Cloud Engineer Quality Control & Assurance 2

Question 1

Which testing strategy validates that individual microservices interact correctly with each other in a cloud environment?

Accepted Answer

Integration testing

Answer

Integration testing verifies that separate microservices or components communicate and function correctly when combined.

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of a canary deployment in a cloud QA pipeline?

Accepted Answer

To release changes to a small subset of users before full rollout

Answer

Canary deployments route a small percentage of production traffic to the new version to detect issues before a full release.

Question 3

A cloud team wants to enforce code quality gates before merging pull requests. Which tool is best suited for static code analysis in a CI pipeline?

Accepted Answer

SonarQube

Answer

SonarQube performs static code analysis to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells automatically in CI pipelines.

Question 4

What does 'shift-left testing' mean in a cloud DevOps context?

Accepted Answer

Running tests earlier in the development lifecycle

Answer

Shift-left testing integrates quality checks earlier in the SDLC to catch defects when they are cheapest to fix.

Question 5

Which metric measures the percentage of code paths exercised by automated tests?

Accepted Answer

Code coverage

Answer

Code coverage indicates what proportion of source code is executed during automated test runs.

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