What is the primary role of a version control system (VCS) in modern software development?

To deploy applications to production servers.

To run automated tests on the codebase.

To track changes to source code and enable collaboration among developers.

To compile code into executable binaries.

What is the main purpose of Continuous Integration (CI)?

To create detailed documentation for every code change.

To merge all developers' code changes into a shared repository frequently and run automated builds and tests.

To deploy code to production automatically after every commit.

To schedule nightly builds that run only when developers are offline.

What is the purpose of feature toggles in release management?

To automatically rollback to a previous version of the application.

To enable or disable features at runtime without deploying new code.

To merge all feature branches into the main branch.

To permanently remove old features from the codebase.

Why is logging important in modern software development?

To automatically fix bugs in the application.

To replace the need for automated testing.

To increase the performance of the application.

To provide a record of events that can be used to diagnose issues.

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Domain 1Objective 1

701.1 Modern Software Development (weight: 6) DEVOPS-TOOLS-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 2)

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18 Concepts in This Objective

Agile and DevOps principles
Continuous Integration (CI)
Continuous Delivery (CD)
Continuous Deployment
Version control systems
Trunk-based development
Git branching strategies
Automated testing
Test-driven development (TDD)
Behavior-driven development (BDD)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Configuration management
Microservices architecture
Containerization
Orchestration
Release management
Monitoring and logging
Feedback loops

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A company wants to ensure that every code change is automatically built, tested, and packaged so that it could be deployed to production at any time, but they still require a human to approve the final production deployment. Which practice should they adopt?
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