A company is adopting DevOps and wants to implement CI/CD for a legacy application that has a long-running test suite (over an hour). The team wants to provide fast feedback to developers without slowing down the pipeline. Which strategy best addresses this constraint?

Skip the full test suite and rely only on code reviews.

Implement a two-stage pipeline: a fast smoke test on every commit, and a full test suite on pull requests or nightly builds.

Run the full test suite only before production releases, not during development.

Run the full test suite on every commit, accepting the long feedback time.

Which of the following best describes the impact of functional programming on application structure?

It uses a linear sequence of instructions that directly control the hardware

It structures applications as a collection of objects that interact through messages

It relies on functions as first-class citizens and avoids changing state to produce more predictable behavior

It emphasizes mutable state and side effects to make programs easier to debug

An organization is adopting DevOps and wants to implement CI/CD. The current process has separate teams for development, testing, and operations, each with its own tooling. The goal is to reduce deployment failures. Which practice is most aligned with the DevOps movement?

Have developers manage production deployments without operations input.

Automate testing but keep operations separate to avoid conflicts.

Use a single tool for everything to eliminate all tooling diversity.

Create a single shared pipeline tool and have all teams collaborate on its design.

A university is teaching a course on the history of computing. They want to demonstrate the evolution from machine code to high-level languages. Which sequence best represents this historical progression?

Assembly → machine code → high-level languages

Machine code → assembly → high-level languages

Machine code → high-level languages → assembly

High-level languages → assembly → machine code

A development team is transitioning from a waterfall release cycle to continuous delivery. The operations team is concerned about stability and wants to maintain manual approval gates. The development team wants to automate deployments. Which practice best aligns with the DevOps movement while addressing operations' concerns?

Keep manual approval gates for production but automate all other stages.

Revert to waterfall because DevOps is incompatible with stability requirements.

Have developers manually deploy to production without involving operations.

Automate the entire pipeline with no manual checks to speed up releases.

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