About This Study Plan
This 90-day study plan breaks the PCDOE (Cloud DevOps Engineer) exam preparation into 3 focused study sessions with 12 actionable tasks. The plan covers all 5 exam domains — SRE Principles, CI/CD Pipelines, SRE in Practice, Service Performance, Incidents and Post-Mortems — ensuring complete coverage. Comprehensive 90-day plan for the Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam.
Prerequisites
- Basic programming and GCP knowledge
- 1–2 hours per day
Study Schedule
- Weeks 1–2: DevOps culture, principles, and GCP overview
- Week 3: Cloud Build basics, Docker, and Artifact Registry
- Week 4: Simple CI/CD pipeline creation and deployment
- End of month: Working pipeline deploying to Cloud Run
- Week 5: SRE principles — SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Week 6: Cloud Monitoring and alerting deep dive
- Week 7: Cloud Logging, tracing, and observability
- Week 8: Incident management and postmortem practices
- Week 9: Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Week 10: GKE operations and advanced deployment patterns
- Week 11: Practice exam #1 + review
- Week 12: Practice exam #2, SRE drills, and final prep
Study Tips
The Google SRE Book (free online) is essential reading for this exam.
Build real monitoring dashboards and alerts for a sample application.
Practice incident response scenarios mentally — the exam tests decision-making.
Recommended Google Cloud Study Resources
Supplement this study plan with Google Cloud Skills Boost, which provides structured learning paths aligned to each certification. The Google Cloud documentation is exceptionally detailed and frequently referenced in exam questions. Take advantage of the free $300 credit for new GCP accounts to build real projects during your study period.
Ready to Practice?
Put your study plan into action with Cloud DevOps Engineer practice questions.