Cloud Engineer Cloud Monitoring, Logging & Observability 3

Question 1

A GKE cluster's application logs are not appearing in Cloud Logging. Which component is responsible for forwarding container logs from GKE nodes to Cloud Logging?

Accepted Answer

Fluentd / Fluent Bit DaemonSet

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Cloud Monitoring agent

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Stackdriver adapter

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Kube-proxy

Question 2

What is a Service Level Objective (SLO) in the context of Cloud Monitoring?

Accepted Answer

A measurable reliability target for a service, tracked as a percentage over a time window

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A contractual agreement between two companies about service availability

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An alert that fires when a service is down for more than one hour

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A quota limit on how many API requests a service can handle

Question 3

You need to store logs from a Cloud Run service for 2 years to meet compliance requirements. What is the most cost-effective approach?

Accepted Answer

Create a log sink to export logs to a Cloud Storage bucket with a lifecycle policy

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Increase the _Default log bucket retention to 730 days

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Enable Data Access Audit Logs and keep them in Cloud Logging

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Use a Pub/Sub subscription to archive logs to an on-premises system

Question 4

Which field in a Cloud Logging log entry indicates the source GCP resource that generated the log, such as a specific Compute Engine VM or Cloud Run revision?

Accepted Answer

resource

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insertId

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logName

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severity

Question 5

A cloud engineer must ensure that VPC Flow Logs are enabled for a subnet to analyze network traffic. Where is this setting configured?

Accepted Answer

On the subnet resource in the VPC network configuration

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In Cloud Monitoring under network metrics

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In the firewall rule policy for the network

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In the Cloud Logging log sink configuration

Question 6

You want to be alerted when any user in your GCP project deletes a Cloud Storage bucket. Which Cloud Logging feature combined with Cloud Monitoring would best accomplish this?

Accepted Answer

Create a log-based metric on Admin Activity Audit Logs and configure an alerting policy

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Enable Data Access Audit Logs and set an uptime check

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Enable VPC Flow Logs and filter for storage traffic

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Configure a log sink to Pub/Sub and write a Cloud Function to send alerts

Question 7

Which Cloud Monitoring workspace concept allows a single pane of glass for monitoring resources across multiple GCP projects?

Accepted Answer

Scoping project (metrics scope)

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Monitored resource descriptor

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Log bucket with multiple linked projects

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Shared VPC host project