Key Concepts of DevOps CT-QDO Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A company is adopting DevOps but is struggling because the development and operations teams have different goals: developers are measured on new features, while operations is measured on system stability. This has led to conflicts during deployments. What is the best way to align their goals?

   • AHave developers take over all deployment responsibilities.
   • BKeep the metrics separate but encourage communication between teams.
   • CChange the operations team's metric to focus only on deployment speed.
   • DCreate a shared metric that rewards both teams for successful deployments and system reliability.
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2. 2foundation · easy

   Which practice involves automatically building and testing code changes whenever they are committed to a shared repository?

   • AContinuous delivery
   • BContinuous integration
   • CInfrastructure as code
   • DContinuous deployment
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4. 3expert · hard

   A company is adopting DevOps, but the development team is reluctant to share responsibility for production incidents because they feel it is operations' job. The operations team is overburdened and wants developers to be more involved. What is the most effective way to encourage shared responsibility?

   • AEscalate production incidents to management to resolve.
   • BHave operations create detailed runbooks for developers to follow.
   • CImplement a blameless post-incident review process and include developers in the on-call rotation.
   • DReward developers for writing code that does not cause incidents.
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5. 4application · medium

   A team wants to implement continuous delivery but is concerned about the risk of deploying to production. They have a staging environment that mirrors production. What is the best way to reduce the risk of production deployments?

   • AAutomate the deployment to staging and require manual approval before deploying to production.
   • BDeploy directly to production without any staging environment.
   • CUse a blue-green deployment strategy without automated testing.
   • DOnly deploy to production during off-peak hours.
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6. 5application · medium

   A company wants to improve the quality of its software by reducing the number of defects that reach production. They currently have a manual testing phase at the end of the development cycle. Which DevOps practice would most effectively reduce defects in production?

   • AIncrease the number of manual testers to perform more tests before release.
   • BDeploy to production more frequently to get faster feedback from users.
   • CUse a longer release cycle to allow more time for manual testing.
   • DIntegrate automated testing into the continuous integration pipeline so tests run on every commit.
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