CGOA Practice Exam Questions and Answers

A.  

DevOps and GitOps are interchangeable terms used to describe the same concept and principles.

B.  

GitOps is a set of principles to guide modern DevOps in practice.

C.  

DevOps and GitOps are competing methodologies, and organizations must choose one over the other.

D.  

DevOps and GitOps are two completely separate concepts with no relation to each other.

A.  

By deploying changes from the version control repository by applying them through an automated pipeline when major updates are needed.

B.  

By having an operator continuously monitor and pull changes from the source of truth.

C.  

By maintaining multiple Git repositories for different aspects of your infrastructure and applications.

D.  

By manually triggering deployments and configurations using scripts and commands.

A.  

Ask team members to manually review each other's configuration files for formatting issues.

B.  

Ignore the formatting issues and focus on the functionality of the configuration files.

C.  

Use a linter tool to automatically check the configuration files for formatting issues.

D.  

Manually review each configuration file to check for any formatting issues.

A.  

Keptn and Puppet

B.  

Helm and Kustomize

C.  

ArgoCD and Flux

D.  

Jenkins and Tekton

A.  

Git stores only application source code, while deployment configurations are managed elsewhere.

B.  

Git acts as the sole system of record for both infrastructure and application declarative configurations.

C.  

Git is primarily used for versioning, but runtime configurations are excluded from GitOps workflows.

D.  

Git is optional in GitOps; any version control system or manual configuration management can serve the same purpose.

A.  

To undo a deployment that introduced a critical bug or caused a system failure.

B.  

To improve performance and optimize resource utilization.

C.  

To create a backup of the current configuration.

D.  

To test a new feature in a controlled environment.

A.  

Declarative configuration allows you to execute code locally more efficiently to make desired changes to your running system.

B.  

Using widely adopted community tools for reconciling actual state is less work than maintaining custom imperative scripts.

C.  

Declarative configuration helps you include dynamic scripting that guides an application through a step-by-step process.

D.  

Declarative configuration lets you specify complex if/else logic within custom code.

A.  

Kustomize is a tool for deploying infrastructure resources using Terraform/OpenTofu.

B.  

Kustomize allows you to package and distribute your application as a Helm chart.

C.  

Kustomize helps you create and manage Kubernetes resource manifests by providing a graphical user interface (GUI).

D.  

Kustomize helps you create and manage Kubernetes resource manifests by providing a way to customize them through patching.

A.  

To determine if a reconciliation is needed and whether a sync should be partial or complete.

B.  

To analyze state-sync logging information and perform a sync.

C.  

To trigger an alert if a change is detected, and log the event to the log aggregation service.

D.  

Feedback loop is not important for reconciliation.

A.  

Regularly update Git repositories with the latest changes from external sources.

B.  

Perform regular backups of Git repositories.

C.  

Automatically compare and adjust the system state as needed.

D.  

Monitor the system for any unauthorized changes and revert them.