Google Cloud Certified Cloud Operations and Monitoring

Question 1

Which GCP service collects application performance data such as latency and request traces across distributed services?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Trace

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Monitoring alerting policies

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Error Reporting

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Create Cloud Monitoring metrics from log entry data

Answer

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?

Accepted Answer

Cloud Audit Logs (Admin Activity logs)

Answer

Cloud Audit Logs record Admin Activity including IAM policy changes, providing an immutable audit trail for compliance and security investigations.

Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect Practice Test