SRE Practitioner v1.2

SRE Practitioner v1.2 practice questions, page 2 of 2, with answer review and explanations.

Question 6

What is the culture that should be established before you set up error budgets?

  1. Making data-driven decisions
  2. Focusing on velocity
  3. Using SLIs as thresholds for user happiness
  4. Learning from failure

Question 7

When a 3rd party downstream system provides an error rate of 1%, and your backend has an error rate of 0.3%, what is the error rate that will be inherited by your middle-tier?

  1. 1.30%
  2. 0.30%
  3. 1%
  4. 1.03%

Question 8

A newly formed learn of SREs has inherited a traditional infrastructure made up of hundreds of servers that must be regularly backed up and patched. Inconsistencies lead to failed changes that often take hours to troubleshoot.Which is the BEST way this team can reduce the time spent maintaining and troubleshooting these servers?

  1. Use configuration management to automate patches
  2. Migrate to an immutable infrastructure
  3. Swarm incidents to reduce resolution time
  4. Automate patching and maintenance activities