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What triggers the release activity?

Business decision to go live

Change validated in staging environment

Successful user acceptance tests

Successful deployment to production

What is an output of the Release sub-dimension?

A Feature made available to end users

A Feature migrated to the cloud

A Feature made available to internal users

A Feature deployed to production

Which statement illustrates the biggest bottleneck?

LT= 1 day, PT= 0.5 day, %C&A= 90%

LT= 10 days, PT= 0.5 day, %C&A= 100%

LT= 6 days, PT= 5 days, %C&A= 100%

LT= 5 days, PT= 2.5 days, %C&A= 100%

What are the top two advantages of mapping the current state of the delivery pipeline? (Choose Two)

A. To identify some of the processes within the delivery pipeline

B. To help identify and make short-term fixes

C. To help with incremental software delivery

D. To achieve a collective understanding and consensus around problems

E. To enable everyone in the organization to see how the value stream is actually performing

What is true about the Boundaries and Limitations portion of the DevOps Transformation Canvas?

It captures the people who need to be involved in the DevOps transformation

It captures improvement items that require the support of other people or teams

It captures the lowest priority improvement items

It captures budget constraints that will prevent DevOps improvements

What organizational anti-pattern does DevOps help to address?

Organizations that make decisions along functional lines

Organizations that have at least three management layers

Too much focus on centralized planning

Teams that are isolated and working within functional areas

What is one potential outcome of the Verify activity of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Roll back a failed deployment

Analyze end user behavior and Feature adoption Metrics

Analyze regression testing results

Fix a broken build

Which statement describes what could happen when development and operations do not collaborate early in the pipeline?

Teams build things quickly but build the wrong things

Surprises are found in deployment that lead to significant rework and delay

Automation of integration test is not possible

Lead times are reduced

What are two reasons for test data management? (Choose two.)

To track the results of automated test cases for use by corporate audit

To provide a viable option for disaster-recovery management

To truncate data from the database to enable fast-forward recovery

To generate synthetic test data inputs in order to validate test scenarios for automated tests maintained in version control

To automate provisioning data to an application in order to set it to a known state before testing begins

What are two benefits of devops(Choose two.)

Increased batch size

Better alignment between strategy and execution

Tightly coupled architecture

Faster lead time

Fewer defects

Which metric reflects the quality of output at each step in the value stream?

A. %C/A - percent complete/accurate

B. Escaped defects

C. Process time

D. Deployment frequency

What should the team be able to do, after current-state mapping is complete?

Describe the biggest bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline

Understand the steps needed to improve the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

How is Lean UX used in Continuous Exploration?

To validate the return on investment

To automate the user interface scripts

To create .a platform to continuously explore

To collaboratively create .a benefit hypothesis

Which incident response practice most strongly suggests a lack of DevOps culture?

Frequent fix-forward changes

On-call developers

Frequent server reboots

Manual rollback procedures

Feature toggles are useful for which activity?

To decouple deployment from release

To enable continuous code integration

To prevent testing complexity

To enable continuous testing

Security vulnerability scanning is an important architectural consideration in which dimension of the DevOps Health Radar?

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Integration

Continuous Exploration

Release on Demand

What is one potential outcome of the Verify sub-dimension of the pipeline?

Roll back a failed deployment

Fix a broken build

Analyze end user behavior and feature adoption metrics

Analyze regression testing results

When does the Continuous Integration dimension of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline begin?

When a user story has satisfied its definition of done

When a feature has been pulled for work

When code is checked in to version control

When the Team Backlog has been refined

What are the first two areas that should be identified in value stream mapping? (Choose two.)

The bottlenecks

Process time, lead time, and percent complete .and accurate

The people who supervise the work

The steps

The people who do the work

Continuous Deployment enables which key business objective?

Business value

Release continuously

Manage technical debt

Time to market

What is an output of the Release sub-dimension?

A Feature deployed to production

A Feature made available to end users

A Feature made available to internal users

A Feature migrated to the cloud

What are two benefits of DevOps? (Choose two.)

Fewer defects

Increase batch size

Faster lead time

Tightly coupled architecture

Better alignment between strategy and execution

What is the recommended way to prioritize the potential items for the DevOps transformation?

Minimum Viable Product

Lean Business Case

Minimum Marketable Feature

Weighted Shortest Job First

What triggers the release activity?

Successful user acceptance tests

Business decision to go live

Successful deployment to production

Change validated in staging environment

Which statement describes what could happen when Development and Operations do not collaborate early in the pipeline?

