A company is moving from a manual release process to CI/CD. They have a legacy application that requires a long integration test suite. The team wants to reduce the time to production while ensuring quality. Which approach best addresses this?

Run the full test suite only on a nightly schedule

Run the full test suite in the CI pipeline before every deployment

Run a fast smoke test in CI and run the full suite in staging after deployment

Skip tests in CI and only test in production

A security analyst needs to write a script that reads a list of IP addresses from a file, checks each one against a blocklist, and logs any matches. Which scripting construct is most appropriate to iterate over the list of IPs?

A while loop with a manual counter

In a REST API response, what does the HTTP status code '404 Not Found' indicate?

The request was unauthorized and authentication is required.

The server encountered an internal error while processing the request.

The request was successful and the resource was created.

The requested resource could not be found on the server.

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Development and Deployment CCOA Practice Questions (Page 3)

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Questions 11–15

11application · medium
A DevOps team is setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a web application. They want to automatically build the application, run unit tests, and deploy to a staging environment on every commit to the main branch. Which pipeline stage should be configured to run the unit tests?
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12foundation · easy
Which stage of a deployment pipeline is responsible for compiling source code and creating deployable artifacts?
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13expert · hard
A company is moving from a manual release process to CI/CD. They have a legacy application that requires a long integration test suite. The team wants to reduce the time to production while ensuring quality. Which approach best addresses this?
Select an answer first
14application · easy
A security analyst needs to write a script that reads a list of IP addresses from a file, checks each one against a blocklist, and logs any matches. Which scripting construct is most appropriate to iterate over the list of IPs?
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15foundation · easy
In a REST API response, what does the HTTP status code '404 Not Found' indicate?
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Questions 11–15

A DevOps team is setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a web application. They want to automatically build the application, run unit tests, and deploy to a staging environment on every commit to the main branch. Which pipeline stage should be configured to run the unit tests?

Which stage of a deployment pipeline is responsible for compiling source code and creating deployable artifacts?

A company is moving from a manual release process to CI/CD. They have a legacy application that requires a long integration test suite. The team wants to reduce the time to production while ensuring quality. Which approach best addresses this?

A security analyst needs to write a script that reads a list of IP addresses from a file, checks each one against a blocklist, and logs any matches. Which scripting construct is most appropriate to iterate over the list of IPs?

In a REST API response, what does the HTTP status code '404 Not Found' indicate?

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