A team is building a CI/CD pipeline for a Java application. They want to deploy to production using a rolling deployment strategy. They also want to be able to roll back to any previous version quickly. What should they store in their artifact repository?

Only artifacts that pass all tests, and delete failed builds.

Only the source code, and compile it during deployment.

Only the latest successful build artifact, overwriting previous ones.

All build artifacts with unique version numbers and metadata such as commit hash and build timestamp.

A company deploys a new version using a canary strategy. They have monitoring that tracks error rates. They want to automatically roll back if the error rate exceeds 5% for 5 minutes. What is the best way to implement this?

Use a blue-green deployment instead and switch traffic back manually.

Have the monitoring system page the on-call engineer to manually roll back.

Set the canary to automatically roll back after a fixed time regardless of metrics.

Configure the monitoring system to send an alert to the pipeline, which then triggers a rollback job.

A development team uses Git for source control. They want every push to the 'develop' branch to automatically trigger a build and run unit tests, but pushes to feature branches should only trigger a lightweight syntax check. What is the most appropriate way to configure the CI pipeline?

Configure the pipeline to trigger on all branches and use conditional stages to run full tests only for the 'develop' branch.

Use a webhook that triggers the pipeline only when a tag is created, and run all tests on every tag.

Create two separate pipelines: one triggered by any push, and another triggered only by pull requests.

Set the pipeline to trigger only on the 'develop' branch and rely on developers to run syntax checks locally.

A Python application is built in a CI pipeline. The build stage compiles Python bytecode, installs dependencies, and creates a deployable package. What is the most important artifact to store in the artifact repository for later deployment?

The virtual environment directory

The log file from the build stage

The wheel or zip package containing the application code and dependencies

The source code archive from the version control system

Which type of test is most commonly run in the CI stage to validate code changes?

Unit tests and integration tests

Penetration tests on the live application

Load tests against production servers

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36expert · hard
A team is building a CI/CD pipeline for a Java application. They want to deploy to production using a rolling deployment strategy. They also want to be able to roll back to any previous version quickly. What should they store in their artifact repository?
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37expert · hard
A company deploys a new version using a canary strategy. They have monitoring that tracks error rates. They want to automatically roll back if the error rate exceeds 5% for 5 minutes. What is the best way to implement this?
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38application · medium
A development team uses Git for source control. They want every push to the 'develop' branch to automatically trigger a build and run unit tests, but pushes to feature branches should only trigger a lightweight syntax check. What is the most appropriate way to configure the CI pipeline?
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39application · medium
A Python application is built in a CI pipeline. The build stage compiles Python bytecode, installs dependencies, and creates a deployable package. What is the most important artifact to store in the artifact repository for later deployment?
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Which type of test is most commonly run in the CI stage to validate code changes?
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