DEVOPS-SRE Online Practice Questions and Answers

Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence.

Site reliability engineering is a_________approach to IT operations.

A. ....structural engineering....

B. ....security engineering....

C. ....software engineering....

D. ....simulation engineering....

The value of data-driven measurements can be MOST accurately explained by which of the following?

A. An analysis and understanding of data helps to ensure fact-based decision-making

B. The garnering of data will provide an the necessary facts to enable better decisions

C. Data mining enables an organization to determine the legitimacy of all metrics

D. Objectives can only be appropriately designed when based upon actual data

Which of the following is the BEST example or an SRE team that embraces full-service ownership?

A. The team is responsible for the cooing and improvement of me application.

B. The team is accountable for the application development and performance.

C. The team is responsible for application performance and reliability aspects.

D. The team is accountable for coding shipping and improving the application

Microservices are independent services that are developed deployed, and maintained separate.

Which of the following BEST justifies the use of this application architecture?

A. Modernizing and refactoring legacy applications

B. Modernizing the user interface of the core system

C. Creating a simple, lightweight business application

D. Building a basic product, fast, as a proof of concept

Whichof the following BEST describes how to contribute to achieving higher levels of availability?

1.

Measuring the critical aspects

2.

Maintaining a close relationship with development teams

3.

Measuring staff performance

4.

Maintaining a close interval between detection and correction

A. 1 and 2

B. 2 and 3

C. 3 and 4

D. 1 and 4

Engineering operational work to scale with a growing application is BEST achieved by addressing which of the following issues?

A. Staffing levels

B. interruptions

C. TOll

D. On-call rotations

Following a major outage, an analysis of the outage is conducted. This BEST describes an example of which of the following?

A. A follow-up culture

B. A major incident culture

C. A postmortem culture

D. A problem culture

When of the following BEST completes the definition of a canary release?

A new set of features 6 released.....

A. using a roiling wave technique

B. first to a small group of users

C. to one small group after another

D. first to a trial test environment

Which of the following BEST illustrates the role of a launch coordination engineer?

A. A server engineer who is focused on roiling out a dynamically scaled application hosting environment

B. A software developer focused on building an efficient application startup and shutdown performance

C. A software engineer who acts as a consultant and liaison between the parties Involved in a launch

D. A site reliability engineer who b focused on stabilizing manual tuning and event monitoring activities

Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement using small incremental changes.

Which of the following BEST describes a kaizen mindset?

A. Enthusiasm for learning and applying problem-solving techniques in order to improve performance

B. A desire to seek out the problem, find their root cause or causes and document me lessons learned

C. A willingness to recognize problems, prioritize them find their solutions and share lessons learned

D. Passionate about improvement by using experimentation to identify the best-possible problem solutions