6.5 Evaluating Quality Control Measures PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A gaming company has a service that experiences occasional degradation. They have an SLO of 99.95% availability. They want to improve their incident response process to minimize the impact of future incidents. They have monitoring and alerting in place, but they want to ensure that the right people are notified and can act quickly. What should they implement?

   • AA centralized dashboard showing all service health metrics.
   • BA post-incident review process to document what went wrong.
   • CA log aggregation system to centralize all logs.
   • DAn on-call rotation with escalation policies and runbooks.
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2. 2application · medium

   A retail company has a microservices-based e-commerce platform on Google Cloud. The operations team wants to establish quality control measures to detect performance regressions early. They currently collect metrics from each service, but the volume is overwhelming, and they often miss critical anomalies. They want a solution that automatically identifies unusual behavior without manually setting static thresholds for every metric. What should they implement?

   • AExport all metrics to BigQuery and run scheduled SQL queries to find outliers.
   • BUse Cloud Monitoring's anomaly detection to automatically identify unusual patterns in time-series data.
   • CCreate a Cloud Monitoring dashboard with static alerting policies for each service's CPU and memory usage.
   • DEnable Cloud Monitoring's log-based metrics and create alerts based on error log counts.
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4. 3application · medium

   A healthcare company runs a critical application on Google Cloud. They have defined quality control measures that include an SLO of 99.9% availability. Recently, they experienced an incident that caused a 30-minute outage. The incident response team wants to improve their detection and response time for future incidents. What should they prioritize?

   • AImplementing a comprehensive logging strategy that captures all application logs.
   • BSetting up alerting policies with runbooks and on-call escalation procedures.
   • CConducting a post-incident review to document lessons learned.
   • DIncreasing the number of replicas for all services to improve redundancy.
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5. 4foundation · easy

   What is the purpose of a post-incident review (PIR)?

   • ATo immediately restore service to normal operation
   • BTo assign blame to the team member who caused the incident
   • CTo inform customers about the incident details
   • DTo document the incident and identify improvements to prevent recurrence
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6. 5foundation · easy

   What is the first step in an effective incident response process?

   • APost-incident review
   • BCommunication with stakeholders
   • CDetection and alerting
   • DRoot cause analysis
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