Objective: Explain What GitLab CI/CD Is and Why Teams Use It GITLAB-CERTIFIED-CICD-ASSOCIATE Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A startup's development team has been manually building and testing their application on a shared staging server. When a developer pushes code, another developer must remember to run the build and tests manually. The team wants to automate this so that every push to the main branch triggers a build and test automatically. Which GitLab CI/CD component is primarily responsible for executing the defined build and test steps?

   • AThe merge request approval settings
   • BA runner that picks up jobs defined in .gitlab-ci.yml
   • CThe GitLab repository's webhook configuration
   • DThe GitLab Container Registry
   Reveal Solution Discussion Select an answer first
2. 7expert · hard

   A team has a monorepo with multiple independent services. They want to run only the pipeline jobs relevant to the service that changed, to save runner time and reduce feedback latency. However, they also need to ensure that a change to a shared library triggers the pipelines for all dependent services. Which GitLab CI/CD feature best supports this requirement?

   • AUse a single job that detects changes and dynamically decides what to run
   • BUse rules with changes: to conditionally include jobs based on which files changed
   • CRun all jobs on every push and rely on caching to speed up execution
   • DCreate a separate pipeline for each service in the monorepo
   Reveal Solution Discussion Select an answer first
4. 8expert · hard

   A team is migrating from a legacy CI system where a single script builds, tests, and deploys the application in one long-running job. They want to adopt GitLab CI/CD best practices to improve feedback speed and isolate failures. However, they are concerned about the overhead of managing multiple jobs. Which approach best balances these concerns?

   • ACreate multiple jobs in the same stage to run in parallel
   • BKeep the single long-running job but add a timeout to prevent hangs
   • CSplit the script into separate jobs across build, test, and deploy stages, with artifacts passed between them
   • DUse a single job with manual approval before deployment
   Reveal Solution Discussion Select an answer first
5. 9foundation · easy

   In the context of GitLab CI/CD, what is the primary purpose of the Continuous Integration (CI) phase?

   • ATo create a backup of the code repository on a remote server.
   • BTo deploy code changes directly to production without any testing.
   • CTo automatically build and test code changes whenever they are pushed to the repository.
   • DTo manually review code changes before they are merged into the main branch.
   Reveal Solution Discussion Select an answer first
6. 10application · medium

   A QA team currently receives a new build from developers only at the end of a two-week sprint. They often find integration issues that could have been caught earlier. The team wants to adopt a practice where every code change is automatically built and tested in a shared environment, so issues are detected within minutes of a commit. Which practice does this describe?

   • AContinuous Integration
   • BContinuous Delivery
   • CContinuous Deployment
   • DRelease Management
   Reveal Solution Discussion Select an answer first