SAFE DEVOPS 5.1 PRACTICE TEST PAPER 2026
SOLVED QUESTIONS REVIEW
◉ 5 continuous testing aspects in DevOps Answer: BDD, TDD, Test
Automation, Production Testing, Continuous Monitoring
◉ What is CALMR? Answer: SAFE's approach to DevOps. Stands for:
Culture - Customer-centricity, collaboration, risk tolerance (reward
risk taking and experiments) knowledge sharing
Automation - Automating the Continuous Delivery Pipeline via an
integrated 'tool chain' (Figure 2) accelerates processing time and
shrinks feedback cycles. It is this feedback—from customers,
stakeholders, solutions, infrastructure, and the pipeline itself—that
provides objective evidence that solutions are (or are not) delivering
expected value. Includes:
Value Stream Management (VSM) - VSM tools 'wrap' the continuous
delivery pipeline from end to end, providing real time visibility into
the health and efficiency of the value stream itself.
Version Control - These are tools that store and manage changes to
source and configuration files that define the behavior of solutions,
systems, and infrastructure.
,Infrastructure as code (IaC) - As a discipline, infrastructure-as-code
treats all systems as highly configurable, expendable commodities.
Tools in this category enable all manner of computing infrastructure
to be built, deployed, changed, and destroyed on demand.
Test Automation - Test automation can be a significant source of
delivery acceleration and typically applies to all forms of unit,
component, integration, regression, performance, acceptance, and
usability testing except exploratory testing.
Vulnerability Detection - These tools span much of the continuous
delivery pipeline and are specifically designed to detect security
vulnerabilities in code, networks, and infrastructure.
CI/CD - Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
tools are typically invoked automatically upon code commit and
orchestrate build, integration, testing, compliance, and deployment
activities.
Monitoring and Analytics - These tools collect usage and
performance data from
◉ What is Continuous Exploration and its activities? Answer: Create
alignment on what needs to be built. Use design thinking to
understand market problem/customer need and solution required.
Hypothesize, Collaborate & Research, Architect, Synthesize
Includes learning milestones, customer feedback loops, and Set-
Based Design (keeps requirements and design options flexible for as
long as possible during the development process, explores multiple
options)
,◉ Continuous Exploration business goal Answer: Alignment
◉ Innovation accounting stresses the importance of avoiding what?
Answer: Vanity Metrics
◉ Which IT objective is aligned to Built-in Quality? Answer:
Continuous Integration (Cl)
◉ What are activities aligned with Built-in Quality? Answer:
Develop, Build, Test end-to-end, Stage
◉ Why are canary releases used? Answer: These provide a
mechanism for releasing the solution to a specific Customer segment
and measuring the results, before expanding and releasing to more
customers
◉ After the team maps the steps of the current state Value Stream
during value stream mapping, what are the next two steps? Answer:
Understanding Opportunities and Threat. Evaluating Alternatives to
Determine a Future State.
◉ Five dimensions of built-in quality Answer: Flow. Architecture &
Design Quality. Code Quality. System Quality. Release Quality
, ◉ How is Flow achieved in built-in quality Answer: Test-First and a
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
◉ How Architecture & Design Quality is achieved in built-in quality
Answer: Support Future Business Needs. Design for Quality.
Architecting and Designing to Ease Testing. Apply Design Quality in
Cyber Physical Systems
◉ How Code Quality is achieved in built-in quality Answer: Unit
Testing and Test-Driven Development. Pair Work. Collective
Ownership and Coding Standards. Applying Code Quality in Cyber-
Physical Systems.
◉ How System Quality is achieved in built-in quality Answer: Create
Alignment to Achieve Fast Flow. Continuously Integrate the End-to-
End Solution. Continuously Integrate the End-to-End Solution
◉ How Release Quality is achieved in built-in quality Answer:
Supporting Compliance. Scalable Definition of Done.
◉ What is a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and what are its
"subcomponents" (aspects)? Answer: A high-performance
innovation engine (workflows, activities, and automation) capable of
delivering market-leading solutions at the speed of business.
