Google PCA Practice Question: Managing and Provisioning a Solution Infrastructure
Which GCP service provides distributed tracing to help analyze latency in microservices applications?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Cloud Trace
Cloud Trace collects latency data from applications and provides near-real-time traces. Cloud Profiler provides continuous profiling. Cloud Monitoring provides metrics and dashboards. Cloud Logging provides log management.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Cloud Profiler
Why it's wrong here
Profiler provides CPU and memory profiling, not tracing.
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Cloud Trace
Why this is correct
Trace is a distributed tracing system that captures latency data.
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Cloud Logging
Why it's wrong here
Logging is for logs, not traces.
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Cloud Monitoring
Why it's wrong here
Monitoring provides metrics and alerting, not distributed tracing.
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Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
Key term
Latency
Latency is the time delay between a request being sent over a network and the response being received, often measured in milliseconds.
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.
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