Deployment

A cloud architect is creating a Terraform configuration to deploy resources in AWS. The architect needs to store the state file in a remote backend that supports state locking and encryption at rest. Which backend should the architect configure?

A DevOps team is implementing a CI/CD pipeline to deploy a microservices application on Kubernetes. The team wants to ensure that the deployment automatically rolls back if the new version fails health checks after the update. Which Kubernetes feature should be configured in the deployment manifest?

A company is migrating a 50 TB on-premises database to AWS RDS MySQL. The migration must have minimal downtime and support ongoing replication during the cutover. The database schema is standard MySQL. Which combination of services should the company use?

An organization uses CloudFormation to manage infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts. The team wants to deploy a common set of resources, such as VPCs and security groups, to all accounts in a consistent manner. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?

A cloud engineer is designing a deployment strategy for a web application that requires zero downtime. The engineer has set up two identical production environments, one active and one idle. After deploying the new version to the idle environment, the engineer switches the DNS record to point to the idle environment. This deployment method is known as:

A team is developing a serverless application on AWS Lambda. The application uses several third-party libraries that are large in size. To reduce deployment package size and enable reuse across functions, the team wants to include these libraries as a separate layer. However, the total unzipped size of all layers exceeds the Lambda limits. What should the team do to resolve this?

An organization is using Azure DevOps to implement a CI/CD pipeline. In which stage of the pipeline would automated unit tests typically be executed?

A company is migrating 100 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Amazon S3. The network bandwidth is limited to 100 Mbps, and the transfer must complete within 30 days. Which service should the company use to meet the deadline?

A cloud administrator is writing an Ansible playbook to provision cloud resources. The administrator wants to ensure that the playbook can run without requiring any agent software on the target machines. Which Ansible feature enables this agentless operation?

A DevOps team is deploying a containerized application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The team wants to automate the deployment of the application along with its dependencies, such as ConfigMaps and Services, using a single package. Which tool should the team use?

A company is using Azure to host a web application. The application is deployed using ARM templates. The operations team has noticed that some resources have been manually modified via the Azure portal, causing configuration drift. The team wants to detect these changes and optionally revert them to the template-defined state. Which Azure feature should they use?

A cloud engineer is deploying a Lambda function that processes events from an SQS queue. The function must be able to handle a burst of up to 1000 concurrent invocations. Which configuration should the engineer set to ensure the function can scale to meet this demand?

A cloud architect is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a critical application that requires zero-downtime deployments. The architect wants to gradually shift traffic to the new version while monitoring for errors and automatically rolling back if issues are detected. Which TWO deployment strategies should the architect consider? (Select TWO.)

A company is adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage its cloud resources. Which THREE statements are true about IaC? (Select THREE.)

A data scientist is migrating a 10 TB on-premises PostgreSQL database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The migration must have minimal downtime. Which TWO AWS services should the data scientist use together to achieve this? (Select TWO.)

A cloud administrator is automating the deployment of a web application on AWS. The administrator wants to define the infrastructure as code using a declarative language that supports drift detection. Which tool should the administrator use?

A DevOps team wants to deploy a containerized application to a Kubernetes cluster with zero downtime. The team needs to gradually shift traffic from the old version to the new version, monitoring error rates and automatically rolling back if errors exceed a threshold. Which deployment strategy should the team implement?

A company must migrate 50 TB of data from an on-premises NFS server to Amazon S3 within one week. The network bandwidth averages 50 Mbps. The administrator is evaluating AWS DataSync and AWS Snowball. Which service should the administrator choose?

An organization uses Terraform to manage multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. The state file must be stored securely with locking to prevent concurrent modifications. Which backend configuration should the team use?

A cloud engineer needs to deploy a Lambda function that processes objects uploaded to an S3 bucket. The function code is stored in a .zip file. Which event trigger should the engineer configure to invoke the function automatically?

A team is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application. They want to automatically build, test, and deploy each service independently to a Kubernetes cluster. The pipeline must integrate with Git repositories and support parallel job execution. Which tool is best suited for this requirement?

A company is migrating an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for MySQL. The migration must have minimal downtime and must handle ongoing changes during migration. The schema needs to be converted to MySQL-compatible format. Which combination of AWS services should the team use?

An administrator is writing an Ansible playbook to provision cloud resources across multiple cloud providers. The playbook must manage instances in AWS, Azure, and GCP. Which Ansible concept should the administrator use to interact with each cloud provider's API?

A company wants to deploy a Kubernetes application across multiple AWS accounts using a single set of manifests. The team needs to manage the deployment centrally while allowing each account to have its own configuration values (e.g., environment-specific variables). Which approach should the team use?

