Easy Site Reliability Engineer questions

34 questions · 5 points each for a correct first answer.

1. 1.What is an SLO?slos, reliability-basicseasy
2. 2.Error budget for 99.9%error-budgets, sloseasy
3. 3.The four golden signalsmonitoring, observabilityeasy
4. 4.Spotting toiltoil, automationeasy
5. 5.Why blameless postmortems?postmortems, incident-responseeasy
6. 6.How Prometheus collects metricsprometheus, monitoringeasy
7. 7.Linux load averagelinux-performanceeasy
8. 8.Readiness vs liveness probeskubernetes, health-checkseasy
9. 9.Downtime allowed by 99.99%slos, error-budgetseasy
10. 10.Writing an SLI as a ratioslis, sloseasy
11. 11.What MTTR measuresincident-response, reliability-metricseasy
12. 12.The USE methodlinux-performance, monitoringeasy
13. 13.The RED methodmonitoring, observabilityeasy
14. 14.Counter or gauge?prometheus, metricseasy
15. 15.Why structured logs?logging, observabilityeasy
16. 16.Spans in a tracetracing, opentelemetryeasy
17. 17.DNS TTL before a migrationdns, networkingeasy
18. 18.A 503 from the load balancerhttp, load-balancingeasy
19. 19.Reading logs of a systemd servicelinux, systemdeasy
20. 20.Who is using port 8080?linux, networkingeasy
21. 21.A process vanished overnightlinux, memoryeasy
22. 22.CrashLoopBackOffkubernetes, troubleshootingeasy
23. 23.Logs from the crashed containerkubernetes, troubleshootingeasy
24. 24.What terraform plan doesterraform, infrastructure-as-codeeasy
25. 25.A useful runbookon-call, runbookseasy
26. 26.Grouping in Alertmanageralertmanager, alertingeasy
27. 27.Escalation policieson-call, pagerdutyeasy
28. 28.Grafana template variablesgrafana, dashboardseasy
29. 29.What is a canary release?deployments, release-engineeringeasy
30. 30.Idempotent requestsretries, api-designeasy
31. 31.Mitigate firstincident-responseeasy
32. 32.How Loki indexes logsloki, loggingeasy
33. 33.Virtual users in k6k6, load-testingeasy
34. 34.Safer Bash scriptsbash, automationeasy