Question 1

You need to tackle the root causes of an outage that has already occurred, and to do so, you are creating and assigning action items in a postmodern. Your goal is to make sure that your team handles these action items with speed and efficiency.

What is the recommended approach for assigning owners and collaborators to action items?

Options :

A : Assign multiple owners for each item to guarantee that the team addresses items quickly.

B : Assign the team lead as the owner for all action items because they are in charge of the SRE team.

C : Assign one owner for each action item and any necessary collaborators.

D : Assign collaborators but no individual owners to the items to keep the postmortem blameless.

Answer: C

Question 2

The application you are supporting runs on App Engine and is accessed globally from different device types. You require the count of connections. For this, you are utilizing Stackdriver Monitoring for App Engine.

Which metric would be appropriate to use?

Options :

A : flex/connections/current

B : tcp_ssl_proxy/new_connections

C : tcp_ssl_proxy/open_connections

D : flex/instance/connections/current

Answer: A

Question 3

As an online grocery delivery service, you want to deploy a new feature of your web application to production in a safe manner. How can you use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to perform a phased rollout to half of the web server pods?

Options :

A : Implement a rolling update with partitioning.

B : Implement NoExecute taints on Nodes.

C : To manage pods in parallel, utilize a stateful set.

D : Incorporate a replica set into the deployment specifications.

Answer: A

Question 4

As a Social impact investment platform company, you are deploying an application that requires access to sensitive information. What measures should you take to ensure that this information is encrypted and the chances of exposure are minimal in case of a breach? Additionally, which Google Cloud Services can be leveraged to achieve this goal?

Options :

A : Incorporate a Single sign-on (SSO) system to the application and ensure that no secrets are revealed to the application.

B : Frequently rotate encryption keys and keep them stored in Cloud Key Management Service (KMS).

C : During the creation of the instance, use an encrypted configuration management system to insert the secret.

D : Create a continuous build pipeline that generates various versions of the secret for every application instance.

Answer: B

Question 5

You are creating and assigning action items in a postmodern for an outage. The outage is over, but you need to address the root causes. You want to ensure that your team handles the action items quickly and efficiently. How should you assign owners and collaborators to action items?

Options :

A : Assign one owner for each action item and any necessary collaborators.

B : Assign multiple owners for each item to guarantee that the team addresses items quickly

C : Assign collaborators but no individual owners to the items to keep the postmortem blameless.

D : Assign the team lead as the owner for all action items because they are in charge of the SRE team.

Answer: A