01. What describes the maximum amount of time a system can fail or underperform without contractual consequence for any given month?
a) Error Budget
b) SLI
c) SLO
d) KPI
02. Which strategy to update a Kubernetes application requires double the compute resources to have two versions of an application running at once?
a) Dark launch
b) Rolling deployment
c) Continuous delivery
d) Instantaneous switch
03. In a Red Hat Openshift on IBM Cloud cluster, what will happen to the block storage attached as persistent volumes where pods write data when there is a network failure?
a) IBM Cloud infrastructure protects the data stored on the volume backed up as snapshots
b) IBM Cloud infrastructure deletes the data stored on the volume
c) IBM Cloud infrastructure protects the data on the volume from getting corrupted by changing the volume to a read-only mode
d) IBM Cloud infrastructure protects the data by encrypting the volume
04. What are two ways SREs use Production Readiness Reviews as a check against microservice interdependecy sprawl?
a) To govern at scale across the organization
b) To avoid ambiguity in manual interpretations
c) As a gate to cap the operational load
d) To exert authority over development
e) Only in the production environment
05. What regulation aims for strict control of personal data, while imposing strict rules on those hosting and processing this data, anywhere in the world?
a) HIPAA
b) PCI
c) ITAR
d) GDPR
06. In the Systems Test phase of development, engineers will often execute a "long run". Which two represent a "long run"?
a) It is a highly complex series of test suites and scenarios
b) It represents edge cases and unusual usages of the product
c) The test runs continuously
d) The test includes sudden stops and starts to represent usage over weekends
e) The test is run by the most senior engineers (the ones with the longest period of time with the product)
07. Where should a team start when trying to reduce error prone manual steps arising from the technical debt?
a) Automation
b) Monthly Billing Report
c) Technical Design Documents
d) Error Catalog
08. Which two features can be used in classic clusters provided by the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service?
a) Custom network policies for worker nodes using the built-in Calico interface
b) Custom network policies for worker nodes using IBM Cloud firewall offerings
c) Custom network policies for worker nodes using VPC subnets and ACLs
d) Limit access to worker nodes private network with Ingress ALB support
e) Create security group and apply it to the VPC worker nodes
09. An SRE has received a complaint that storage performance is slow. What source of data can help them understand the problem?
a) Average latency charts
b) Histogram with percentile thresholds and values
c) Bell distribution charts
d) Spider graphs
10. The host network requirements for IBM Cloud Satellite includes which of the following?
a) Host IP addresses must remain static and cannot change over time
b) Host IP addresses must be dynamically assigned
c) Hosts must have outbound public Internet connectivity
d) Hosts must have an IPv6 address that can access containers.cloud.ibm.com