DevOps, SRE & Cloud

CI / CD

7 practice questions. Free questions open a full answer guide; the rest unlock with Pro.

  • What is a CI/CD pipeline and what are the key stages you'd expect in one? Junior level
  • How would you handle secrets like API keys and database passwords in a cloud application and its deployment pipeline?Go Pro Junior level
  • What is GitOps and how does it differ from a push-based deployment model?Go Pro Mid level
  • When would you choose a canary deployment over a blue-green deployment, and how do you decide it's safe to keep shifting traffic?Go Pro Mid level
  • Treat the CI/CD pipeline itself as part of the attack surface. What makes it such a high-value target, and how do you reason about hardening it?Go Pro Senior level
  • What is immutable infrastructure and what problems does it solve compared to mutable, in-place deployments?Go Pro Mid level
  • A developer comes to you frustrated that the platform team's CI/CD pipeline takes 45 minutes to run their tests. They want an exception to bypass certain checks. How do you handle this?Go Pro Senior level
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