Which statement best defines deployment frequency?

The number of times an organization successfully releases to production in a given period

The time it takes to recover from a production failure

The percentage of deployments that cause a failure in production

The time it takes from code commit to code running in production

What is the primary purpose of the DORA performance metrics?

To evaluate the quality of the code written by developers

To measure customer satisfaction with the software product

To track the number of defects found during testing

To measure the speed and stability of software delivery

A team's time to restore service is 4 hours. They want to reduce it. Which practice would be most effective?

Reducing the number of monitoring alerts

Delaying incident response until business hours

Increasing the number of manual recovery steps

Implementing automated monitoring and alerting

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DORA's Performance Metrics CT-QDO Practice Questions (Page 3)

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11foundation · easy
Which statement best defines deployment frequency?
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12foundation · easy
What is the primary purpose of the DORA performance metrics?
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13expert · hard · select all that apply
A team has the following DORA metrics: deployment frequency = 2 per week, lead time for changes = 3 days, change failure rate = 15%, time to restore service = 1 hour. They want to improve to elite performance. Which two metrics are most in need of improvement? Select all that apply.
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14application · medium
A team's time to restore service is 4 hours. They want to reduce it. Which practice would be most effective?
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15foundation · easy
A team deploys to production three times per week. Which DORA metric does this value represent?
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DORA's Performance Metrics CT-QDO Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

Which statement best defines deployment frequency?

What is the primary purpose of the DORA performance metrics?

A team has the following DORA metrics: deployment frequency = 2 per week, lead time for changes = 3 days, change failure rate = 15%, time to restore service = 1 hour. They want to improve to elite performance. Which two metrics are most in need of improvement? Select all that apply.

A team's time to restore service is 4 hours. They want to reduce it. Which practice would be most effective?

A team deploys to production three times per week. Which DORA metric does this value represent?

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