Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer — Question 77

You support a service with a well-defined Service Level Objective (SLO). Over the previous 6 months, your service has consistently met its SLO and customer satisfaction has been consistently high. Most of your service's operations tasks are automated and few repetitive tasks occur frequently. You want to optimize the balance between reliability and deployment velocity while following site reliability engineering best practices. What should you do? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Make the service's SLO more strict.
• B. Increase the service's deployment velocity and/or risk.
• C. Shift engineering time to other services that need more reliability.
• D. Get the product team to prioritize reliability work over new features.
• E. Change the implementation of your Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to increase coverage.

Correct answer: B, C

Explanation

Answer B is correct because increasing deployment velocity can enhance productivity, even if it introduces some risk, which aligns with optimizing the balance you seek. Answer C is also correct as shifting resources to services that need more reliability can improve overall system resilience. The other options either do not align with optimizing the balance or may detract from current service performance and customer satisfaction.