A cloud architect is designing a serverless application using Azure Functions. The function must process messages from an Azure Storage Queue. How should the architect configure the trigger?

A team uses Terraform to manage infrastructure. After running terraform apply, the state file is stored in an S3 backend with DynamoDB locking. During a subsequent terraform plan, the team notices that the state file shows resources that no longer exist in the cloud. Which command should the team run to reconcile the state with the actual cloud resources?

A company is deploying a new version of a microservice on Amazon EKS. The deployment must ensure that new pods are created and become healthy before old pods are terminated. The current deployment uses a ReplicaSet. Which Kubernetes resource and strategy should be used?

A cloud engineer is migrating a legacy application to AWS. The application requires minimal downtime during the database migration from SQL Server to Aurora MySQL. Which TWO AWS services should the engineer use to achieve this?

A DevOps team is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a cloud-native application. They require a deployment strategy that supports traffic shifting in small increments and automatic rollback based on health checks. Which TWO strategies meet these requirements?

An organization is moving 100 TB of archival data from on-premises to Google Cloud Storage. The network bandwidth is limited to 10 Mbps, and the migration must complete within two weeks. Which THREE methods should the team consider?

A cloud engineer is writing Terraform code to provision AWS resources. They need to define the cloud provider and authentication details. Which block should they use in their HCL configuration?

A company is migrating a large Oracle database (2 TB) from on-premises to AWS RDS for Oracle. They require minimal downtime and need to keep the source database running during migration. Which AWS service should they use to achieve continuous replication?

A DevOps team uses Jenkins for CI/CD. They want to automatically deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster. Which Jenkins feature or plugin can integrate with Kubernetes to manage deployments?

An organization uses CloudFormation to manage resources across multiple AWS accounts. They need to deploy a common set of resources (e.g., logging configuration) to all accounts in an AWS Organization. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?

A cloud administrator needs to transfer 50 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Amazon S3. The office has limited bandwidth (50 Mbps). Which service is most suitable for this offline transfer?

A company is adopting a blue/green deployment strategy for their web application running on AWS. They have two identical environments (blue and green) behind an Application Load Balancer. What must they change to switch traffic from blue to green?

A developer is deploying a serverless application using AWS Lambda. They want to reuse common code (e.g., database connection logic) across multiple functions without duplicating it. Which Lambda feature should they use?

An organization uses Azure DevOps for CI/CD. They need to deploy a Bicep template that creates resources in multiple Azure regions. The deployment must be idempotent and handle dependencies between resources. Which Azure DevOps task should they use?

A cloud engineer is using Ansible to automate cloud resource provisioning. Which statement about Ansible is true?

A company wants to deploy a containerized application to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using a rolling update strategy. They have defined a Kubernetes Deployment manifest. Which field controls the number of pods that can be unavailable during the update?

A DevOps team is implementing a canary deployment for a microservice running on Amazon ECS. They want to gradually shift 10% of traffic to the new version and automatically roll back if error rates exceed 1% in 5 minutes. Which combination of services should they use?

A company is moving a 10 TB SQL Server database to Azure SQL Database. They need to migrate with minimal downtime while keeping the source database operational. Which service should they use?

A cloud architect is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application deployed on AWS EKS. The pipeline should include stages for source, build, test, deploy, and verify. Which TWO of the following are typical pipeline stages? (Select TWO.)

A company is migrating on-premises storage to Google Cloud Storage (GCS) using Storage Transfer Service. The source is an on-premises NAS with 100 TB of data. Which THREE considerations are relevant for this migration? (Select THREE.)

A cloud engineer is using Terraform to manage infrastructure. They need to store the state file remotely for team collaboration and to enable state locking. Which TWO of the following backends support state locking? (Select TWO.)

A cloud engineer is managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform and wants to store the state file remotely to enable team collaboration. Which storage option should the engineer configure in the backend block?

An organization wants to deploy a new application with zero downtime by switching traffic between two identical production environments. Which deployment strategy should be used?

A company is migrating a 50 TB on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for MySQL with minimal downtime. The schema must be converted from SQL Server to MySQL. Which combination of AWS services should the cloud architect use?

A DevOps team uses CloudFormation to manage multi-account infrastructure. They need to deploy a common set of resources across multiple AWS accounts in an organization. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?

An engineer is deploying a Kubernetes application on EKS and needs to ensure that pods are only considered healthy after a startup delay, and that traffic stops to unhealthy pods. Which two probe types should be configured in the deployment manifest?

A cloud engineer is creating an Ansible playbook to provision cloud resources on AWS. Ansible is agentless; it connects to managed nodes via SSH. Which component defines the desired state of cloud resources in Ansible?

