DEVOPSF Online Practice Questions and Answers

Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) has both advantages and limitations for businesses.

What is true about COTS?

A. COTS supports continuous development with its fast implementation

B. COTS will save the business time and money, by reducing development time

C. Depending on the type of COTS used, the possibility of customization is limited

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 should be taken into account most when prioritizing tasks according to DevOps practices?

A. How long the task has waited

B. How much the team likes the task

C. How much value the task adds

D. How much work the task takes

What helps a DevOps team to successfully develop and deliver working software?

A. Allowing your DevOps teams to develop their own specific mission

B. Forming a DevOps team for short period of time during a project

C. Identifying, fixing and learning from errors only after your project ended

D. Writing code for software to have built-in quality as a main goal

Cloud computing advances have partly enabled DevOps practices.

Which cloud technology characteristic or characteristics enable DevOps most?

A. Broad network access ensures that both Development and Operations can access the code easily

B. Cloud computing is in the basis completely script-based, which means the environment is easy to automate

C. Resource pooling and rapid elasticity make cloud computing cheaper, so that resources can go to development

IT work within DevOps is organized differently from more traditional practices, using newer infrastructure management technologies to make this possible.

Which two technologies are meant? (Choose two.)

A. Automation

B. Cloud computing

C. Containerization

D. Software robots

E. Virtualization

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

A commonly understood definition of the term `time-to-market' is:

The time between business idea and the possibility of a customer purchase.

Which two DevOps practices may help reduce the time-to-market for a company? (Choose two.)

A. Continuous delivery and deployment

B. Continuous identification and reduction of losses

C. Extreme programming

D. Pair programming

E. Visualizing the Work-in-Progress (WiP)

The most valuable information of a value stream map is taken from three key metrics.

What is one of these three key metrics?

A. Measured service

B. Percentage complete

C. Process time

D. Server time

DevOps states that release should be a routine.

Which DevOps principle is necessary for daily releases?

A. Automation of the deployment pipeline

B. Continuous improvement of processes

C. Solving incidents immediately

D. Visualization of the Work-in-Progress