SOLVED QUESTIONS REVIEW
◉ 5 continuous testing aspects in DevOps Answer: BDD, TDD, Test
Automation, Production Testing, Continuous Monitoring
◉ What is CALMR? Answer: SAFE's approach to DevOps. Stands for:
Culture - Customer-centricity, collaboration, risk tolerance (reward
risk taking and experiments) knowledge sharing
Automation - Automating the Continuous Delivery Pipeline via an
integrated 'tool chain' (Figure 2) accelerates processing time and
shrinks feedback cycles. It is this feedback—from customers,
stakeholders, solutions, infrastructure, and the pipeline itself—that
provides objective evidence that solutions are (or are not) delivering
expected value. Includes:
Value Stream Management (VSM) - VSM tools 'wrap' the continuous
delivery pipeline from end to end, providing real time visibility into
the health and efficiency of the value stream itself.
Version Control - These are tools that store and manage changes to
source and configuration files that define the behavior of solutions,
systems, and infrastructure.
,Infrastructure as code (IaC) - As a discipline, infrastructure-as-code
treats all systems as highly configurable, expendable commodities.
Tools in this category enable all manner of computing infrastructure
to be built, deployed, changed, and destroyed on demand.
Test Automation - Test automation can be a significant source of
delivery acceleration and typically applies to all forms of unit,
component, integration, regression, performance, acceptance, and
usability testing except exploratory testing.
Vulnerability Detection - These tools span much of the continuous
delivery pipeline and are specifically designed to detect security
vulnerabilities in code, networks, and infrastructure.
CI/CD - Continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
tools are typically invoked automatically upon code commit and
orchestrate build, integration, testing, compliance, and deployment
activities.
Monitoring and Analytics - These tools collect usage and
performance data from
◉ What is Continuous Exploration and its activities? Answer: Create
alignment on what needs to be built. Use design thinking to
understand market problem/customer need and solution required.
Hypothesize, Collaborate & Research, Architect, Synthesize
Includes learning milestones, customer feedback loops, and Set-
Based Design (keeps requirements and design options flexible for as
long as possible during the development process, explores multiple
options)
,◉ Continuous Exploration business goal Answer: Alignment
◉ Innovation accounting stresses the importance of avoiding what?
Answer: Vanity Metrics
◉ Which IT objective is aligned to Built-in Quality? Answer:
Continuous Integration (Cl)
◉ What are activities aligned with Built-in Quality? Answer:
Develop, Build, Test end-to-end, Stage
◉ Why are canary releases used? Answer: These provide a
mechanism for releasing the solution to a specific Customer segment
and measuring the results, before expanding and releasing to more
customers
◉ After the team maps the steps of the current state Value Stream
during value stream mapping, what are the next two steps? Answer:
Understanding Opportunities and Threat. Evaluating Alternatives to
Determine a Future State.
◉ Five dimensions of built-in quality Answer: Flow. Architecture &
Design Quality. Code Quality. System Quality. Release Quality
, ◉ How is Flow achieved in built-in quality Answer: Test-First and a
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
◉ How Architecture & Design Quality is achieved in built-in quality
Answer: Support Future Business Needs. Design for Quality.
Architecting and Designing to Ease Testing. Apply Design Quality in
Cyber Physical Systems
◉ How Code Quality is achieved in built-in quality Answer: Unit
Testing and Test-Driven Development. Pair Work. Collective
Ownership and Coding Standards. Applying Code Quality in Cyber-
Physical Systems.
◉ How System Quality is achieved in built-in quality Answer: Create
Alignment to Achieve Fast Flow. Continuously Integrate the End-to-
End Solution. Continuously Integrate the End-to-End Solution
◉ How Release Quality is achieved in built-in quality Answer:
Supporting Compliance. Scalable Definition of Done.
◉ What is a Continuous Delivery Pipeline and what are its
"subcomponents" (aspects)? Answer: A high-performance
innovation engine (workflows, activities, and automation) capable of
delivering market-leading solutions at the speed of business.
