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Question 46

You use Spinnaker to deploy your application and have created a canary deployment stage in the pipeline. Your application has an in-memory cache that loads objects at start time. You want to automate the comparison of the canary version against the production version. How should you configure the canary analysis?

A.Compare the canary with the average performance of a sliding window of previous production versions.
B.Compare the canary with a new deployment of the current production version.
C.Compare the canary with a new deployment of the previous production version.
D.Compare the canary with the existing deployment of the current production version.

Question 47

You manage an application that is writing logs to Stackdriver Logging. You need to give some team members the ability to export logs. What should you do?

A.Grant the team members the IAM role of logging.configWriter on Cloud IAM.
B.Configure Access Context Manager to allow only these members to export logs.
C.Create and grant a custom IAM role with the permissions logging.sinks.list and logging.sink.get.
D.Create an Organizational Policy in Cloud IAM to allow only these members to create log exports.

Question 48

You support a web application that runs on App Engine and uses CloudSQL and Cloud Storage for data storage. After a short spike in website traffic, you notice a big increase in latency for all user requests, increase in CPU use, and the number of processes running the application. Initial troubleshooting reveals:
After the initial spike in traffic, load levels returned to normal but users still experience high latency.
Requests for content from the CloudSQL database and images from Cloud Storage show the same high latency.
No changes were made to the website around the time the latency increased.
There is no increase in the number of errors to the users.
You expect another spike in website traffic in the coming days and want to make sure users don't experience latency. What should you do?

A.Enable high availability on the CloudSQL instances.
B.Upgrade the GCS buckets to Multi-Regional.
C.Modify the App Engine configuration to have additional idle instances.
D.Move the application from App Engine to Compute Engine.

Question 49

You are the Operations Lead for an ongoing incident with one of your services. The service usually runs at around 70% capacity. You notice that one node is returning 5xx errors for all requests. There has also been a noticeable increase in support cases from customers. You need to remove the offending node from the load balancer pool so that you can isolate and investigate the node. You want to follow Google-recommended practices to manage the incident and reduce the impact on users. What should you do?

A.1. Communicate your intent to the incident team.
2. Perform a load analysis to determine if the remaining nodes can handle the increase in traffic offloaded from the removed node, and scale appropriately.
3. When any new nodes report healthy, drain traffic from the unhealthy node, and remove the unhealthy node from service.
B.1. Communicate your intent to the incident team.
2. Add a new node to the pool, and wait for the new node to report as healthy.
3. When traffic is being served on the new node, drain traffic from the unhealthy node, and remove the old node from service.
C.1 . Drain traffic from the unhealthy node and remove the node from service.
2. Monitor traffic to ensure that the error is resolved and that the other nodes in the pool are handling the traffic appropriately.
3. Scale the pool as necessary to handle the new load.
4. Communicate your actions to the incident team.
D.1 . Drain traffic from the unhealthy node and remove the old node from service.
2. Add a new node to the pool, wait for the new node to report as healthy, and then serve traffic to the new node.
3. Monitor traffic to ensure that the pool is healthy and is handling traffic appropriately.
4. Communicate your actions to the incident team.

Correct Answer: A

Explanation
The correct answer is A. Communicate your intent to the incident team. Perform a load analysis to determine if the remaining nodes can handle the increase in traffic offloaded from the removed node, and scale appropriately. When any new nodes report healthy, drain traffic from the unhealthy node, and remove the unhealthy node from service.
This answer follows the Google-recommended practices for incident management, as described in the Chapter
9 - Incident Response, Google SRE Book1. According to this source, some of the best practices are:
Maintain a clear line of command. Designate clearly defined roles. Keep a working record of debugging and mitigation as you go. Declare incidents early and often.
Communicate your intent before taking any action that might affect the service or the incident response.
This helps to avoid confusion, duplication of work, or unintended consequences.
Perform a load analysis before removing a node from the load balancer pool, as this might affect the capacity and performance of the service. Scale the pool as necessary to handle the expected load.
Drain traffic from the unhealthy node before removing it from service, as this helps to avoid dropping requests or causing errors for users.
Answer A follows these best practices by communicating the intent to the incident team, performing a load analysis and scaling the pool, and draining traffic from the unhealthy node before removing it.
Answer B does not follow the best practice of performing a load analysis before adding or removing nodes, as this might cause overloading or underutilization of resources.
Answer C does not follow the best practice of communicating the intent before taking any action, as this might cause confusion or conflict with other responders.
Answer D does not follow the best practice of draining traffic from the unhealthy node before removing it, as this might cause errors for users.
References:
1: Chapter 9 - Incident Response, Google SRE Book

Question 50

You recently noticed that one Of your services has exceeded the error budget for the current rolling window period. Your company's product team is about to launch a new feature. You want to follow Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices.
What should you do?

A.Notify the team that their error budget is used up. Negotiate with the team for a launch freeze or tolerate a slightly worse user experience.
B.Look through other metrics related to the product and find SLOs with remaining error budget.
Reallocate the error budgets and allow the feature launch.
C.Escalate the situation and request additional error budget.
D.Notify the team about the lack of error budget and ensure that all their tests are successful so the launch will not further risk the error budget.

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