4.3 Managing Metrics, Dashboards, and Alerts PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-DEVOPS-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1foundation · easy

   Which of the following strategies can help reduce alerting costs in Cloud Monitoring?

   • AUsing more complex PromQL queries.
   • BReducing the frequency of metric queries in alerting conditions.
   • CCreating more alerting policies.
   • DIncreasing the number of notification channels.
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2. 2foundation · easy

   What are the three main components of an alerting policy in Cloud Monitoring?

   • AFilters, aggregations, and alignments.
   • BConditions, notification channels, and documentation.
   • CTriggers, actions, and logs.
   • DMetrics, dashboards, and playbooks.
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4. 3foundation · easy

   How can you share a custom dashboard with a colleague who does not have access to your Google Cloud project?

   • AExport the dashboard as a JSON file and send it to the colleague to import.
   • BGrant the colleague the Viewer role on the dashboard using IAM.
   • CUse the Cloud Monitoring API to email the dashboard to the colleague.
   • DSend the colleague a link to the dashboard; they can view it without any additional permissions.
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5. 4application · medium

   Your SRE team has defined an SLO that requires 99.9% availability for a customer-facing service over a 30-day window. You want to create an alerting policy that notifies the on-call team when the service is at risk of breaching the SLO, specifically when the error budget is being consumed faster than expected. Which alerting strategy should you use?

   • ACreate an alert that triggers when the error rate exceeds 0.1% for the last 24 hours.
   • BCreate an alert that triggers when the availability metric drops below 99.9% for any 5-minute period.
   • CCreate a burn-rate alert that triggers when the error budget burn rate exceeds 14.4 over a 1-hour window.
   • DCreate an alert that triggers when the monthly error budget is 100% consumed.
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6. 5application · medium

   Your company uses PagerDuty for incident management. You want Cloud Monitoring alerts to automatically create PagerDuty incidents when a critical metric breaches a threshold. You have already set up a PagerDuty service with an integration key. What should you do in Cloud Monitoring?

   • ACreate an email notification channel with the PagerDuty email address and use it in the alerting policy.
   • BExport the alerting policy to a JSON file and import it into PagerDuty.
   • CUse the Cloud Monitoring mobile app to manually create incidents in PagerDuty.
   • DCreate a webhook notification channel with the PagerDuty integration URL and use it in the alerting policy.
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