Your organization uses several Google Cloud services, and you want a single view that shows the current health of those services and any active incidents that might affect you. What should you use?

The Personalized Service Health dashboard

The Logs Explorer with a filter for 'cloudaudit.googleapis.com/activity'

A Cloud Monitoring dashboard with a widget for each service's metrics

Your company has a compliance requirement to retain application logs for 7 years. You currently use the default Cloud Logging bucket, which retains logs for 30 days. You need a cost-effective solution that allows SQL-like queries on the logs. What should you do?

Increase the retention period of the default bucket to 7 years.

Create a new log bucket with a retention period of 7 years and route all logs to it.

Create a log sink to export logs to BigQuery and set the BigQuery dataset retention to 7 years.

Export logs to Cloud Storage and use the Storage Browser to query them.

You have a fleet of Compute Engine VMs running a web server. You need to collect metrics like CPU, memory, disk, and network usage, as well as logs from the web server, and send them to Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging. What should you do?

Use Cloud Trace to collect metrics and logs.

Install the legacy Monitoring agent on each VM.

Configure VPC Flow Logs to capture network metrics.

Install the Ops Agent on each VM.

Which of the following is a component of the Ops Agent?

A separate agent for metrics and a separate agent for logs

A cloud-based service that runs on Google's infrastructure

A library that applications must link against

A single binary that handles both metrics and logs

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3.4 Monitoring and Logging ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 3)

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11application · medium
Your organization uses several Google Cloud services, and you want a single view that shows the current health of those services and any active incidents that might affect you. What should you use?
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12application · medium
Your company has a compliance requirement to retain application logs for 7 years. You currently use the default Cloud Logging bucket, which retains logs for 30 days. You need a cost-effective solution that allows SQL-like queries on the logs. What should you do?
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13foundation · easy
Which tool in the Google Cloud console is used to view and filter logs?
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14application · easy
You have a fleet of Compute Engine VMs running a web server. You need to collect metrics like CPU, memory, disk, and network usage, as well as logs from the web server, and send them to Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging. What should you do?
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15foundation · easy
Which of the following is a component of the Ops Agent?
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