Exam Name: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Exam Code: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Related Certification(s): Google Cloud Certified Certification

Certification Provider: Google

Actual Exam Duration: 120 Minutes

Number of Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Practice Questions: 194 (updated: )

Expected Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Exam Topics, as suggested by Google :
Topic 1: Bootstrapping a Google Cloud organization for DevOps
It discusses the overall resource hierarchy for an organization, infrastructure as code, the CI/CD architecture stack in Google Cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Moreover, the topic focuses on multiple environments, including staging and production.
Topic 2: Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Management and design of CI/CD pipelines, implementation of CI/CD pipelines, management of CI/CD configuration, and secrets are discussed in this section. Moreover, it focuses on storage methods and key rotation services, and finally securing the CI/CD deployment pipeline.
Topic 3: Applying site reliability engineering practices to a service
It deals with the velocity and reliability of the service, service lifecycle, healthy communication, and collaboration for operations. The topic also discusses mitigation of incident impact on users and conducting a postmortem.
Topic 4: Implementing service monitoring strategies
This topic covers structured and unstructured logs from Compute Engine, GKE, and serverless platforms using Cloud Logging. Its subtopics include coverage of metrics with Cloud Monitoring, dashboards and alerts in Cloud Monitoring, the Cloud Logging platform, and logging and monitoring access controls.
Topic 5: Optimizing the service performance
It delves into the identification of service performance issues, implementation of debugging tools in Google Cloud, and optimization of resource utilization and costs.
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Q#1 [Optimizing service performance] Your company runs an ecommerce website built with JVM-based applications and microservice architecture in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) The application load increases during the day and decreases during the night Your operations team has configured the application to run enough Pods to handle the evening peak load You want to automate scaling by only running enough Pods and nodes for the load What should you do?

Q#2 [Building and implementing service monitoring strategies] You need to create a Cloud Monitoring SLO for a service that will be published soon. You want to verify that requests to the service will be addressed in fewer than 300 ms at least 90% Of the time per calendar month. You need to identify the metric and evaluation method to use. What should you do?

Q#3 [Building and implementing service monitoring strategies] A third-party application needs to have a service account key to work properly When you try to export the key from your cloud project you receive an error “The organization policy constraint iam.disableServiceAccountKeyCreation is enforced” You need to make the third-party application work while following Google-recommended security practices What should you do?

Q#4 [Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service] Your company runs applications in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that are deployed following a GitOps methodology. Application developers frequently create cloud resources to support their applications. You want to give developers the ability to manage infrastructure as code, while ensuring that you follow Google-recommended practices. You need to ensure that infrastructure as code reconciles periodically to avoid configuration drift. What should you do?

Q#5 [Building and implementing service monitoring strategies] You have deployed a fleet Of Compute Engine instances in Google Cloud. You need to ensure that monitoring metrics and logs for the instances are visible in Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring by your company’s operations and cyber security teams. You need to grant the required roles for the Compute Engine service account by using Identity and Access Management (IAM) while following the principle of least privilege. What should you do?