Lead times are reduced

Automation of integration test is not possible

Surprises are found in deployment that lead to significant rework and delay

Teams build things quickly but build the wrong things

Which statement illustrates the biggest bottleneck?

LT = 10 days, PT = 0.5 day, %C&A = 100%

LT = 5 days, PT = 2.5 days, %C&A = 100%

LT = 1 day, PT = 0.5 day, %C&A = 90%

LT = 6 days, PT = 5 days, %C&A = 100%

What marks the beginning of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

An idea

A committed user story

A checked-in change

A committed feature

Which is true about the "Boundaries and Limitations" portion of the DevOps Transformation Canvas?

It captures cultural constraints that will prevent us from ever moving forward

It captures the people who need to be involved in the DevOps transformation

It captures lower priority improvement items

It captures actions that require the support of other people or teams

What does value stream mapping help reveal in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Who is responsible for optimizing the value stream

Where automation is needed

Where documentation should be reduced

Bottlenecks to the flow of value

Where do features go after Continuous Exploration?

Into Continuous Integration where they are merged and tested with other Features

Into the Program Backlog where they are then prioritized

Into development where they are then split into Stories

Into a backlog tool where they are then split into Epics

What should the team be able to do .after current-state mapping?

Describe the biggest bottlenecks in the delivery pipeline

Define a plan to reduce the lead time and increase process time

Identify those responsible for the biggest bottlenecks in the process

Understand the steps needed to improve the Continuous Delivery Pipeline

What can impede the progress of a DevOps transformation the most?

When teams use frequent retrospectives

Lack of funding for CI/CD Pipeline tools

When various groups in the organization have different directions and goals

When there is no DevOps team

Which activity is performed in the Build sub-dimension of the pipeline?

Compile

Code

Automated acceptance testing

Code review

The DevOps Radar aligns the dimensions to which four stakeholder concerns?

Exploration, integration, development, reflection

Productivity, efficiency, speed-to-market, competitive advantage

Alignment, quality, time-to-market, business value

Portfolio, solution, program, team

What identifies potential changes to the current state value stream that could improve flow?

Future state mapping

Problem-Solving Workshop

Impact mapping

Value stream identification

What are two reasons for test data management? (Choose two.)

To track the results of automated test cases for use by corporate audit

To truncate data from the database to enable fast-forward recovery

To generate synthetic test data inputs in order to validate test scenarios for automated tests maintained in version control

To automate provisioning data to an application in order to set it to a known state before testing begins

To provide a viable option for disaster-recovery management

Which two statements describe the purpose of value stream mapping? (Choose two.)

To deliver incremental value in the form of working, tested software, and systems

To create .an action plan for continuous improvement

To visualize how value flows

To create. an understanding of the budget

To understand the Product Owner's priorities

Which two skills appear under the Respond sub-dimension? (Choose two.)

Automatic rollback

Cross-team collaboration

Telemetry

Version control

Service virtualization

What organizational anti-pattern does DevOps help to address?

Organizations that have at least three management layers

Teams that are isolated and working within functional areas (e.g., Business, Operations, and Technology)

Organizations that make decisions along functional lines

Too much focus on centralized planning

Which technical practice incorporates build-time identification of security vulnerabilities in the code?

Application Security

Penetration Testing

Threat Modeling

Dynamic Code Analysis

What should be measured in a CALMR approach to DevOps?

Measure everything

Deployment frequency

Unit test coverage

Mean time to restore

What differentiates Deployment and Release in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Deployment is done on a cadence; release is done on demand

Deployment is performed by Development; release is performed by Operations

Deployment occurs every iteration; release occurs at PI boundaries

Deployment involves moving value to production; release involves making value available to end users

When should teams use root cause analysis to address impediments to continuous delivery?

During Iteration Planning

During Inspect and Adapt

During the Management Review & Problem Solving portion of PI Planning

During the Iteration Retrospective

Which steps in the value stream should be the main focus when choosing the most important improvement items?

Steps with a high activity ratio

Steps with short process time and short lead time in the future-state map

Steps with long lead time and short process time in the current-state map

Steps with a long process time

Gemba walks are an important competency in support of which sub-dimension of the DevOps Health Radar?

Hypothesize

Verify

Learn

Collaborate and Research

Which metric reflects the quality of output at each step in the value stream?

Process Time

Deployment frequency

%C/A - percent complete .and accurate

Escaped defects

A canary release involves releasing value to whom?

