Peoplecert PeopleCert DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

QUESTION NO: 1
Identify the missing word(s) in the following sentence:
Site reliability engineering is a _________ approach to IT operations.

A. software engineering B. simulation engineering C. structural engineering D. security engineering

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 2
When applied to service levels, the principle of decreasing marginal productivity can be represented in three stages. Which of the following is NOT one of these stages?

A. Possible returns B. Diminishing returns C. Increasing returns D. Negative returns

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 3
Which of the following is BEST described as the role responsible to maintain the live incident state document?

A. The communications lead B. The logistics specialist C. The planning specialist D. The incident commander

Correct Answer: C

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QUESTION NO: 4
Which of the following BEST describes the capabilities and scope of DevOps continuous monitoring?

A. The use of multiple monitoring tools and an event management process for all applications B. The application of widespread system event monitoring by automating the end-user transactions C. The deployment of a set of integrated monitoring tools and event thresholds for infrastructure D. The combination of tools and the process for rapid incident detection and response of cloud services

Correct Answer: D

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QUESTION NO: 5
What does the term "wisdom of production" mean?

A. The wisdom gained from something running in production B. Taking an engineering-based approach to problems rather than just toiling at them repeatedly C. Monitoring and alert notifications from staging environments D. If a task can be automated then it should be automated

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 6
In a safety culture, engineers are allowed to do more with the production environment without fear of repercussions.
What else do engineers need to do?

A. Be accountable for their actions B. Share production incidents on social media C. Skip all blameless post-mortems D. Avoid being on-call

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 7
Which of the following is NOT a SRE principle?

A. Toil is not important work B. Reduce the cost of failure C. Operations is a software problem D. Automate what is currently done manually

Correct Answer: A

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QUESTION NO: 8
When outages are repetitive and similar, they become a form of toil.
Which of the following describes the MOST compelling reason to adopt advanced technologies and artificial intelligence (AI)?

A. To increase reliability by reducing MTTR and MTRS B. To increase the mean time to restore services (MTRS) C. To increase the mean time to repair services (MTTR) D. To increase reliability and achieve perfect MTRS

Correct Answer: A

QUESTION NO: 9
Which TWO of the following are BEST described as traditional escalation paths?
* Functional
* Hierarchical
* Cyclical
* Logical

A. 2 and 3 B. 1 and 2 C. 3 and 4 D. 1 and 4

Correct Answer: B

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