Welcome to your DevOps Foundation - B2 Name Email Enter your DOB (dd/mm/yyyy) 1. How do shortened feedback loops improve lT's performance? A. They encourage learning and experimentation B. They ensure a faster flow between Dev and Ops C. They help to create and embed knowledge when needed D. They enable continuous improvement None 2. Which statement about DevOps toolchains is CORRECT? A. Automate tasks in a deployment pipeline B. Should be standardized across applications C. Require open source tools D. Automate continuous testing activities None 3. Which of the following are benefits of automation? A. Decreased security and risk mitigation B. More frequent and turbulent releases C. Fewer errors and slower lead time D. Higher quality and faster recovery None 4. Which of the following instruments measure a person's behavioral choices under certain conflict situations? A. Kubler-Ross Change Curve B. Westrum's Typology of Organizational Culture C. Thomas Kilmann lnventory D. Value Stream Mapping None 5. Which statement about deployment success rate is CORRECT? A. Applies only to production B. May apply to multiple environments, not just production C. ls used to measure application reliability and stability D. ls the same as change success rate None 6. A large insurance provider has an aggressive growth strategy that includes opening a record number of new locations, a digital transformation and the replacement of several legacy applications. What is the MOST effective way to minimize the change fatigue that teams experience when introducing DevOps? A. Use shared tools to improve communication and collaboration B. Provide the funding needed to adopt DevOps practices C. Reward and promote early adopters D. Tie the introduction of DevOps to business strategies and goals None 7. Which of the following helps an organization to practice DevSecOps? A. Embracing a "shift right" testing strategy B. Conducting frequent security audits after deployment C. Engaging external penetration testing services D. lntroducing security as code None 8. The CIO of an online retailer is excited about the potential of DevOps for her organization. She tells her managers that she wants DevOps to be fully implemented by the end of the year. Last year, she mandated the same approach for agile software development. When the managers share this information with their teams, they are met with apathy and passive resignation. The staff is tired of the frequent changes in direction. What can the managers do to encourage their teams to be more enthusiastic about DevOps? A. Reorganize the department's structure to remove silos and create DevOps teams B. Establish and publish goals and metrics for DevOps success C. Architect a DevOps toolchain that will demonstrate the value of more automation D. Empower people to participate and contribute their knowledge and ideas None 9. An organization is automating a deployment pipeline. Which ITSM process owner should they involve in the design and development of the toolchain? A. Change manager B. Release manager C. Configuration manager D. Service level manager None 10. which of the following is Nor a characteristic of a Devops culture? A. Data driven B. Reflective C. Command and control D. Accountability None 11. which of the following is Nor a predictor of lr performance? A. Peer reviewed change approval processes B. Version control for some production artifacts C. High{rust organizational culture D. Proactive monitoring None 12. A major retailorganization is experiencing declining sales and wants to boost its online business. Teams within Dev and ops have been independently experimenting with Devops practices to speed up changes to the company's website but have yet to see tangible benefits. what can the lr management team do to achieve bottom-line benefits with DevOps? A. Encourage intelligent risk taking B. Create a shared vision, goals and incentives C. Build a high-trust culture D. Promote a customer (outside-in) focus None 13. Which of the following is NOT a crucial ingredient when leading a d ig ita I transfo rmation? A. Collaboration B. Command C. Curiosity D. Courage None 14. Which of the following would enable an lT organization to consolidate gains from a DevOps pilot? A. Rewarding the people who participated in the pilot B. Hiring new people to expand the DevOps program C. Sharing lessons learned D. lntroducing more advanced tools and techniques None 15. The Deming Cycle (Plan-Do-Check-Act) plays a key role in which Lean practice? A. Value Stream Mapping B. DOWNTIME C. Andon cord D. lmprovement Kata None 16. An incident has occurred in an organization's core mobile banking application. lndividuals from several teams in the US, Germany and lndia swarm into a Slack channel where together they query their continuous delivery and monitoring systems to trace the change and fault causing the problem. What BEST describes what they are practicing? A. Swarming B. ChatOps C. lncident Management D. lT Support None 17. An organization is considering introducing Continuous Integration to their software development efforts. What would be the PRIMARY advantage of this approach? A. Code commits can be tested together in order to detect and remediate errors before they go into production B. Continuous integration allows more developers to work on the Same prod uct simu ltaneously C. Continuous integration will push more code into production more quickly D. Continuous integration will support the creation of a version control repository None 18. Consider the following statements: 1. Responds to infrastructure provisioning requests 2. ldentifies non-functional requirements 3. Runs the daily Scrum meetingsWhich statement(s) about lT Operations' involvement in agile software development is (are) CORRECT? A. 1,2and3 B.2and3 C. 1and3 D. 1and2 None 19. Several members of an lT service provider's development and operations teams recently attended a local Devops meetup. They came away very excited about applying a DevOps approach to their organization. Which of the following would be a critical success factor for their DevOps program? A. Additional budget for new automation B. Reorganization of the IT organization into DevOps Teams C. Management commitment to culture change D. The design and development of a deployment pipeline for continuous integration and continuous delivery None 20. Which framework ensures that ITSM processes are designed with just enough control and structure in order to effectively and efficiently deliver services that facilitate customer outcomes when and how they are needed? A. ITIL B. COBIT C. Agile service management D. DevOps None 21. An organization is struggling to reduce delays when launching new projects. Which of the following automation practices could help reduce these delays? A. Automated continuous integration and builds B. Test driven development C. Treating infrastructure