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Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader

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For business professionals preparing for the Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader credential: build the conceptual understanding to evaluate cloud, data, AI, security and operations choices and prepare for the exam in 2027.

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The exam in numbers

The exam assesses cloud computing fundamentals and the capabilities and business benefits of Google Cloud products and services. It also covers common business use cases and how cloud solutions support an enterprise. Your mock exams use this learning plan's question count, time limit and pass mark.

Questions
55
Time limit
90min
Mock pass mark
70%
39 correct
Exam fee (paid to Google Cloud)
US$99
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What Google Cloud Certified Cloud Digital Leader covers

6 modules · 14 units · ~14h of structured prep. Each exam domain with the weight the exam gives it, and the modules that prepare you for it.

  1. 01Digital Transformation with Google Cloud 18%
    1. Explain why and how the cloud is revolutionizing businesses
    2. Describe fundamental cloud concepts
  2. 02Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud 18%
    1. Describe the intrinsic role that data plays in an organization's digital transformation
    2. Determine which Google Cloud data management products are applicable to different business use cases
    3. Discuss how smart analytics, business intelligence tools, and streaming analytics can add value in different business use cases
  3. 03Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence 18%
    1. Describe fundamental AI and ML concepts and how they create business value
    2. Explain how Google Cloud's AI offerings can create business value
  4. 04Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud 18%
    1. Describe how Google Cloud helps organizations transition to the cloud
    2. Describe the functionality, business use cases, and business value of Google Cloud's infrastructure offerings
    3. Describe the business value of application programming interfaces (APIs)
  5. 05Trust and Security with Google Cloud 18%
    1. Describe fundamental cloud security concepts
    2. Describe the business value of making Google part of an organization's security team with its defense-in-depth, multilayered approach to cloud security
  6. 06Scaling with Google Cloud Operations 10%
    1. Recognize how Google Cloud supports an organization's ability to control their cloud costs
    2. Describe the fundamental concepts of modern operations, reliability, and resilience in the cloud

Your exam workspace counts down and keeps score

Set your exam day once. The workspace paces your prep in four phases, weighs your coverage by what each topic is worth, and shows where the marks are still open after every mock.

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Questions
55
Time limit
90 minutes
Pass score
70% · 39 correct
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days until your exam

6 weeks

Thursday, 24 December 2026

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Now: Mock and repair. Sit a full mock every week or two, then practise the topics you missed.

How ready you are

Exam-weighted coverage
72% of the plan, counted by what each topic is worth
Full mocks taken
2 Prep guides suggest three to five before the exam
Latest mock
66% 4 points below the 70% pass mark

Where the marks are still open

  1. Modernize Infrastructure and Applications with Google Cloud 18% of the exam 54%
  2. Trust and Security with Google Cloud 18% of the exam 63%
  3. Scaling with Google Cloud Operations 10% of the exam 47%
  4. Innovating with Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence 18% of the exam 71%
  5. Digital Transformation with Google Cloud 18% of the exam 88%
  6. Exploring Data Transformation with Google Cloud 18% of the exam 100%

How the content is written

Clear, business-focused exam preparation that connects cloud concepts and Google Cloud product choices to practical decisions. Explain trade-offs precisely without assuming hands-on engineering experience.

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Try a sample question

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  • A company must keep some systems in its own data center while connecting them to workloads in Google Cloud. Which architecture best describes this arrangement? One answer
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  • A media company wants to run a containerized web application without managing a cluster or underlying infrastructure. Which service best matches this priority? One answer
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  • A security team wants to identify cloud misconfigurations and monitor its security posture. Which Google Cloud offering is most directly suited to this need? One answer
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  • An online retailer wants to respond quickly to changes in shopping activity. Its applications generate a continuous stream of events that must be delivered asynchronously, enriched and aggregated before being stored in BigQuery for analysis. Which two Google Cloud services best address the event delivery and processing stages? Select two. Select all that apply
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