Internal users first

One subset of users at a time

External users only

Internal users only

How should developers integrate refactoring into their workflow?

Create and estimate refactoring stories in the team backlog

Allocate a portion of their capacity to refactoring in every Iteration

Refactor continuously as part of Test-Driven Development

Create and estimate refactoring tasks for each story in the team backlog

The Explore dimension primarily supports which key stakeholder objective?

Business Value

Alignment

Hypothesize

Research and Development

What can impede the progress of a DevOps transformation the most?

Lack of funding for CVCD pipeline tools

when teams use frequent retrospectives

when various groups in the organization have different directions and goals

. when there is no DevOps team

Which two skills appear under the Respond activity? (Choose two.)

Cross-team collaboration

Version control

Telemetry

Automatic rollback

Service virtualization

Why is hypothesis evaluation important when analyzing data from monitoring systems in the Release on Demand aspect?

It helps link objective production data to the hypothesis being tested

It helps operations teams know where to apply emergency fixes

It helps identify the minimum viable product for evaluating the hypothesis

It helps quickly create balanced scorecards for stakeholder review

The Continuous Exploration aspect primarily supports which key stakeholder objective?

Research and development

Hypothesize

Alignment

Business value

What is the recommended way to prioritize the potential items for the DevOps transformation? [ DevOps]

Weighted shortest job first

minimum viable product

minimum marketable feature

lean business case

Scanning application code for security vulnerabilities is an important step in which aspect of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?

Continuous Integration

Release on Demand

Continuous Exploration

Continuous Deployment

What does the Activity Ratio measure in the value stream?

The percentage of time spent on non-value-added activities

The percentage of time spent on value-added activities

The efficiency of the business process activities as a ratio of process time to cycle time

The percentage of time spent on delays to the number of processes in the value stream

What is the recommended way to prioritize the potential items for the DevOps transformation?

Minimum Viable Product

Lean Business Case

Minimum Marketable Feature

Weighted Shortest Job First

Which steps in the Value Stream should be the main focus when prioritizing improvement items?

Steps with a long process time

Steps with a high activity ratio

Steps with short process time and short lead time in the future-state map

Steps with long lead time and short process time in the current-state map

When full deployment automation is not possible, which practice helps developers deploy code into production?

Self-service deployment

Deployment automation

Infrastructure as code

Continuous deployment

What is a consequence of working in isolation on long-lived code branches?

Rollbacks will be difficult

Trunk/Main will not always be in a deployable state

Static analysis tests will fail

Deployments will fail

Ensuring that security controls such as threat modeling, application security, and penetration testing are in place throughout the Continuous Delivery Pipeline is an example of which stabilizing skill?

Failover/disaster recovery

Design for operations

DevSecOps

Continuous security monitoring

Continuous Deployment enables which key business objective?

Release continuously

Manage technical debt

Time to market

Business value

Why is hypothesis evaluation important when analyzing data from monitoring systems in the Release dimension?

It helps quickly create balanced scorecards for stakeholder review

It helps link objective production data to the hypothesis being tested

It helps identify the Minimum Viable Product for evaluating the hypothesis

It helps Operations teams know where to apply emergency fixes

What does the Activity Ratio measure in the value stream?

The percentage of time spent on value-added activities

The efficiency of the business process activities as a ratio of process time to cycle time

The percentage of time spent on delays to the number of processes in the value stream

The percentage of time spent on non-value-added activities

Weighted shortest job first is applied to backlogs to identify what?

Maximum economic value

User business value

Proxy for job size

Epics, features, and capabilities

What are two parts of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? (Choose two.)

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Continuous Testing

Deploy on Demand

Continuous Deployment

What are the top two advantages of mapping the current state of the delivery pipeline? (Choose two.)

To help with incremental software delivery

To enable everyone in the organization to see how the value stream is actually performing

To identify some of the processes within the delivery pipeline

To help identify and make short-term fixes

To achieve a collective understanding and consensus around problems

Which teams should coordinate when responding to production issues?

Support teams and Dev teams

SRE teams and System Teams

Dev teams and Ops teams

Teams across the Value Stream

What is an output of the Release activity?

A Feature migrated to the cloud

A Feature deployed to production

A Feature made available to end users

A Feature made available to internal users

The DevOps Health Radar aligns the four aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline to which four stakeholder concerns?

Alignment, quality, time-to-market, business value

Productivity, efficiency, speed-to-market, competitive advantage

Exploration, integration, development, reflection

Portfolio, Solution, program, team