Google Cloud Certified Cloud Operations and Monitoring 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which GCP service collects application performance data such as latency and request traces across distributed services?
- Cloud Logging
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Trace (Correct answer)
- Error Reporting
Correct answer: Cloud Trace
Cloud Trace collects distributed tracing data to help analyze latency across microservices and identify performance bottlenecks.
Question 2: A team wants to receive alerts when their GKE cluster CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which tool should they configure?
- Cloud Logging log-based alerts
- Cloud Monitoring alerting policies (Correct answer)
- Error Reporting notifications
- Cloud Trace latency alerts
Correct answer: Cloud Monitoring alerting policies
Cloud Monitoring alerting policies let you define metric-based conditions and notification channels for infrastructure and application metrics.
Question 3: Which GCP service automatically groups and analyzes application error events and notifies developers of new errors?
- Cloud Trace
- Cloud Logging
- Error Reporting (Correct answer)
- Cloud Debugger
Correct answer: Error Reporting
Error Reporting automatically aggregates and deduplicates exceptions from applications, providing a unified view and notifications for new errors.
Question 4: What is the purpose of Log-Based Metrics in Cloud Logging?
- Store logs in BigQuery automatically
- Create Cloud Monitoring metrics from log entry data (Correct answer)
- Send logs to Pub/Sub topics
- Filter logs by severity level
Correct answer: Create Cloud Monitoring metrics from log entry data
Log-Based Metrics extract metric data from log entries in Cloud Logging and make them available in Cloud Monitoring for alerting and dashboards.
Question 5: A professional cloud architect needs to audit who made changes to production IAM policies over the past 30 days. Where should they look?
- Cloud Monitoring dashboards
- VPC Flow Logs
- Cloud Audit Logs (Admin Activity logs) (Correct answer)
- Cloud Trace
Correct answer: Cloud Audit Logs (Admin Activity logs)
Cloud Audit Logs record Admin Activity including IAM policy changes, providing an immutable audit trail for compliance and security investigations.
Question 6: Which Cloud Monitoring feature allows you to monitor the availability and latency of external or internal URLs?
- Custom dashboards
- Uptime checks (Correct answer)
- Log-Based Metrics
- Alerting policies
Correct answer: Uptime checks
Uptime checks in Cloud Monitoring periodically test the availability and response time of URLs or TCP ports from multiple global locations.
Google Cloud Certified Cloud Operations and Monitoring 1
Which GCP service collects application performance data such as latency and request traces across distributed services?