Preview Questions DevOps | Role Specific Skill

Question 1: You are onboarding a new team member. How do you introduce them to the CI/CD pipeline?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Provide them with access to the pipeline documentation and let them explore on their own.

Pair them with an experienced team member to walk them through the pipeline.

Organize a dedicated training session to explain the pipeline's architecture and processes.

Assign them a small task related to the pipeline to get them hands-on experience.

Question 2: You notice a significant increase in build times. What's your approach to investigate?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Analyze the build logs to identify any bottlenecks or performance issues.

Profile the build process to pinpoint the most time-consuming steps.

Optimize the build scripts and configurations to improve efficiency.

Upgrade the build infrastructure to handle the increased load.

Question 3: You are responsible for managing and securing sensitive customer data in your organization's cloud infrastructure. How do you ensure compliance with data privacy regulations like GDPR or HIPAA while enabling data access and utilization for legitimate business purposes?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Implement data classification and labeling mechanisms to identify and categorize sensitive data based on its sensitivity level and regulatory requirements.

Enforce strict access controls and encryption for sensitive data, ensuring that only authorized personnel can access and process it.

Conduct regular data privacy impact assessments (DPIAs) to identify and mitigate potential risks to data privacy.

Provide ongoing training and awareness programs to educate employees on data privacy regulations and best practices.

Question 4: You've made a change to a Puppet manifest, but after applying it, you realize it introduced an unintended side effect on a subset of servers. How do you quickly and safely revert the change for those specific servers?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Use Puppet's built-in rollback functionality to revert to the previous configuration on all servers.

Manually undo the change on the affected servers, ensuring consistency with the rest of the environment.

Identify the specific change in the Puppet manifest and create a new manifest to undo it, targeting only the affected servers.

Temporarily exclude the affected servers from Puppet runs until a fix is implemented.

Question 5: You discover a misconfiguration in a cloud service that exposes sensitive data. What's your immediate course of action?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Correct the misconfiguration and notify affected users about the potential data exposure.

Report the incident to the security team and follow their incident response procedures.

Temporarily disable the cloud service until the misconfiguration is fixed.

Conduct a forensic investigation to determine the extent of the data exposure.

Question 6: Your team is adopting a new cloud-native application platform (e.g., Kubernetes or serverless). How do you adapt your monitoring strategy to ensure comprehensive visibility into the health and performance of this new environment?

Which action should you take?

Choose only one option

Rely on the platform's built-in monitoring and logging capabilities to gather basic metrics and events.

Integrate third-party monitoring tools specifically designed for cloud-native environments to gain deeper insights.

Instrument your applications with distributed tracing and custom metrics to track requests and identify performance bottlenecks across microservices.

Implement a combination of platform-native monitoring, third-party tools, and application instrumentation to achieve comprehensive observability.