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    PracticeGCP Professional Cloud ArchitectGCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Exam 2Question 32
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    Domain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business ProcessesSREOperationsSLO

    GCP PCA · Question 32 · Domain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes

    Your SRE team has defined a Service Level Objective (SLO) of 99.9% availability for a service. Over the last 30 days, the service has experienced 45 minutes of downtime. The error budget is depleted. According to SRE best practices, what should the team do?

    Answer options:

    A.

    Ignore the error budget and continue deploying features.

    B.

    Halt new feature deployments and focus exclusively on reliability engineering.

    C.

    Lower the SLO to 99.0% so deployments can continue.

    D.

    Fire the development team.

    How to approach this question

    Apply Google SRE principles regarding error budgets.

    Full Answer

    B.Halt new feature deployments and focus exclusively on reliability engineering.✓ Correct
    In Google SRE methodology, an exhausted error budget triggers a freeze on new feature releases, redirecting all engineering effort toward improving system reliability.

    Common mistakes

    Changing the SLO to hide the failure.
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