6.5 Evaluating Quality Control Measures PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16application · medium

   A SaaS company has a quality control program that includes automated testing and monitoring. They want to continuously improve their quality control measures based on feedback from production incidents and user complaints. They have a process for collecting feedback, but they want to ensure that improvements are systematically implemented. What should they do?

   • AHire more quality assurance testers.
   • BConduct regular retrospectives to identify improvement actions and track them.
   • CDisable monitoring to reduce noise.
   • DIncrease the frequency of releases to get faster feedback.
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2. 17application · medium

   A government agency is migrating a citizen-facing portal to Google Cloud. They have defined quality control measures, but they are unsure how to measure the quality of the user experience. They want to establish metrics that reflect the actual experience of users. What should they implement?

   • ASynthetic monitoring that simulates user journeys from multiple locations.
   • BInfrastructure monitoring that tracks CPU and memory usage.
   • CReal User Monitoring (RUM) to capture actual user interactions and performance.
   • DLog analysis to search for error messages.
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4. 18application · medium

   A bank is developing a new mobile banking app. They have defined quality control measures that include a target of 99.99% transaction success rate and a maximum response time of 200 ms. They have written unit tests for the business logic, but they want to verify that the entire system, including the database and network, works correctly together. What testing strategy should they use?

   • ALoad testing to simulate many users.
   • BUnit testing to test each function in isolation.
   • CSecurity testing to check for vulnerabilities.
   • DIntegration testing to verify interactions between components.
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5. 19expert · hard

   A media company has a service that streams live events. They have an SLO of 99.99% availability. They have monitoring and alerting in place, but they want to improve their incident response process to minimize the impact of future incidents. They have a small on-call team and want to ensure that they are not overwhelmed with alerts. They also want to ensure that they can quickly identify the root cause of an incident. What should they do?

   • ACreate a dashboard that shows all metrics and logs in one place.
   • BImplement a centralized logging system that aggregates logs from all services.
   • CSet up alerting policies that only trigger on SLO burn rate, and create a runbook for each alert.
   • DIncrease the number of on-call engineers to handle more alerts.
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6. 20application · medium

   A software company has a mature CI/CD pipeline that deploys updates to their application multiple times a day. They want to ensure that each release maintains quality standards. They have defined quality control measures such as automated tests and monitoring. However, they notice that some defects are only discovered after release. What should they implement to catch defects earlier?

   • ADisable automated tests to speed up the pipeline.
   • BImplement canary deployments to test new versions with a small subset of users.
   • CIncrease the frequency of releases to get faster feedback.
   • DAdd more manual testing before each release.
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