1
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- What is missing from this definition of DevOps?
A cultural and professional movement that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and IT operations professions while.
a. Building a deployment pipeline for faster software delivery.
b. Automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes
c. Interfacing new and existing automation between Dev and Ops.
A
B.
2
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- What is the Three Ways?
a. Methodology for identifying and removing constraints.
b. The key principles of DevOps
c. Disciplined data driven approach for reducing waste
d. A methodology for performing continuous improvement
A
B
3
Q
- Which of the following is required for Continuous Integration?
a. Automated unit integration and acceptance testing.
b. Automated release management
c. Continuous delivery pipeline
d. Deployment pipeline
A
A
4
Q
- An organization is struggling with the additional time it takes for security reviews after an agile team completes a Sprint. The delay is impacting their ability to release. They want to include more security testing as part of their shift left testing approach. Which DevOps practice would they need?
a. Rugged DevOps
b. Continuous Testing
c. DevSecOps
d. Internal Audits
A
C
5
Q
- Which statement about the improvement Kata is CORRECT?
a. It focuses on short term goals
b. It is a 7 step process
c. It considers the organizations long term vision direction
d. Internal audits
A
C
6
Q
- Which statement BEST describes change fatigue?
a. Aggressive resistance
b. Apathy
c. Finger pointing
d. Exhaustion
A
B
7
Q
- Due to a tightly-coupled architecture, an organization is unable to increase the frequency of releases for a key service. When releases do occur, they are extremely painful and the organizations competitive advantage is eroding as a result. Which software development approach could be used to improve the situation?
a. Test-driven development
b. Containers
c. Micro services
d. Chaos Monkey
A
c
8
Q
- Which statement about DevOps teams is most accurate?
a. They are responsible for establish DevOps practices across the enterprise
b. They are accountable for the development off the deployment pipeline
c. They should be a fixed team that works together on long term projects.
d. They should have shared accountabilities.
A
d
9
Q
- Which of the following is a critical success factor for DevOps?
a. Establish a tool chain
b. Hiring DevOps Engineers
c. Management commitment to culture change
d. Automating everything
A
c
10
Q
- They Theory of Constraints supports which of the Three Ways?
a. The first Way
b. The Second Way
c. The Third Way
d. All of the above
A
a
11
Q
- An organization is looking to improve real time collaboration between teams Which DevOps practice should they be considering?
a. Kanban
b. ChatOps
c. Escalation
d. Alerts
A
b
12
Q
- What is the Agile Manifesto?
a. Values and principles to guide an iterative and people-centric approach to software development
b. Methodology that focuses on making sure software is always in a releasable state throughout its lifecycle.
c. Declaration of the benefits and intentions of DevOps
d. Intentions and motives of being an agile enterprise.
A
a
13
Q
- Which of the following is a characteristic of a high trust organization culture?
a. Good information flow
b. Cross-functional collaboration
c. Learning from failures and new ideas
d. All of the above
A
d
14
Q
- An organization is beginning to build a deployment pipeline but recognizes that many of the tools may need to be significantly modified at the code level to meeting their requirements. What type of software should they seek?
a. Single vendor application suites
b. Those with application programming interfaces (APIs) built in
c. Open source application
d. Micros services
A
c
15
Q
- Which of the following DevOps roles is not yet well defined?
a. Systems engineer
b. Continuous delivery automation architect
c. DevOps Engineer
d. Experience assurance
A
c
16
Q
- Why is organization culture a critical success factor for devOps?
a. It represents the values and behaviors that contribute to unique social and psychological environment of an organization
b. It represents a command and control approach to the delivery of services
c. It represents the way that an organization is structured and organized
d. It reflects the strategic direction of the business leadership
A
a
17
Q
- An organization is implementing DevOps. The developers concerned that their ITSM processes are too complex, slow and will support DevOps principles and practices. Which IT framework will help the organization instill agile thinking into existing ITSM processes?
a. ITIL
b. Agile
c. Agile service management
d. Lean
A
c
18
Q
- An organization is preparing to deploy every release that passes automation tests. Which DevOps practice are they applying?
a. Continuous delivery
b. Continuous testing
c. Continuous deployment
d. Continuous integration
A
c
19
Q
- Which is not a gold of DevOps?
