Cloud Operations and Monitoring Flashcards
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Which GCP service collects application performance data such as latency and request traces across distributed services?
Answer: Cloud Trace
Cloud Trace collects distributed tracing data to help analyze latency across microservices and identify performance bottlenecks.
A team wants to receive alerts when their GKE cluster CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which tool should they configure?
Answer: Cloud Monitoring alerting policies
Cloud Monitoring alerting policies let you define metric-based conditions and notification channels for infrastructure and application metrics.
Which GCP service automatically groups and analyzes application error events and notifies developers of new errors?
Answer: Error Reporting
Error Reporting automatically aggregates and deduplicates exceptions from applications, providing a unified view and notifications for new errors.
What is the purpose of Log-Based Metrics in Cloud Logging?
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.
A professional cloud architect needs to audit who made changes to production IAM policies over the past 30 days. Where should they look?
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.
Which Cloud Monitoring feature allows you to monitor the availability and latency of external or internal URLs?
Answer: Uptime checks
Uptime checks in Cloud Monitoring periodically test the availability and response time of URLs or TCP ports from multiple global locations.
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