Ensuring Successful Operation of a Cloud Solution

You need to monitor the uptime of an external HTTPS endpoint that is critical to your application. Which Google Cloud service should you use to create an uptime check?

You have a Compute Engine VM instance that is currently running. You need to resize it to a different machine type. What must you do first?

Your GKE cluster is running a deployment with a container image my-app:v1. You need to update it to my-app:v2 and monitor the rollout progress. Which commands should you use?

You need to export logs from Cloud Logging to a BigQuery dataset for long-term analysis. What should you create?

You are using Cloud Run and want to split traffic so that 10% of requests go to revision v2 and 90% go to revision v1. Which command should you use?

You have a BigQuery table with billions of rows. You need to create a new table with the same schema and copy all data from the original table. Which approach is most efficient?

Your application uses Pub/Sub to process orders. You notice that the subscription backlog is growing. Which tool should you use to analyze the latency of each step in the processing pipeline?

You need to create a snapshot of a persistent disk attached to a running Compute Engine instance. The disk is used by a production database; you want minimal impact. What should you do?

You want to receive notifications when a specific metric exceeds a threshold. Which Cloud Monitoring resource defines the condition and the action?

Your GKE cluster nodes are running low on resources. You need to enable node pool autoscaling so that the cluster automatically adds and removes nodes based on demand. The node pool is named 'default-pool'. Which command completes this task?

You need to query logs in Cloud Logging to find errors from a specific Compute Engine instance. The instance ID is 'my-instance'. Which query language filter should you use?

You have a Cloud Run service that you want to update to use a new container image. You also want to keep the previous revision available in case you need to roll back. Which command should you use?

You are troubleshooting a slow application that uses multiple microservices. You suspect a particular service is causing high latency. Which TWO Google Cloud tools should you use to identify the root cause? (Select 2)

You need to drain a GKE node for maintenance. Which THREE steps should you perform? (Select 3)

You want to create a log-based metric to count errors from your application logs. Which TWO resources are required? (Select 2)

You need to create a log-based metric that counts the number of errors in your application logs. What must you do first in Cloud Logging?

You have a Compute Engine VM that is running a critical application. You need to change its machine type from n1-standard-4 to n2-standard-8. What is the correct procedure?

Your GKE cluster has a node pool that you want to enable autoscaling on. The initial node count is 3, and you want the cluster to scale between 1 and 10 nodes. Which command should you use?

You want to monitor the uptime of an external HTTP endpoint every minute and receive an email notification if the endpoint is unavailable for more than two consecutive checks. What should you do?

You are deploying a new revision of a Cloud Run service. You want to gradually shift traffic from the old revision to the new one, starting with 10% traffic to the new revision. Which command should you use?

You need to export all Cloud Logging logs from a specific project to BigQuery for long-term analysis. What should you create?

You notice that a deployment in your GKE cluster is running an outdated image. You need to update the deployment to use the new image 'gcr.io/my-project/my-app:v2'. Which kubectl command should you use?

You want to view recent errors from your Compute Engine instances using Cloud Logging. Which query language statement would you use in the Log Explorer?

You need to drain a GKE node for maintenance. The node is running a DaemonSet and some pods with emptyDir volumes. Which kubectl command should you use to safely drain the node without causing errors?

You want to create a snapshot of a persistent disk named 'my-disk' in zone us-central1-a. Which command should you use?

You have a Cloud Run service that is experiencing high latency. You want to analyze the latency distribution of requests. Which Google Cloud tool should you use?

You need to load a CSV file from Cloud Storage into an existing BigQuery table. Which bq command should you use?

You are troubleshooting a slow Pub/Sub subscription. Which three steps should you take to diagnose the issue? (Choose three.)

Your GKE cluster is running an older version of Kubernetes. You need to upgrade the cluster's control plane and node pools. Which two steps should you perform? (Choose two.)

You need to set up an alerting policy to notify your team via email and Slack when a Compute Engine instance's CPU utilization exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which two resources must you configure? (Choose two.)

You need to alert when the CPU utilization of your Compute Engine instance exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. What should you create in Cloud Monitoring?

You are configuring an uptime check for an HTTPS endpoint that returns a JSON response. The check should validate that the response contains a specific field "status":"ok". Which uptime check option should you use?

Your team wants to send Cloud Monitoring alerts to a Slack channel. You have created a Pub/Sub topic and subscription. Which notification channel type should you configure in Cloud Monitoring?

You need to find all log entries from the past hour where a Compute Engine instance failed to start. Which Cloud Logging query language filter should you use?

You need to create a log-based metric that counts the number of 5xx errors from your application logs. The logs are in Cloud Logging and contain a field "httpRequest.status". Which filter should you use when creating the metric?

You need to export all Cloud Logging logs from your project to BigQuery for long-term analysis. What should you create?

You want to stop a Compute Engine instance to reduce costs. It will be started again in a few hours. Which command should you use?

You need to change the machine type of a running Compute Engine instance from n1-standard-4 to n1-standard-8. What is the correct procedure?

You need to attach an existing 100 GB persistent disk named 'my-disk' to a Compute Engine instance 'web-server-1'. What is the correct command?

