Cloud Engineer Cloud Monitoring, Logging & Observability

Question 1

Which Google Cloud service provides a unified dashboard for metrics, logs, and traces across your cloud infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Monitoring

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Cloud Trace

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Cloud Profiler

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Error Reporting

Question 2

A cloud engineer needs to capture all API calls made to Google Cloud resources for security auditing. Which log type should they enable?

Accepted Answer

Data Access Audit Logs

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System Event Audit Logs

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Admin Activity Audit Logs

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Policy Denied Audit Logs

Question 3

You want to export Cloud Logging logs to BigQuery for long-term analysis. What resource do you configure in Cloud Logging?

Accepted Answer

Log sink

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Log metric

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Log exclusion filter

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Log bucket

Question 4

What is the default retention period for logs stored in the _Default log bucket in Cloud Logging?

Accepted Answer

30 days

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7 days

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90 days

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365 days

Question 5

A team wants to receive an email alert when the CPU utilization of a Compute Engine instance exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which Cloud Monitoring component defines this threshold condition?

Accepted Answer

Alerting policy

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Uptime check

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Dashboard chart

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Log-based metric

Question 6

Which Cloud Monitoring feature allows you to verify that a publicly accessible URL returns a successful HTTP response at regular intervals?

Accepted Answer

Uptime check

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Synthetic monitor

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SLO alert

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Metric descriptor

Question 7

You are writing a custom metric in Cloud Monitoring. Which metric kind should you use if each data point represents an instantaneous measurement, such as current memory usage?

Accepted Answer

GAUGE

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DELTA

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CUMULATIVE

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