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Building agents using low-code tools
13%of the exam
Google CloudProfessional
Google CloudProfessional Agentic Architect
A Google Cloud Certified Professional Agentic Architect is a technical practitioner who designs and manages autonomous, AI-driven agentic workflows in Google Cloud.
What this certification assesses
The sections of the published exam blueprint, with the share of the exam each one carries. The guide follows the same order.
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Using coding agents for application development
17%of the exam
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Developing custom agents
33%of the exam
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Evaluating and deploying agentic workflows
22%of the exam
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Securing and governing agentic workflows
15%of the exam
Section names and weights are the published exam blueprint's own. The blueprint itself, with every objective under these sections, is in Official references.
Exam overview
Everything Google Cloud publishes about the assessment, read from the official certification page. Follow the source for the authoritative version of any of it.
- Professional
- Level
- Mid-November
- GA exam
- ~80
- Questions
- 3 hours
- Duration
- Two parts
- Assessment
- English
- Language
Published detail
- Provider
- Google Cloud
- GA exam
- Launches in mid-November 2026
- Assessment
- Two parts: a proctored multiple-choice exam delivered by Pearson, and hands-on labs taken in Google Skills
- Delivery
- Online-proctored or onsite-proctored
- Registration fee
- $200 USD, plus tax where applicable
- Validity
- 1 year
- Prerequisites
- None
- Recommended experience
- 3+ years building, testing, deploying, and managing cloud solutions, including 1+ years building agentic solutions using Google Cloud
Based on Google Cloud's Professional Agentic Architect exam guide.
Who this certification is for
Our reading of who this certification is most relevant to. This framing is editorial — not something the vendor publishes.
- Cloud architects
- Architects designing production agentic systems.
- Senior engineers
- Engineers moving from implementation detail toward architecture decisions and trade-offs.
- Certification candidates
- Engineers preparing for Google Cloud Professional Agentic Architect.
These groups are editorial. The experience the vendor actually recommends for the exam is a published fact, and it is in Exam overview.
Official references
Primary sources for everything on this page. Follow them for the authoritative version of any certification fact.
- Certification overview (opens in a new tab)The official page for the credential: assessment format and registration.
- Exam guide (opens in a new tab)The published blueprint. Five exam sections, their weights, and every in-scope tool.
- Sample questions (opens in a new tab)Google's own sample set, showing how the exam phrases a scenario.
- Learning path on Google Skills (opens in a new tab)The official training path, including the hands-on labs the second part uses.
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Study guide
Study for the Professional Agentic Architect exam
The guide follows this blueprint section by section, one decision per bite. Read it in order to prepare, or open a single bite later as a reference.
- Guide version
- September 2026
- Cost
- Free, no account
- Progress
- Stays in your browser