a. Improved productivity
b. Fewer but higher quality software releases
c. Lower risk software deployment
d. Improved quality of code
A
b
20
Q
- The business why of the Golden Circle represents an organization’s
a. Purpose cause and belief
b. Products and services
c. Competitive advantage
d. Profitability
A
a
21
Q
- An organization implementing a disruptive application similar to the Simian Army. Which of the Three Ways are they introducing.
a. The first way
b. Second Way
c. Third Way
d. Pheonix Projects
A
c
22
Q
a. Pushes work through a process
b. Requires a workflow management tool
c. Pulls work through a process
d. Enables more work in progress
A
c
23
Q
- Which of the ITSM processes are most critical to DevOps
a. Change Release and Service Asset and configuration management
b. Incident problem and event management
c. Demand capacity and information security management
d. All of the above
A
d
24
Q
- An organization is trying to overcome the challenges of their legacy silo culture where teams have been organized by subject matter expertise. What is the organization suffering from?
a. Cultures debt
b. Change fatigue
c. Organizational change
d. Low trust
A
a
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25. Which Best describes a deployment pipeline?
a. Automation version of the ITSM change management process
b. Automation process of managing software changes from check in to release
c. Collection tools that enable continuous deployment
d. Sequence of value adding actives required to design build and delver a product.
b
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6. In the content of agile software development, which of the following is not a responsibility of IT operations?
a. Manage the product backlog
b. Defining non functional requirements
c. identifying security requirements
d. Provision the infrastructure
a
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27. When trying to effect major change, who should be engaged in planning actives and serve as change agents?
a. Early adopters
b. Naysayers
c. Management
d. People who need proof
a
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a. to automate tasks in the development pipeline
b. to be able to acquire tools from a variety of sources and vendors
c. To ensure that the architectural design supports interoperability and consistency.
d. All of the above
d
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29. An organization has just completed the deployment of a pilot release using DevOps practices and preliminary deployment pipeline. Which metric would provide the most information to help them continually improve?
a. Mean time to repair (mttr)
b. Change lead and cycle times
c. knowledge sharing
d. All of the above
d
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30. Which of the following roles are not devops stakeholders?
a. QA testers
b. Support professionals
c. Supplier
d. None of the above
d
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Which of the three ways encourages peer review of production changes?
a. 1st way
b. 2nd way
c. 3rd way
d. all of the above
b
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32. What determines which Devops principles and practices will best benefit an organization?
a. business strategies and goals
b. the commitment of early adopters
c. the availability of advanced tools
d. it’s capabilities and resources
a
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33. Which devops practice relies on a deployment pipeline that enables push button deployment on demand
a. continuous testing
b. continuous integration
c. devsecops
d. continuous delivery
d
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34. What does concept of shift left represent?
a. building quality into the software development process through continuous testing
b. inviting operation teams into the test process during software development
c. Performing random tests on code that is committed to a continuous integration server.
d. doing more testing in production after deployment
a
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35. Which lean tools depicts the flow of information, materials and work across functional silos with an emphasis on quantifying and eliminating wasts?
a. improvement kata
b. A3 thinking
c. Kaizen
d. value steam mapping
d
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36. What of the following is not a typical element in a devops toolchain?
a. Monitoring tools
b. Test automation
c. Version Control
d service desk incident management systems.
d
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37. An organization recently held and internal devops day,s. During one of the open space sessions, it way suggested that there be more opportunities for dev, ops, security and other it areas to interact and share. What sort of opportunities should the organization consider?
a. Hackathons
b. simulations
c. immersions opportunities
d. all of the above
d
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38. An organization is going to pilot their devops program on an upcoming release of a critical business application. What is the primary reason that they should reconsider this approach?
a. They may not have enough time to build a devops toolchain
b. there is to much risk any mistake could have significant business impact.
c. There is not enough opportunity to practice and learn.
d. They may not have enough capability or time to do significant testin
b
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39. Which is a characteristic of a devops culture?
a. effective one way communication from the top down.
b. recognizing the best and brightest for their successes.
c. shared vision, gaols and incentives
d. all of the above
c
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40. in the content of lean, what constitutes wasts?
a. muri
b. muda
c. mura
d. value stream
d
