KCNA · Question #188
Which of the following would fall under the responsibilities of an SRE?
The correct answer is B. Creating a monitoring baseline for an application. Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are primarily responsible for the reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of systems. A key aspect of this role involves setting up robust monitoring and alerting to understand system health and performance.
Question
Which of the following would fall under the responsibilities of an SRE?
Options
- ADeveloping a new application feature.
- BCreating a monitoring baseline for an application.
- CSubmitting a budget for running an application in a cloud.
- DWriting policy on how to submit a code change.
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A17% (4)
- B70% (16)
- C9% (2)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are primarily responsible for the reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of systems. A key aspect of this role involves setting up robust monitoring and alerting to understand system health and performance.
Developing new application features is typically the role of a software developer or development team, not primarily an SRE.
Creating a monitoring baseline for an application is a core responsibility of an SRE, as it involves defining acceptable performance metrics, thresholds, and alerts to ensure the reliability and availability of the system. SREs use monitoring to identify potential issues, track service level objectives (SLOs), and inform operational decisions.
Submitting a budget for running an application in the cloud is usually a responsibility of a finance department, project manager, or cloud architect, not typically an SRE.
Writing policy on how to submit a code change usually falls under the responsibilities of development team leads, engineering management, or security/compliance teams.
Concept tested: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) responsibilities
Source: https://cloud.google.com/sre/books/handbook/part1/chapter1
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