KCNA Cloud Native Application Delivery Practice Question

Answer analysis

Option-by-option breakdown

For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.

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  To provision infrastructure resources

  Why it's wrong here

  Infrastructure provisioning is performed by IaC tooling such as Terraform or CloudFormation, not by a CI pipeline, which builds and tests code on each commit. Provisioning is tempting because pipelines often trigger IaC runs, yet the stem asks the pipeline's own primary purpose.

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  To automatically deploy code to production

  Why it's wrong here

  Automatic production deployment is continuous delivery or deployment, a separate stage consuming CI's verified artefacts. It is tempting because pipelines commonly chain into deployment, but CI's purpose ends at building and testing each commit, not releasing to production.

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  To build and test code changes automatically

  Why this is correct

  A CI pipeline automatically builds and tests each code change on commit, giving fast feedback on integration errors and regressions. This satisfies the stem's cloud native delivery scenario, where frequent small merges require automated verification rather than manual, release-time testing.

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  To manage container images in a registry

  Why it's wrong here

  Registry management stores and versions built images; it neither compiles code nor runs automated tests on commits. It is tempting because CI pipelines push artefacts to a registry, but that is a downstream step, not the pipeline's primary purpose of integrating and validating code changes.

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