PD1 Deployment Strategies 4

Question 1

What must a developer do before performing a Quick Deploy in production?

Accepted Answer

Complete a successful validation with tests passing within the last 10 days

Answer

Quick Deploy requires a completed, successful validation run (including passing tests) performed within the previous 10 days on the same org.

Question 2

Which metadata component type defines the automated deployment pipeline steps in a Salesforce DevOps Center project?

Accepted Answer

PipelineStage

Answer

PipelineStage metadata defines each environment stage (Dev, QA, UAT, Production) within a Salesforce DevOps Center pipeline.

Question 3

A developer runs 'sf project deploy start' and receives a 'DUPLICATE_VALUE' error. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

A component with the same API name already exists and the deploy tried to create it

Answer

DUPLICATE_VALUE typically means a metadata component being deployed already exists in the org and the operation attempted an insert rather than an upsert.

Question 4

Which Salesforce feature enables teams to track which user story or work item a set of metadata changes belongs to?

Accepted Answer

Salesforce DevOps Center Work Items

Answer

Salesforce DevOps Center Work Items link specific metadata changes to user stories or tasks, providing full traceability throughout the pipeline.

Question 5

When using Salesforce CLI, which file format stores authentication credentials for connected orgs locally?

Accepted Answer

A JSON file in the .sf/credentials directory

Answer

Salesforce CLI stores org authentication tokens and credentials in JSON files within the user's home .sf directory.

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PD1 Deployment Strategies 4