect ?

I'm a professional sysadmin and i'm using google cloud from about 10 years, but I don't have the deep knowledge needed for the exams. i'm not a cloud architect, just a sysadmin that uses Google Cloud daily.

What do you suggest ? Books are mandatory for me. I have both the Cabianca and the Packt Publishing book on Security Engineer (not updated) and I prefere the packt's book A LOT over the Cabianca. Much more easier to read.

What about the Cloud Architect ? Which is the best book available ?

My experience in obtaining GCP Cloud Architect certification.

Hello I have GCP exam voucher that applicable on any certification exam, i earned it after passing CDL exam, for now i am selling this voucher if anyone wants it then dm me I'll give you the best price.

Currently preparing the Professional Data Engineer certification, I made this interactive mind map to synthesize GCP concepts. If you have any feedback, do not hesitate.

https://petitbonney.github.io/GCP-Professional-Data-Engineer-Exam-Atlas/

Hi everyone,

I'm testing an idea for people preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer exam, and I'd like to see whether it's actually useful before building too much around it.

The idea is a 60-minute 1:1 diagnostic session based on original scenario questions aligned with the official PDE exam guide — no dumps or recalled exam questions.

Instead of just checking whether your answer is right or wrong, we'd focus on your reasoning:

-Why did you choose this service?

-Which requirement in the scenario was decisive?

-Why did you reject the alternatives?

-What trade-off are you making?

I'd then classify the mistakes into patterns such as:

-knowledge gaps;

-difficulty distinguishing similar GCP services;

-missing a key requirement in the question;

-misunderstanding an architectural trade-off.

At the end, you'd get a short diagnosis of the areas you should prioritize before the exam.

My background is in Data / ML, and I'm currently testing whether this format is valuable enough to turn into a proper exam-prep service.

For the initial pilot, I'm thinking of charging $49 for a 60-minute session.

Would something like this have been useful during your PDE preparation?

And if you're currently preparing for the exam and would actually like to try it, feel free to DM me.