Which practice is essential for a CI/CD pipeline to ensure that code changes are integrated and validated frequently?

Manual approval gates before every deployment

Deploying directly to production without testing

Automated testing triggered on every code commit

Using a single large batch of changes per release

What is the main benefit of validating infrastructure as code (IaC) with automated testing tools?

It automatically fixes any configuration errors

It eliminates the need for manual configuration reviews

It guarantees zero downtime during deployments

It ensures infrastructure configurations are correct and consistent before deployment

After implementing a fix for a cloud infrastructure issue, what is the next step in the systematic troubleshooting process?

Document the solution and verify the fix

A software team is developing a microservices-based application. They want to ensure that each service works correctly in isolation and that the services can communicate with each other as expected. They also want to catch integration issues early in the development cycle. Which testing strategy should they implement?

Run only end-to-end tests that simulate user journeys across all services.

Run unit tests for each service and integration tests that verify inter-service communication in a shared environment.

Run only unit tests for each service and rely on code reviews to catch integration issues.

Run integration tests only in production after deployment.

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What is the main benefit of validating infrastructure as code (IaC) with automated testing tools?
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After implementing a fix for a cloud infrastructure issue, what is the next step in the systematic troubleshooting process?
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Which tool is commonly used for provisioning automation in Google Cloud?
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A software team is developing a microservices-based application. They want to ensure that each service works correctly in isolation and that the services can communicate with each other as expected. They also want to catch integration issues early in the development cycle. Which testing strategy should they implement?
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Which practice is essential for a CI/CD pipeline to ensure that code changes are integrated and validated frequently?

What is the main benefit of validating infrastructure as code (IaC) with automated testing tools?

After implementing a fix for a cloud infrastructure issue, what is the next step in the systematic troubleshooting process?

Which tool is commonly used for provisioning automation in Google Cloud?

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