Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
An organization wants to monitor and alert on custom application metrics from a GKE cluster. They also need to view logs in real-time and create metrics from log content. Which two GCP services should they use? (Choose two.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Monitoring collects metrics and provides alerting. Cloud Logging collects logs and supports log-based metrics. Cloud Profiler is for profiling. Cloud Trace is for tracing. Error Reporting is for error grouping.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Error Reporting
Why it's wrong here
Error Reporting groups and analyzes errors from logs, not custom metrics.
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Cloud Monitoring
Why this is correct
Monitoring can collect custom metrics via the Monitoring API and set up alerting policies.
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Cloud Profiler
Why it's wrong here
Profiler provides CPU and heap profiling, not monitoring and alerting.
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Cloud Trace
Why it's wrong here
Trace provides latency traces, not metrics or logs.
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Cloud Logging
Why this is correct
Logging can ingest logs and create log-based metrics that appear in Monitoring.
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Key term
Profiler
A profiler is a tool that monitors and analyzes the performance, resource usage, and behavior of software applications or systems to identify bottlenecks and optimize efficiency.
Key term
Error Reporting
Error Reporting is the automated process of capturing, logging, and notifying relevant systems or personnel about errors that occur in software, hardware, or network components to facilitate diagnosis and resolution.
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