CDP CDP Release Management & Deployment Pipelines 2

Question 1

What is a 'deployment gate' (quality gate) in a CD pipeline?

Accepted Answer

An automated checkpoint that must pass before advancing to the next stage

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A firewall rule applied at deployment time

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A manual sign-off step by the product owner

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A DNS cutover mechanism

Question 2

In release management, what does 'change freeze' mean?

Accepted Answer

A period during which no new changes are deployed to production

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Locking configuration files in version control

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Disabling auto-scaling during peak load

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Archiving old release branches

Question 3

Which tool is most commonly used to define multi-stage deployment pipelines as code in enterprise DevOps?

Accepted Answer

Jenkins with Jenkinsfile

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Ansible

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Terraform

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Nagios

Question 4

What is the main benefit of using an artifact repository such as Nexus or Artifactory?

Accepted Answer

Centralizing versioned build artifacts for consistent deployments

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Replacing source control for code storage

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Monitoring application performance in production

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Managing user access to cloud infrastructure

Question 5

What does 'environment parity' mean in a DevOps deployment pipeline?

Accepted Answer

Dev, staging, and production environments are as identical as possible

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All environments have equal CPU and RAM

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All team members have equal deployment permissions

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Pipeline stages run in parallel

Question 6

Which metric measures the frequency at which an organization successfully deploys to production?

Accepted Answer

Deployment Frequency

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Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)

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Change Failure Rate

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Lead Time for Changes