You need to update the container image of a deployment named 'my-app' in GKE to a new version. Which command should you use?

You have updated a deployment in GKE, but the new pods are crashing. You want to revert to the previous working version. What should you do?

You need to drain a GKE node for maintenance, ensuring that daemonsets and pods using emptyDir volumes are handled properly. Which command should you use?

You are configuring a log sink to export logs to Cloud Storage for compliance. Which TWO permissions are required for the sink's destination bucket? (Choose TWO.)

Your Cloud Run service has a new revision that you want to gradually shift traffic to. You want to send 10% of traffic to the new revision and 90% to the current one. Which TWO steps are required? (Choose TWO.)

You are troubleshooting a Pub/Sub subscription that is not delivering messages promptly. Which THREE factors should you investigate? (Choose THREE.)

You need to be notified when the CPU utilization of any Compute Engine instance in your project exceeds 80% for 5 minutes. Which Cloud Monitoring feature should you use?

You are using Cloud Logging and want to export all logs from a specific Compute Engine instance to BigQuery for long-term analysis. You create a log sink with a filter for the instance's resource type and labels. What additional step is required to complete the export?

You need to update a deployment in your GKE cluster from image version v1 to v2 gradually, ensuring that only a small percentage of pods run v2 initially. After the rollout, you want to verify the rollout status. Which commands should you use?

Your Cloud Run service is receiving a sudden spike in traffic. You want to ensure that the number of concurrent requests per container instance does not exceed 10 to avoid overloading the backend. Which configuration should you set?

You are investigating high latency in your application deployed on Compute Engine. You suspect a specific API call is taking longer than expected. Which Google Cloud tool should you use to analyze the latency of individual requests?

You need to resize a Compute Engine instance from n1-standard-4 to n1-highmem-8. The instance has a local SSD attached. What must you do before changing the machine type?

Your team uses Cloud Logging to store application logs. You want to create a metric that counts the number of ERROR log entries per service. Which type of log-based metric should you create?

You are deploying a GKE cluster with node autoscaling enabled. The cluster runs batch jobs that are sensitive to startup latency. You notice that during scale-up, new nodes take several minutes to become ready. Which action can reduce the time it takes for new nodes to join the cluster?

You need to split traffic between two revisions of your Cloud Run service: revision-1 (stable) should receive 90% of traffic, and revision-2 (canary) should receive 10%. Which command should you run?

Your BigQuery query is taking longer than expected. You want to estimate the query cost before running it and get a preview of how many bytes will be processed. Which bq command should you use?

You have a Pub/Sub subscription that is accumulating a backlog of messages. Which Cloud Monitoring metric should you alert on to detect this condition?

You need to drain a GKE node for maintenance. The node runs DaemonSet pods and pods using emptyDir volumes. Which kubectl drain command correctly handles these pods without causing disruption to critical system components?

You need to set up log-based alerting in Cloud Logging to send notifications when a specific error pattern appears in your application logs. Which TWO components are required to accomplish this?

You are managing a GKE cluster and need to upgrade the node pool to a newer Kubernetes version. Which THREE steps should you perform as part of the upgrade process?

Your application running on Compute Engine is experiencing intermittent high latency. You need to diagnose the root cause. Which THREE tools or services should you use to gather data? (Choose 3)

An engineer needs to create an alerting policy in Cloud Monitoring that sends a notification when the 99th percentile latency of a service exceeds 500 ms for 5 minutes. Which metric type should they use?

A DevOps team wants to be notified in Slack when a specific error log appears in Cloud Logging. They set up a log-based alert with a notification channel to a Slack webhook. However, notifications are not arriving. What is the most likely cause?

An engineer needs to monitor the external HTTP availability of a web application hosted on Compute Engine. Which Cloud Monitoring feature should they use?

A company wants to export all Cloud Logging logs to BigQuery for long-term analysis. They create a log sink with a BigQuery dataset as the destination. After a few days, they notice that some logs are missing in BigQuery. What is the most likely reason?

An engineer needs to update a Kubernetes Deployment's container image to version v2. They run 'kubectl set image deployment/my-app my-container=gcr.io/my-project/my-image:v2'. After a few minutes, they check the rollout status and see a failure. They want to revert to the previous image. Which command should they use?

A Cloud Run service needs to be updated to increase CPU and memory limits. Which command should the engineer use?

A company wants to split traffic between two revisions of a Cloud Run service: 90% to revision 'green' and 10% to revision 'blue'. Which command should they use?

A GKE cluster is running a critical workload. An engineer needs to perform maintenance on a node without disrupting the pods. They plan to use 'kubectl drain'. Which additional flags are typically required to safely drain a node?

An engineer needs to enable autoscaling on an existing node pool in a GKE cluster. Which command should they use?

A developer needs to query BigQuery using the bq command-line tool with standard SQL. Which flag should they include?

An engineer needs to attach an existing persistent disk to a Compute Engine instance. They have created the disk using 'gcloud compute disks create'. Which command should they use to attach it?

An application is experiencing intermittent high latency. Using Cloud Trace, an engineer identifies that the bottleneck is a Pub/Sub subscription with a large backlog. Which action would MOST directly help reduce the backlog?