A company wants to deploy a Lambda function that processes objects uploaded to an S3 bucket. Which event trigger should be configured on the Lambda function?

An organization uses a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins. The pipeline includes stages: source, build, test, deploy, and verify. During the deploy stage, the team wants to automatically roll back if the verify stage fails. Which Jenkins feature supports this?

A company needs to transfer 200 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Amazon S3 over the internet within 5 days. The available bandwidth is 1 Gbps. Which AWS service should be used to accelerate the transfer?

A developer wants to deploy a containerized application on a Kubernetes cluster using a package manager that simplifies deployment and management. Which tool should be used?

A cloud engineer is writing a Bicep file to deploy Azure resources. Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) that transpiles to ARM templates. Which of the following is a benefit of using Bicep over ARM JSON templates?

A company uses GitLab CI for its CI/CD pipeline. The pipeline includes a 'deploy' job that runs only when a tag is pushed. Which GitLab CI keyword should be used to control job execution based on tags?

A cloud engineer is managing infrastructure as code using Terraform. Which command should be run to preview changes before applying them to the cloud environment?

A company wants to deploy a new version of a web application with zero downtime. They decide to use a blue/green deployment strategy. Which action is essential to switching traffic from the blue environment to the green environment?

An organization is migrating a 50 TB on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for MySQL with minimal downtime. They plan to use AWS DMS with ongoing replication. Which additional step is necessary to reduce downtime during the final cutover?

A DevOps team is setting up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions. They want the pipeline to automatically deploy a containerized application to a Kubernetes cluster only when changes are pushed to the main branch. Which GitHub Actions component should they use to trigger the deployment?

A cloud architect is designing a serverless application on AWS Lambda. The function needs to process messages from an SQS queue. Which event trigger should be configured for the Lambda function?

A company is migrating 200 TB of archival data from on-premises storage to Amazon S3. The network bandwidth is limited to 100 Mbps. Which AWS service should be used to accelerate the transfer and reduce the migration time?

A team is using Kubernetes for container orchestration. They want to ensure that a new deployment does not cause downtime by gradually updating pods with a rolling update strategy. Which parameter in a Deployment manifest controls the number of pods that can be unavailable during the update?

An organization is using CloudFormation to manage AWS infrastructure. They need to detect if any manual changes have been made to resources outside of CloudFormation. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?

A developer wants to deploy an application using Azure Bicep. What is a key benefit of using Bicep over ARM templates?

A company is adopting a canary deployment strategy for a microservice running on Kubernetes. They want to initially route 5% of traffic to the new version and monitor for errors before increasing. Which Kubernetes resource is best suited to implement this traffic splitting?

A cloud engineer is designing a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps. They need to ensure that code changes are automatically built, tested, and deployed to a staging environment, and then after manual approval, deployed to production. Which pipeline configuration should they use?

A company is migrating an on-premises MySQL database to Azure SQL Database using Azure Database Migration Service. They want minimal downtime. Which migration mode should they choose?

A cloud team is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application. They want to automatically build a Docker image, push it to a registry, and deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. Which TWO tools from the options below are commonly used as part of this pipeline? (Select 2)

A company is migrating a large on-premises application to AWS. The application uses a SQL Server database and requires minimal downtime. The database is 1 TB. Which THREE services or features should the team consider to achieve a successful migration with minimal downtime? (Select 3)

A cloud architect is designing a Kubernetes deployment for a stateless web application. The application must be highly available and automatically recover from failures. Which THREE components are required to achieve this? (Select 3)

A cloud engineer is writing a Terraform configuration to deploy an AWS EC2 instance. Which file extension is typically used for Terraform configuration files written in HCL?

An organization wants to deploy a new microservice to a Kubernetes cluster with zero downtime. The deployment should update pods gradually by replacing old pods with new ones, and if the new pods fail health checks, the rollout should stop. Which Kubernetes deployment strategy meets these requirements?

A company wants to migrate a 50 TB on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for MySQL with minimal downtime. The source database is 3 TB and continues to receive writes. Which service should the cloud architect use to perform the migration with ongoing replication?

A DevOps team uses Ansible to automate cloud resource provisioning. Which of the following best describes Ansible's architecture?

A cloud engineer needs to deploy a serverless function that runs when a new object is uploaded to an S3 bucket. Which AWS service event trigger should be configured?

A company uses CloudFormation to manage infrastructure across multiple AWS accounts. They want to deploy a common set of resources (e.g., VPC, IAM roles) to all accounts in their organization. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?

