Which set of pillars is commonly used to summarize the core principles of DevOps?

Planning, Coding, Building, Testing, and Releasing

Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deployment, and Monitoring

Security, Compliance, Audit, and Governance

Culture, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing (CAMS)

What is the purpose of the 'build' stage in a CI/CD pipeline?

To compile the source code and produce deployable artifacts

To collect requirements from stakeholders

To monitor application performance in real time

To run security scans on the production environment

A team currently has a CI/CD pipeline where a developer manually triggers the build, then a tester manually runs tests, and finally an operator manually deploys to staging. The team wants to reduce manual errors and accelerate delivery. Which improvement best addresses this?

Automate the orchestration of the pipeline stages so that a code commit automatically triggers the build, test, and staging deployment.

Add more team members to handle the manual steps in parallel.

Create detailed runbooks for each manual step so that team members can follow them consistently.

Schedule the manual steps to run at a fixed time each day.

A startup wants to release new features to production as soon as they are ready, without waiting for a release day. They have a comprehensive automated test suite including security scans. They want every commit that passes all checks to go live automatically. Which practice should they adopt?

Continuous monitoring with manual deployment after each test run.

Continuous deployment with automated security scans in the pipeline before production release.

Continuous integration with weekly production releases.

Continuous delivery with a manual approval step for each production release.

In continuous delivery, where are code changes automatically deployed after passing tests?

To a staging or production-like environment

To a version control repository

Only to the developer's local machine

EC-CouncilDevSecOps Essentials

Domain 2Objective 1

DevOps Principles and Pipelines DSE Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the DevOps and DevSecOps Foundations domain, which makes up ~15% of our current practice bank. EC-Council does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~8–12 in this domain), expect 2–2 from this objective — we provide 49 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

49questions here

10free pages

8concepts

Questions 21–25

21foundation · easy
Which set of pillars is commonly used to summarize the core principles of DevOps?
Select an answer first
22foundation · easy
What is the purpose of the 'build' stage in a CI/CD pipeline?
Select an answer first
23application · medium
A team currently has a CI/CD pipeline where a developer manually triggers the build, then a tester manually runs tests, and finally an operator manually deploys to staging. The team wants to reduce manual errors and accelerate delivery. Which improvement best addresses this?
Select an answer first
24application · medium
A startup wants to release new features to production as soon as they are ready, without waiting for a release day. They have a comprehensive automated test suite including security scans. They want every commit that passes all checks to go live automatically. Which practice should they adopt?
Select an answer first
25foundation · easy
In continuous delivery, where are code changes automatically deployed after passing tests?
Select an answer first

Finished these 5 questions?

Review the revealed explanations, or continue through the curriculum.

Next 5 questions →Back to DSE

Free Basic Practice is a study aid with revealable answers — not a scored exam. Examers.io is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by EC-Council. “DSE” is a trademark of its owner, used for identification only.