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

Answer

Cloud Monitoring (formerly Stackdriver Monitoring) provides a unified dashboard for metrics, uptime checks, alerting, and dashboards across Google Cloud and AWS resources.

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

Answer

Data Access Audit Logs record API calls that read or modify the configuration or data of user-created resources and must be explicitly enabled (except for BigQuery).

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

Answer

A log sink routes log entries matching a filter to a destination such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, or Pub/Sub for long-term storage or analysis.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

30 days

Answer

The _Default log bucket retains logs for 30 days by default; you can extend retention up to 3,650 days for an additional cost.

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

Answer

An alerting policy in Cloud Monitoring defines conditions (metric threshold, duration, filter) and notification channels to trigger when those conditions are met.

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