An engineer needs to create a Cloud Monitoring dashboard that displays CPU utilization for all Compute Engine instances in a project. Which TWO steps are required? (Choose 2)

A company wants to automate the response to specific log entries by triggering a Cloud Function. Which THREE components are required? (Choose 3)

An engineer is troubleshooting a Compute Engine instance that is unreachable via SSH. They suspect a firewall rule is blocking traffic. Which TWO actions should they take to diagnose the issue? (Choose 2)

A site reliability engineer needs to be notified immediately when the error rate of a production microservice exceeds 5% over a 5-minute window. Which type of alerting policy should be used?

You manage a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster and need to update the deployment 'web-app' to use a new container image tag 'v2'. You also want to ensure the update proceeds and, if it fails, roll back to the previous revision. Which set of commands should you use?

Your organization runs a critical application on Compute Engine VMs. You have created a snapshot schedule, but you need to ensure that snapshots of disks attached to running instances are crash-consistent. What must you do before taking the snapshot?

A team needs to analyze application logs to find errors from the last 24 hours. The logs are stored in Cloud Logging. Which query language filters would select log entries where the severity is ERROR and the resource type is a GCE VM instance?

You want to export a subset of Cloud Logging logs to BigQuery for long-term analysis. Which method should you use?

A Cloud Run service is experiencing high latency. You suspect one revision is causing the issue. The service is configured to split traffic 90% to revision A and 10% to revision B. You want to gradually shift traffic back to revision A only. Which command should you use?

You need to collect and analyze latency traces for a microservices application running on GKE. You want to identify which services are contributing to overall latency. Which Google Cloud service should you enable and use?

You have a Compute Engine instance that is running a CPU-intensive workload. After monitoring, you realize the machine type needs to be upgraded to a larger CPU. What is the correct sequence to change the machine type?

You are troubleshooting a Pub/Sub subscription that is not receiving messages as fast as they are published. You want to check if there is a backlog of unacknowledged messages for the subscription. What should you use?

You have a GKE cluster with a node pool that needs to scale automatically based on load. The cluster was created with autoscaling disabled. Which command enables autoscaling on an existing node pool?

You need to perform a rolling update of a GKE deployment and ensure that during the update, the new pods are ready before terminating the old ones. You have already set the update strategy to RollingUpdate. Which kubectl command sequence should you use to update the image and monitor the rollout?

A Cloud Run service named 'my-service' is currently serving 100% traffic to revision 'rev1'. You deploy a new revision 'rev2' and want to gradually shift traffic so that rev2 receives 10% of requests. Which command should you use?

You are designing a disaster recovery plan for a stateful application running on Compute Engine. You need to create crash-consistent backups of persistent disks every hour and store them in a different region for at least 30 days. Which TWO steps should you take? (Choose two.)

You need to drain a GKE node for maintenance without disrupting running workloads that are managed by a DaemonSet. Which TWO flags should you use with kubectl drain? (Choose two.)

You want to create a monitoring dashboard that shows a time-series chart of CPU utilization for a specific Compute Engine instance. Which THREE components do you need to configure? (Choose three.)

A developer needs to check the latest logs from a Compute Engine instance to debug a failed startup script. They want to filter logs from the last hour with severity ERROR or higher. Which Cloud Logging query language filter should they use?

Your organization runs a stateful workload on a Compute Engine VM with a 500 GB persistent disk. You need to resize the VM to a machine type with more CPUs and memory, while minimizing downtime. You also need to ensure the disk is backed up before the change. What is the correct sequence of steps?

You have a Cloud Run service that experiences intermittent high latency. You want to analyze the latency of specific request paths to identify bottlenecks. You enable Cloud Trace and instrument your application with OpenTelemetry. Which tool or feature should you use to view a waterfall diagram of latencies across services for a single request?

Your GKE cluster has a node pool that is underutilized. You want to enable cluster autoscaling to automatically adjust the number of nodes based on workload demand. Which TWO steps are required? (Choose two.)

You need to export all logs from Cloud Logging to a BigQuery dataset for long-term analysis. The export should include logs from all projects in the organization. Which TWO actions should you take? (Choose two.)

You are managing a Cloud Run service that has two revisions: v1 (serving 100% traffic) and v2 (new revision). You want to shift 10% of traffic to v2 gradually. Which TWO steps should you take? (Choose two.)

You want to monitor the uptime of an external HTTP endpoint from multiple locations around the world. Which TWO steps should you take? (Choose two.)

You need to set up an alert that triggers when the 99th percentile latency of your HTTP(S) load balancer exceeds 5 seconds for 5 minutes. Which THREE resources must you create or configure? (Choose three.)

Your BigQuery dataset contains a table with sensitive customer data. You want to allow a data analyst to query the table but prevent them from viewing the data directly. You also need to ensure they cannot export the data. Which TWO IAM roles should you grant the analyst? (Choose two.)

You need to update a deployment in your GKE cluster from image version 1.0 to 2.0. You have already updated the manifest file. Which THREE kubectl commands should you use in sequence? (Choose three in the correct order.)