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Actual exam question from Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Question #: 191
Topic #: 1

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Your company wants to implement a CD pipeline in Cloud Deploy for a web service deployed to GKE. The web service currently does not have any automated testing. The Quality Assurance team must manually verify any new releases of the web service before any production traffic is processed. You need to design the CD pipeline. What should you do?

A. Create a single pipeline stage, and use a standard deployment strategy.
B. Create a single pipeline stage, and use a canary deployment strategy.
C. Create two pipeline stages, and use a canary deployment strategy.
D. Create two pipeline stages, and use a standard deployment strategy.

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

by kitaharazyl at March 25, 2025, 6:14 a.m.

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kleranti

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Selected Answer: D

D is better

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RushinthJohn

3 weeks ago

Selected Answer: C

Two pipeline stages: Similar to C, this allows for a dedicated QA stage before production. Standard deployment strategy (in the Production stage): After QA, if a "standard deployment" (like a rolling update or blue/green switch) is used, it means the new version gets 100% of production traffic fairly quickly. Problem: While this allows for manual QA, without automated testing, jumping from manual QA directly to 100% production traffic is riskier than a canary strategy. A standard deployment doesn't offer the gradual rollout and risk mitigation that a canary does, especially critical when automated testing is absent.

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