Professional Cloud Architect

Design, plan, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available solutions on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Architect exam Domain by Domain.

Intermediate

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Intermediate

Prepare and test your skills

Google Cloud feature

Lakehouse caching

Topic in 2 exam domains

Also called: Intelligent caching

A feature automatically enabled for cross-cloud queries that stores data blocks locally in Google Cloud to reduce egress costs.

Where this appears on the exam

2 objectives in 2 of 6 domains

Domain 1
Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
~25% of exam
1. 1.2Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
  - Performance and latency
Domain 2
Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure
~17.5% of exam
1. 2.2Configuring individual storage systems
  - Data retention and data lifecycle management

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 14, 2026

Professional Cloud Architect

Design, plan, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available solutions on Google Cloud, and track your readiness for the Professional Cloud Architect exam Domain by Domain.

Intermediate

Prepare and test your skills

Intermediate

Prepare and test your skills

Google Cloud feature

Lakehouse caching

Topic in 2 exam domains

Also called: Intelligent caching

A feature automatically enabled for cross-cloud queries that stores data blocks locally in Google Cloud to reduce egress costs.

Where this appears on the exam

2 objectives in 2 of 6 domains

Domain 1
Designing and planning a cloud solution architecture
~25% of exam
1. 1.2Designing a cloud solution infrastructure that meets technical requirements
  - Performance and latency
Domain 2
Managing and provisioning a cloud solution infrastructure
~17.5% of exam
1. 2.2Configuring individual storage systems
  - Data retention and data lifecycle management

How learners score on this topic

Last updated October 14, 2026