Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer — Question 66

You are writing a postmortem for an incident that severely affected users. You want to prevent similar incidents in the future. Which two of the following sections should you include in the postmortem? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. An explanation of the root cause of the incident.
• B. A list of employees responsible for causing the incident
• C. A list of action items to prevent a recurrence of the incident
• D. Your opinion of the incident's severity compared to past incidents
• E. Copies of the design documents for all the services impacted by the incident

Correct answer: A, C

Explanation

Including an explanation of the root cause (A) is essential for understanding what went wrong, while a list of action items (C) is crucial for outlining steps to prevent future incidents. The other options focus on blame, subjective opinions, or irrelevant documentation that do not contribute to learning from the incident.