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StackDriver multiple choice Questions in GCP

1.Which of these is NOT a Stack-driver product?
A. Performance
B. Error Reporting
C. Trace
D. Debug

Ans: A
Explanation :-

 https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/docs/

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2.What platforms can Stack driver natively monitor? Choose all that apply.
A. GCP
B. AWS
C. Azure
D. Openstack

Ans : A and B

Explanation :-
https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/docs/

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3.What IAM roles are necessary to view Admin Activity logs? Choose all that apply.
A. Logging/Private Logs Viewer
B. Project Owner
C. Project Viewer
D. Logging/Logs Viewer

Ans:- A and D

Expl:- https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/roles-audit-logging


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4.Logs can be exported to which services? Choose that apply.
A. Pub/Sub
B. Cloud Storage
C. BigQuery
D. Cloud SQL
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Ans:- A B and C
https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/export/


5.What is the retention period for audit data access activity logs?
A. 7
B. 400
C. 30
D. 100

Ans : C

Explanation : https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/


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6.Admin activity logs are retained for ___ days.
A. 7
B. 30
C. 100
D. 400

Ans : D

Explanation:- https://cloud.google.com/logging/docs/audit/

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7.If external auditors need to be able to access your admin activity logs once a year for compliance, what is the best method of preserving and sharing that log data?

A. Export logs to Cloud Storage bucket, and email a list of the logs once per year.
B. Create GCP accounts for the auditors and grant the Project Viewer role to view logs in Stackdriver Logging
C. Export logs to a Cloud Storage bucket for long-term retention and grant auditor accounts the Storage Object Viewer role to the bucket.
D. Share long-term account with them so they can access the records.

Ans :- C

what is Storage Object Viewer & Project viewer Role.
Ans:
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/iam-roles


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8.What Compute service is most tightly integrated with Stackdriver Trace, Debugger, and Error Reporting?
A. App Engine Standard
B. Compute Engine
C. App Engine Flexible
D. Kubernetes Engine



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9.How many days do you have to recover logs past their retention period?
A. None, deleted logs past retention date are not recoverable
B. 5
C. 7
D. 30

Ans A
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10.What is the preferred method of custom organization of resources in Stackdriver Monitoring?
A. Units
B. Groups
C. Instances
D. Events

Ans B
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11.GCP Stackdriver can use for GCP as well as AWS services

1. True
2. False

Ans 1
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12.Stackdriver Monitoring can be used for alerting - what steps involved in alerting? Choose all that apply.
1. Monitoring Conditions
2. Notifications
3. report incident
4. Aggregation



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13. What is difference between custom matrices & built-in metrics




14.Stackdriver Monitoring can be used for custom metrices
1. True
2. False


Ans 1.
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16.Stackdriver basic tier can have following options

 1.GCP services
 2.GCP and AWS Services
 3.Audit logs 30 days
 4. other logs 7 days

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17. Please refer to Dress4win Case Study to answer the following question.The company has custom Monitoring/ Logging services, Infrastructure, and incident management mechanism. IT Operations has concerns if this will be satisfied when in Google Cloud Platform. What services can they use on Google Cloud Platform?

 1.use AWS Services for Monitoring and logging
 2. Stackdriver logging can be used with third party tools for alerting
 3.Install existing tools for monitoring and logging
 4. stackdriver logging and monitoring can be used for all GCP services
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18. You can do following things using Stackdriver Logging except (one answer)

1.Custom Monitoring Metrices
2. Log search
3. log alerts
4. Custom logs
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19.You can monitor HTTP load balancer using StackDriver Monitoring

1. True
2. False
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Ans:- 1.

20.Default period for log retention for Stackdriver logging is (select one)

1. 30 days
2. 1 year
3. 7 days
4. 90 days


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21. Please refer to JencoMart Case Study to answer the following question.JencoMart wants to monitor infrastructure using Stackdriver Monitoring but some of their services are stored on Amazon AWS has Cloudwatch. What is the best suitable solution to monitor using a single solution? (select one)

1. use custom Solution and there is no solution in from GCP or AWS can do both platfrom monitoring
2.Stackdriver Monitoring and logging supports AWS and GCP
3.AWS cloudwatch can monitor resources on AWS, GCP and Azure
4. Cloud Bigquery to integrate with AWS Cloud watch and StackDriver
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22.Which is not the policy used by autoscaler for scaling? (select one)

1. CPU Utlization
2. Load Balancing Services capacity
3. StackDriver Monitoring Metrices
4. Memory Utilization
5. Cloud Pub/Sub

Ans: 4

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23.True or False: You can not integrate with Stackdriver monitoring with Cloud SQL
1. True
2. False

Ans:- 1
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24. Which of the following application can be used to stream logging for Stackdriver Logging

1. Cloud SQL
2. Cloud pub/sub
3. Cloud Storage
4. Cloud BigQuery

Ans : 2

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25.Which of the following services can not be used as sinks out of the box for Stackdriver Logging

1.Cloud SQL
2.Cloud pub/sub
3.Cloud Storage
4.Cloud Bigquery

Ans: except 4


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26.Which of the following service use can be use for Stackdriver Monitoring, Logging, Error reporting, Trace& debug
1. Cloud container Engine
2. Cloud App Engine
3. Cloud Function
4.Cloud Virtual Machine
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27.True:False Stackdriver trace is free service but only used for app engine out of default
1. True
2.False

2 false


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28.True:False Stackdriver Debugger can be used for Cloud Storage

1. True
2. False

Ans:-  false

exp:https://cloud.google.com/debugger/docs/setup/
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29. Which of the following application can provide information on "Why App engine application taking so long to handle request"

1. SD Logging
2. SD Monitoring
3. SD trace
4. SD Error Reporting
5. SD Debugger

Ans: 3

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30. Stackdriver Trace can be used with following applications

1. App Engine
2. HTTPS Load Balancer
3. Cloud CDN
4. Cloud VPN
5. Application use SD SDK

Ans:- 1,2&3
https://cloud.google.com/trace/docs/overview