ToolBox Talk - Week 1

What tool is commonly used for container orchestration in SRE practices?

• • A) Kubernetes

• • B) Docker Swarm

• • C) Apache Mesos

• D) Amazon ECS

Which monitoring tool is known for its time-series database and powerful query language?

• • A) Prometheus

• • B) Grafana

• • C) Nagios

• D) Zabbix

What is the primary purpose of a "runbook" in incident response?

• • A) To document service dependencies

• • B) To automate incident resolution

• • C) To provide step-by-step instructions for handling incidents

• D) To conduct post-incident analysis

What is the key metric used for defining Service Level Indicators (SLIs)?

• • A) Availability

• • B) Latency

• • C) Throughput

• D) Error Rate

Which tool is commonly used for chaos engineering experiments to test system resilience?

• • A) Gremlin

• • B) Chaos Monkey

• • C) Spinnaker

• D) Falco

What is the origin of the term "Error Budget" in SRE methodology?

• • A) Coined by Google to quantify acceptable downtime for services

• • B) Derived from financial budgeting practices

• • C) Inspired by military terminology for mission success rates

• • D) Introduced by AWS to allocate resources dynamically

Which cloud provider offers the "AWS Well-Architected Framework" to help customers build secure, high-performing, and resilient infrastructure?

• • A) Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• • B) Microsoft Azure

• • C) Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• D) IBM Cloud

Which configuration management tool is known for its declarative approach to defining infrastructure?

• • A) Ansible

• • B) Chef

• • C) Terraform

• D) Puppet

What is the term for rotating the responsibility of being on-call among team members?

• • A) Duty roster

• • B) Pager rotation

• • C) Incident schedule

• D) Availability shift

Which algorithm is commonly used in load balancers to distribute incoming requests evenly across backend servers?

• • A) Round Robin

• • B) Least Connections

• • C) IP Hash

• D) Random