SRE Monitoring & Incident Response

Question 1

What is the primary goal of monitoring in Site Reliability Engineering?

Accepted Answer

To proactively identify and respond to system issues

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To log user activity.

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To alert developers about new features.

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To slow down system performance.

Question 2

Which metric is most useful for identifying service unavailability?

Accepted Answer

Error rate

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Memory allocation.

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Network latency.

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CPU temperature.

Question 3

What is the purpose of an incident response playbook?

Accepted Answer

To define and document standard response steps

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To assign blame after failure.

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To automate all tasks.

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To increase incident frequency.

Question 4

What tool is commonly used to visualize and analyze monitoring data?

Accepted Answer

Grafana

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Docker

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Jenkins

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Slack

Question 5

Which of the following best describes alert fatigue?

Accepted Answer

When alerts are ignored due to overexposure

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When alerts are fun to resolve.

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When alerts cause system crashes.

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When alerts are too short.

Question 6

What is a Service Level Objective (SLO)?

Accepted Answer

A measurable target for system reliability

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A list of employee responsibilities.

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A marketing campaign goal.

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A security patch note.

Question 7

Why is post-incident review important?

Accepted Answer

To analyze the root cause and prevent recurrence

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To punish the responsible person.

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To find bugs in unrelated systems.

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To ensure compliance with HR rules.

Question 8

What is the purpose of black-box monitoring?

Accepted Answer

To verify end-user experience

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To monitor source code changes.

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To log developer activity.

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To enforce login restrictions.

Question 9

What is a typical action during incident triage?

Accepted Answer

Classify and prioritize incidents based on impact

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Ignore low-priority issues.

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Restart all servers immediately.

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Alert marketing teams.