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Crack DevOps Interview by these top questions

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The most popular set of skills that organizations look out for in an ideal candidate applying for a DevOps role is –

  • Experience in tools that allow us to automate the infrastructure such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
  • Hands-on expertise on container orchestration and management tools like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. can be helpful.
  • Popular backend languages for programming such as Java, PHP, etc.
  • Cloud computing platforms and infrastructures such as GCP, Amazon Web Services, etc.
  • Version control and management tools like Git, BitBucket, etc.

Once you are confident that you have enough of these skills to ace any DevOps job interview with flying colors, you can move ahead and start practicing some of the most frequently asked DevOps job interview questions and answers that we have mentioned below.

  1. What can you tell me about DevOps?
  2. What is the need for DevOps in the current market?
  3. Explain the difference between DevOps and Agile in SDLC? (DevOps Vs Agile)
  4. List a few tools that might be handy for end-to-end DevOps.
  5. Explain how these tools work together to carry out DevOps practices?
  6. Enlist the advantages and benefits that DevOps brings to the table.
  7. What are some of the anti-patterns in DevOps?
  8. Explain the different phases in DevOps?
  9. Differentiate the terms Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment with respect to DevOps?
  10. Explain the role of Continuous Monitoring in DevOps?
  11. In DevOps, explain the purpose of Configuration Management (CM)?
  12. Explain the role of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in DevOps?
  13. Explain the phrase “Infrastructure as a Code” that is often used in DevOps?
  14. Explain some key KPIs related to DevOps?
  15. What is the reason behind the demand for DevOps in the past few years?
  16. What do you mean by Version Control Systems that are heavily used in DevOps?
  17. Explain the two types of Version Control Systems.
  18. Differentiate between the pull and fetch commands in git?
  19. Explain branching in Git?
  20. Differentiate Git Merge with Git Rebase?

Want to know more questions on DevOps, then go through this blog on interview questions for DevOps engineer.

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