DEVOPSF Online Practice Questions and Answers

An IT architecture is characterized as monolithic and rigidly bound.

What difficulty with adopting DevOps practices can be expected?

A. Clearly defining the boundaries of the IT systems

B. Defining areas of responsibility for each DevOps team

C. Maintaining the increasingly complex architecture

In DevOps, the organization should start where they are and progress iteratively.

What needs to change compared to a more traditional environment to facilitate progression?

A. Cultural and organizational changes within the IT department only

B. Disappearance of the Development and Operations departments

C. Implementation of complex systems, to ensure confidence in the systems

D. Management principles and approaches to information technology

For what type of business is DevOps the least suitable?

A. Companies with unacceptable IT-related risks for the core business

B. Companies without in-house software development

C. Small companies or start-ups

A company is not yet using DevOps practices. The team notices a problematic accumulation of technical debt. One of the team members suggests implementing DevOps practices to solve this problem.

Which DevOps practices support reducing technical debt?

A. Constant refactoring and eliminating previous bottlenecks

B. Continuous delivery and promoting pair programming

C. Continuous feedback and implementing a deployment pipeline

What is a benefit of the way the Definition of Done is defined in DevOps?

A. The team focuses less on the "what" and more on "when"

B. The team focuses less on the "what and more" on "where"

C. The team focuses less on the "what" and more on "who"

D. The team focuses less on the "what" and more on "why"

DevOps incorporates Lean Production principles in software development. What Lean principle is the core of DevOps?

A. Continuous delivery

B. Self-organization

C. Value chain thinking

D. Welcoming change

Even more than Agile or Scrum, DevOps encourages continuous delivery of new functionality and continuous feedback from the customer.

What does this achieve?

A. It increases the team's responsibility

B. It improves customer relations

C. It yields a greater return on IT

In what way does DevOps take operational requirements into account?

A. By considering the workflow from start to end

B. By defining a feature set for first marketing

C. By defining all activities that must be done

Which architecture is a cause of the problems with DevOps that a microservice architecture solves?

A. Intel x86 architecture

B. Mainframe architecture

C. Monolithic architecture

D. Serverless architecture

Configuration management can prevent unauthorized changes to Production.

How should the system be configured to prevent unauthorized changes to Production?

A. Admin passwords should be regularly and automatically changed without notification to all IT staff

B. Chaos and disruptions should be deliberately and automatically introduced into production

C. Only a single source should be used to give out information on the status of the system

D. Value stream mapping should be used to identify security leaks and unauthorized persons

Is it true that when implementing the deployment pipeline, extensive automation is required to consider it a DevOps practice?

A. No, because a deployment pipeline is not the same as automation. Automation is the underlying ideology

B. No, because the deployment pipeline is just used to order work, automation does not apply

C. Yes, because if extensive automaton is not used, technical debt will start accumulating

D. Yes, because the deployment pipeline is needed for continuous automation activities

E. Yes, because the deployment pipeline is the technology that is used to automate work

There are many reasons for an organization to become interested in DevOps.

When should an organization become interested in DevOps?

A. When automated testing is achieved and all functional requirements are tested automatically

B. When continuous delivery is achieved and every change automatically results in a new version of the product

C. When continuous deployment is achieved and every change is immediately released to the customer

D. When continuous integration is achieved and every update to the code is saved immediately to Production

E. When the core business of the organization highly depends on information technology

DevOps practices incorporate the value stream concept from Lean Production.

What is a value stream?

A. The amount of products that are delivered within a timeframe

B. The sequence of releases that deliver a working product

C. The series of actions performed to fulfill any type of request

The description of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) model states:

"SAFe enterprises implement DevOps to break down silos and empower each Agile Release Train (ART) and Solution Train to continuously deliver new Features to their end users. Over time, the separation between development and operations is significantly reduced."

Why is this a limited view on DevOps?

A. Because DevOps extends the agile ideas from IT production to the entire organization, all processes and the entire value chain

B. Because DevOps is better than other methodologies for developing software by incorporating continuous integration and continuous deployment

C. Because there is no limit to the improvements you can establish with DevOps, due to the continuous improvement requirement

Waterfall development was causing certain problems by not delivering what the business needed. Agile addressed some of these problems.

What is a Waterfall feature that is no longer used in Agile?

A. Delivery of small batches of working software

B. Delivery of software based on customers' needs

C. Sequential execution of predetermined stages

D. Using a programming language suitable for the business