ACP Atlassian Professional DevOps & CI/CD Integration 3

Question 1

Which DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metric measures the percentage of deployments that cause a failure in production?

Accepted Answer

Change Failure Rate

Answer

Change Failure Rate measures the proportion of deployments that result in degraded service or require a hotfix, rollback, or patch—it is one of the four key DORA metrics tracked in Jira's DevOps insights.

Question 2

In Atlassian's DevOps framework, what is the recommended strategy for handling secrets (API keys, passwords) in Bitbucket Pipelines?

Accepted Answer

Store them as encrypted repository or workspace variables in Bitbucket settings

Answer

Bitbucket Pipelines allows teams to store sensitive values as encrypted variables at the repository or workspace level, which are injected as environment variables at runtime without being exposed in the YAML file.

Question 3

What does a 'manual trigger' step in a Bitbucket Pipeline deployment allow teams to control?

Accepted Answer

Whether a pipeline step (e.g., production deploy) requires human approval before executing

Answer

Manual trigger steps pause the pipeline and require a user with the appropriate permissions to explicitly approve the step before it proceeds, commonly used to gate production deployments.

Question 4

Which Atlassian feature enables teams to automatically transition Jira issue statuses based on Git branch activity or pull request events?

Accepted Answer

Jira Automation rules triggered by development events

Answer

Jira Automation supports triggers based on development events (e.g., 'branch created', 'pull request merged'), allowing issues to automatically move through workflow statuses without manual updates.

Question 5

In the context of Atlassian's DevOps toolchain, what is the primary purpose of Atlassian Guard (formerly Atlassian Access)?

Accepted Answer

To provide centralized identity, SSO, and security policies across all Atlassian cloud products

Answer

Atlassian Guard provides enterprise-grade security features including SAML SSO, automated user provisioning (SCIM), audit logs, and data security policies across the Atlassian cloud platform.

(ACP) Atlassian Certified Professional Practice Test

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ACP Atlassian Professional DevOps & CI/CD Integration 3