QA in CI/CD Pipeline CT-QDO Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · medium

   A product team wants to release a new feature to production on-demand, but the release schedule is unpredictable. The QA team needs to ensure the feature is ready to release at any time. Which testing strategy best supports release on demand?

   • ADefer all testing until after the release and rely on production monitoring.
   • BMaintain a continuously green main branch with automated tests running on every commit, so the build is always release-ready.
   • CRun a full regression suite only on the day the release is requested.
   • DPerform manual exploratory testing on the feature branch before each release request.
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2. 2foundation · easy

   What safeguard is commonly used in continuous deployment to allow a quick rollback if a defect is found in production?

   • ADeleting the previous version to save storage
   • BDisabling all tests after deployment
   • CKeeping the previous version ready for instant rollback
   • DRequiring manual approval for every deployment
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4. 3foundation · easy

   How are automated test results typically reported in a CI pipeline?

   • ABy printing results to the console of the build machine only
   • BThrough a dashboard or log that shows pass/fail status and trends
   • CBy updating a shared spreadsheet manually
   • DOnly through email to the test manager
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5. 4expert · hard

   A company wants to fully automate deployments to production. They have a comprehensive automated test suite in CI and staging. Which additional safeguard is most critical to include before enabling fully automated production deployments?

   • AA requirement that all production deployments occur during a specific maintenance window.
   • BA manual approval gate that requires the release manager to click 'Approve' before each production deployment.
   • CA policy that the production environment must be identical to staging in every way, including hardware.
   • DAutomated rollback capability triggered by post-deployment health checks and monitoring alerts.
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6. 5application · medium

   A CI pipeline is being designed for a microservices application. The team wants to run tests that verify the services can communicate with each other. Which type of test and stage placement is most appropriate?

   • ARun unit tests for each service in parallel and skip integration testing.
   • BRun static code analysis to verify service communication.
   • CRun contract tests between services in a dedicated stage after the build stage.
   • DRun end-to-end tests against a production-like environment in the build stage.
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