Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Exam - Topic 5 Question 103 Discussion

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

Question #: 103
Topic #: 5

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You support a user-facing web application. When analyzing the application's error budget over the previous six months, you notice that the application has never consumed more than 5% of its error budget in any given time window. You hold a Service Level Objective (SLO) review with business stakeholders and confirm that the SLO is set appropriately. You want your application's SLO to more closely reflect its observed reliability. What steps can you take to further that goal while balancing velocity, reliability, and business needs? (Choose two.)

AAdd more serving capacity to all of your application's zones.

BHave more frequent or potentially risky application releases.

CTighten the SLO match the application's observed reliability.

DImplement and measure additional Service Level Indicators (SLIs) fro the application.

EAnnounce planned downtime to consume more error budget, and ensure that users are not depending on a tighter SLO.

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Suggested Answer: D, E

https://sre.google/sre-book/service-level-objectives/

You want the application's SLO to more closely reflect it's observed reliability. The key here is error budget never goes over 5%. This means they can have additional downtime and still stay within their budget.

by Lisbeth at Mar 31, 2026, 01:29 AM

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5 days ago

I feel like we practiced a similar question where adding capacity was suggested, but it seems like that wouldn't really address the SLO issue directly.

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Karma

10 days ago

I think implementing additional SLIs could provide more insight into the app's reliability, but I wonder if it might complicate things too much.

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Elfrieda

15 days ago

I remember we discussed how adjusting the SLO can help align it with actual performance, but I'm not sure if tightening it is the best approach.

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