4.1 Instrumenting and Collecting Telemetry PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1foundation · easy

   What is the primary trade-off when implementing log sampling?

   • ASimpler log filtering at the cost of less accurate metrics
   • BImproved log search performance at the cost of reduced retention
   • CReduced log volume at the cost of potentially missing rare events
   • DIncreased log volume at the cost of higher storage costs
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2. 2foundation · easy

   Which of the following is an example of a platform-level metric collected by Cloud Monitoring?

   • ACPU utilization of a Compute Engine VM
   • BLatency of a custom API endpoint
   • CNumber of items processed by a custom application
   • DMemory usage of a specific process inside a VM
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4. 3foundation · easy

   Which Google Cloud tool can be used to set a budget and receive alerts when logging costs exceed a threshold?

   • ACloud Billing budgets
   • BCloud Scheduler
   • CCloud Logging exclusions
   • DCloud Monitoring alerts
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5. 4application · medium

   Your organization's Cloud Logging costs have increased significantly over the past month. You need to identify the main cost drivers and implement a strategy to reduce costs without losing critical logs. You have access to the Cloud Billing reports and Cloud Monitoring. What should you do first?

   • ASet up a budget alert to notify you when logging costs exceed a certain threshold.
   • BImmediately create log exclusions for all logs with severity INFO or lower.
   • CReduce the log retention period for all logs to 7 days.
   • DReview the Cloud Billing report to identify the projects and log types with the highest ingestion volume.
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6. 5foundation · easy

   A developer wants to record a custom metric for the number of items processed by an application. What is the recommended way to do this in Google Cloud?

   • AWrite the metric to a log file and parse it with Cloud Logging
   • BUse the Cloud Monitoring API or client libraries to write the metric
   • CUse the Cloud Deployment Manager to record the metric
   • DUse the Cloud Billing API to record the metric
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