An organization uses Azure DevOps for CI/CD. They want to implement a deployment strategy where a new version of an application is deployed to a small subset of users (e.g., 5%) and if no errors are detected, the percentage is gradually increased to 100%. Which deployment strategy should they use?

A cloud administrator needs to migrate 100 TB of data from an on-premises NAS to Google Cloud Storage. The on-premises network bandwidth is limited to 100 Mbps. Which service should be used to accelerate the transfer?

A DevOps team is implementing a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins. They want to ensure that code is automatically built, tested, and deployed to a staging environment before manual approval for production. Which stage should include the deployment to staging?

A company uses Terraform to manage infrastructure as code. After running terraform apply, the state file is stored locally. The team wants to enable collaboration by storing state remotely with locking to prevent concurrent modifications. Which backend should be configured?

A cloud engineer needs to deploy a containerized application on Amazon EKS. The application requires a persistent storage volume that can be dynamically provisioned. Which Kubernetes resource should be used to request storage?

A cloud architect is designing a deployment pipeline using GitHub Actions. They want to automatically run tests on every push to the main branch. Which GitHub Actions component defines the automation workflow?

A company is planning to migrate a 200 TB on-premises file server to AWS S3. The network link is 1 Gbps and cannot be saturated due to other traffic. The migration must be completed within two weeks. Which TWO services or features should the cloud engineer consider to accelerate the transfer? (Choose two.)

A cloud team uses Azure Bicep for deploying resources. They need to create a modular deployment that includes a virtual network and a subnet. Which THREE best practices should they follow when authoring Bicep files? (Choose three.)

A company is implementing a canary deployment for a web application running on AWS. Which TWO components are essential for this strategy? (Choose two.)

A cloud engineer is writing a Terraform configuration to deploy an AWS EC2 instance. The engineer wants to pass the AMI ID and instance type into the configuration at runtime without hardcoding them. Which Terraform feature should be used?

A company uses AWS CloudFormation to manage its infrastructure. After updating a stack, a developer notices that the actual infrastructure differs from the expected template. Which CloudFormation feature should be used to identify these differences?

An organization is implementing a CI/CD pipeline for a critical application. The team wants to deploy a new version to a small subset of users initially to validate performance and functionality before rolling out to the entire user base. Which deployment strategy best fits this requirement?

A DevOps engineer is configuring a Kubernetes deployment for a microservices application. The application requires that new pods receive traffic only after a health check endpoint returns HTTP 200. Which Kubernetes feature should be configured on the pods?

A company needs to migrate 50 TB of data from an on-premises file server to Amazon S3. The network bandwidth is limited and the migration must be completed within one week. Which AWS service is specifically designed for offline data transfer of large datasets?

An Azure administrator needs to deploy a cloud-native application using Azure DevOps. The team wants to define the entire Azure infrastructure as code using a declarative language that is concise and integrated with Azure. Which tool should the administrator use?

A cloud engineer is using Ansible to automate the configuration of cloud resources. The engineer needs to ensure that the automation does not require any agent software to be installed on the target nodes. Which characteristic of Ansible makes this possible?

An organization is migrating a MySQL database to Amazon Aurora with minimal downtime. The migration must capture ongoing changes from the source database and apply them to the target during the cutover. Which AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) feature should be used?

A developer is deploying a serverless function that processes images uploaded to an S3 bucket. The function should be triggered automatically whenever a new object is created in the bucket. Which event source should be configured to invoke the Lambda function?

A company is adopting a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins to deploy a web application. The pipeline must include steps to compile code, run unit tests, package the application, deploy to a test environment, and then deploy to production. Which pipeline stage should be configured immediately after the build stage?

A cloud architect is designing a multi-account AWS environment and wants to deploy CloudFormation stacks consistently across many accounts. The architect needs a solution that can manage stack instances across multiple accounts and Regions from a single administrator account. Which AWS feature should be used?

A DevOps team wants to deploy a Kubernetes application using a package manager that simplifies the deployment process by bundling all Kubernetes resources into a single package. Which tool should the team use?

A cloud engineer is planning a database migration from an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. The migration must minimize downtime and preserve ongoing changes. Which TWO services should the engineer consider using together? (Choose two.)

An organization is implementing a canary deployment strategy for a microservice running on Kubernetes. The deployment should automatically roll back if the error rate exceeds 2% within the first 5 minutes. Which THREE components are essential for implementing this strategy? (Choose three.)

A company is migrating 100 TB of data from on-premises to Google Cloud Storage. The network bandwidth is 1 Gbps, and the migration window is two weeks. Which TWO services should the company consider to complete the transfer within the window? (Choose two.)

