PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Exam Questions

You recently deployed your application in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and now need to release a new version of the application. You need the ability to instantly roll back to th...

You are building and deploying a microservice on Cloud Run for your organization. Your service is used by many applications internally. You are deploying a new release, and you nee...

You work for a global organization and run a service with an availability target of 99% with limited engineering resources. For the current calendar month, you noticed that the ser...

You are developing the deployment and testing strategies for your CI/CD pipeline in Google Cloud. You must be able to: - Reduce the complexity of release deployments and minimize t...

You are creating a CI/CD pipeline to perform Terraform deployments of Google Cloud resources. Your CI/CD tooling is running in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and uses an ephemeral...

You are the on-call Site Reliability Engineer for a microservice that is deployed to a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot cluster. Your company runs an online store that publ...

Your team deploys applications to three Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments: development, staging, and production. You use GitHub repositories as your source of truth. You...

You are using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code within a CI/CD pipeline. You notice that multiple copies of the entire infrastructure stack exist in your Google Cloud proj...

You are creating Cloud Logging sinks to export log entries from Cloud Logging to BigQuery for future analysis. Your organization has a Google Cloud folder named Dev that contains d...

Your company runs services by using multiple globally distributed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. Your operations team has set up workload monitoring that uses Prometheus-...

You need to build a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application in Google Cloud. Your development team uses a central Git repository for trunk-based development. You want to run...

The new version of your containerized application has been tested and is ready to be deployed to production on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You could not fully load-test the new...

You are managing an application that runs in Compute Engine. The application uses a custom HTTP server to expose an API that is accessed by other applications through an internal T...

Your company runs an ecommerce website built with JVM-based applications and microservice architecture in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application load increases during the...

Your organization wants to increase the availability target of an application from 99.9% to 99.99% for an investment of $2,000. The application's current revenue is $1,000,000. You...

A third-party application needs to have a service account key to work properly. When you try to export the key from your cloud project, you receive an error: "The organization poli...

Your team is writing a postmortem after an incident on your external facing application. Your team wants to improve the postmortem policy to include triggers that indicate whether...

You are implementing a CI/CD pipeline for your application in your company's multi-cloud environment. Your application is deployed by using custom Compute Engine images and the equ...

Your application's performance in Google Cloud has degraded since the last release. You suspect that downstream dependencies might be causing some requests to take longer to comple...

You are creating a CI/CD pipeline in Cloud Build to build an application container image. The application code is stored in GitHub. Your company requires that production image buil...

You built a serverless application by using Cloud Run and deployed the application to your production environment. You want to identify the resource utilization of the application...

Your company is using HTTPS requests to trigger a public Cloud Run-hosted service accessible at the https://booking-engine-abcdef.a.run.app URL. You need to give developers the abi...

You are configuring connectivity across Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters in different VPCs. You notice that the nodes in Cluster A are unable to access the nodes in Cluster...

You manage an application that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and uses the blue/green deployment methodology. Extracts of the Kubernetes manifests are shown below: The Depl...

You are running a web application deployed to a Compute Engine managed instance group. Ops Agent is installed on all instances. You recently noticed suspicious activity from a spec...

Your organization is using Helm to package containerized applications. Your applications reference both public and private charts. Your security team flagged that using a public He...

You use Terraform to manage an application deployed to a Google Cloud environment. The application runs on instances deployed by a managed instance group. The Terraform code is dep...

Your company operates in a highly regulated domain that requires you to store all organization logs for seven years. You want to minimize logging infrastructure complexity by using...

You are building the CI/CD pipeline for an application deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application is deployed by using a Kubernetes Deployment, Service, and Ingres...

You are building and running client applications in Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. Your client requires that all logs must be available for one year so that the client can import t...

You are building and running client applications in Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. Your client requires that all logs must be available for one year so that the client can import t...

You have an application that runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application consists of several microservices that are deployed to GKE by using Deployments and Services. O...

You want to share a Cloud Monitoring custom dashboard with a partner team. What should you do?

Your organization stores all application logs from multiple Google Cloud projects in a central Cloud Logging project. Your security team wants to enforce a rule that each project t...

Your company uses Jenkins running on Google Cloud VM instances for CI/CD. You need to extend the functionality to use infrastructure as code automation by using Terraform. You must...

You encounter a large number of outages in the production systems you support. You receive alerts for all the outages, the alerts are due to unhealthy systems that are automaticall...

As part of your company's initiative to shift left on security, the InfoSec team is asking all teams to implement guard rails on all the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters to...

Your company operates in a highly regulated domain. Your security team requires that only trusted container images can be deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You need to im...

Your CTO has asked you to implement a postmortem policy on every incident for internal use. You want to define what a good postmortem is to ensure that the policy is successful at...

You are developing reusable infrastructure as code modules. Each module contains integration tests that launch the module in a test project. You are using GitHub for source control...

Your company processes IoT data at scale by using Pub/Sub, App Engine standard environment, and an application written in Go. You noticed that the performance inconsistently degrad...

Your company runs services by using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The GKE dusters in the development environment run applications with verbose logging enabled. Developers view lo...

You have deployed a fleet of Compute Engine instances in Google Cloud. You need to ensure that monitoring metrics and logs for the instances are visible in Cloud Logging and Cloud...

You are the Site Reliability Engineer responsible for managing your company's data services and products. You regularly navigate operational challenges, such as unpredictable data...

You are investigating issues in your production application that runs on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You determined that the source of the issue is a recently updated container...

You need to create a Cloud Monitoring SLO for a service that will be published soon. You want to verify that requests to the service will be addressed in fewer than 300 ms at least...

You have an application that runs on Cloud Run. You want to use live production traffic to test a new version of the application, while you let the quality assurance team perform m...

You recently noticed that one of your services has exceeded the error budget for the current rolling window period. Your company's product team is about to launch a new feature. Yo...

You need to introduce postmortems into your organization. You want to ensure that the postmortem process is well received. What should you do? (Choose two.)

You need to enforce several constraint templates across your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. The constraints include policy parameters, such as restricting the Kubernetes...