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Deployment practice questions

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Reviewed byJohnson Ajibi· MSc IT Security
20 questionsDomain: Deployment

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What to know about Deployment

Deployment questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Common Deployment exam traps

  • Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Deployment questions

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Question 1mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 5easymultiple choice
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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:

Question 6hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 7easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 9mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 10mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 11hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 12mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 13mediummulti select
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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.)

Question 14easymulti select
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A company is adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage its cloud resources. Which THREE statements are true about IaC? (Select THREE.)

Question 15hardmulti select
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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.)

Question 16easymultiple choice
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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?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 18mediummultiple choice
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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?

Question 19hardmultiple choice
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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?

Question 20easymultiple choice
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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?

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Deployment questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
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