These DevOps interview questions are examples of real tasks used by employers to screen job candidates such as DevOps engineers, developers, and others that require knowledge of the DevOps lifecycle, practices, and tools.
1. DevOps Lifecycle
Your company has been working to increase its frequency of deployment for new features by optimizing its full development and operating lifecycle. The CEO wants to cut unnecessary phases to deliver new features to the customer.
Which phases are not part of the core DevOps lifecycle?
(Select all acceptable answers.)
2. Force Checkout
A developer is experimenting with code on a local copy of a branch. After a while, it is decided that this experiment does not work. So the developer decides to switch back to the master branch. However, the developer's local working copy is different from the HEAD.
Which of these options would allow the developer to successfully check out the master branch?
(Select all acceptable answers.)
3. Incident Response
The CEO of your company understands that sometimes things go wrong. No system is perfect, but she wants to ensure that the company is improving.
Which metrics could be used to track the company's incident management?
(Select all acceptable answers.)
4. Saving a Bugfix
Write down a sequence of GIT commands (with no additional arguments) to download a repository, update a file, and save the changes back to the original repository. Assume that other developers didn't modify the file.
- Download the master repository to a local directory or repository:
git https://joe@testdome.com/testdome.git
- Fix a bug in file test.cpp
- Mark that file test.cpp has been changed:
git test.cpp
- Save the changes to the local repository:
git -m 'Bug with testing is fixed'
- Send the changes to the original repository:
git origin master
DevOps Test (Easy)