DOL DevOps Principles 4

Question 1

A team has a lead time for changes of 6 months. According to DORA benchmarks, this classifies them as:

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Low performers

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Elite performers

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High performers

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Medium performers

Question 2

What is the primary DevOps rationale for small, frequent commits over large, infrequent ones?

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They reduce integration complexity and make failures easier to isolate

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Small commits are faster to write

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They reduce the need for code reviews

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They automatically pass security scans

Question 3

Which concept describes the practice of ensuring infrastructure configuration is always restored to a known state, ignoring any manual changes made directly?

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Immutable infrastructure

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Blue-green deployment

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Canary releases

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Rolling updates

Question 4

A DevOps leader is asked to justify DevOps adoption to the CFO. Which argument is MOST aligned with DevOps business outcomes research?

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High-performing DevOps teams deploy more frequently with lower failure rates, improving both speed and stability

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DevOps eliminates the need for IT staff

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DevOps only benefits engineering teams and has no financial impact

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DevOps reduces software quality in favor of speed

Question 5

What is the purpose of a 'deployment pipeline' in DevOps?

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An automated sequence of stages that validates and delivers software to production

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A visual dashboard for tracking sprint velocity

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A meeting process for approving production changes

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A network configuration for routing production traffic

Question 6

Which of the following BEST represents a 'pull system' in DevOps-aligned lean thinking?

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Teams pulling work only when they have capacity, limiting WIP

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Pushing features to production as soon as they are coded

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Management pushing priority changes into active sprints

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Automatically pulling dependencies from package managers

Question 7

In a DevOps context, what does 'configuration as code' enable that manual configuration management does not?

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Version-controlled, repeatable, and auditable environment configurations

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Faster servers

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Automatic hardware provisioning

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Elimination of all runtime errors