Your application is slow, and you suspect a database query is the bottleneck. You have already enabled Cloud Trace and Query Insights for your Cloud SQL instance. You see a trace showing a long span for a database call. What should you do next to pinpoint the exact query?

Use Cloud Profiler to analyze CPU usage of the application.

Use the Personalized Service Health dashboard to check for Cloud SQL incidents.

Use Query Insights to view the query text and performance statistics for the identified trace.

Use the Logs Explorer to search for the trace ID and view related log entries.

Your team runs a stateful application on a single Compute Engine VM. You need to be notified when the VM's CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. You have already installed the Ops Agent. What should you do?

Enable VPC Flow Logs and create an alert on the flow log entries.

Create a log-based metric for CPU usage and an alert on that metric.

Create an alerting policy with a condition on the 'compute.googleapis.com/instance/cpu/utilization' metric, set the threshold to 80% for 5 minutes, and add a notification channel.

Create a Cloud Monitoring dashboard with a CPU chart and share it with your team.

What is the primary purpose of the Ops Agent on Compute Engine instances?

To manage OS patches and updates

To encrypt data on the instance

To collect telemetry (metrics and logs) from the instance and send it to Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging

To provide SSH access to the instance

What is the primary purpose of Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus?

To collect logs from Prometheus exporters

To provide a fully managed, scalable Prometheus-compatible monitoring service

To replace Cloud Monitoring with a different monitoring system

To provide a managed Grafana service

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3.4 Monitoring and Logging ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 1)

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Your application is slow, and you suspect a database query is the bottleneck. You have already enabled Cloud Trace and Query Insights for your Cloud SQL instance. You see a trace showing a long span for a database call. What should you do next to pinpoint the exact query?
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2application · medium
Your team runs a stateful application on a single Compute Engine VM. You need to be notified when the VM's CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. You have already installed the Ops Agent. What should you do?
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3foundation · easy
Which component of a Cloud Monitoring alerting policy specifies when an alert should be triggered?
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4foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of the Ops Agent on Compute Engine instances?
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5foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus?
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