GH-200 sample questions

Question 1

You are architecting a CI/CD workflow for a monorepo containing a frontend application (in /client) and a backend API (in /api). You need to configure the workflow to trigger ONLY when changes are pushed to the main branch affecting the backend API code. Changes to documentation (Markdown files) inside the api directory should NOT trigger the workflow.

Which trigger configuration should you use?

Accepted Answer

on: push: branches: [ 'main' ] paths: [ 'api/**' ] paths-ignore: [ 'api/**/*.md' ]

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on: push: branches: [ 'main' ] paths: [ 'api/**', '!api/**/*.md' ]

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on: push: branches: [ 'main' ] files: [ 'api/*' ] exclude: [ '**/*.md' ]

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on: push: branches: [ 'main' ] defaults: run: working-directory: api

Question 2

A DevOps engineer is configuring a scheduled workflow that must run every Monday at 8:00 AM UTC. The workflow is critical for weekly reporting.

Which cron schedule expression correctly implements this requirement?

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0 8 * * 1

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8 0 * * MON

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0 8 * * MON

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0 8 1 * *

Question 3

You are creating a workflow that accepts manual inputs to deploy a specific version of an application to a chosen environment. You need to ensure the environment input can only be one of three values: 'dev', 'staging', or 'prod'.

How should you define this input in the workflow_dispatch trigger?

Accepted Answer

Define the input with `type: choice` and provide a list of `options`.

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Define the input with `type: environment` and list the environments in `default`.

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Define the input with `type: string` and use a `validate` step in the job.

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Use the `environment` keyword at the job level instead of inputs.

Question 4

CASE STUDY: GlobalLogistics Corp

GlobalLogistics has a complex deployment pipeline. The workflow deploy.yml consists of three jobs: build, test, and deploy.

Requirements:

build must run first.
test must run only if build succeeds.
deploy must run only if test succeeds.
If test fails, a special cleanup job called report-failure must run to upload logs to an S3 bucket.

How should you configure the report-failure job dependencies?

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Correct answer: A

To run a job after another job has failed, you must declare the dependency using needs: test (so it waits for test to finish) and use the if: failure() conditional check to ensure it only executes when the dependent job has failed.

Accepted Answer

needs: test if: failure()

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needs: build if: failure()

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needs: [test, deploy] if: always()

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runs-on: ubuntu-latest if: job.status == 'failure'

Question 5

You need to select a runner for a job that requires a Linux environment with 64GB of RAM and custom GPU drivers installed. You have configured a self-hosted runner with these specifications and assigned it the labels: linux, x64, gpu, and high-mem.

Which runs-on configuration ensures the job lands on this specific runner or one with identical capabilities? (Select TWO)

Accepted Answer

runs-on: [self-hosted, linux, high-mem, gpu]

Accepted Answer

runs-on: group: Default labels: [linux, high-mem, gpu]

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runs-on: ubuntu-latest

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runs-on: [linux, gpu]

Question 6

A developer defines an environment variable API_KEY at the workflow level, but redefines it with a different value in a specific job, and again within a specific step.

When the step executes, which value of API_KEY will be used?

Accepted Answer

The value defined at the step level.

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The value defined at the workflow level.

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The value defined at the job level.

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The workflow will fail due to a variable name conflict.

Question 7

You are maintaining a public repository. A contributor submits a Pull Request from a forked repository. Your workflow normally runs integration tests using a secret DB_PASSWORD.

Why does the workflow fail when triggered by the PR from the fork?

Accepted Answer

Secrets are not passed to runners for pull requests from forked repositories by default.

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The GITHUB_TOKEN has insufficient permissions on forks.

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The contributor needs to be added as a collaborator to access secrets.

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The secret must be defined in the `environment` scope to be accessible.

Question 8

Your workflow requires a Redis database for integration testing. You want to configure a service container for Redis that is accessible to the job steps.

Which configuration correctly sets up the Redis service and maps the port?

Accepted Answer

services: redis: image: redis ports: - 6379:6379

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container: image: redis ports: [6379]

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steps: - uses: docker://redis with: ports: 6379

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services: redis: image: redis expose: - 6379

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