6.2 Configuring Health Monitoring and Alerting PROFESSIONAL-SECURITY-OPERATIONS-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–24

1. 21foundation · easy

   Which metric is most directly associated with detecting a memory leak in a virtual machine instance?

   • ACPU utilization
   • BMemory usage
   • CNetwork latency
   • DDisk I/O throughput
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2. 22expert · hard

   You are troubleshooting a performance issue in a web application. The application's metrics show normal CPU and memory usage, but users are experiencing slow response times. You suspect the issue is in the database. What should you do to confirm?

   • ARestart the database to see if the issue resolves.
   • BCreate an alerting policy on the web application's latency to notify you when it's high.
   • CUse Cloud Logging to search for slow query logs from the database.
   • DCheck the database's metrics, such as query latency and connection count, in Cloud Monitoring.
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4. 23foundation · easy

   Which Cloud Monitoring feature can be used to alert when a metric stops reporting data for a certain period?

   • ANotification channel
   • BMetric absence condition
   • CLog sink
   • DDashboard
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5. 24application · medium

   Users report that a mobile app is intermittently slow. You suspect a backend service is having issues, but the metrics don't show a clear pattern. You need to identify the root cause. What should you do first?

   • ACreate an alerting policy on the backend service's CPU utilization with a threshold of 80%.
   • BUse Cloud Logging to search for error logs and stack traces from the backend service around the times of reported slowness.
   • CRestart the backend service to see if the problem goes away.
   • DCreate a dashboard showing all metrics for the backend service and share it with the team.
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