GitHub Actions Academy · Enterprise Assessment Center

SRE and Observability Assessment

Assess SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, telemetry, alerting, incident response, capacity and reliability engineering.

Objective: Demonstrate quantitative reliability thinking and the ability to convert incidents into engineering improvements.

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Assessment scope and competencies

01

Explain SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets and toil

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02

Describe metrics, logs, traces, alert quality and service ownership

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03

Connect capacity, saturation, dependencies and graceful degradation

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Scenario and practical challenges

01

Design alerts for a latency-sensitive customer journey

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02

Lead response to a cascading dependency failure

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03

Choose between reliability work and feature delivery using evidence

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Scoring and evidence standards

01

Score signal quality, incident structure and remediation depth

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02

Require timeline, contributing-factor and action evidence

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03

Evaluate whether proposed controls reduce recurrence

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Improvement and readiness plan

01

Create one service-level objective

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02

Build an incident-review template

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03

Repeat using a reliability game-day scenario

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