System Monitoring and Maintenance Questions

Covers foundational practices for keeping production systems healthy and reliable. Includes proactive and reactive support strategies, system and infrastructure monitoring tools, log management and event analysis, backup and disaster recovery planning, patch and release management, capacity planning, scheduled preventative maintenance, and incident response workflows. Candidates should understand what operational metrics and log signals indicate system health, how to configure alerts and dashboards, how to perform root cause analysis from logs and traces, and how to prioritize and apply updates and fixes to minimize downtime and business impact.