Cloud Digital Leader exam map

This map is built from Google's Cloud Digital Leader exam guide (retrieved 2026-09-22) and from this hive's own contents. Google publishes no exam code, no guide version and no passing score for this certification; "GCP-CDL" is this hive's internal label, not Google's.

The exam, as Google publishes it

• Format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions
• Time: 90 minutes
• Validity: 3 years
• Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French
• Passing score: not published by Google

Sections and weights

Google attaches an approximate percentage to each section and to nothing below it. The counts are this hive's.

How this hive is organised

• A lecture deck for every topic — 21 decks, one per topic in the exam guide, each teaching every objective under it. Every factual claim on a slide is pinned to an exact excerpt from an official Google Cloud page.
• 484 practice questions, each citing the Google Cloud documentation page its answer comes from, with the supporting quote recorded.
• 8 blueprint-weighted mock exams of 54 questions, dealt in proportion to the section weights (9/9/9/9/9/9 seats per section). No question appears in more than one mock.
• 451 flashcards, one collection per objective, each card traceable to Google's documentation.
• A study guide per topic (below): the topic's lecture in reading form.

Names in the exam guide that Google has since changed

The exam guide still uses these names, so expect them on the exam. Google's current documentation uses the second column, and the decks teach both.