PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Exam Questions
213 real PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 3 of 5.
- Question #101Managing a service incident
You are the Operations Lead for an ongoing incident with one of your services. The service usually runs at around 70% capacity. You notice that one node is returning 5xx errors for...
Incident ResponseCommunicationService ReliabilityNode Management - Question #102Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You are configuring your CI/CD pipeline natively on Google Cloud. You want builds in a pre- production Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment to be automatically load-tested be...
Binary AuthorizationCI/CDCloud KMSAutomated Attestation - Question #103Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You are deploying an application to Cloud Run. The application requires a password to start. Your organization requires that all passwords are rotated every 24 hours, and your appl...
Secret ManagementCloud RunPassword RotationNo Downtime Deployment - Question #104Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your company runs applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that are deployed following a GitOps methodology. Application developers frequently create cloud resources to suppo...
Config ConnectorGitOpsInfrastructure as CodeConfiguration Drift - Question #105Implementing service monitoring strategies
Your Cloud Run application writes unstructured logs as text strings to Cloud Logging. You want to convert the unstructured logs to JSON-based structured logs. What should you do?
Structured LoggingCloud Run LoggingLog AgentsLog Transformation - Question #106Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Your company is planning a large marketing event for an online retailer during the holiday shopping season. You are expecting your web application to receive a large volume of traf...
Capacity ManagementApplication MonitoringAlerting StrategyFailure Prevention - Question #107Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your company recently migrated to Google Cloud. You need to design a fast, reliable, and repeatable solution for your company to provision new projects and basic resources in Googl...
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)Project ProvisioningGoogle Cloud Foundation Toolkit (CFT)Automation - Question #108Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You are configuring a CI pipeline. The build step for your CI pipeline integration testing requires access to APIs inside your private VPC network. Your security team requires that...
Cloud BuildCI/CD PipelinesPrivate VPC AccessNetworking Security - Question #110Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You recently migrated an ecommerce application to Google Cloud. You now need to prepare the application for the upcoming peak traffic season. You want to follow Google-recommended...
Load TestingPerformance ProfilingScaling StrategiesSRE Practices - Question #111Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You are monitoring a service that uses n2-standard-2 Compute Engine instances that serve large files. Users have reported that downloads are slow. Your Cloud Monitoring dashboard s...
Compute EngineNetwork PerformanceMachine TypesScaling - Question #112Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your organization is starting to containerize with Google Cloud. You need a fully managed storage solution for container images and Helm charts. You need to identify a storage solu...
Google Cloud Artifact RegistryContainer imagesHelm chartsManaged services - Question #113Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Your Site Reliability Engineering team does toil work to archive unused data in tables within your application's relational database. This toil is required to ensure that your appl...
SRE ToilAutomationOperational EfficiencySRE Principles - Question #114Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your application runs in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to use Spinnaker with the Kubernetes Provider V2 to perform blue/green deployments and control which version of th...
Blue/Green DeploymentSpinnakerKubernetesCI/CD - Question #115Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You are deploying an application to a Kubernetes cluster that requires a username and password to connect to another service. When you deploy the application, you want to ensure th...
Kubernetes SecretsSecurityCredential ManagementApplication Deployment - Question #116Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You need to create a large number of projects for many different teams. You want to use a Cloud Deployment Manager (DM) deployment to create those projects in a folder called my-fo...
Cloud Deployment ManagerInfrastructure as CodeProject ProvisioningAPI Management - Question #117Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Several teams in your company want to use Cloud Build to deploy to their own Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. The clusters are in projects that are dedicated to each team....
Cloud BuildIAMService AccountsMulti-project Architecture - Question #118Implementing service monitoring strategies
You support a Node.js application running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) in production. The application makes several HTTP requests to dependent applications. You want to antici...
Distributed TracingPerformance MonitoringGoogle Cloud TraceMicroservices - Question #119Implementing service monitoring strategies
You created a Stackdriver chart for CPU utilization in a dashboard within your workspace project. You want to share the chart with your Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team only...
Cloud MonitoringIAMLeast PrivilegeData Sharing - Question #120Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Your organization wants to implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture and principles. Recently, a service that you support had a limited outage. A manager on another team...
SRE principlesPostmortemIncident managementRoot cause analysisContinuous improvement - Question #121Implementing service monitoring strategies
You have a set of applications running on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster, and you are using Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring. You are bringing a new containerized...
GKE LoggingFluentdCustom Log CollectionKubernetes DaemonSet - Question #122Implementing service monitoring strategies
You are running an application in a virtual machine (VM) using a custom Debian image. The image has the Stackdriver Logging agent installed. The VM has the cloud-platform scope. Th...
Cloud LoggingLogging AgentTroubleshootingVM Instance - Question #123Implementing service monitoring strategies
You use a multiple step Cloud Build pipeline to build and deploy your application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You want to integrate with a third-party monitoring platform by...
Cloud BuildCloud Pub/SubWebhooksCI/CD Integration - Question #124Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You use Spinnaker to deploy your application and have created a canary deployment stage in the pipeline. Your application has an in-memory cache that loads objects at start time. Y...
Canary deploymentsSpinnakerCI/CD pipelinesPerformance analysis - Question #125Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You support a high-traffic web application and want to ensure that the home page loads in a timely manner. As a first step, you decide to implement a Service Level Indicator (SLI)...
Service Level Indicator (SLI)LatencySite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Performance Monitoring - Question #126Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You deploy a new release of an internal application during a weekend maintenance window when there is minimal user tragic. After the window ends, you learn that one of the new feat...
Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR)Continuous IntegrationBlue/Green DeploymentAutomated Testing - Question #127Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You are building an application that runs on Cloud Run. The application needs to access a third- party API by using an API key. You need to determine a secure way to store and use...
Cloud RunSecret ManagerAPI Key ManagementApplication Security - Question #128Implementing service monitoring strategies
You are currently planning how to display Cloud Monitoring metrics for your organization's Google Cloud projects. Your organization has three folders and six projects: You want to...
Cloud MonitoringMetrics ScopesGCP Best PracticesGCP Project Structure - Question #129Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Your company's security team needs to have read-only access to Data Access audit logs in the _Required bucket. You want to provide your security team with the necessary permissions...
IAM RolesCloud LoggingAudit LogsLeast Privilege - Question #130Implementing and managing cost controls
Your team is building a service that performs compute-heavy processing on batches of data. The data is processed faster based on the speed and number of CPUs on the machine. These...
Cloud StorageBatch ProcessingCost OptimizationData Ingestion Security - Question #131Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You are reviewing your deployment pipeline in Google Cloud Deploy. You must reduce toil in the pipeline, and you want to minimize the amount of time it takes to complete an end-to-...
CI/CD Pipeline OptimizationDeployment AutomationToil ReductionContinuous Delivery - Question #132Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You work for a global organization and are running a monolithic application on Compute Engine. You need to select the machine type for the application to use that optimizes CPU uti...
Resource OptimizationRecommender APIMachine Type SelectionPerformance Tuning - Question #133Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You deployed an application into a large Standard Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The application is stateless and multiple pods run at the same time. Your application rece...
Kubernetes AutoscalingHorizontal Pod AutoscalerGKEResource Optimization - Question #134Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You need to deploy a new service to production. The service needs to automatically scale using a managed instance group and should be deployed across multiple regions. The service...
Capacity PlanningResource QuotasMulti-region DeploymentService Deployment - Question #135Implementing service monitoring strategies
You are analyzing Java applications in production. All applications have Cloud Profiler and Cloud Trace installed and configured by default. You want to determine which application...
performance tuningCloud ProfilerCloud Traceapplication monitoring - Question #136Implementing service monitoring strategies
You have a pool of application servers running on Compute Engine. You need to provide a secure solution that requires the least amount of configuration and allows developers to eas...
Cloud LoggingIAMCompute EngineLog Management - Question #137Implementing and managing cost controls
You support the backend of a mobile phone game that runs on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The application is serving HTTP requests from users. You need to implement a s...
Network Cost OptimizationGoogle Cloud Networking TiersGKEEgress Traffic - Question #138Managing a service incident
You encountered a major service outage that affected all users of the service for multiple hours. After several hours of incident management, the service returned to normal, and us...
Incident ManagementPost-mortemSRE PrinciplesStakeholder Communication - Question #139Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You are performing a semi-annual capacity planning exercise for your flagship service. You expect a service user growth rate of 10% month-over-month over the next six months. Your...
GKE ScalingCapacity PlanningResilienceLoad Testing - Question #140Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your application images are built and pushed to Google Container Registry (GCR). You want to build an automated pipeline that deploys the application when the image is updated whil...
Continuous DeploymentAutomated PipelineCloud Pub/SubSpinnaker - Question #141Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Your product is currently deployed in three Google Cloud Platform (GCP) zones with your users divided between the zones. You can fail over from one zone to another, but it causes a...
SRE metricsReliability risk assessmentFailoverService disruption - Question #142Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
You are managing the production deployment to a set of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters. You want to make sure only images which are successfully built by your trusted CI/CD...
GKEContainer SecurityBinary AuthorizationDeployment Policy Enforcement - Question #143Implementing service monitoring strategies
You support an e-commerce application that runs on a large Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster deployed on-premises and on Google Cloud Platform. The application consists of mic...
GKE MonitoringContainer MonitoringResource UtilizationCloud Monitoring - Question #144Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your company experiences bugs, outages, and slowness in its production systems. Developers use the production environment for new feature development and bug fixes. Configuration a...
Environment managementCI/CD pipelinesTest environmentsDevelopment environments - Question #145Implementing service monitoring strategies
You support an application running on App Engine. The application is used globally and accessed from various device types. You want to know the number of connections. You are using...
App Engine FlexCloud MonitoringApplication MetricsConnections - Question #146Managing a service incident
You support an application deployed on Compute Engine. The application connects to a Cloud SQL instance to store and retrieve data. After an update to the application, users report...
Application performance tuningCloud ProfilerTroubleshootingDatabase timeouts - Question #147Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Your application images are built using Cloud Build and pushed to Google Container Registry (GCR). You want to be able to specify a particular version of your application for deplo...
Cloud BuildGoogle Container RegistryImage TaggingCI/CD - Question #148Implementing service monitoring strategies
You have an application deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The application logs are captured by Stackdriver Logging. You need to remove sensitive data before it reaches th...
GKE LoggingFluentdLog RedactionData Security - Question #149Implementing service monitoring strategies
You have a Compute Engine instance that uses the default Debian image. The application hosted on this instance recently suffered a series of crashes that you weren't able to debug...
Google Cloud MonitoringMonitoring AgentMemory LeakAlerting - Question #150Implementing service monitoring strategies
You are running a production application on Compute Engine. You want to monitor the key metrics of CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O time. You want to ensure that the metrics are visible b...
Cloud MonitoringDashboardsAlertingSystem Metrics - Question #151Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
You support a Python application running in production on Compute Engine. You want to debug some of the application code by inspecting the value of a specific variable. What should...
Cloud DebuggerRemote DebuggingProduction DebuggingCompute Engine