EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: When considering resource utilization for monitoring, what does "capacity planning" involve?

Question2: What is the purpose of load balancing in a high availability setup?

Question3: How can resource utilization requirements be applied to monitoring strategies? (Select all that apply)

Question4: What are the benefits of monitoring and observability? (Select all that apply)

Question5: What are the guidelines for an ORR (Operational Readiness Review)?

Question6: What are user-related security policies designed to do?

Question7: Which of the following is a recommended practice for securing applications on IBM Cloud?

Question8: In the context of monitoring and observability, what are "SLOs"?

Question9: Which performance metrics monitoring tools are commonly used? (Select all that apply)

Question10: Which latency percentile describes the general performance degradation of an application on IBM Cloud?

Question11: Which of the following are benefits of reliability and resiliency in system design? (Select all that apply)

Question12: What is the key advantage of canary deployment compared to other zero downtime deployment models?

Question13: How can troubleshooting be approached for IBM Cloud Internet Services?

Question14: Which type of monitoring focuses on measuring the response time of a service or application?

Question15: What does data recovery and restoration planning involve on IBM Cloud?

Question16: What are the benefits of implementing resiliency techniques in a system?

Question17: How do service management processes relate to each other?

Question18: Which of the following are considered monitoring tools and metrics? (Select all that apply)

Question19: Which of these describes proactive application monitoring?

Question20: What is the main purpose of a Runbook in SRE?

Question21: How does IBM handle security incident response management?

Question22: What are troubleshooting techniques for IBM Cloud VSIs and IBM Cloud VMware? (Select all that apply)

Question23: Which of the following is a characteristic of IBM Cloud Code Engine?

Question24: Which of the following describes an IBM Cloud Code Engine Build?

Question25: What is the primary objective of disaster recovery planning?

Question26: When looking at IBM Cloud Monitoring as a solution, which is a measure of the number of handled requests?

Question27: A Site Reliability Engineer has been asked to help enhance the security measures of their organization's IBM Cloud infrastructure. They have been tasked with implementing a system that will help to proactively monitor, track, and react to violations.
The system should create an audit history for compliance purposes, and provide reports and APIs for external consumption and integration.
What is this scenario describing?

Question28: What are the five tenets of Service Management and Operation as it relates to microservice architecture? (Select all that apply)

Question29: What is the purpose of Continuous Integration (CI)?

Question30: What techniques can be used for root cause analysis? (Select all that apply)

Question31: What is one of the primary benefits of effective troubleshooting in SRE?

Question32: The four golden signals used for monitoring and observability are:

Question33: In the IBM Cloud Code Engine logs, a Site Reliability Engineer sees logs for some applications but not the one they are looking for. The application does follow Site Reliability Engineering best practices.
What might cause this?

Question34: What are data storage replication concepts used for in high availability and disaster recovery?

Question35: Which zero downtime deployment model involves running multiple versions of the application and gradually shifting traffic to the new version?

Question36: What does SIEM do with security event data collected from various sources?

Question37: Which of the following is an essential aspect of observability in a system?

Question38: Which of the following are part of the four golden signals for monitoring? (Select all that apply)

Question39: Which infrastructure is commonly used to ensure high availability of applications?

Question40: Which of the following is a key tenet of Incident Management?

Question41: How can information be found for troubleshooting? (Select all that apply)

Question42: Which technique for Root Cause Analysis involves asking "why" repeatedly to delve deeper into the underlying causes of an incident?

Question43: What are various troubleshooting techniques used by SREs? (Select all that apply)

Question44: Which of the following is a basic skill of effective troubleshooting?

Question45: How does IBM Cloud Code Engine work?

Question46: Which of the following is a performance metrics monitoring tool commonly used in SRE?

Question47: What are some benefits of automated application monitoring?

Question48: Which troubleshooting technique involves isolating the problematic component by dividing the system in half and checking each part?

Question49: What is the primary difference between blue-green deployment and rolling deployment?

Question50: Which technique for Root Cause Analysis involves asking "why" repeatedly to delve deeper into the underlying causes of an incident?

Question51: Which incident management team role manages the investigation, communication, and resolution of major incidents?

Question52: What is the purpose of an ORR in the context of application deployments?

Question53: When is it appropriate to use alerts in monitoring systems?

Question54: Which types of monitoring are commonly used to observe a system? (Select all that apply)

Question55: What is IBM Cloud Code Engine?

Question56: Which metric is commonly used to measure the availability of a service?

Question57: Which process describes people using an instant-messaging communication platform to collaborate among subject matter experts?

Question58: What are some troubleshooting techniques for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers (VSIs)?

Question59: For an IBM Cloud Site Reliability Engineer, what is a direct benefit of blameless postmortem?