DevOps Capabilities, Accelerators and Enablers part1
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What does a lightweight change approval process based on peer review outperform?

  • External change approval boards (CABs) (correct)
  • System health proactive checks
  • Management monitoring capabilities
  • Work-in-process (WIP) limits

    • Which cultural indicator predicts IT performance, organizational performance, and burnout reduction?

  • Meaningful work
  • Psychological safety
  • Generative culture (correct)
  • Supporting leadership

    • What is a metric for a company’s learning culture?

  • Good information flow
  • Encouraging learning
  • Transformational leadership
  • Investment in education (correct)

    • What does DevOps imply a closer interaction between?

    <p>Development and operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a key characteristic of transformational leadership?

    <p>Vision and recognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a predictor of software delivery success, organizational performance, and productivity according to Google's Accelerate Report?

    <p>High levels of trust</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the first step toward continuous delivery?

    <p>Implementing continuous integration</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which capability involves having fewer than three active branches in a code repository?

    <p>Using trunk-based development method</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a critical aspect of automated testing according to the text?

    <p>Supporting test data management</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which architectural capability allows teams to work independently without relying on other teams for support and services?

    <p>Loosely coupled architecture</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of effective test suites according to the text?

    <p>They detect real faults and only pass codes can be released</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which capability involves integrating security into the design and testing stages of the software development process?

    <p>Shifting left on security</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three pillars that DevOps focuses on?

    <p>People, process, and technology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does an effective DevOps strategy formalize and convey?

    <p>The route to the final objective</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the optimal objective state for DevOps?

    <p>Total delivery process automation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is required to maintain peak efficiency, security, and maintainability in DevOps?

    <p>Continuing lean optimization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is crucial to address in a consistent, long-term approach for a seamless move into a DevOps model?

    <p>People, process, and technology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does DevOps combine to boost corporate efficiency and customer satisfaction?

    <p>Collaboration, cultural transformation, and automation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of an artifact repository in a CI/CD process?

    <p>To serve as both the source for the artifacts required for a build and the target for the deployment of artifacts produced during a build process</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of a pipeline in a CI/CD process?

    <p>To eliminate human mistakes and maintain a consistent software release procedure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is included in the test phase of the CI/CD pipeline?

    <p>Automated tests such as integration tests, unit tests, and regression tests</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in DevOps?

    <p>To automate the supply of IT infrastructure using a high-level descriptive coding language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool is commonly used for open-source continuous integration/continuous delivery?

    <p>Jenkins</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should be stored in artifact repositories like Nexus or Artifactory in a CI/CD process?

    <p>Various artifacts required for a build and artifacts produced during a build process</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary purpose of using version control systems in software development?

    <p>To manage files and coordinate their creation, access, updating, and deletion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a significant benefit of using version control in software development?

    <p>Assisting in the management of capacity by generating replicas of current servers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do version control systems contribute to the software development process?

    <p>By enabling teams to rapidly and reliably return to a previously validated working state</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of metadata in software development?

    <p>To assist in classifying and identifying characteristics of the data they describe</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is it important to outline the objectives in measurable terms when implementing version control?

    <p>To figure out the best way to achieve the objectives</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the starting point for stories in Agile teams?

    <p>The desired business outcome or the problem they are attempting to solve</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the advantages of infrastructure as code (IaC)?

    <p>Faster time to market due to automation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does infrastructure as code (IaC) help prevent?

    <p>Mismatched development, test, and deployment environments</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does immutable infrastructure refer to in the context of infrastructure as code (IaC)?

    <p>Infrastructure that cannot be changed after provisioning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which approach is considered the best fit for most businesses when picking an IaC solution?

    <p>Declarative approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a disadvantage of the declarative approach to infrastructure automation?

    <p>Usually necessitates the use of a professional administrator</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does mutable infrastructure allow development teams to do?

    <p>Make ad hoc server adjustments</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which aspect does infrastructure as code (IaC) expedite in the software delivery lifecycle?

    <p>Provisioning and ensuring infrastructure consistency</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does infrastructure as code (IaC) prevent by consistently providing the same environment?

    <p>Configuration drift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is critical when automating infrastructure with IaC?

    <p>Deciding whether to create mutable or immutable infrastructure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What benefit does immutable infrastructure provide in terms of maintaining consistency between test and deployment environments?

    <p>It virtually prevents configuration drift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    • DevOps is a mindset for combining collaboration, cultural transformation, and automation to boost corporate efficiency and customer satisfaction.
    • DevOps focuses on three pillars: people, process, and technology, with the goal of total delivery process automation.
    • The State of DevOps research program by DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) has identified 24 essential capabilities for software teams based on seven years of research and data from over 32,000 professionals.
    • Continuous delivery architecture includes version control for all production artifacts and automated deployment processes.
    • Continuous integration is a development strategy that involves regular code checks and fast tests to detect significant regressions.
    • Test automation runs software tests automatically throughout the development process, while effective test data management is essential for maintaining adequate test data.
    • Security should be integrated into the design and testing stages of the software development process.
    • Loosely coupled architecture and architecting for empowered teams enable teams to work independently and add value to the organization.
    • Gathering and implementing customer feedback, making the flow of work visible, and fostering team experimentation improve software delivery performance.
    • A lightweight change approval process, proactive system health monitoring, work-in-process restrictions, and visualizing work to monitor quality and communicate progress enhance IT performance.
    • Encouraging a generative culture, supporting learning, collaboration among teams, and having meaningful work contribute to IT performance.
    • Transformational leadership supports the technological and process work key to DevOps.

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