A cloud engineer is tasked with deploying a containerized application on Kubernetes. The application must handle varying loads, and the deployment should automatically replace failed containers. Which Kubernetes object should the engineer use to achieve self-healing and scalability?

A company is migrating a 50 TB on-premises database to AWS RDS with minimal downtime. They plan to use AWS DMS with ongoing change data capture (CDC). Which additional AWS service should be used to handle the initial full load efficiently before enabling CDC replication?

A DevOps team uses Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure. They want to store the state file in a remote backend to enable team collaboration. Which backend configuration stores Terraform state in an S3 bucket?

An organization uses AWS CloudFormation to deploy resources across multiple AWS accounts. They need to manage a common set of resources in several accounts from a single template. Which CloudFormation feature should they use?

During a CI/CD pipeline for a web application, the team wants to reduce risk by deploying a new version to a small percentage of users initially, monitoring for errors, and automatically rolling back if issues are detected. Which deployment strategy should they implement?

A company is migrating to the cloud and needs to transfer 200 TB of data from an on-premises data center to GCP. The network bandwidth is limited, so they want to use a physical appliance for offline transfer. Which GCP service should they use?

A cloud engineer is writing an Ansible playbook to provision virtual machines in Azure. The playbook includes a task that uses the 'azure_rm_virtualmachine' module. Which of the following best describes Ansible's architecture in this scenario?

A company uses Azure DevOps to deploy a critical application. They need to implement a deployment strategy that ensures zero downtime by directing all traffic to the new environment after validation, while keeping the old environment as a fallback. Which deployment strategy should be configured in the Azure Pipelines release pipeline?

A cloud engineer is writing a Terraform configuration to provision an AWS EC2 instance. They need to pass the AMI ID as a variable to make the configuration reusable. Which Terraform block should be used to define the variable?

An organization is migrating a MySQL database to Amazon RDS using AWS DMS. They want to minimize downtime by using ongoing replication from the source. Which DMS feature should they enable to capture changes as they occur on the source database?

A company uses GitHub Actions to build and deploy a microservices application. They want to automate the deployment to a Kubernetes cluster only when changes are pushed to the main branch. Which GitHub Actions event trigger should be used in the workflow?

A cloud engineer is deploying a serverless function using AWS Lambda. The function needs to process messages from an SQS queue. Which event source should be configured to trigger the Lambda function?

A cloud architect is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a containerized application. The pipeline must include stages for building, testing, and deploying to a Kubernetes cluster. Which TWO of the following are common stages in a CI/CD pipeline for containerized applications? (Select TWO.)

A company needs to migrate a 100 TB on-premises file server to AWS S3. The migration must be completed within two weeks. The network bandwidth is limited to 1 Gbps. Which TWO services should be combined to accomplish this migration within the timeframe? (Select TWO.)

A company is deploying a web application using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The deployment manifest includes a probe to check if the application is ready to serve traffic. Which TWO types of probes can be used to determine pod health in Kubernetes? (Select TWO.)

A cloud engineer is deploying a web application to a Kubernetes cluster. The application requires zero downtime during updates, and the team wants to test new versions with a small percentage of users before full rollout. Which deployment strategy should the engineer use?

A cloud architect is designing a CI/CD pipeline for a microservices application deployed on AWS. The pipeline should include stages for source code checkout, building, testing, and deploying to production. Which TWO of the following tools are suitable for implementing this pipeline?

A cloud administrator is planning to migrate a large on-premises database (several TB) to Amazon RDS with minimal downtime. Which TWO AWS services should be considered for this migration?

A company manages a multi-account AWS environment and wants to deploy consistent infrastructure across several accounts using CloudFormation. The solution must support updates to the infrastructure and detect configuration drift. Which TWO CloudFormation features should be used?

A development team is adopting Kubernetes for container orchestration. They need to ensure that a new deployment can handle rolling updates and automatically recover from pod failures. Which THREE Kubernetes concepts should be included in the deployment manifest?

A cloud engineer is using Terraform to manage infrastructure and wants to store the state file remotely for team collaboration. Which THREE backends support state locking and encryption at rest?

A company is migrating 50 TB of data from an on-premises file server to Amazon S3. The migration must be completed within two weeks and the internet connection is slow. Which TWO AWS services can accelerate the transfer?

An organization uses Azure DevOps for CI/CD and needs to deploy serverless functions written in multiple languages. The functions must be triggered by HTTP requests and handle background processing from Azure Blob Storage events. Which THREE Azure services should be used to build this solution?

A cloud engineer is writing Ansible playbooks to automate the configuration of cloud resources. Which TWO statements about Ansible are true?

A company is deploying a critical application on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and needs to ensure high availability and automatic scaling. Which THREE features should be configured?