Free Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation v1.2 Practice Questions

A.  

The highly automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring

B.  

The monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications

C.  

The use of a hardware or software component to monitor system resources and performance of a computer system

D.  

Ways for engineers to communicate quantitative data about systems

A.  

It must be captured in a Service Level Agreement (SLA)

B.  

It should focus on server-side metrics

C.  

It must have a time horizon

D.  

It must be agreed to by the SRE team and the Agile Team

A.  

Host layer

B.  

Physical layer

C.  

Perimeter layer

D.  

Data layer

A.  

The logistics specialist

B.  

The communications lead

C.  

The planning specialist

D.  

The incident commander

A.  

Continuous delivery pipelines will go further and extend into production

B.  

Continuous delivery pipelines become redundant

C.  

DevOps engineers will be forced to become SREs

D.  

Infrastructure as Code will force organizations to move to the cloud

A.  

Mean time to detect and mean time between system incidents

B.  

Change lead time and change failure rate

C.  

Empirical test data and mean time to recover service

D.  

Mean time to detect and mean time to recover

A.  

SRE is an implementation of DevOps but focuses mostly on post-production responsibilities

B.  

DevOps is mostly for software engineers and SRE is mostly for infrastructure engineers

C.  

DevOps encourages closer collaboration between development and operations whereas SRE is about building a silo around production operations

D.  

DevOps and SRE are the same thing

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 the 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

A.  

The flow of technology in order to deploy faster and more frequently

B.  

The flow of information and how it affects organizational culture

C.  

The flow of critical resources necessary to recover in the event of a major incident

D.  

The flow of communication and how it affects organizational design

A.  

Operations is a software problem

B.  

Automate what is currently done manually

C.  

Toil is not important work

D.  

Reduce the cost of failure