PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Exam Questions

You have a CI/CD pipeline that uses Cloud Build to build new Docker images and push them to Docker Hub. You use Git for code versioning. After making a change in the Cloud Build YA...

Your company follows Site Reliability Engineering principles. You are writing a postmortem for an incident, triggered by a software change, that severely affected users. You want t...

You support a high-traffic web application that runs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You need to measure application reliability from a user perspective without making any engineer...

You manage an application that is writing logs to Stackdriver Logging. You need to give some team members the ability to export logs. What should you do?

Your application services run in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to make sure that only images from your centrally-managed Google Container Registry (GCR) image registry i...

Your team has recently deployed an NGINX-based application into Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and has exposed it to the public via an HTTP Google Cloud Load Balancer (GCLB) ingres...

Your company follows Site Reliability Engineering practices. You are the Incident Commander for a new, customer-impacting incident. You need to immediately assign two incident mana...

You support an application running on GCP and want to configure SMS notifications to your team for the most critical alerts in Stackdriver Monitoring. You have already identified t...

You are managing an application that exposes an HTTP endpoint without using a load balancer. The latency of the HTTP responses is important for the user experience. You want to und...

Your team is designing a new application for deployment both inside and outside Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You need to collect detailed metrics such as system resource utilizatio...

You need to reduce the cost of virtual machines (VM) for your organization. After reviewing different options, you decide to leverage preemptible VM instances. Which application is...

Your organization recently adopted a container-based workflow for application development. Your team develops numerous applications that are deployed continuously through an automa...

You support a stateless web-based API that is deployed on a single Compute Engine instance in the europe-west2-a zone. The Service Level Indicator (SLI) for service availability is...

You are running a real-time gaming application on Compute Engine that has a production and testing environment. Each environment has their own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network....

Your team of Infrastructure DevOps Engineers is growing, and you are starting to use Terraform to manage infrastructure. You need a way to implement code versioning and to share co...

You are using Stackdriver to monitor applications hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You recently deployed a new application, but its logs are not appearing on the Stackdriver...

Your organization recently adopted a container-based workflow for application development. Your team develops numerous applications that are deployed continuously through an automa...

You use Cloud Build to build your application. You want to reduce the build time while minimizing cost and development effort. What should you do?

You support a web application that is hosted on Compute Engine. The application provides a booking service for thousands of users. Shortly after the release of a new feature, your...

You are deploying an application that needs to access sensitive information. You need to ensure that this information is encrypted and the risk of exposure is minimal if a breach o...

You encounter a large number of outages in the production systems you support. You receive alerts for all the outages that wake you up at night. The alerts are due to unhealthy sys...

You have migrated an e-commerce application to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You want to prepare the application for the upcoming busy season. What should you do first to prepare fo...

You support a web application that runs on App Engine and uses CloudSQL and Cloud Storage for data storage. After a short spike in website traffic, you notice a big increase in lat...

Your application runs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You need to implement Jenkins for deploying application releases to GCP. You want to streamline the release process, lower ope...

You are working with a government agency that requires you to archive application logs for seven years. You need to configure Stackdriver to export and store the logs while minimiz...

You support a trading application written in Python and hosted on App Engine flexible environment. You want to customize the error information being sent to Stackdriver Error Repor...

You need to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for a high-traffic multi-region web application. Customers expect the application to always be available and have fast response t...

You support a large service with a well-defined Service Level Objective (SLO). The development team deploys new releases of the service multiple times a week. If a major incident c...

Your company is developing applications that are deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Each team manages a different application. You need to create the development and produ...

Some of your production services are running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in the eu- west-1 region. Your build system runs in the us-west-1 region. You want to push the contai...

You manage several production systems that run on Compute Engine in the same Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project. Each system has its own set of dedicated Compute Engine instances....

You use Cloud Build to build and deploy your application. You want to securely incorporate database credentials and other application secrets into the build pipeline. You also want...

You support a popular mobile game application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) across several Google Cloud regions. Each region has multiple Kubernetes clusters. You rece...

You are writing a postmortem for an incident that severely affected users. You want to prevent similar incidents in the future. Which two of the following sections should you inclu...

You are ready to deploy a new feature of a web-based application to production. You want to use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to perform a phased rollout to half of the web server...

You are responsible for the reliability of a high-volume enterprise application. A large number of users report that an important subset of the application's functionality "a data...

You have an application running in Google Kubernetes Engine. The application invokes multiple services per request but responds too slowly. You need to identify which downstream se...

You are creating and assigning action items in a postmodern for an outage. The outage is over, but you need to address the root causes. You want to ensure that your team handles th...

Your development team has created a new version of their service's API. You need to deploy the new versions of the API with the least disruption to third-party developers and end u...

You are running an application on Compute Engine and collecting logs through Stackdriver. You discover that some personally identifiable information (PII) is leaking into certain l...

You support a service that recently had an outage. The outage was caused by a new release that exhausted the service memory resources. You rolled back the release successfully to m...

You support a user-facing web application. When analyzing the application's error budget over the previous six months, you notice that the application has never consumed more than...

You support a service with a well-defined Service Level Objective (SLO). Over the previous 6 months, your service has consistently met its SLO and customer satisfaction has been co...

Your company follows Site Reliability Engineering principles. You are writing a postmortem for an incident, triggered by a software change that severely affected users. You want to...

Your organization uses a change advisory board (CAB) to approve all changes to an existing service. You want to revise this process to eliminate any negative impact on the software...

Your organization has a containerized web application that runs on-premises. As part of the migration plan to Google Cloud, you need to select a deployment strategy and platform th...

Your team is running microservices in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to detect consumption of an error budget to protect customers and define release policies. What shoul...

Your organization wants to collect system logs that will be used to generate dashboards in Cloud Operations for their Google Cloud project. You need to configure all current and fu...

Your company has a Google Cloud resource hierarchy with folders for production, test, and development. Your cyber security team needs to review your company's Google Cloud security...

You are configuring the frontend tier of an application deployed in Google Cloud. The frontend tier is hosted in nginx and deployed using a managed instance group with an Envoy-bas...