CDA CDA DevOps & Deployment Practices

Question 1

What is the primary goal of DevOps as described in the Disciplined Agile toolkit?

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To reduce cycle time between development and production deployment

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To automate all manual regression testing

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To eliminate the need for dedicated operations teams

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To standardize tools across all development teams enterprise-wide

Question 2

In DA's DevOps context, what does 'continuous integration' (CI) primarily involve?

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Merging code changes into a shared branch frequently with automated builds

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Continuously interviewing and onboarding new team members

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Integrating customer feedback into the product backlog on a weekly basis

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Running full regression tests once per major release cycle

Question 3

Which DA practice helps ensure deployments to production can be done with minimal risk?

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Feature toggles and blue-green deployments

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Manual approval gates required for every change request

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Quarterly release windows scheduled well in advance

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Full regression testing performed exclusively by QA teams

Question 4

What is 'continuous delivery' (CD) in the context of DA?

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Keeping software in a deployable state so it can be released at any time

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Delivering user stories to the product owner every sprint

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Automatically deploying every commit directly to production

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Delivering status reports continuously to all stakeholders

Question 5

How does the DA toolkit recommend teams handle infrastructure provisioning in a DevOps context?

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables repeatable, version-controlled provisioning

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Infrastructure should be managed exclusively by a separate centralized ops team

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Infrastructure changes require a formal change control board approval always

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Infrastructure provisioning is completed only during the Inception phase

Question 6

What is a 'deployment pipeline' in DevOps?

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An automated sequence of steps from code commit to production deployment

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A Kanban board for tracking deployment-related tasks

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A scheduled batch process for monthly software releases

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A document outlining deployment procedures for the operations team