A team uses a blue/green deployment strategy for their Compute Engine-based application. After switching all traffic to the new 'green' environment, monitoring shows a spike in error rates. The team needs to revert to the previous version as quickly as possible. What should they do?

Scale down the green environment and keep blue as is

Restore the database from the last backup

Switch traffic back to the 'blue' environment

Redeploy the previous version from source code

Which practice is essential for enabling effective rollback to a known good state?

Avoiding version control for configuration

Keeping previous versions of artifacts and configuration available

Using only manual deployment processes

Deleting old versions immediately after deployment

A team is planning a major release of a new version of their application. They need to define a release management process that includes versioning, rollout planning, rollback procedures, and communication. Which of the following is the most important to include in the process?

A detailed schedule of when each developer will commit code

A list of all possible bugs in the new version

A checklist of steps to verify the deployment and a predefined rollback plan

A communication plan that only informs the development team

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31application · medium
A company runs a batch processing job that is not user-facing. They want to deploy a new version with minimal cost and are willing to accept a brief downtime. Which deployment strategy is most appropriate?
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32application · medium
A team uses a blue/green deployment strategy for their Compute Engine-based application. After switching all traffic to the new 'green' environment, monitoring shows a spike in error rates. The team needs to revert to the previous version as quickly as possible. What should they do?
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33foundation · easy
Which stage in a CI/CD pipeline is responsible for automatically compiling code and running unit tests?
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34foundation · easy
Which practice is essential for enabling effective rollback to a known good state?
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35application · medium
A team is planning a major release of a new version of their application. They need to define a release management process that includes versioning, rollout planning, rollback procedures, and communication. Which of the following is the most important to include in the process?
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Questions 31–35

A company runs a batch processing job that is not user-facing. They want to deploy a new version with minimal cost and are willing to accept a brief downtime. Which deployment strategy is most appropriate?

A team uses a blue/green deployment strategy for their Compute Engine-based application. After switching all traffic to the new 'green' environment, monitoring shows a spike in error rates. The team needs to revert to the previous version as quickly as possible. What should they do?

Which stage in a CI/CD pipeline is responsible for automatically compiling code and running unit tests?

Which practice is essential for enabling effective rollback to a known good state?

A team is planning a major release of a new version of their application. They need to define a release management process that includes versioning, rollout planning, rollback procedures, and communication. Which of the following is the most important to include in the process?

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