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Actual exam question from Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Question #: 192
Topic #: 1

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You manage your company’s primary revenue-generating application. You have an error budget policy in place that freezes production deployments when the application is close to breaching its SLO. A number of issues have recently occurred, and the application has exhausted its error budget. You need to deploy a new release to the application that includes a feature urgently required by your largest customer. You have been told that the release has passed all unit tests. What should you do?

A. Delay the deployment of the feature until the error budget is replenished.
B. Re-run the unit tests, and start the deployment of the feature if the tests pass.
C. Start the deployment of the feature immediately.
D. Deploy the feature to a subset of users, and gradually roll out to all users if there are no errors reported.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️

by kitaharazyl at March 25, 2025, 6:16 a.m.

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lyona

1 month ago

Selected Answer: D

D - it's a business critical release. SRE best practices allow for exceptions to deployment freezes with risk mitigation. In this scenario a gradual rollout is the best course of action.

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kitaharazyl

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: A

A. Delay the deployment of the feature until the error budget is replenished.

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