Professional Security Operations Engineer
A Google Cloud Certified Professional Security Operations Engineer detects, monitors, analyzes, investigates, and responds to security threats against workloads, endpoints, and infrastructure. This individual uses Google Cloud resources to protect an enterprise environment and is proficient in writing detection rules, log prioritization and ingestion, orchestration, and response automation. Further, this individual has experience leveraging posture and threat intelligence for detection and response.
The Professional Security Operations Engineer exam assesses your ability to conduct:
- Platform operations
- Data management
- Threat hunting
- Detection engineering
- Incident response
- Observability
About this beta certification exam
Beta certification exams are newly developed assessments. We gather performance statistics on the questions and use these statistics to create the certification standards for the final exam. Beta participants will be notified of their exam results 4-6 weeks after the exam closes. You can pass the GA exam or the beta exam to become a Google Cloud Certified – Professional Security Operations Engineer.
Why beta?
- Pass this exam to become Google Cloud Certified - Professional Security Operations Engineer
- Save 40% on the cost of certification
- Vouchers are accepted for beta exam attempts
- Beta exam attempts do not count toward the total number of allowable exam attempts
- Refer to our FAQs for more details
Beta exam details
Length: 3 hours
Registration fee: $120 (40% discount on retail price of $200 USD) (plus tax where applicable)
Language: English
Exam format: ~80 multiple choice and multiple select questions
Exam delivery method:
a. Take the online-proctored exam from a remote location
b. Take the onsite-proctored exam at a testing center
Prerequisites: None
Recommended experience: 3+ years of security industry experience including 1+ years using Google Cloud security tooling
Exam overview
Step 1: Get real world experience
Before attempting the Security Operations Engineer
exam, we recommend that you have 3+ years of security
industry experience and 1+ years of hands-on experience
using Google Cloud security tooling.
Get started with free usage of over 20 products, including BigQuery and Compute Engine, up to monthly limits. Plus, new Google Cloud customers get $300 in free credits on signup.
Step 2: Understand what's on the exam
The Professional Security Operations Engineer exam
guide contains a complete list of topics that may be
included on the exam. Review the
exam guide to determine if your skills align with
the topics on the exam.
Step 3: Round out your skills with training
Prepare for the exam by exploring online training, in-person
classes, hands-on labs, and other resources from Google Cloud.
Step 4: Schedule an exam
Register and select the option to take the exam
remotely or at a nearby testing center.
Review
exam terms and conditions and data sharing policies.