PCDOE Implementing service monitoring strategies Practice Question
A team is designing a dashboard for their production environment using Cloud Monitoring. Which three types of information should be included on the dashboard to support incident response? (Choose three.)
⚠ Common exam trap
Google Cloud often tests the distinction between operational monitoring data (metrics, alerts, SLIs) and non-operational data (user feedback, audit logs), expecting candidates to recognize that dashboards for incident response must contain only real-time, actionable, and metric-based information.
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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Resource utilization trends
Resource utilization trends (A) are essential for incident response because they provide historical context, enabling responders to identify anomalies, correlate changes with incidents, and predict capacity issues. Cloud Monitoring's Metrics Explorer and dashboards allow you to plot trends over time, which is critical for root cause analysis during an active incident.
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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Resource utilization trends
Why this is correct
Trends help identify capacity-related issues during incidents.
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Recent alerting history
Why this is correct
Alert history provides context on recent issues.
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Real-time user feedback
Why it's wrong here
User feedback is not a real-time metric, and not typically on a dashboard.
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Security audit logs
Why it's wrong here
Security logs are not directly relevant for service performance incidents.
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Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
Why this is correct
SLIs show current health against SLOs.
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