exin devopsf practice test

EXIN DevOps Foundation

Last exam update: Nov 18 ,2025
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Question 1

An IT architecture is characterized as monolithic and rigidly bound.
What difficulty with adopting DevOps practices can be expected?

  • A. Clearly defining the boundaries of the IT systems
  • B. Defining areas of responsibility for each DevOps team
  • C. Maintaining the increasingly complex architecture
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B

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Question 2

DevOps benefits from a ‘start-up spirit’ to focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Which attitude to change fits with that start-up spirit in DevOps?

  • A. Authoritarian
  • B. Autonomous
  • C. Conservatism
  • D. Experiments
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C

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Question 3

Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) has both advantages and limitations for businesses.
What is true about COTS?

  • A. COTS supports continuous development with its fast implementation
  • B. COTS will save the business time and money, by reducing development time
  • C. Depending on the type of COTS used, the possibility of customization is limited
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B


Reference:
https://sites.google.com/site/advancedsofteng/software-acquisition/using-commercial-off-the-
shelfpackages-cots

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Question 4

DevOps implies that not only the boundary between Development and Operations must disappear.
Which other boundary must also disappear?

  • A. The boundary between Development and marketing
  • B. The boundary between IT management and the rest of the IT department
  • C. The boundary between the finance department and Development
  • D. The boundary between the HR department and Operations
  • E. The boundary between the IT department and the business
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A

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Question 5

In DevOps, the organization should start where they are and progress iteratively.
What needs to change compared to a more traditional environment to facilitate progression?

  • A. Cultural and organizational changes within the IT department only
  • B. Disappearance of the Development and Operations departments
  • C. Implementation of complex systems, to ensure confidence in the systems
  • D. Management principles and approaches to information technology
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D

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Question 6

A team stores not only source code, but many other things related to the IT system, such as tests,
scripts, artifacts, libraries and many other things.
Which DevOps principle has this team implemented?

  • A. Continuous delivery
  • B. Deployment pipeline
  • C. Version control
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C

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Question 7

For what type of business is DevOps the least suitable?

  • A. Companies with unacceptable IT-related risks for the core business
  • B. Companies without in-house software development
  • C. Small companies or start-ups
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B

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Question 8

Every team needs information. In DevOps, it is stressed to visualize certain information.
Which piece of information should be made available, so the team has ready access to it?

  • A. In which step is work accumulating, inhibiting flow?
  • B. What is management working on right now?
  • C. Which other projects do not have enough manpower?
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A

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Question 9

A company is not yet using DevOps practices. The team notices a problematic accumulation of
technical debt.
One of the team members suggests implementing DevOps practices to solve this problem.
Which DevOps practices support reducing technical debt?

  • A. Constant refactoring and eliminating previous bottlenecks
  • B. Continuous delivery and promoting pair programming
  • C. Continuous feedback and implementing a deployment pipeline
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A

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Question 10

What is a benefit of the way the Definition of Done is defined in DevOps?

  • A. The team focuses less on the “what” and more on “when”
  • B. The team focuses less on the “what and more” on “where”
  • C. The team focuses less on the “what” and more on “who”
  • D. The team focuses less on the “what” and more on “why”
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Question 11

DevOps incorporates Lean Production principles in software development.
What Lean principle is the core of DevOps?

  • A. Continuous delivery
  • B. Self-organization
  • C. Value chain thinking
  • D. Welcoming change
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Question 12

Your team uses continuous delivery.
What are two reasons to keep the batch size small? (Choose two.)

  • A. So that each team member can get their own batch
  • B. So that root causes of problems can be identified and resolved quickly
  • C. So that the product owner can report back to the customer
  • D. So that the product owner has a good idea of what is delivered when
  • E. So that there is room for Kaizen blitzes in between work
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BD


Reference:
https://medium.com/faun/small-is-beautiful-the-importance-of-batch-size-ea968ed8d477

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Question 13

What is a correct use of a value stream map?

  • A. Identifying and eliminating bottlenecks in the process
  • B. Inserting feedback from the customer into the process
  • C. Visualizing the work that is done or is in process
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C

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Question 14

What should be taken into account most when prioritizing tasks according to DevOps practices?

  • A. How long the task has waited
  • B. How much the team likes the task
  • C. How much value the task adds
  • D. How much work the task takes
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C

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Question 15

Time-to-market is very important.
In what way is DevOps supporting a short time-to-market?

  • A. By funding products and not projects, to allow for innovation and optimization
  • B. By reassembling a DevOps team for each project to ensure relevant experience
  • C. By training the team based on missing knowledge for each new iteration
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B


Reference:
https://www.exin.com/article/devops-indispensable-agile-work?language_content_entity=en

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