200-901 Question 115
Select 3A software development team is building a CI/CD pipeline to automate their application deployment process. They want to ensure the pipeline includes components for code integration, testing, and deployment to a production environment. Which components should be included in the pipeline to meet these requirements?
- A
Source code repository
- B
Automated testing framework
- C
Configuration management tool
- D
Continuous integration server
- E
Load balancer for production traffic
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Correct answers: A, B, D
Explanation
The CI/CD pipeline focuses on integrating code changes, testing those changes, and deploying them to production. Essential components include a source code repository for version control, an automated testing framework for validating changes, and a continuous integration server to automate build and test processes. Configuration management and load balancers are useful for infrastructure and production traffic management but are not fundamental to the CI/CD pipeline's primary functionality.
- A. Correct.
A source code repository (e.g., Git) is essential for version control and collaboration. It is the starting point of the CI/CD pipeline where code changes are tracked.
- B. Correct.
An automated testing framework is critical for validating code changes and ensuring the quality of the application before deployment.
- C. Incorrect.
While a configuration management tool is helpful for managing infrastructure, it is not a core component of a CI/CD pipeline itself.
- D. Correct.
A continuous integration server (e.g., Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD) automates the building, testing, and integration of code changes into the main branch, making it a core part of the CI/CD workflow.
- E. Incorrect.
A load balancer is used to distribute traffic across servers in production but is unrelated to the core components of a CI/CD pipeline.