Unit 6 roadmap — Scaling with Google Cloud Operations

Every objective below is quoted from Google's Cloud Digital Leader exam guide, retrieved 2026-09-22. Under each topic is that topic's own summary of what the exam actually tests, taken from its lecture.

Topic 1 — Financial governance and managing cloud costs

CDL-U6.T1 · 5 objectives · lecture deck of 12 slides

1. Discuss how using cloud financial governance best practices provides predictability and control for cloud resources.
2. Define important cloud cost-management terms and concepts.
3. Discuss the benefits of using the resource hierarchy to control access.
4. Describe the benefit of controlling cloud consumption using resource quota policies and budget threshold rules.
5. Discuss how organizations can visualize their cost data by using Cloud Billing Reports.

What this topic actually tests. Predict or control? budgets and visibility predict; guardrails control. Commit or receive? committed use is bought; sustained use arrives automatically. Where is the role granted? it flows down to everything beneath. Block or warn? a quota blocks; an alerts-only budget only warns.

Topic 2 — Operational excellence and reliability at scale

CDL-U6.T2 · 6 objectives · lecture deck of 14 slides

1. Describe the benefits of modernizing operations by using Google Cloud.
2. Define important cloud operations terms.
3. Describe the importance of designing resilient, fault-tolerant, and scalable infrastructure and processes for high availability and disaster recovery.
4. Define key cloud reliability, DevOps, and SRE terms.
5. Describe how organizations benefit from using Google Cloud Customer Care to support their cloud adoption.
6. Describe the life of a support case during the Google Cloud Customer Care process.

What this topic actually tests. Metric, log or trace? a number over time, an event record, or one request's path. RTO or RPO? how long the switch takes, or how much data the lag can lose. SLI, SLO or SLA? the measurement, the target, or the contract — with the error budget in between. Priority or escalation? priority for impact; escalation for a broken process.

Topic 3 — Sustainability with Google Cloud

CDL-U6.T3 · 2 objectives · lecture deck of 9 slides

1. Describe Google Cloud’s commitment to sustainability and reducing environmental impact.
2. Discuss how Google Cloud provides products to support organizations’ sustainability goals.

What this topic actually tests. A goal or a fact? 24/7 carbon-free energy in every region is a 2030 goal, and CFE% measures progress hour by hour. Which tool for which question? Carbon Footprint to see and report; region data and Region Picker to choose where; time-shifting to choose when; scaling and the unattended project recommender to stop the waste.