Cloud DevOps Engineer Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

Your organization is setting up a new Google Cloud environment and needs to establish a hierarchy that supports multiple development teams with separate projects while maintaining centralized billing and policy management. Which organizational structure should you implement?

You are implementing a CI/CD pipeline using Cloud Build for a microservices application deployed to GKE. The pipeline must build Docker images, run unit tests, push images to Artifact Registry, and deploy to GKE only if all tests pass. Which Cloud Build configuration approach should you use?

Your application deployed on GKE is experiencing intermittent 5xx errors. You need to implement a monitoring solution that tracks the four golden signals of SRE. Which combination of metrics should you prioritize?

Your team needs to reduce the cost of a Cloud SQL instance that experiences predictable traffic patterns with low usage during nights and weekends. The database must remain available 24/7. What is the most cost-effective approach?

You need to implement a blue-green deployment strategy for a containerized application on GKE. Which approach provides the safest rollback capability?

Your organization requires all GCP projects to have VPC Flow Logs enabled and Cloud Audit Logs retention set to 365 days. How should you enforce this requirement across all existing and future projects?

You are designing a CI/CD pipeline that must deploy to multiple environments (dev, staging, production) with different configurations. Security team requires that production credentials must not be accessible to developers. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Your application has an SLO of 99.9% availability. Over the last 30 days, you've achieved 99.95% availability. What should be your next action according to SRE principles?

You need to implement automatic rollback for a GKE deployment when error rates exceed 5% during a rollout. Which solution should you implement?

Your team manages 50+ microservices with frequent deployments. You need to reduce toil related to manual deployment approvals while maintaining security. What strategy should you implement?

You are analyzing costs for a GKE cluster and notice that many pods are requesting more CPU and memory than they actually use. What approach should you take to optimize resource allocation?

Your organization needs to manage Terraform infrastructure-as-code for multiple teams. Each team should be able to manage their own infrastructure while preventing them from modifying shared resources. How should you structure your Terraform deployment?

Your application is experiencing high latency during peak traffic periods. Cloud Trace shows that database queries are the bottleneck. What is the most effective immediate action to improve performance?

You need to implement a strategy for managing configuration changes across multiple environments that allows for environment-specific values while maintaining a single source of truth. Which approach follows best practices?

Your SRE team needs to define SLIs for a customer-facing API. The business requirement is that 99% of requests should complete in under 500ms. How should you implement this as an SLI?

Your company is experiencing frequent production incidents due to misconfigurations deployed through CI/CD pipelines. What combination of practices would most effectively reduce these incidents?

You need to optimize costs for a batch processing workload that runs on GCE VMs for 2-4 hours daily with flexible timing. The workload can tolerate interruptions. What is the most cost-effective compute option?

Your team needs to implement a post-incident review process that follows SRE best practices. Which approach should you take?

You are implementing a multi-region deployment for a critical application on GKE. The application must remain available even if an entire region fails. Which architecture should you implement?

Your organization needs to implement a secrets management strategy for application credentials used in GKE workloads. Which approach follows security best practices?