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GitOps Principles Questions

Practice questions for GitOps Principles topic in Certified GitOps Associate. 59 questions covering this domain.

59 questions15 easy28 medium16 hard
Q1
medium

Which description matches Flux bootstrap?

Q2
easy

Which GitOps principle requires desired state to be stored in a way that enforces immutability, versioning, and complete history retention?

Q3
medium

What is the core advantage of the pulled automatically principle in GitOps?

Q4
medium

In Argo CD, which tracking choice best pins deployment to one exact manifest revision?

Q5
medium

Why does the versioned and immutable principle support reliable rollback and traceability?

Q6
hard

In OpenGitOps, how are actions selected after reconciliation detects divergence?

Q7
easy

Which OpenGitOps principle says software agents automatically pull the desired state declarations from the source?

Q8
medium

A developer merges a change to the desired state repository. In a GitOps-compliant system, what should happen next?

Q9
medium

Which configuration most clearly violates the declarative principle?

Q10
hard

Which system is least aligned with OpenGitOps principles?

Q11
medium

Which scenario best demonstrates the continuously reconciled principle?

Q12
easy

Argo CD documentation says Git repositories are used as what for defining desired application state?

Q13
hard

Can a system use something other than Git as the state store and still follow GitOps?

Q14
medium

A cluster operator uses kubectl edit to change a Deployment managed by a Flux Kustomization, but does not update the source repository. What should ha...

Q15
hard

Which design choice most weakens the pulled automatically principle?

Q16
hard

A security team mandates that no human operator should be able to push directly to the production desired state repository; all changes must go throug...

Q17
easy

Which OpenGitOps principle is violated when an operator manually edits a resource directly in the cluster without updating the Git repository?

Q18
medium

A developer asks why GitOps tools like Flux reconcile on a fixed interval even when no Git commit has occurred. Which GitOps concept best explains thi...

Q19
medium

An operator runs git revert on the repository holding Kubernetes manifests to undo a bad deployment, and the in-cluster reconciler converges the clust...

Q20
hard

A team has configured their Flux Kustomization with a five-minute reconciliation interval. A colleague suggests increasing the interval to one hour to...

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