Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer — Question 124

You recently noticed that one of your services has exceeded the error budget for the current rolling window period. Your company's product team is about to launch a new feature. You want to follow Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. What should you do?

Answer options

• A. Notify the team about the lack of error budget and ensure that all their tests are successful so the launch will not further risk the error budget
• B. Notify the team that their error budget is used up. Negotiate with the team for a launch freeze or tolerate a slightly worse user experience.
• C. Escalate the situation and request additional error budget.
• D. Look through other metrics related to the product and find SLOs with remaining error budget. Reallocate the error budgets and allow the feature launch.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because it acknowledges the situation of the depleted error budget and proposes a practical negotiation for a launch freeze or an acceptable compromise on user experience. Option A is incorrect as it focuses solely on test success without addressing the budget issue. Option C is not a viable solution since it does not consider the consequences of exceeding the error budget. Option D is also incorrect as reallocating error budgets could lead to further complications without addressing the immediate issue.