ISTQBCertified Tester Quality in DevOps
The ISTQB Certified Tester Quality in DevOps (CT-QDO) certification equips testing and DevOps professionals with the skills to integrate quality assurance throughout the DevOps lifecycle. It validates your ability to apply proper quality and test activities to achieve the right quality level for your solutions. This certification establishes a common language for quality engineering across the entire DevOps team, aligning with the principle that quality is everyone's responsibility.
577 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
4Domains
22Objectives
120Concepts
577Questions
CT-QDO Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the CT-QDO exam measures.
- DevOps Definition
- DevOps Culture
- DevOps Practices
- DevOps Benefits
- DevOps Challenges
- Definition of DevOps
- DevOps Culture and Collaboration
- DevOps Practices and Tools
- Benefits and Challenges of DevOps
- DevOps in the Context of Quality
- DORA Metrics Overview
- Deployment Frequency
- Lead Time for Changes
- Change Failure Rate
- Time to Restore Service
- Interpreting DORA Metrics
- CALMS Model Overview
- Culture in DevOps
- Automation in DevOps
- Lean Principles in DevOps
- Measurement in DevOps
- Sharing and Collaboration
- CALMS in QA Context
- The Three Ways of DevOps
- First Way: Flow
- Second Way: Feedback
- Third Way: Continuous Learning and Experimentation
- Benefits of DevOps
- Risks of DevOps
- Pitfalls of DevOps
- Roles in a DevOps Team
- Collaboration and Communication
- Cross-functional Teams
- Role Responsibilities
- SRE Principles
- Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Error Budgets
- SRE Practices
- SRE vs. DevOps
- DevOps Team Patterns
- DevOps Anti-patterns
- Team Topologies
- Impact of Team Patterns on Flow
- Definition of QA and Testing in DevOps
- QA and Testing Activities in the DevOps Pipeline
- Shift-Left and Shift-Right Testing
- Test Objectives in Waterfall and V-Model
- Test Objectives in Agile and DevOps
- Impact of SDLC Model on Testing Strategy
- Continuous Testing Definition
- Continuous Testing vs. Traditional Testing
- Continuous Testing in the Pipeline
- Feedback Mechanisms in Continuous Testing
- Pull Request Testing
- Pull Request Quality Gates
- Pull Request Review and Testing Collaboration
- Continuous Discovery Overview
- QA and Testing in Discovery
- Feedback Loops in Discovery
- CI Pipeline Testing Stages
- Automated Test Execution in CI
- Test Environment Provisioning in CI
- CD Pipeline Testing Stages
- Deployment Automation and Testing
- Continuous Deployment Testing
- Release on Demand Testing
- Feature Toggles and Testing
- Production Testing and Monitoring
- CI/CD Pipeline Fundamentals
- Pipeline Stages and Activities
- Quality Gates in Pipelines
- Implementing Quality Gates
- Pipeline Automation and Tooling
- Pipeline Monitoring and Feedback
- Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for Testware
- Implementing SSOT for Testware
- Traceability Fundamentals
- Establishing Traceability
- Traceability in DevOps
- Quality Reporting for CI/CD Pipeline
- Test Data Management Automation
- Statistical Analysis of Test Results
- Regression Testing in CI/CD Pipeline
- Definition and Purpose of API Testing
- Key Characteristics of API Testing
- API Testing in the DevOps Lifecycle
- Common API Testing Types
- API Testing Tools and Automation
- Challenges and Best Practices in API Testing
- Examples of Manual Testing
- Exploratory Testing within CI/CD Pipeline
- Crowd Testing Fundamentals
- Crowd Testing Process and Management
- Quality Hunting Events Overview
- Organizing and Running Quality Hunting Events
- Integrating Crowd Testing and Quality Hunting into DevOps
- Capabilities of Tools
- Tool Selection Criteria
- QA and Testing Tools
- Test Automation Frameworks
- CI/CD Pipeline Non-Testing Activities
- Pipeline Orchestration Tools
- Containerization Fundamentals
- Container Tools and Orchestration
- Key Release Strategies
- Branching Strategies
- Feature Toggles
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Fundamentals
- IaC Tools and Configuration Management
- IaC Best Practices and Version Control
- Chaos Engineering Principles
- Chaos Engineering Practices and Tools
- Chaos Engineering in CI/CD Pipelines
- Telemetry
- Observability
- Telemetry vs. Observability
- Implementing Observability
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- SBOM Generation and Use
- SBOM in DevOps
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