SRE Foundation

Which of the following is the BEST definition of SRE?

• What happens when a software engineer is tasked with doing operations

• A discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems

• A role that handles post-production operational work such as managing SLOs and Error Budgets

• A discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to post-production management of services

Which of the following is NOT a pillar of DevOps according to Google?

• Reduce organizational silos

• Accept failure as normal

• Accept failure as normal

• Accept failure as normal

What are services “managed to” in SRE?

• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

• Service Level Indicators

• Error Budgets

• Service Level Agreements

Cost of failure can be reduced by?

• Improving Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)

• Making smaller changes

• Canary deployments

• All of the Above

Which of the following is the most widely tracked Service Level Objectives (SLOs)?

• Change failure rate

• Security

• Availability

• Capacity

According to the Catchpoint survey, what is the definition of "latency"?

• Delays associated with downtime

• The total time it takes from when a user makes a request until they receive a response

• The difference between the Service Level Objective and the Error Budget

• The delay incurred in communicating a message

A team has a monthly Service Level Objective for availability of 99.9%. How much time is allocated for their Error Budget?

• 45 minutes

• 43 minutes

• 25 minutes

• 32 minutes

What does the "T" represent in the SLO VALET model?

• Traffic

• Tickets

• Testing

• Time to Repair

A travel website used by millions of customers experience a one-hour outage which exceeds the agreed Error Budget. What could be one possible impact on the business?

• Failure of related applications

• Employee distractions

• Missed Service Level Indicators

• Social media backlash

The Error Budget should be burned to zero every month?

• TRUE

• FALSE