A DevOps team is using a kanban board to track work. The team notices that the 'In Progress' column is overloaded and work items are not moving to 'Done'. Which practice would best improve the flow of work?

Assign each work item to a specific role

Add more work items to the board to increase visibility

Set work-in-progress (WIP) limits and focus on completing existing items

Remove the 'Done' column to simplify the board

A DevOps team is working on a service that has a service-level objective (SLO) of 99.9% availability. The team is considering a change that could increase the risk of downtime. The SRE has expressed concern. What is the most appropriate way to proceed?

Proceed with the change and monitor the impact on the SLO

Cancel the change because it could affect the SLO

Discuss the change with the team and agree on risk mitigation measures before proceeding

Have the SRE make the final decision without input from the rest of the team

What is a primary benefit of having a cross-functional DevOps team?

It eliminates the need for any external communication

It reduces the need for automated testing

It ensures that each team member specializes in a single narrow skill

It reduces handoffs and delays between different functional groups

In a DevOps team, what is the primary purpose of holding regular 'stand-up' meetings?

To assign tasks to individual team members

To provide a formal status report to management

To synchronize the team's work and identify impediments

To review and approve code changes

Certified Tester Quality in DevOps

Domain 1Objective 7

Roles in a DevOps Team CT-QDO Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the Domain 1: Fundamentals of DevOps domain, which makes up ~39% of our current practice bank. ISTQB does not publish an official question count, but from its 60-minute exam (~25–40 total, ~10–16 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 23 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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11application · medium
A DevOps team is using a kanban board to track work. The team notices that the 'In Progress' column is overloaded and work items are not moving to 'Done'. Which practice would best improve the flow of work?
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12expert · hard
A DevOps team is working on a service that has a service-level objective (SLO) of 99.9% availability. The team is considering a change that could increase the risk of downtime. The SRE has expressed concern. What is the most appropriate way to proceed?
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13foundation · easy
What is a primary benefit of having a cross-functional DevOps team?
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14foundation · easy
In a DevOps team, what is the primary purpose of holding regular 'stand-up' meetings?
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15application · medium
A DevOps team is implementing a continuous delivery pipeline. The team wants to ensure that code changes are automatically tested and deployed to a staging environment. Which role is primarily responsible for designing and maintaining this pipeline?
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