What is a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) pipeline in GitLab CI/CD?

A pipeline where jobs can be ordered based on dependencies, allowing jobs in different stages to run earlier

A pipeline that runs all jobs in parallel regardless of dependencies

A pipeline that only runs on merge requests

A pipeline that runs jobs in a fixed sequential order without any parallelism

A pipeline has a 'deploy' job that should not run concurrently with another 'deploy' job from a different pipeline for the same environment. The team wants to ensure that only one deployment to production happens at a time. What should they use?

A 'resource_group' with a name like 'production'

A 'cache' keyword to store the deployment state

A 'parallel' keyword to run multiple instances

A 'needs' keyword to make the deploy job depend on itself

What is the purpose of environment variables in GitLab CI/CD?

To define the stages of the pipeline

To specify which runner executes the job

To pass configuration values to jobs at runtime

In a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, what is the correct high-level flow of execution?

Both stages and jobs run in parallel without any ordering

Stages run in parallel, and jobs within a stage run sequentially

Jobs run in parallel within a stage, and stages run sequentially in the order defined

Jobs are executed in alphabetical order regardless of stages

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A developer wants to quickly see the status of the latest pipeline for a specific branch without opening the GitLab UI. They want to embed a small image in the repository's README that shows the current pipeline status. Which GitLab feature should they use?
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What is a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) pipeline in GitLab CI/CD?
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A pipeline has a 'deploy' job that should not run concurrently with another 'deploy' job from a different pipeline for the same environment. The team wants to ensure that only one deployment to production happens at a time. What should they use?
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What is the purpose of environment variables in GitLab CI/CD?
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In a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, what is the correct high-level flow of execution?
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