Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Exam - Topic 3 Question 101 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer exam

Question #: 101
Topic #: 3

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[Building and implementing service monitoring strategies]

You need to create a Cloud Monitoring SLO for a service that will be published soon. You want to verify that requests to the service will be addressed in fewer than 300 ms at least 90% Of the time per calendar month. You need to identify the metric and evaluation method to use. What should you do?

BSelect a latency metric for a window-based method of evaluation.

ASelect a latency metric for a request-based method of evaluation.

CSelect an availability metric for a request-based method of evaluation.

DSelect an availability metric for a window-based method Of evaluation.

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by Cordell at Jan 23, 2026, 11:20 PM

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Gaston

5 days ago

I remember practicing a similar question where we had to set an SLO for response times. I think we should use a percentage-based evaluation method.

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Lizette

10 days ago

I think the metric we need is latency, but I'm not entirely sure how to set the evaluation method for the SLO.

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Moon

15 days ago

Hmm, I'm not 100% sure how to approach this. I know I need to set up an SLO, but I'm not familiar with the specific process. I think I'll need to do some research on cloud monitoring SLOs and best practices for defining service-level objectives.

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Tandra

20 days ago

This seems straightforward enough. I'd start by looking at the built-in metrics available in the cloud monitoring service and see if there's one that tracks response time. Then I'd configure an SLO to monitor that metric and set the 90% under 300ms target.

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Jennifer

25 days ago

Wait, I'm a little confused. Do I need to create a custom metric, or is there a standard one I can use? And how exactly do I set up the SLO to measure the 90% target per month? I'll need to review the monitoring docs carefully.

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Joye

1 month ago

Okay, I think I get the gist of this. I'd need to figure out how to measure the service's response time and set up the SLO to monitor that. The tricky part might be determining the right evaluation method to use.

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Alesia

1 month ago

Hmm, this seems pretty straightforward. I'd start by identifying the appropriate metric to track the service's response time, like a latency metric. Then I'd set the SLO target to 90% of requests under 300ms per month.

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