SRE Quiz - Day 5

Which of the following describes a Full SRE approach to SRE adoption?

• Ownership of SRE is with the service/delivery teams

• There is shared responsibility and shared on-call between SRE and development teams

• Full ownership of operational practices is with the SRE team

• Mixing Operations and Engineering teams

In the Westrum study, what type of organization causes an enquiry into failure?

• Pathological

• Generative

• Bureaucratic

• Learning

An on-call program is essential to ensure Service Level Objectives are met. Who should participate in the on-call program?

• Everyone

• SRE teams and Incident Response teams

• The Service Desk and SRE teams

• Representatives from Operations and Engineering teams

What percentage of time does Google advocate for on-call time for SREs?

• 25%

• 50%

• 30%

• 10%

What is one of the key outputs of a blameless postmortem? ​

• A list of follow up actions to mitigate future similar incidents

• A discussion about the resources that are needed to avoid future similar incidents

• A list of Service Level Objectives and how they were impacted by the incident

• None Of Above

What is the primary responsibility of a Database Reliability Engineer?

• Helping to move organizations from a bureaucratic to generative flow of information

• To ensure data reliability by performing frequent fire drills and data integrity tests

• To apply chaos engineering to the database to confirm failover

• To ensure that data is adequately backed up and recoverable

Legacy applications can also benefit from SRE principles and practices. What Service Level Objectives could be established to focus on legacy processing?

• Number of legacy applications

• Lines of COBOL code

• Mainframe processor speed

• Batch processing time

Which of the following is NOT a key advantage of aligning SRE and Agile practices? ​

• The Definition of Done will be clearer and have a more end to end perspective

• Customers will realize more value from working software

• Backlogs of toil make work visible and can help prioritize automation stories

• SREs will be embedded into Agile or Scrum Teams

What aspect of ITIL/ITSM can particularly support SRE?

• The Change Advisory Board (CAB)

• The Service Value System

• The Service Desk

• Process models

If an organization is struggling with adopting a learning from failure culture, what should they do?

• Do more testing before releasing

• Do more retrospectives

• Investigate the cost of downtime

• Invest in specialized training