SAFe DevOps 5.1 Random Questions 1.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 into version control When the Team Backlog has been refined a.Which steps in the value stream should be the main focus when choosing the most important improvement items?Steps with long lead time and short process time in the current state map Steps with short process time and short lead time in the future state map Steps with a long process time Steps with a high activity ratio a.How is Lean UX used in Continuous Exploration?To collaboratively create a benefit hypothesis To create a platform to continuously explore To validate the return on investment To automate the user interface scripts a.What are the top two advantages of mapping the current state of the delivery pipeline?(Choose two.) To enable everyone in the organization to see how the value stream is actually performing To help identify and make short-term fixes To achieve a collective understanding and consensus around problems To identify some of the processes within the delivery pipeline To help with incremental software delivery a.What is the main goal of a SAFe DevOps transformation?To create a strong DevOps team with leadership support To align people across the Value Stream to deliver value continuously To implement an advanced toolchain to automate the entire Continuous Delivery Pipeline To create immutable infrastructure to avoid changes to the production environment a.Where do features go after Continuous Exploration?Into Continuous Integration where the yare merged and tested with other Features Into development where they are then split into Stories Into the Program Backlog where they are then prioritized Into a backlog tool where they are then split into Epics a.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 = 6 days, PT = 5 days, %C&A = 100% LT = 1 day, PT = 0.5 day, %C&A = 90% a.When full deployment automation is not possible, which practice helps developers deploy code into production?Deployment automation Self-service deployment Continuous deployment Infrastructure as code a.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 1 / 3
SAFe DevOps 5.1 Random Questions DevSecOps Design for operations Continuous security monitoring a.What is one potential outcome of the Verify sub-dimension of the pipeline?Analyze regression testing results Rollback a failed deployment Analyze end-user behavior and feature adoption metrics Fix a broken build a.The DevOps Radar aligns the dimensions to which four stakeholders concerns?Exploration, integration, development, reflection Alignment, quality, time-to-market, business value Portfolio, solution, program, team Productivity, efficiency, speed-to-market, competitive advantage a.Which skill can significantly accelerate mean-time-to-restore by enabling support teams to see issues the way actual end-users did?Blue/green deployment Page analytics Session replay Incident management a.What falls outside the scope of the Stabilize activity?Continuous security monitoring is done Blue/green deployment Failover and recovery processes are in place Features are monitored after release a.Which two skills appear under the Respond sub-dimension? (Choose two.) Version control Telemetry Cross-team collaboration Automatic rollback Service virtualization a.What are the two benefits of DevOps? (Choose two.) Tightly coupled architecture Better alignment between strategy and execution Faster lead time Fewer defects Increase batch size a.Which metric reflects the quality of output at each step in the value stream?Deployment frequency %C/A - percent complete and accurate Escaped defects Process Time a.Which technical practice incorporates build time identification of security vulnerabilities in the code?Application Security Threat Modeling Dynamic Code Analysis Penetration Testing a.What does the Activity Ratio measure in the value stream? 2 / 3
SAFe DevOps 5.1 Random Questions The percentage of time spent on non-value-added activities The percentage of time spent on delays to the number of processes in the value stream The efficiency of the business process activities as a ratio of process time to cycle time The percentage of time spent on value-added activities a.Feature toggles are useful for which activity?To enable continuous code integration To decouple deployment from release To prevent testing complexity To enable continuous testing a.Which incident response practice most strongly suggests a lack of DevOps culture?Manual rollback procedures Frequent fix-forward changes Frequent server reboots On-call developers a.Why is hypothesis evaluation important when analyzing data from monitoring systems in the Release dimension?It helps identify the Minimum Viable Product for evaluating the hypothesis It helps quickly create balanced scorecards for stakeholder review It helps link objective production data to the hypothesis being tested It helps Operation teams know where to apply emergency fixes a.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 Create and estimate refactoring tasks for each story in the team backlog Refactor continuously as part of Test-Driven Development a.What is the consequence of working in isolation on long-lived code branches?Static analysis tests will fail Rollbacks will be difficult Trunk/Main will not always be in a deployable state Deployments will fail a.Security vulnerability scanning is an important architectural consideration in which dimension of the DevOps Health Radar?Continuous Exploration Release on Demand Continuous Deployment Continuous Integration a.What triggers the release activity?Business decision to go live Successful deployment to production Successful user acceptance tests Change validated in a staging environment a.What are two parts of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline? (Choose two.) Deploy on-Demand Continuous Testing Continuous Integration Continuous Exploration Continuous Delivery a.What differentiates Deployment and Release in the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
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