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Ensuring solution and operations excellence Questions

Practice questions for Ensuring solution and operations excellence topic in Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. 24 questions covering this domain.

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Q1
medium

A write-heavy Spanner multi-region deployment is showing higher write latency than expected. Which placement change is most aligned with official perf...

Q2
easy

Which Google Cloud service can be used to monitor VPC Service Controls access patterns across service perimeters?

Q3
medium

A Cloud SQL high-availability failover occurs during a zonal outage. What should the application team expect?

Q4
hard

A three-zone GKE Standard regional cluster must still serve 100 percent of traffic after one zone fails. According to GKE documentation, what overprov...

Q5
easy

Pub/Sub already replicates messages across multiple zones within a region. For better resiliency to zonal failures affecting clients or networking, wh...

Q6
medium

A workload uses a Cloud Storage regional bucket. What happens if one availability zone in that region becomes unavailable?

Q7
easy

Which Google Cloud service collects metrics and provides dashboards and alerting policies?

Q8
hard

An architect designs a global active-active web tier behind a global external Application Load Balancer with multi-region backends and wants requests ...

Q9
medium

A team wants centralized log retention beyond the default 30 days for selected log entries from many projects for analytics. Which Google Cloud capabi...

Q10
medium

An SRE team wants to define an SLO for request availability and track error budget burn over a rolling window. Which Cloud Monitoring capability suppo...

Q11
hard

An on-call engineer must triage why a managed instance group's autoscaler stopped adding VMs even though CPU utilization is high. Which check is the b...

Q12
hard

An incident response team needs to silence a noisy alerting policy during a planned maintenance window without deleting it. Which Cloud Monitoring fea...

Q13
medium

A team wants to create a custom metric in Cloud Monitoring to track application-specific counters such as orders processed per second. Which approach ...

Q14
medium

An operations team wants to receive a Page notification when error rate for a Cloud Run service exceeds 1% over a 5-minute window. Which Cloud Monitor...

Q15
medium

A GKE application experiences intermittent performance degradation. The SRE team wants to identify which service calls are responsible for the highest...

Q16
easy

Which Google Cloud service captures and stores distributed trace data for analyzing latency across microservices?

Q17
hard

A Cloud Monitoring alerting policy fires repeatedly for the same known issue while a root cause fix is under development. The team wants to stop the n...

Q18
hard

An SRE team defines a 99.9% availability SLO for a service. The service has consumed 80% of its error budget in the first two weeks of the month. Acco...

Q19
easy

Which Google Cloud service provides application performance profiling to identify CPU and memory hotspots in production code continuously without impa...

Q20
hard

A production Cloud SQL instance shows a sudden spike in query latency. The operations team needs to identify which queries are responsible. Which Clou...

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