Exam Associate-Cloud-Engineer Topic 2 Question 266 Discussion

Actual exam question for Google's Associate-Cloud-Engineer exam
Question #: 266
Topic #: 2

You have a Compute Engine instance hosting a production application. You want to receive an email if the instance consumes more than 90% of its CPU resources for more than 15 minutes. You want to use Google services. What should you do?

A. 1. Create a consumer Gmail account.
2. Write a script that monitors the CPU usage.
3. When the CPU usage exceeds the threshold, have that script send an email using the Gmail account and smtp.gmail.comon port 25 as SMTP server. B. 1. Create a Stackdriver Workspace, and associate your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project with it.
2. Create an Alerting Policy in Stackdriver that uses the threshold as a trigger condition.
3. Configure your email address in the notification channel. C. 1. Create a Stackdriver Workspace, and associate your GCP project with it.
2. Write a script that monitors the CPU usage and sends it as a custom metric to Stackdriver.
3. Create an uptime check for the instance in Stackdriver. D. 1. In Stackdriver Logging, create a logs-based metric to extract the CPU usage by using this regular expression: CPU Usage: ([0-9] {1,3})%
2. In Stackdriver Monitoring, create an Alerting Policy based on this metric.
3. Configure your email address in the notification channel.

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sonu041

2025-09-24 22:41:52

Selected Answer: B

The answer should be B.
Processing log is much complicated than the native solution.

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