What is the primary benefit of continuous delivery?

It removes the need for version control

It guarantees zero downtime during deployments

It eliminates the need for automated testing

It ensures that software is always in a releasable state

In continuous deployment, what triggers a release to production?

A request from the operations team

A manual approval from the release manager

The successful completion of the automated pipeline

In the context of DevOps, what does the principle of 'sharing' primarily refer to?

Sharing the same set of tools across all teams to ensure consistency

Sharing knowledge, feedback, and responsibility across development and operations teams

Sharing code repositories publicly with the open-source community

Sharing cloud infrastructure resources among multiple tenants

A company deploys new code to production several times a day. They have monitoring in place, but the operations team is overwhelmed by alerts, many of which are false positives. As a result, the team has started ignoring alerts, and a real incident went unnoticed. The company wants to improve the feedback loop without overwhelming the team. Which action should they take?

Increase the number of alerts so that no issue is missed.

Reduce the number of alerts by tuning alert thresholds and consolidating related alerts.

Assign a single person to monitor all alerts and escalate only critical ones.

Disable all alerts and rely on manual log review.

How does containerization support the DevOps workflow?

It replaces the need for automated testing

It eliminates the need for version control

It automatically scales applications without configuration

It provides consistent environments across development, testing, and production

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Understanding the DevOps Workflow GCSA Practice Questions (Page 10)

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What is the primary benefit of continuous delivery?
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In continuous deployment, what triggers a release to production?
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A company deploys new code to production several times a day. They have monitoring in place, but the operations team is overwhelmed by alerts, many of which are false positives. As a result, the team has started ignoring alerts, and a real incident went unnoticed. The company wants to improve the feedback loop without overwhelming the team. Which action should they take?
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How does containerization support the DevOps workflow?
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