Devops Fundamentals and Culture Questions

Covers foundational DevOps concepts, goals, and cultural principles. Candidates should demonstrate understanding of what DevOps is and why it matters, how it differs from traditional operations models, and core cultural practices such as cross functional collaboration, shared responsibility, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement. Operational and technical practices include continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code and configuration management, automated testing and deployment, monitoring and observability, release strategies such as canary and blue green deployments, feature flagging, and rollback planning. Emphasize the role of automation and repeatability, how feedback loops and metrics inform decisions, and the trade offs between delivery velocity, reliability, security, and maintainability when applying DevOps practices in different organizational contexts.