6.1 Understanding the Principles and Recommendations of the Operational Excellence Pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

1. 16application · medium

   Your team is responsible for a critical application. You want to ensure that when an incident occurs, the right people are notified and the incident is tracked to resolution. What should you implement?

   • ACreate a Cloud Scheduler job that checks the health of the application every minute and sends a message to a Slack channel if it is down.
   • BUse Cloud Monitoring alerts to notify an on-call rotation via a paging service, and use a ticketing system to track the incident.
   • CSet up a Cloud Logging sink to export logs to a BigQuery dataset for later analysis.
   • DCreate a Cloud Monitoring alert that sends an email to the entire operations team when any metric breaches a threshold.
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2. 17foundation · easy

   How do feedback loops contribute to continuous improvement in operations?

   • ABy ensuring that all changes are approved by management
   • BBy using insights from incidents and monitoring to refine processes
   • CBy automatically rolling back any failed deployment
   • DBy preventing any changes to the production environment
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4. 18foundation · easy

   Which operational task is a good candidate for automation?

   • ADeciding on the strategic direction of a product
   • BResolving a novel customer complaint
   • CReviewing code for architectural design
   • DDeploying a new version of an application to production
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5. 19application · medium

   Your team recently experienced a service outage caused by a database connection pool exhaustion. The post-incident review identified that the application was not releasing connections properly. You want to ensure this does not recur. What should you do?

   • AIncrease the database connection pool size to accommodate more connections.
   • BRestart the application instances periodically to clear the connection pool.
   • CAdd a Cloud Monitoring alert that triggers when the connection pool usage exceeds 80%.
   • DImplement a code fix to ensure connections are always closed in a finally block, and add a unit test that verifies connection release.
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6. 20foundation · easy

   Which SRE principle is commonly applied to balance reliability with feature development?

   • AUsing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to define acceptable reliability targets
   • BRequiring manual approval for every deployment
   • CEliminating all errors to achieve 100% reliability
   • DMaximizing the number of features released per sprint
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