CV0-004 Deployment Practice Test 7 — 15 Questions

Question 1

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?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

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Canary deployment. Canary deployment releases the new version to a small percentage of users, monitors its performance, and gradually increases traffic if successful.

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Rolling deployment

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Blue/green deployment

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Immutable deployment

Question 2

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?

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Readiness probe. Readiness probes determine whether a pod is ready to receive traffic; only when the probe succeeds is the pod added to service endpoints.

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Startup probe

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Liveness probe

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Resource limits

Question 3

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

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Offline data transfer via physical device. Offline data transfer via physical device is specifically designed for offline data transfer of large datasets, such as 50 TB, when network bandwidth is limited. It provides physical storage devices that are shipped to the customer, loaded with data, and returned to the cloud provider for ingestion into the cloud storage service, bypassing network constraints entirely. This makes it the ideal choice for completing a 50 TB migration within one week over a limited bandwidth connection.

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Online data transfer service

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Batch processing service

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Data transfer acceleration

Question 4

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?

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Bicep. Bicep is a domain-specific language for deploying Azure resources that provides a simpler syntax than ARM templates while being fully integrated with Azure.

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Terraform

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Ansible

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ARM templates (JSON)

Question 5

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?

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It is agentless. Ansible is agentless; it connects over SSH (Linux) or WinRM (Windows) to execute tasks without installing any software on the target.

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It uses PowerShell Desired State Configuration

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It uses a master-agent architecture

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It requires a pull-based model

Question 6

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?

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Change data capture (CDC). AWS DMS supports ongoing replication using change data capture (CDC), which continuously replicates changes from the source to the target with minimal downtime.

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Validation

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Full load only

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Schema conversion

Question 7

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?

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Amazon S3. S3 can send events to Lambda when objects are created, enabling automatic processing without polling.

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Amazon SQS

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Amazon EventBridge

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API Gateway

Question 8

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?

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Test. In a typical CI/CD pipeline, after build (compile) comes test (e.g., unit tests) to validate the code before proceeding to deploy.

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Verify

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Deploy to production

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Source

Question 9

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?

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Stack sets. AWS CloudFormation StackSets allow you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple accounts and Regions from a single admin account.

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Drift detection

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Nested stacks

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Change sets

Question 10

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?

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Helm. Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes that uses charts to define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes applications.

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Kustomize

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Ansible

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Terraform

Question 11

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.)

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). AWS DMS can migrate data and replicate ongoing changes using CDC, while the Schema Conversion Tool can convert the Oracle schema to PostgreSQL.

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AWS DataSync

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AWS Snowball

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

Question 12

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.)

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Service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd). To implement canary with automatic rollback, you need a traffic split mechanism (service mesh), monitoring (Prometheus), and progressive delivery tool (Flagger).

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Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

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Kubernetes Service with label selectors

Question 13

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.)

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Transfer Appliance. Storage Transfer Service handles online transfers from various sources, and Transfer Appliance provides offline physical shipping for large datasets when network is insufficient.

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gsutil

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Cloud Dataflow

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Cloud VPN

Question 14

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?

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Deployment. A Deployment is the correct Kubernetes object because it manages ReplicaSets to provide declarative updates, self-healing (automatic replacement of failed pods), and scalability (adjusting replica counts). Unlike a standalone Pod, a Deployment ensures the desired state is maintained, automatically rescheduling containers if they fail.

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ConfigMap

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Service

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Pod

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

AWS Snowball Edge. AWS DMS can use Snowball Edge for large initial loads to avoid lengthy network transfers. S3 Transfer Acceleration speeds up uploads but is not optimal for 50 TB initial load. Database Migration Service is the tool itself. DataSync is for file storage, not databases.

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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AWS DataSync

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)