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Google Cloud Digital Leader exam objectives
Google Cloud publishes 6 exam domains with official weightings. The weight tells you where your marks come from, so your study time should roughly follow it.
1. Digital Transformation with Google Cloud
17%- Know what drives a move to cloud, and the business risks of standing still
- Compare cloud and on-premises economics: capex to opex, and where savings really come from
- Name the common transformation blockers: culture, skills, legacy dependencies, data gravity
- Describe how Google Cloud frames the transformation journey and its stages
2. Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud
16%- Explain why data loses value as time-to-insight grows, and what that means for architecture
- Match the data products to the job: BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore
- Tell streaming from batch, and know where Pub/Sub and Dataflow fit
- Turn data into decisions with Looker and dashboards, and name the cost of data silos
3. Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
16%- Separate AI, machine learning and generative AI in business terms
- Make the build-versus-buy call between pre-trained APIs, AutoML and custom models
- Describe Vertex AI as the managed platform, and what MLOps is for
- Cover responsible AI: bias, transparency, and why data quality caps model quality
4. Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud
17%- Choose a migration path: lift and shift, move and improve, or rebuild
- Pick compute by need: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
- Explain containers, microservices and APIs as business capability, not syntax
- Describe hybrid and multicloud strategy, and the role of Anthos / GKE Enterprise
5. Trust and Security with Google Cloud
17%- Explain the shared responsibility model and Google's shared fate stance
- Match core threats (phishing, ransomware, insider risk) to the controls that address them
- Apply IAM principles, least privilege and organisation-level policy
- Cover encryption at rest and in transit, key management, and how compliance is evidenced
6. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations
17%- Work through total cost of ownership and the levers that actually move a cloud bill
- Apply cloud financial governance: budgets, committed use discounts, resource hierarchy
- Describe reliability as a practice: SRE, SLOs, error budgets, and what they trade against
- Cover sustainability, carbon reporting, and the operational monitoring toolchain
Our practice exam spreads its questions across these exact domains at these weightings, so your score in each one tells you precisely where you stand.
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