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CI/CD & DevOps Practices practice questions

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  1. A team merges to the main branch several times a day. Every merge triggers a pipeline that builds, runs the full automated test suite, and automatically deploys the result to a… · CI/CD Fundamentals
  2. Each developer on a team works on a feature branch for two to three weeks and merges to main at the end of the sprint. The last two days of every sprint are lost to painful merge… · Branching Strategy
  3. A team practices trunk-based development and deploys main to production several times a day. A new checkout flow was finished two weeks early, but marketing wants customers to… · Feature Flags & Progressive Delivery
  4. A team is releasing a major rewrite of its search service. It wants the new version to serve real production traffic first for a hand-picked group of users (internal staff), then… · Deployment Strategies
  5. At a quarterly review, a team reports: "We made 40 planned production deployments this quarter. 6 of them degraded service and needed immediate intervention, either a rollback or… · DORA Metrics
  6. A pipeline has three stages: test, staging, and production. Each stage checks out the same Git tag and builds its own container image, and each image has that environment's… · Pipeline Design
  7. A web tier of 60 long-lived VMs is managed by a configuration management tool that runs every 30 minutes and enforces the settings it declares. Engineers sometimes SSH in to… · Infrastructure as Code
  8. Most of a team's automated coverage comes from a browser-driven end-to-end suite that takes 45 minutes and fails at random about once a day. There are very few unit tests… · Testing in Pipelines
  9. A team uses blue/green deployments. Version 2 of its service renames the database column cust_name to customer_name, and version 1 reads and writes only cust_name. Both… · Deployment Strategies
  10. A pipeline definition in a Git repository contains the production database password in plain text. The build step also passes the password into the container image so the… · Pipeline Security