Preview Questions DevOps | Role Specific Skill

Question 1: You notice a high degree of configuration drift across your containerized environments, leading to inconsistencies and potential issues. How do you address this and ensure configuration consistency across your deployments?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Manually audit and reconcile configurations across different environments to identify and rectify any discrepancies.

Implement configuration management tools like Ansible or Puppet to automate configuration enforcement and maintain desired states across containers.

Leverage container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes to manage and deploy configurations declaratively, ensuring consistency across replicas and environments.

Adopt a GitOps approach, where infrastructure and application configurations are stored in a Git repository and automatically synchronized with the deployed environment.

Question 2: You want to implement security monitoring for your infrastructure. What tools or techniques would you use?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Set up intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) to monitor network traffic for suspicious activity.

Collect and analyze logs from various systems and applications to identify potential security incidents.

Use security information and event management (SIEM) tools to aggregate and correlate security events from different sources.

All of the above.

Question 3: You are building a CI/CD pipeline on a cloud platform. How do you leverage cloud services to automate and streamline your build, test, and deployment processes?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Utilize cloud-native build and deployment services, such as AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps Pipelines, or Google Cloud Build, to automate the build and deployment process.

Integrate with cloud-based testing and quality assurance services to automate testing and ensure code quality before deployment.

Leverage container registries and orchestration platforms to manage and deploy containerized applications seamlessly across different environments.

Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to provision and manage cloud resources required for the CI/CD pipeline in a declarative and repeatable manner.

Question 4: 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 5: You're working with a team that's concerned about the cost of cloud services. They're asking you for recommendations on how to optimize costs. What advice would you give them?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Right-size instances and use auto-scaling to match resources to demand

Utilize reserved instances or savings plans for predictable workloads

Monitor usage patterns and identify opportunities to reduce or eliminate unused resources

All of the above

Question 6: You've set up monitoring for your database, but you're not collecting enough data to identify performance bottlenecks. What would you do?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Enable slow query logging to capture queries that take longer than a certain threshold.

Increase the frequency of metric collection to gather more granular data.

Install additional monitoring agents or plugins to collect more specific database metrics.

Upgrade your monitoring tool to a more advanced version with better database monitoring capabilities.