01 - Planning for DevOps

Question 1

DevOps professionals

Answer 1

Combine people, process and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives

Question 2

Challenges when creating teams

Answer 2

Availability of staff

Disruption of current procedures and processes

Question 3

How to overcome team challenges

Answer 3

Create team that is:

1. Focus on transformation
2. Well-respected in subject area
3. Internal and external to the business

Question 4

Give example of clearly-defined set of measurable outcomes

Answer 4

Reduce time spent on bug fix by 60%

Reduce time spent on unplanned work by 70%

Question 5

Advantage of shorter timelines

Answer 5

Easier to change plans or priorities when necessary

Reduced delay between doing the work and getting feedback

Easier to keep organizational support when positive outcomes are apparent

Question 6

Waterfall approach

Answer 6

Define, analyze, build and test, and deliver

Hard to accurately define requirements, which can change over time, including during development

Requires change requests and additional cost after delivery

Question 7

Agile approach

Answer 7

Emphasizes constantly adaptive planning, and early delivery with continual improvement

Development methods are based on releases and iterations

At end of each iteration, should have tested working code

Is focused on shorter-term outcomes

Question 8

Monolithic

Answer 8

Cake

Question 9

Microservices

Answer 9

Cupcake

Question 10

Principles of Agile development

Answer 10

12 principles

Question 11

Greenfield software protect

Answer 11

Software projects develop in a totally new environment

Question 12

Brownfield software project

Answer 12

Software projects develop in the immediate presence of existing software applications/systems

Question 13

System of Record

Answer 13

Emphasize accuracy and security

Provide truth about data elements

Historically evolve slowly and carefully

Question 14

System of Engagement

Answer 14

More exploratory

Use experimentation to solve new problems

Modified regularly

Prioritize making changes quickly over ensuring that the changes are correct

Question 15

Different type of staff members

Answer 15

Canaries - voluntarily test bleeding edge features

Early adopters - voluntarily preview releases

Users - consume the products after canaries and early adopters

Question 16

Ideal target improvements

Answer 16

Used to gain early wins

Small enough to be achievable in a reasonable time-frame

Have benefits that are significant enough to be obvious to the organization

Question 17

Identify project metrics and KPIs

Answer 17

Faster outcomes

Efficiency

Quality and Security

Culture

Question 18

Horizontal Teams

Answer 18

Divide teams according to the software architecture

Question 19

Vertical Teams

Answer 19

Span the architecture and are aligned with product outcomes, and scaling can occur by adding teams

Question 20

Ideal DevOps team members

Answer 20

Think there is a need to change and have shown an ability to innovate

Well respected and have broad knowledge of organization and how it operates

Ideally, already believe that DevOps practices are what is needed

Question 21

Cultural changes

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Question 22

Cross-functional teams

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Question 23

Collaboration tooling

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Question 24

Azure DevOps

Answer 24

Azure Boards

Azure Pipelines

Azure Repos

Azure Artifacts

Azure Test Plans

Question 25

What Can GitHub do

Answer 25

Codespaces

Repos

Actions

Artifacts

Security

Question 26

Azure DevOps

Answer 26

Work management tool

Question 27

GitHub

Answer 27

Work management tool

Question 28

Azure Test Plans

Answer 28

Track sprints and milestones

Question 29

Apache JMeter

Answer 29

open-source software written in Java and designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance

Question 30

Pester

Answer 30

Tool to automate testing of PowerShell