GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question
Your company is launching a point-of-sale platform on Google Cloud that will process thousands of transactions per minute across four continents. Corporate policy demands 99.999% overall service availability and states that any production outage affecting payments must be mitigated within 15 minutes. Although the SRE team is distributed across time zones, no formal on-call schedule or vendor-escalation procedure exists. Which approach best supports the operational-excellence goal of establishing clear cloud support and escalation processes for this workload?
Purchase Enhanced Support but depend solely on Cloud Monitoring to open tickets automatically; internal escalation will be handled during local business hours to reduce after-hours staffing costs.
Use ad-hoc Slack channels to page whichever engineer is online, and file a Standard Support ticket with Google only if the team cannot restore service within one hour.
Rely on Basic Support while maintaining a best-effort on-call system; escalate to senior management by email if an issue persists longer than four hours.
Publish runbooks that map incident severities to a follow-the-sun on-call schedule integrated with ServiceNow; define a RACI matrix for internal teams; and enroll the workload in Google Cloud Premium Support so P1 incidents auto-escalate to Google within 15 minutes.
Operational excellence requires documented, automated, and unambiguous escalation paths. A runbook that includes an incident-severity matrix and assigns each severity to a 24×7 on-call rotation ensures the right engineer is paged immediately. Integrating that rotation with ServiceNow guarantees reliable paging and hand-offs. Registering the workload for Google Cloud Premium Support provides a 15-minute response from Google for P1 issues, matching the 15-minute mitigation target. RACI charts additionally clarify roles across development, SRE, and business stakeholders. Relying on informal Slack pings, business-hours coverage, or lower-tier support would leave unacceptable gaps for a globally critical payment platform.
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