A DevOps team is struggling with long lead times because developers have to wait for the operations team to provision environments. The team wants to reduce this dependency. Which approach best embodies the cross-functional principle?

Require developers to submit tickets for environment requests

Hire more operations staff to handle requests faster

Create a separate environment provisioning team

Automate environment provisioning and give developers self-service access

A DevOps team is experiencing a high rate of production incidents. The team wants to improve the reliability of the system. Which role is best suited to lead the effort to implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response?

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

A DevOps team is adopting a new microservices architecture. The team lead wants to ensure that each service has a single owner who is accountable for its quality, deployment, and operational health. Which role should be assigned this ownership?

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

A company is forming a new DevOps team to own a customer-facing application. The team will include developers, a QA engineer, an operations engineer, and a product manager. Which characteristic is most essential for this team to be considered cross-functional?

All members are located in the same office

The team has a flat hierarchy with no formal roles

The team has all the skills needed to deliver and operate the application without depending on external teams

The team uses a common set of tools for development and operations

A DevOps team is implementing a new feature. The developer has written the code and wants to merge it. The QA engineer has not yet completed the test plan. What should happen to ensure quality without slowing down the delivery?

The team should skip testing for this feature because it is small

The developer should wait until the QA engineer completes the full test plan

The QA engineer should quickly write a minimal test plan and run automated tests before merging

The developer should merge the code and let QA test in production

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A DevOps team is experiencing a high rate of production incidents. The team wants to improve the reliability of the system. Which role is best suited to lead the effort to implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response?
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A DevOps team is adopting a new microservices architecture. The team lead wants to ensure that each service has a single owner who is accountable for its quality, deployment, and operational health. Which role should be assigned this ownership?
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A company is forming a new DevOps team to own a customer-facing application. The team will include developers, a QA engineer, an operations engineer, and a product manager. Which characteristic is most essential for this team to be considered cross-functional?
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A DevOps team is implementing a new feature. The developer has written the code and wants to merge it. The QA engineer has not yet completed the test plan. What should happen to ensure quality without slowing down the delivery?
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