CDLGoogle Cloud Digital Leader
What the exam covers
- Digital transformation with Google Cloud 17 practice questions 18%
- Exploring data transformation 16 practice questions 18%
- Innovating with AI 16 practice questions 18%
- Modernizing infrastructure and applications 17 practice questions 18%
- Trust and security 17 practice questions 18%
- Scaling with Google Cloud operations 17 practice questions 10%
Study guide
From Google
About CDL
Google’s business-level cloud exam. It asks why an organisation would move to the cloud and which Google Cloud products serve which goals, across data, AI, modernisation, security and operations. No hands-on configuration is tested.
Who it's for. Business and technical stakeholders who take part in cloud decisions.
How to prepare
- Know the outcome each product family serves: BigQuery for analytics, Vertex AI for ML, Anthos and GKE for modernisation.
- Expect TCO and OpEx vs CapEx framing in transformation questions.
- Security questions lean on concepts such as zero trust, BeyondCorp, shared fate and defence in depth.
Sample CDL questions
Try these with the answers on the page, then practise the full bank.
- A film studio archives raw footage, rendered clips and nightly system snapshots, mostly as large binary files that are rarely queried by row. Which service should hold this archive? Exploring data transformation
- A developer wants to write their own neural network code, train it, and then run the same code on a laptop or on TPU pods. Which Google-originated tool is designed for this? Innovating with AI
- A security lead wants one console that aggregates misconfigurations, vulnerability findings and threat detections from every project in the organization. Which Google Cloud service provides this? Trust and security
- A clinic's IT director plans to host electronic health records on Google Cloud and needs documentation proving the platform can support healthcare privacy obligations before legal approves the project. What should the director obtain? Trust and security
- A ride-hailing booking service must tell the billing and notification services about each completed trip without waiting for either to finish. Which service provides this capability? Modernizing infrastructure and applications
- A social app stores user profiles, each with nested collections of posts and comments, and different users have different fields. The developers do not want to define rigid table schemas. Which database type suits this workload? Exploring data transformation
- A data engineering group already writes its nightly ETL as Python DAGs for an open-source scheduler. They want Google to run and patch that scheduler so they can keep the same DAG code. Which managed service should they use? Exploring data transformation
- A bank wants its call-center software to produce a live written transcript while a customer is still speaking. Which API should the software call? Innovating with AI
- All 13 sample questions
Questions people ask
Is this CDL practice exam free?
Yes. All 100 questions, the timed mock exam and the explanations are free, and there's no account to create.
Are these real exam questions?
No. Real exam questions are confidential under the Google Cloud candidate agreement. These are practice questions written to cover the same domains in the same scenario style, each with an explanation of why the answer is right.
How is the CDL mock exam scored?
Questions are drawn from every domain in proportion to the exam guide, and you get a raw percentage with a breakdown by domain. Google Cloud uses scaled scoring, so treat 75% or more here as a sign you're ready rather than a predicted score.
Where is my progress saved?
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