The Kubernetes Master node serves as the central control plane for managing the cluster’s resources
and orchestrating workload deployment.
What are the primary responsibilities of the Kubernetes Master node?
B
Explanation:
The Kubernetes Master node is the central control plane responsible for managing the cluster’s
resources and orchestrating workload deployment. Its primary responsibilities include:
Scheduling: Deciding which workloads (pods) should run on which worker nodes, based on resource
availability and scheduling constraints.
Resource Allocation: Allocating resources to workloads to ensure optimal utilization across nodes.
Cluster Management: Maintaining the desired state of applications, managing cluster events, and
ensuring that all the components of the cluster are functioning properly.
As a DevOps Engineer, you are tasked with explaining the key concepts of Terraform to a new team
member. You want to ensure they understand the fundamental concepts of Terraform.
Which of the following best describes the purpose of Terraform variables?
B
Explanation:
Terraform variables are used to define input values for Terraform configurations. They allow users to
customize infrastructure deployments by providing different values without modifying the
configuration files themselves. Variables help in creating reusable infrastructure code, making it easy
to maintain and adjust the infrastructure setup according to different environments or needs.
As a DevOps engineer at XYZ Corp, you are responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of high-
traffic web applications hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The web applications run on
multiple OCI resources, including virtual machines, load balancers, and databases. Recently, users
have reported failures while accessing one of the OCI-based web applications, and you suspect HTTP
5XX errors on the load balancer. You need to quickly identify and address this issue.
Which of the following statements can assist you in quickly identifying and monitoring the HTTP 5XX
error rate on the load balancer and setting up notifications?
B
Explanation:
The Monitoring service in OCI can be used to track metrics for various OCI resources, including load
balancers. You can monitor specific metrics, such as HTTP 5XX error rates, to identify issues.
By using Alarms, you can set up thresholds for the HTTP 5XX error rate and receive notifications
when the threshold is breached. The notifications can be configured through OCI Notifications, which
allows integration with email, PagerDuty, Slack, and other channels.
Your team is responsible for deploying a new version of an application that is being used by your
company’s finance department. The application is critical to the department’s operations, and any
downtime could have serious consequences.
What is the recommended approach in OCI for creating environments for this scenario?
B
Explanation:
For critical applications, such as the one used by the finance department, a blue-green deployment
strategy is recommended to ensure minimal or zero downtime during upgrades. The blue-green
strategy involves running two separate environments: blue (current version) and green (new
version).
Your team is working on a project to deploy a microservices-based application on a cloud platform
using Terraform. Each microservice has specific configurations and dependencies, and you want to
ensure modularity, reusability, and consistency across deployments.
Which Terraform feature would you use to achieve these objectives efficiently?
D
Explanation:
Terraform Modules are used to organize and group related configuration resources into reusable
components. By using modules, you can achieve modularity, reusability, and consistency across
different deployments, making it easier to manage complex infrastructure setups.
For a microservices-based application, where each microservice has specific configurations and
dependencies, modules allow you to define the infrastructure for each microservice in a modular
way. This helps to maintain clean, reusable code and ensures consistency across deployments.
As a developer working on a software project to be deployed on OKE, you have created a Helm chart
for your application. You want to deploy the chart using OCI DevOps service.
Which statement is true about deploying a Helm Chart using OCI DevOps service?
B
Explanation:
OCI DevOps service can be used to deploy Helm charts for Kubernetes-based applications running on
Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). For deploying the Helm chart through the OCI DevOps service, the
Helm chart must be stored in the OCI Container Registry. This allows the OCI DevOps service to easily
access the Helm chart during the deployment process.
You are a developer and have been asked to develop an e-commerce website for your organization. It
must support a variety of clients including desktop browsers, mobile browsers and native mobile
applications.
Which two approaches can you use to build the application to achieve deployment independence,
easier technology upgrades, and resiliency to architecture changes? (Choose two.)
B, E
Explanation:
By implementing each module as an independent service/process (which is a core feature of
microservices architecture), you can replace, update, or delete services without affecting the rest of
the application. This ensures deployment independence and makes it easier to adapt to architecture
changes or technology upgrades without major disruptions.
Microservices architecture allows each service to be built with the best-suited technology stack for
its specific function. This flexibility ensures that you are not tied to a single technology for the entire
application, making future technology upgrades easier and eliminating long-term technology
commitments.
A software development team is working on a prototype using Node.js and MongoDB as their
programming language and database, respectively. They need to develop and test isolated web
applications or RESTful APIs. They are looking for a simple, quick, and secure way to run containers
without managing any servers.
Which OCI service is best suited for this use case?
B
Explanation:
OCI Container Instances provide a serverless way to run containers in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
(OCI). They allow you to run containers without having to manage any underlying servers or clusters.
This is ideal for development teams that need a simple, quick, and secure way to develop and test
isolated web applications or RESTful APIs.
Observability helps understand system behavior, but it has limitations.
Which of the following tasks cannot be accomplished solely through observability?
B
Explanation:
Observability refers to the ability to understand a system's internal state by observing its outputs. It
involves metrics, logs, and tracing to provide insights into the system's behavior, which helps in
monitoring and identifying issues.
As a DevOps engineer working with OCI DevOps, you are managing artifacts for a microservices
application.
Based on your understanding of working with DevOps projects and artifacts, which statement is true?
C
Explanation:
Making artifacts immutable ensures that the build artifacts are not altered after being published. This
is a best practice to maintain the integrity and consistency of the artifacts used in deployments,
preventing unintentional changes that could introduce issues during subsequent deployment stages.