What is the primary purpose of a commit message in Git?

To authenticate the user who made the commit

To trigger a build in a CI/CD pipeline

To specify which files should be included in the commit

To describe the changes made in the commit for future reference

A network engineer is about to start a significant refactor of a Python script used for device configuration. The engineer wants to keep the current stable version intact while working on the refactor. Which Git operation should be performed first?

git checkout -b refactor-script

A developer has modified a file 'inventory.yml' and wants to see the changes before staging. After reviewing, the developer decides to stage the file and commit it. Which sequence of commands accomplishes this?

git status && git commit -m 'Update inventory'

git add inventory.yml && git diff inventory.yml && git commit -m 'Update inventory'

git diff --staged inventory.yml && git commit -m 'Update inventory'

git diff inventory.yml && git add inventory.yml && git commit -m 'Update inventory'

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Domain 1Objective 8

8. Utilize Common Version Control Operations with Git 200-901 Practice Questions (Page 4)

Part of the 1.0 Software Development and Design domain, which accounts for 15% of the 200-901 exam. Cisco does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~8–12 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 38 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 16–20

16foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of a commit message in Git?
Select an answer first
17foundation · easy
A developer wants to delete a file named old.py from both the working directory and the staging area. Which command should be used?
Select an answer first
18application · medium
A network engineer is about to start a significant refactor of a Python script used for device configuration. The engineer wants to keep the current stable version intact while working on the refactor. Which Git operation should be performed first?
Select an answer first
19foundation · easy
Which command shows the differences between two branches, for example 'main' and 'feature'?
Select an answer first
20application · medium
A developer has modified a file 'inventory.yml' and wants to see the changes before staging. After reviewing, the developer decides to stage the file and commit it. Which sequence of commands accomplishes this?
Select an answer first

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8. Utilize Common Version Control Operations with Git 200-901 Practice Questions (Page 4)

Questions 16–20

What is the primary purpose of a commit message in Git?

A developer wants to delete a file named old.py from both the working directory and the staging area. Which command should be used?

A network engineer is about to start a significant refactor of a Python script used for device configuration. The engineer wants to keep the current stable version intact while working on the refactor. Which Git operation should be performed first?

Which command shows the differences between two branches, for example 'main' and 'feature'?

A developer has modified a file 'inventory.yml' and wants to see the changes before staging. After reviewing, the developer decides to stage the file and commit it. Which sequence of commands accomplishes this?

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