Task 2.1: Design a Deployment Strategy to Meet Business Requirements SAP-C02 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6foundation · easy

   What is an automated rollback trigger in a deployment strategy?

   • AA manual process to revert to the previous version
   • BA notification sent to the operations team
   • CA condition that automatically reverts the deployment if certain criteria are not met
   • DA scheduled job that runs every hour
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2. 7foundation · easy

   What is the primary benefit of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation or Terraform?

   • AThey provide a graphical interface for managing infrastructure
   • BThey automatically scale applications based on demand
   • CThey automate the deployment of infrastructure in a repeatable manner
   • DThey eliminate the need for monitoring
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4. 8application · medium

   A media company is updating its recommendation engine, which is deployed on AWS Lambda behind an API Gateway. The team wants to validate the new version's performance and error rate in production with a small subset of real traffic before fully releasing it. The pipeline must automatically promote the new version if error rates remain below a threshold for 30 minutes. Which approach should the team use?

   • ADeploy the new version to a separate API Gateway stage and redirect a portion of users via DNS
   • BUse AWS CodeDeploy with a rolling deployment and a pre-traffic hook to run synthetic tests
   • CUse AWS CodeDeploy with a blue/green deployment and a manual approval step to promote the new version
   • DUse AWS Lambda weighted aliases to route 5% of traffic to the new version and configure CloudWatch alarms to trigger an automated promotion
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5. 9expert · hard

   A company runs a web application on EC2 instances in an Auto Scaling group. The team must deploy a new version with minimal cost and no downtime. The application is stateless and can handle a brief reduction in capacity. The team also wants to avoid creating a full parallel environment. Which deployment strategy should the team use?

   • ACanary deployment with a small percentage of traffic to the new version
   • BRolling deployment with a small batch size
   • CBlue/green deployment with a new Auto Scaling group
   • DImmutable deployment with a new Auto Scaling group
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6. 10expert · hard

   A company runs a production application on a fleet of EC2 instances. The team wants to deploy a new version using a canary deployment to validate it with a small percentage of traffic. The team wants to minimize the cost of the canary environment while still being able to validate the new version. Which approach should the team use?

   • AUse a rolling deployment with a small batch size
   • BUse a blue/green deployment with a full new environment for the canary
   • CUse a separate Auto Scaling group for the canary instances and scale it to a minimum of one instance
   • DUse AWS Lambda with a weighted alias and a small concurrency limit
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