GCP Professional Cloud Architect Practice Question

Your team is reviewing the architecture of a global retail platform against the Operational Excellence pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Which design decision most directly demonstrates the pillar's core principle of treating operations as code to eliminate manual effort and improve consistency?

Store detailed run-books in the corporate wiki and require on-call engineers to follow them during incidents.
Require that all production changes receive manual sign-off from the SRE lead before they are merged to the main branch.
Include a Terraform module that automatically deploys a Cloud Monitoring uptime check and alerting policy every time the service is released.
Use gcloud commands to create monitoring dashboards immediately after each production deployment.

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Answer Description

Treating operations as code means that operational procedures such as monitoring, remediation, and configuration are expressed and executed through repeatable, version-controlled automation. Creating an Infrastructure as Code module that provisions a Cloud Monitoring uptime check and an alerting policy alongside the service embeds observability and incident response directly into the deployment workflow. Manual playbooks stored in a wiki, change approvals that rely on human checks, or ad-hoc gcloud commands still require people to remember and execute steps, so they do not fully embody the operations-as-code principle.

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