Software Engineering DevOps and CI/CD Pipelines 2

Question 1

Which practice involves automatically deploying every change that passes tests directly to production?

Accepted Answer

Continuous Deployment

Answer

Continuous Deployment automatically deploys every code change that passes all pipeline stages directly to production without manual approval.

Question 2

What is a 'blue-green deployment'?

Accepted Answer

Maintaining two identical production environments and switching traffic between them

Answer

Blue-green deployment maintains two identical production environments; the new version is deployed to the idle environment and traffic is switched over once verified.

Question 3

What does 'shift left' mean in DevOps quality practices?

Accepted Answer

Introducing testing and security earlier in the development lifecycle

Answer

Shift left means moving testing, security, and quality checks earlier in the development process to catch defects sooner and reduce remediation costs.

Question 4

Which monitoring concept tracks the four key metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR?

Accepted Answer

DORA metrics

Answer

DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics measure software delivery performance through four key indicators that predict organizational performance.

Question 5

In Kubernetes, what is a 'Pod'?

Accepted Answer

The smallest deployable unit, containing one or more containers

Answer

A Pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes that can contain one or more containers sharing storage, network, and a specification for how to run.

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Software Engineering DevOps and CI/CD Pipelines 2