Automating Application Development

Question 1

What is CI (Continuous Integration)?

Answer 1

Practice in software development where developers merge code changes frequently in one place

Question 2

What does Release do?

Answer 2

Process of finalizing and preparing new software or updates

Question 3

What does Deployment do?

Answer 3

Involves automated process of software releases to users

Question 4

What does Continuous Delivery do?

Answer 4

Ensures code is always deployable after every change with automation

Question 5

What is Continuous Deployment?

Answer 5

Automates the process of deploying code changes from testing to production

Question 6

What are ways to Automate Security?

Answer 6

■ Implementing Guardrails
■ Managing Security Groups
■ Enabling and Disabling Services and Access
■ Automating Permissions Management

Question 7

What are Guardrails?

Answer 7

Automated safety controls to protect against insecure infrastructure configurations

Question 8

What are Security Groups?

Answer 8

● Act as virtual firewalls for cloud-based server instances
● Specify allowed incoming and outgoing network traffic using predefined rules

Question 9

What are Automatic RBAC (Role-based Access Controls)?

Answer 9

Automate provisioning and de-provisioning of access rights based on assigned roles

Question 10

What is the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment in (CI/CD)?

Answer 10

Continuous Delivery requires manual deployment until production, while Continuous Deployment automates the entire Deployment process through to production