CDM Monitoring, Logging & Incident Response 2

Question 1

Which metric type in Prometheus represents a value that can only increase over time, such as total HTTP requests served?

Accepted Answer

Counter

Answer

Gauge

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Histogram

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Summary

Question 2

In the ELK stack, which component is primarily responsible for parsing, filtering, and enriching log data before sending it to Elasticsearch?

Accepted Answer

Logstash

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Elasticsearch

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Kibana

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Beats

Question 3

An SRE team wants to define an acceptable error rate over a rolling 30-day window for a critical API. Which SRE concept does this describe?

Accepted Answer

Error Budget

Answer

Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)

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Apdex Score

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P99 Latency

Question 4

Which alerting strategy fires a notification only when a condition has been true continuously for a specified duration, reducing false positives?

Accepted Answer

For-duration alerting

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Threshold alerting

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Anomaly alerting

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Dead man's switch

Question 5

A distributed tracing system assigns the same value to all spans within a single user request across multiple microservices. What is this value called?

Accepted Answer

Trace ID

Answer

Span ID

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Baggage

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Correlation token

Question 6

During an incident postmortem, a team identifies that an engineer accidentally deleted a config file that caused the outage. What type of cause is this classified as?

Accepted Answer

Proximate cause

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Root cause

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Contributing factor

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Latent condition

Question 7

Which AWS service provides a centralized, fully managed log aggregation and monitoring solution that supports log groups and metric filters?

Accepted Answer

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

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AWS X-Ray

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AWS Config

Answer

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose