DevOps Principles and Pipelines DSE Practice Questions (Page 7)

Questions 31–35

1. 31foundation · easy

   In DevSecOps, the principle of 'shared responsibility' means that security is:

   • AHandled only during the final security review before release
   • BOutsourced entirely to third-party security vendors
   • CA concern for every team member involved in the software delivery process
   • DThe sole responsibility of the dedicated security team
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2. 32application · medium

   A company wants to release new features more frequently, but the business requires that a human approve each production deployment. The team already has automated tests and a staging environment. Which practice should they adopt?

   • AContinuous deployment, where every change that passes automated tests is automatically deployed to production without manual approval.
   • BManual deployment, where a release engineer manually copies the build artifact to production after each feature is complete.
   • CContinuous integration, where every change is merged to the main branch and automatically built and tested.
   • DContinuous delivery, where every change that passes automated tests is automatically deployed to staging and a manual approval triggers the production deployment.
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4. 33application · medium

   A team's pipeline currently requires a developer to manually trigger the build, then another person to run tests, and a third to deploy. This process is slow and error-prone. They want to automate the entire pipeline so that a commit automatically flows through all stages. Which approach should they take?

   • AHire more operators to run the stages in parallel.
   • BConfigure a CI/CD tool to automatically trigger the pipeline on each commit and orchestrate build, test, and deploy stages.
   • CCreate a script that each developer runs locally to build, test, and deploy.
   • DUse a chat bot to notify team members when each stage needs to be run manually.
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5. 34foundation · easy

   Which of the following is a typical stage in a CI/CD pipeline?

   • ASource
   • BBudgeting
   • CMarketing
   • DDocumentation
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6. 35application · medium

   A team of five developers works on a single application. They each work on long-lived feature branches and merge to the main branch only when a feature is fully complete, which often takes weeks. The team wants to adopt continuous integration. Which practice should they implement first?

   • ARequire a senior developer to manually review and test all code before it is merged to the main branch.
   • BIntegrate code into the main branch at least daily and run automated builds and unit tests on every integration.
   • CCreate a dedicated integration branch where all feature branches are merged once a week.
   • DAutomate the deployment of the main branch to production after every merge.
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