Preview Questions DevOps | Role Specific Skill

Question 1: You are onboarding a new team member who is unfamiliar with your organization's CI/CD pipeline. How do you ensure their successful integration and contribution to the team?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Provide comprehensive documentation and training materials on the pipeline's architecture and processes.

Assign them a mentor or buddy to guide them through the pipeline and answer their questions.

Encourage them to shadow experienced team members during pipeline execution and troubleshooting.

All of the above.

Question 2: Your team is adopting a new CI/CD tool. How do you ensure security is integrated into the pipeline from the start?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Configure the tool with default security settings and rely on its built-in security features.

Perform a security assessment of the tool before integrating it into the pipeline.

Implement security scanning and testing as part of the pipeline stages.

Train the team on secure coding practices and pipeline configuration.

Question 3: You're working on a large project with multiple team members contributing to the configuration management repository. How do you ensure consistency and prevent conflicts while allowing for flexibility and experimentation?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Establish clear branching and merging strategies, encouraging frequent integration and testing.

Implement code reviews and automated testing to catch errors and inconsistencies early in the development process.

Use feature flags or environment variables to enable or disable specific configuration changes on different environments.

Enforce strict coding standards and conventions for configuration management code to maintain consistency.

Question 4: You are tasked with designing a disaster recovery plan for your organization's critical cloud-based applications and data. What key considerations do you take into account to ensure business continuity in the event of a major outage or disaster?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Define Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for each application, ensuring that they align with business requirements and SLAs.

Implement data replication and backup strategies across multiple regions or availability zones to protect against data loss and ensure availability.

Design and test failover procedures to quickly switch to a backup environment in case of a primary region failure.

Regularly review and update your disaster recovery plan to account for changes in your infrastructure, applications, and business requirements.

Question 5: You observe a growing trend of configuration drift across your infrastructure, leading to inconsistencies and potential issues. How do you address this challenge?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Implement configuration management tools to enforce desired state configurations across all environments.

Utilize infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to codify and automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

Introduce regular audits and reconciliation processes to identify and rectify configuration drift.

All of the above.

Question 6: A new feature deployment caused a critical production outage. What is your immediate action?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Roll back the deployment to the previous stable version.

Quickly try to identify and fix the issue in production.

Pause all further deployments until the issue is resolved.

Communicate the issue to stakeholders and provide an estimated time for resolution.