CDP CDP Release Management & Deployment Pipelines

Question 1

Which deployment strategy releases a new version to a small subset of users before a full rollout?

Accepted Answer

Canary deployment

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Blue-green deployment

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Rolling deployment

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Recreate deployment

Question 2

In a blue-green deployment, what is the primary role of the 'green' environment?

Accepted Answer

It is the idle standby running the new version

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It holds the current production traffic

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It stores rollback snapshots

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It handles database migrations

Question 3

What is the purpose of a feature flag in a deployment pipeline?

Accepted Answer

To enable or disable features at runtime without redeploying

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To mark a build as production-ready

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To trigger automated rollback on failure

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To enforce code signing policies

Question 4

Which artifact versioning strategy is most commonly recommended for CDP exam release pipelines?

Accepted Answer

Semantic versioning (SemVer)

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Date-stamped filenames

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Random UUID per build

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Branch name as version

Question 5

What does a 'rollback' in a deployment pipeline refer to?

Accepted Answer

Reverting to a previous stable version after a failed release

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Pausing a pipeline stage for manual approval

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Deleting old Docker images from the registry

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Running regression tests on a new build

Question 6

Which pipeline stage is specifically responsible for publishing built artifacts to a shared repository?

Accepted Answer

Publish/Package

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Build

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Test

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Deploy