4.1 Instrumenting and Collecting Telemetry PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 9)

Questions 41–45

1. 41foundation · easy

   How does Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus collect metrics from applications?

   • ABy using the Cloud Monitoring API
   • BBy installing the Ops Agent on every VM
   • CBy reading application logs
   • DBy scraping metrics endpoints using a managed collector
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2. 42foundation · easy

   A DevOps engineer needs to collect both system metrics and application logs from a Compute Engine VM. Which Google Cloud component is designed to collect both of these telemetry types from a single agent?

   • AOps Agent
   • BCloud Endpoints agent
   • CCloud Logging agent
   • DCloud Monitoring agent
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4. 43foundation · easy

   In Cloud Service Mesh, what component is responsible for collecting telemetry data from the sidecar proxies and sending it to Google Cloud's observability services?

   • AThe Envoy sidecar proxy
   • BThe telemetry collector (e.g., Prometheus or OpenTelemetry Collector)
   • CThe Istio control plane (istiod)
   • DThe Kubernetes API server
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5. 44foundation · easy

   What is a key benefit of using multi-step synthetic monitors over simple uptime checks?

   • AThey only test static content
   • BThey require no configuration
   • CThey are cheaper to run
   • DThey can detect functional issues in complex user workflows
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6. 45foundation · easy

   What is a log-based metric?

   • AA metric derived from the content of log entries
   • BA metric that measures log storage costs
   • CA metric stored in Cloud Logging
   • DA metric collected by the Ops Agent
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