20+ practice questions focused on Scaling with Google Cloud operations — one of the most tested topics on the Google Cloud Digital Leader exam. Each question includes a detailed explanation so you learn why the right answer is correct.
Start Scaling with Google Cloud operations PracticeA company's web service has a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99.9% monthly availability. In a 30-day month, how many minutes of downtime are allowed before the SLO is violated?
Explanation: The SLO of 99.9% monthly availability means the service can be unavailable for 0.1% of the total monthly time. In a 30-day month, total minutes are 30 × 24 × 60 = 43,200 minutes. 0.1% of 43,200 minutes is 43.2 minutes, so option B is correct.
A SRE team wants to alert when their service is consuming error budget faster than expected, rather than alerting only when the SLO threshold is crossed. Which Cloud Monitoring alerting strategy supports this approach?
Explanation: B is correct because SLO burn rate alerting is specifically designed to detect when error budget is being consumed faster than the measurement window allows, enabling proactive alerts before the SLO threshold is breached. This approach uses a burn rate (e.g., 2x, 10x) to trigger alerts when the error budget depletion rate exceeds a predefined multiple of the expected rate, allowing the team to respond early. It directly addresses the requirement of alerting on error budget consumption speed rather than waiting for a hard SLO violation.
A company's on-premises IT team spends 70% of their time on routine maintenance tasks: patching servers, replacing failed hardware, and upgrading storage. After migrating to Google Cloud managed services, which operational outcome should they expect?
Explanation: By migrating to Google Cloud managed services like Compute Engine with sole-tenant nodes or fully managed services such as Cloud SQL and Google Kubernetes Engine, the cloud provider handles routine maintenance tasks (patching, hardware replacement, storage upgrades). This frees the IT team from approximately 70% of their previous workload, allowing them to focus on higher-value activities like application innovation, feature development, and optimizing cloud architecture. Option B correctly identifies this shift from operational overhead to strategic work.
A company has deployed a critical application on Google Cloud and wants to understand what happens to their workloads during a Google Cloud data center maintenance event (e.g., host system upgrades). What Google Compute Engine feature handles this automatically for most VMs?
Explanation: Google Compute Engine uses Live Migration to automatically move running VMs from a host undergoing maintenance (e.g., host system upgrades) to a healthy host without interrupting the VM. This process preserves the VM's memory, network connections, and disk state, resulting in zero VM downtime. It is enabled by default for most VM instances, except those with GPUs or certain machine types that explicitly opt out.
A company's application experiences traffic spikes every weekday morning when employees log in at 9 AM. The team wants their infrastructure to automatically handle these spikes without manual intervention and without over-provisioning resources all day. Which Google Cloud capability addresses this?
Explanation: Option B is correct because Google Cloud's managed instance groups (MIGs) with autoscaling can automatically adjust the number of VM instances based on load metrics (e.g., CPU utilization, requests per second). This handles the 9 AM traffic spike without manual intervention and avoids over-provisioning during off-peak hours by scaling down when demand decreases.
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