Candidates for the Google Professional Cloud Architect certification should have a thorough understanding of cloud architecture and Google Cloud Platform to enable organizations. They should be able to design, develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives. Google recommends that individuals have 3 or more years of industry experience, including 1+ years designing and managing solutions using GCP.
This exam measures the following skills:
- Design and plan a cloud solution architecture
- Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure
- Design for security and compliance
- Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
- Manage implementations of cloud architecture
- Ensure solution and operations reliability
