DOL Automation Strategy 2

Question 1

A DevOps leader wants to measure the ROI of automation initiatives. Which metric most directly quantifies automation value?

Accepted Answer

Decrease in manual effort hours multiplied by labor cost saved

Answer

ROI is best measured by comparing the cost of building/maintaining automation against the labor hours and associated costs eliminated.

Question 2

When establishing an automation center of excellence (CoE), which foundational element should be defined first?

Accepted Answer

Governance model including standards, ownership, and contribution guidelines

Answer

Governance establishes the rules, roles, and processes that ensure the CoE operates consistently before tools or libraries are selected.

Question 3

Which approach best prevents automation technical debt from accumulating over time?

Accepted Answer

Treating automation code with the same code review and refactoring practices as production code

Answer

Applying software engineering disciplines—reviews, refactoring, and testing—to automation code keeps it maintainable and reduces drift.

Question 4

A team discovers that 40% of their automated tests are flaky. What is the most strategic first step?

Accepted Answer

Quarantine flaky tests and track them in a dedicated backlog for remediation

Answer

Quarantining isolates unreliable tests from the main pipeline while preserving coverage knowledge and creating a structured path to fix them.

Question 5

In the context of automation strategy, what does 'shift-left' primarily mean?

Accepted Answer

Introducing testing and quality checks earlier in the development lifecycle

Answer

Shift-left moves quality activities—testing, security scanning, compliance checks—earlier in the pipeline to catch issues when they are cheapest to fix.

(DOL) DevOps Leader Practice Test

(DOL) DevOps Leader Practice Test

DOL Automation Strategy 2