SKILL BENCHMARK

DevOps for Engineering Leaders Proficiency (Advanced Level)

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  • 13 questions
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The DevOps for Engineering Leaders Proficiency (Advanced Level) benchmark measures your ability to install and configure Jenkins to build, test, and deploy software. You will be evaluated on your skills in implementing DevSecOps to secure DevOps, automating security testing and configuration management, and applying monitoring and analytics to the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline. A learner who scores high on this benchmark demonstrates that they have good experience with DevOps and Jenkins and can lead and guide DevOps engineering teams.

Topics covered

  • automate software testing with Cucumber and Selenium plugins in Jenkins
  • backup and restore a Jenkins installation
  • build and deploy a basic Ansible playbook
  • build and deploy a basic Terraform template
  • deploy software as a post-build step
  • identify common testing frameworks and plugins used in Jenkins
  • identify the benefits of DevSecOps principles
  • install and configure Grafana to create dashboards to visualize the health and metrics of the pipeline
  • install and configure plugins to automate security testing for Jenkins
  • install and configure Prometheus for telemetry and metrics
  • outline how to leverage monitoring and analytics to assess the health of the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
  • outline the process for automatic deployment using Jenkins
  • recognize the benefits of configuration automation