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
Prerequisites
Recommended experience: 3+ years of security industry experience including 1+ years using Google Cloud security tooling
Recommended training for this certification
Exams
About this certification exam:
- Length: 2 hours
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Exam format: 50-60 multiple choice and multiple select questions
Exam Overivew:
- Step 1: Get real world experience
- Step 2: Understand what's on the exam
- Step 3: Review the sample questions
- Step 4: Round out your skills with training
- Step 5: schedule an exam
Recertification
Candidates may renew their certification within the renewal eligibility period. This certification is valid for two years. The renewal eligibility period begins 60 days before the certification expiry date.