as code D. On-demand creation of development, test, staging and production environments None 22. A team has recently introduced their first Kanban board and are saying that they are finding it hard to focus and are feeling exhausted from \ context switching. Additionally, the business are complaining that nothing is being finished and they are yet to receive any of what they asked for What do the team need to do? A. Push more work onto the board to provide more opportunities to deliver something B. Add more development resources to the team to cope with the workload C. Try using Work in Progress limits D. Unblock any blocked work items None 23. Which of the following sets of skills are essential for a DevOps professional? A. Business, technical, soft skills, self-managernent B. Business, Agile, infrastructure, communication C. Business, Agile, ITSM, Lean D. Business, development, operational, soft skills None 24. An organization has had a series of recent failures in one of their core applications. The time it took to identify and resolve the error exceeded agreed service levels. The lT service provider is trying to identify ways to improve their ability to respond while also improving their resiliency. Which of the following principles behind the Third Way could help their situation? A. They could analyze their internal processes to identify constraints that are affecting workflow and delays B. They could intentionally introduce faults into their infrastructure to practice their ability to respond and identify ways to increase their resiliency c. They could provide more opportunities for feedback from Devops stakeholders D. They could review their MTTR statistics to see where they could add more redundant system None 25. The lT department of a very large insurance company is trying to improve the collaboration and communication between development and operational teams without much success. The department has many silos that are organized by expertise and led by a different manager. The managers of each team do not seem to be particularly interested in DevOps since they have been operating this way for many years and like their silo culture What is this organization suffering from? A. Organizational change B. Culturaldebt C. Change fatigue D. Low trust None 26. How can Scrum support DevOps'Third Way? A. By using Sprint Retrospectives as learning and improvement opportunities B. By overcoming constraints and getting more work done C. By encouraging Scrum Teams to invite an operational professional to their team D. By encouraging shorter feedback loops through Daily Scrums None 27. Which of the following is NOT an example of a feedback loop? A. Dashboards B. Monitoring/event data C. Peer review of changes D. Product backlog None 28. lT operations have created a set of centralized platforms and tooling services that any dev team can use to be more productive using I guidance from The DevOps Handbook. which of the foilowing key characteristics does it have? A. A shared version contror repository with pre-bressed security libraries B. A deproyment piperine that automaticaily runs code quarity and security scanning tools C' Deploys applications into known good environments with production monitoring D. All of the above None 29. An organization wants to use experiments to improve its rrsM processes in support of Devops practices. consider the foilowing approaches: 1. Agile Service Management 2. Value Stream Mapping 3. Improvement Katawhich approach courd this organization use to design and implement small, incremental improvements? A. 1or2or3 B. 1 or2 C.2or3 D. 1or3 None 30. which of the foilowing does not make Devops important now? A. lT must continue to operate in a silo culture B. Enterprises have young, nimble start_up competitors C. consumers have'app' mentarities and expectations D. Time to value must accelerate None 31. Which of the following is NOT a reason business is interested in DevOps? A. loT is rapidly increasing B. lntelligent data must shape direction quickly C. DevOps can automate allthe things D. Customers value outcomes not products None 32. Who are the PRIMARY stakeholders for DevOps? A. Software engineers and operational teams B. Business representatives C. Security and QA testers D. All of the above None 33. Updates to a complex critical business service are released every calendar quarter. The business would like to increase the frequency of releases for this service. Why would segmenting the service into microservices help to improve the frequency of release? A. Microservices create a service architecture built on smaller modules that can be updated independently without affecting the primary system B. Microservices are always open source so they can be modified frequently to meet business requirements C. Microservices can be built quickly to correct or remove errors in the primary system D. Microservices are less expensive and therefore can be built and released more frequently None 34. which of the foilowing is an exampre of a "shift reft,, testing strategy? A. Testing in production B. Manualtesting C. End to end use-case testing D. All of the above None 35. which of the foilowing is Nor a benefit of using a Kanban board? A. lt reduces work in progress B. lt defines policies and procedures C. lt enables people to work collaboratively D. lt reduces idle time and waste None 36. which of the foilowing is a metric for operationar efficiency? A. Cost of change/release B. MTTR C. Deployment success rate D. User satisfaction None 37. An lT provider's Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) has been increasing. Which ITSM process could help them respond to and manage outages better? A. Change Management B. Service Level Management C. Release Management D. lncident Management None 38. Which of the following DevOps practices encourage conversation driven development, delivery and support? A. The Second Way B. ChatOps C. Communication platforms D. VisOps None 39. What are the correct set of DevOps values? A. Culture, Collaboration, Communication, Commitment B. Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing C. Culture, Automation, Lean, Metrics, Sharing D. Culture, Accountability, Lean, Metrics, Sharing None 40. An organization is finding that defects found in production had frequently already been identified and recorded in testing and staging and sometimes, although they optimized performance locally, they caused global degradation. Upon further inspection, it was found that this was happening because the testing phase was often delayed due to constraints around resource availability. Which of The Three Ways should they look to for direction on how to resolve the situation? A. The First Way B. The Second Way C. The Third Way D. Continuous Experimentation and Learning None 1 out of 9 Your quiz is running out of time! few seconds are remaining. Time is Up!
