SAFe® 5 DevOps Certification SAFe® 5 DevOps: Continuous Deployment

Question 1

In SAFe® 5 DevOps, what is the primary goal of Continuous Deployment?

Accepted Answer

To release software to production reliably, frequently, and with minimal manual effort

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To deploy every code change automatically to production without human approval

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To replace the Release on Demand practice with automated releases

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To eliminate the need for feature testing before deployment

Question 2

Which deployment strategy in SAFe® 5 DevOps runs two identical production environments simultaneously, with traffic routed to only one at a time?

Accepted Answer

Blue-green deployment

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Canary deployment

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Rolling deployment

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Shadow deployment

Question 3

In a canary release deployment strategy, what happens initially?

Accepted Answer

The new version is deployed to a small subset of users before a full rollout

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The new version is deployed to all users at once and rolled back if errors occur

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The new version runs in shadow mode collecting metrics without serving traffic

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The deployment is paused until all automated tests pass in staging

Question 4

What is a feature toggle (feature flag) used for in SAFe® 5 DevOps Continuous Deployment?

Accepted Answer

To separate code deployment from feature release, enabling deployment without exposing new functionality

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To configure environment-specific database connection strings

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To automatically toggle between blue and green environments during deployment

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To control access to DevOps pipeline configuration in CI/CD tools

Question 5

Which metric best measures an organization's Continuous Deployment effectiveness in SAFe® 5 DevOps?

Accepted Answer

Deployment frequency and change failure rate

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Number of developers on the team

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Lines of code deployed per sprint

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Total number of automated test cases

Question 6

In SAFe® 5, what is the recommended approach for managing environment configurations across development, staging, and production?

Accepted Answer

Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to version-control and automate environment configuration

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Store environment-specific configurations in the application source code

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Manually configure each environment by the operations team before deployment

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Keep a separate configuration repository accessible only to release managers

Question 7

What does 'deployment pipeline' refer to in SAFe® 5 DevOps?

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An automated sequence of stages that builds, tests, and delivers software to production

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A project management tool for tracking deployment tasks in a Kanban board

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A network infrastructure component that routes traffic between services

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A SAFe® ceremony where the Release Train Engineer plans deployments