Continuous Delivery and Platform Engineering Questions
Practice questions for Continuous Delivery and Platform Engineering topic in Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate. 32 questions covering this domain.
A platform team is designing a CI pipeline for a monorepo containing 20 independent microservices. The current pipeline builds and tests all services ...
In a GitOps workflow, what serves as the single source of truth for the desired state of the system?
During a production outage caused by a bad deployment, the on-call platform engineer needs to quickly roll back to the previous working version in a G...
A platform team uses ArgoCD and needs to manage dev, staging, and production environments with environment-specific configuration but a shared applica...
A platform team implements a GitOps promotion workflow requiring a pull request review from a platform engineer before any change reaches production. ...
A development team practices Continuous Integration but not Continuous Delivery. What is the most significant risk introduced by this gap?
What is the primary difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment?
A platform team wants to implement GitOps for their Kubernetes clusters using a pull-based deployment model. Which tool is specifically designed as a ...
A platform team wants to allow developers to deploy new code to production but independently control when features become visible to users, enabling g...
In Continuous Delivery and platform engineering, what is a canary deployment strategy?
A production incident is causing elevated error rates across multiple microservices. The on-call platform engineer wants to quickly identify which rec...
A platform team uses two Git repositories: app-repo for application source code and config-repo for deployment manifests. A CI pipeline builds and tes...
A platform team wants to ensure container images deployed to production were built by their official CI pipeline and not tampered with after build. Wh...
A platform team is choosing between Flux and ArgoCD as their Kubernetes GitOps operator. Which statement accurately describes a key architectural diff...
A platform engineer explains the difference between CI and CD systems to a new team member. Which description best captures the distinct role of each ...
Which CNCF project provides a cloud-native, Kubernetes-native CI/CD pipeline framework using Custom Resources including Tasks, Pipelines, and Pipeline...
Which statement best reflects the role of Argo CD in a Kubernetes platform?
In a soft multi-tenancy model, a platform team does not want Flux to reconcile every tenant repository with cluster-admin privileges. What does the of...
A team has defined a reusable Tekton Pipeline but now wants to execute it with specific parameters for one release. Which Tekton resource instantiates...
A production application must stay on a precisely audited manifest version until a compliance review finishes. Which Argo CD tracking choice best fits...
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