Introduction to DevOps Quiz

Introduction to DevOps Week 01 Quiz Answers

Practice Quiz 1 Answers

Q1. Select the statement that is an example of “Technology is the enabler of innovation.”

Ans. Uber used GPS, electronic payments and smart phones to develop a new business model.

Q2. John Allspaw delivered his “10+Deploys Per Day – Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr” presentation in 2019 at the ________.

Ans. Velocity Conference

Q3. Select the correct statement regarding DevOps.

Ans. DevOps is a cultural change in which Dev and Ops work together.

Practice Quiz 2 Answers

Q1. Which of the following characterizers the Waterfall approach?

Ans. Phrases with entrances and exit criteria with no provision for change.

Q2. Who attended the Agile Infrastructure “Birds of a Feather” meeting in 2008 and started DevOps days in 2009?

Ans. Patrick Debois

Q3. The book “The DevOps Handbook” focuses on _______.

Ans. Companies that had adopted DevOps and what did and did not work.

Introduction to DevOps Week 02 Quiz Answers

Practice Quiz Answers

Q1. Which of these is typical of traditional thinking?

Ans. Rebuilding 100% of the code to get the 20% change you need.

Q2. Which of these is part of minimum viable product (MVP)?

Ans. Should I pivot or persevere.

Q3. Which of the following is the likely result of an automated pipeline WITHOUT automated test cases?

Ans. Bugs pushed to production faster.

Q4. Select the correct description of behavior driven development (BDD)?

Ans. Describes the behavior of the system from the outside 

Q5. Cloud native architecture has to do with ______?

Ans. Leveraging microservices.

Q6. Which of these patterns has to do with monitoring for failure up to a certain limit or threshold?

Ans. Circuit breaker patterns.

Introduction to DevOps Week 03 Quiz Answers

Practice Quiz Answers

Q1. What is Taylorism?

Ans. Applying science to management, leading to the factory assembly line.

Q2. What is considering best practice in software engineering that is different from Civil engineering?

Ans. It is a best practice in software engineering for the same team to build and maintain the product.

Q3. Which of the following describes traditional operations instead of DevOps?

Ans. One-of-a-kind infrastructure is built once and maintained.

Q4. What is infrastructure as code?

Ans. The practice of describing infrastructure in an executable textual format.

Q5. What is Continuous Integration?

Ans. The process of continuous building, testing and integrating into the master branch.

Q6. Select the statement that defines Continuous Delivery?

Ans. Ensuring that code can be rapidly and safely deployed to production at any time.   

Introduction to DevOps Week 04 Quiz Answers

Practice Quiz Answers

Q1. Which statement illustrates Conway’s law?

Ans. It is good practice to organize teams around what they are expected to produce.

Q2. When working DevOps, it is better to have teams organized around ______.

Ans. Business domains

Q3. Select the correct statement regarding organizing for DevOps?

Ans. Dev and Ops work with the same mindset, goals and measures.

Q4. How do development and operations engineers work together in a DevOps environment?

Ans. They work together during the entire lifecycle, following Agile principles.

Q5. Select the statement that explains how bad behavior arises when you abstract people away from the consequences of their actions?

Ans. When people work in silos they do not see or feel the effect of their poor work.

Q6. It is good practice to have developers ________.

Ans. Be responsible for the consequences of their actions.

Q7. Select the correct statement regarding how to measure and reward behavior in a DevOps environment.

Ans. To get people to be social, measure them on being social.

Q8. Which objective is measured in a DevOps environment?

Ans. Mean time to recovery.

Q9. Select the correct the statement regarding vanity metrics.

Ans. The number of hits on a website is an example of a vanity metric.

Q10. Select the correct description of actionable metrics.

Ans. They can be use to make decisions to get a desired outcome.

Q11. What did Nicole Forsgren develop for measuring teams?

Ans. Cultural questions.

Q12. Which of the following is NOT a statement used to describe team culture in DevOps?

Ans. On my team, failures are punished.