DevOps-SAFe Test Answers
What is a core DevOps principle?
Lean Budgets
Servant leadership
Iteration review
Culture
What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?
To create a strong DevOps team with leaders
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DevOps-SAFe Test Answers
What is a core DevOps principle?
Lean Budgets
Servant leadership
Iteration review
Culture
What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?
To create a strong DevOps team with leadership support
To create immutable infrastructure to avoid changes to the production environment
To align people across the Value Stream to deliver value continuously
To implement an advanced tool chain to automate the entire Continuous Delivery Pipeline
What are two important items to monitor in production to support the Release on Demand aspect in SA
Deployment lead time
System performance
Time-to-market
Lead time to defect fixing
Business value
Which statement describes the Lean startup lifecycle?
Define a Lean business case, build a minimum viable product, implement the Epic Features until all Features a
Define the minimum viable product (MVP), build the MVP, implement Epic Features until all Features are delive
Create a hypothesis statement, assign an Epic owner, deliver Features created from the Lean business case, d
Define the hypothesis, build a minimum viable product (MVP), continuously evaluate the MVP while implement
DevOps is a key enabler of continuous delivery. What does continuous mean in this context? WRONG
To deploy to production and release at least once every Program increment
To deploy to production multiple times per year and release on a cadence once or twice a year
To deploy to production and release on cadence every Iteration
To deploy to production as often as possible and release when the business needs it
Which term describes the time it takes value to flow across the entire Value Stream?
Total lead time
Rolled percent complete and accurate
Activity ratio
Deployment frequency
When preparing a DevOps backlog, prioritizing features using WSJF includes which two factors? (Cho
Team velocity
Business valueTotal count of items on the Program Backlog
Duration/job size
Cost of delay
What is the primary benefit of value stream mapping?
It creates the hypothesis of which Solution to build
It provides insight into organizational efficiency and value flow
It identifies how to build Agile Release Trains
It fosters collaboration among development and operations managers
Value stream mapping metrics include calculations of which three Metrics? (Choose three.)
Rolled % Complete and Accurate
Emergency Change %
Outage Frequency
Release Frequency
Total Process Time
Activity Ratio
Which statement describes a measurable benefit of adopting DevOps practices and principles?
It creates a highly functional, cross-team culture
It guarantees an increase in profits and decrease in downtime
It results in faster lead time, and more frequent deployments
It identifies key Value Streams
What is trunk-based development?
Teams with similar dependencies create one single branch for the team's work
All teams committing their code into one trunk
Each developer maintains a separate branch
Every team works in their own trunk
The Release on Demand aspect enables which key business objective?
Business value
Alignment
Time-to-market
Quality
What is the primary purpose of creating an automated test suite?
To increase unit test coverage during an Iteration
To enable continuous testing
To eliminate all manual testing
To increase the return on investment for finding defects
What falls outside the scope of the Stabilize activity?Failover and recovery processes are in place
Blue/green deployment
Continuous security monitoring is done
Features are monitored after release
Value flows through which aspect in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Monitor
Continuous Integration
Develop
Research
What is the blue/green deployment pattern?
To deploy between an inactive and active environment
To deploy to only some data centers to reduce the deployment risk
To ensure no changes happen in production without going through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
To decouple deployment from release
In what activity of Continuous Exploration are Features prioritized in the Program Backlog?
Finalize
Synthesize
Hypothesize
Research
What is the purpose of a minimum viable product?
To validate the hypothesis
To sell to new markets
To demo to Product Management for feedback
To release to production
Which two areas should be monitored in the Release on Demand aspect to support DevOps and Contin
answers
Agile Release Train velocity
Build status
Full-stack system behavior
Business Metrics
Deployment cycle time
Which DevOps principle focuses on identifying and eliminating bottlenecks in the Continuous Delivery
Recovery
Measurement
Automation
Lean flowWhy are canary releases used?
To introduce minimum viable features
To allow incremental release
To reduce deployment times
To prevent outages
Which practice prevents configuration drift between production and non-production environments? W
Deployment automation
Immutable infrastructure
Session replay
Self-service deployment
What is the correct order of activities in the Continuous Integration aspect?
Build, Develop, Stage, Test end-to-end
Develop, Test end-to-end, Build, Stage
Develop, Build, Test end-to-end, Stage
Stage, Develop, Build, Test end-to-end
Who is responsible for building and continually improving the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
DevOps Teams
System Teams
Agile Release Trains
Scrum Teams
Who is responsible for ensuring quality is built into the code in SAFe?
Developers
Agile Teams
Testers
Product Owners
What is one recommended way to architect for operations? WRONG
Implement feature toggles
Require developers to support their own code
Establish an architecture review board
Create detailed run books
Which statement is true about DevOps?
It enables a tolerance for low-risk, low-failure, and rapid recovery
It enables low-risk releases and fast recovery with no room for errors
It enables high-risk releases and fast recovery with fast fix-forward
It enables low-risk releases and fast recovery with fast fix-forwardWhich technical practice is key to enabling trunk-based development? WRONG
Feature branching
Refactoring
Code freezes
Gated commits
Who should be consulted first when calculating the % Complete and Accurate?
End users
The people responsible for the next step
The lead developer
Testers
What is the primary goal of the Stabilize activity?
To achieve active-active site replication
To establish quality-of-service agreements with customers
To enhance stability with blue/green deployment
To avoid unplanned outages and security breaches
What is the desired frequency of deployment in SAFe?
Daily
Once per Iteration
Once per PI
Continuous
One goal of DevOps in SAFe is to fully automate the steps between which two pipeline activities?
Code commit and stage
Code commit and user acceptance testing
Code commit and deploy
Code commit and release
What are two aspects of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, in addition to Continuous Integration? (Cho
Continuous Release
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Testing
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Exploration
What does the %C&A metric measure in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
The percent of time downstream customers receive work that is usable as-is
The percent concurrent and accurate process times of each pipeline activity
The percent of change averages of each pipeline activity
The percent complete and average times of each pipeline activityMapping the value stream helps accomplish which two actions? (Choose two.)You have reached the
To serve as a blueprint for development
To gain insight into organizational efficiency
To add or remove user segments based on business decisions
To understand how the flow of value can be improved
To prioritize the Program Backlog
Which two security skills are part of the Continuous Integration aspect? (Choose two.)WRONG
Application security
Penetration testing
SOX compliance analysis
Network security practices
Security board review
What are two benefits of DevOps? (Choose two.)
Less time spent on new work
Less time spent fixing security issues
Fewer defects
Less frequent deployments
More lead time
Which skill can significantly accelerate mean-time-to-restore by enabling support teams to see issues
Session replay
Incident management
Page analytics
Blue/green deployment
Why is it important to take a structured approach to analyze problems in the delivery pipeline?
It allows the solution to be demoed to key stakeholders
It helps ensure that actual causes of problems are addressed, rather than symptoms
It provides a structured roadmap for the SAFe implementation
It ensures that solutions are more likely to be approved for implementation
What does Culture in a CALMR approach mean?
A culture where developers code and operations deploys
A culture where technical expertise is paramount
A culture of shared responsibility and risk tolerance
A culture where development and operations report to the same manager
Which two technical practices focus on Built-in Quality? (Choose two.)
Environment configuration
Feature togglesCanary releases
Pair work
Test-driven development
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