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Skill name: IBM Rational DevOps Sales Professional v1
PartnerWorld skill code: 32016012
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A. enhanced customer experience
B. increased capacity to innovate
C. increased visibility through the pipeline
D. faster time to value
Answer: A,C,D
Explanation:
Examples: *50%better quality *Build a delivery pipeline leveraging tools-as-a-service that enables
developers to commit code, test, and deploy to a production environment in minutes reducing the
need for rework and maximizing productivity. *300%increased release frequency,99%faster releases
NO.2 You are meeting with a potential client who is describing the problems their team faces. Which
pain statement would lead you to consider proposing a solution based on
Continuous Business Planning?
A. Our server-based applications do not seem to respond well during periods of heavy client usage.
B. We have a large number of products and services; we need a better way of determining which
ones to maintain and which ones to end-of-life.
C. We are developing new web applications on our portal while reusing old mainframe transaction
systems, and we cannot afford to set up large test lab environments.
D. We sometimes have difficulties evaluating the best approach to meeting our client's specifications
and safety standards.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Enterprise business planning capability for continuous software delivery Continuously plan, measure
and bring business strategy and customer feedback into the development lifecycle. Assure that the
enterprise investment choices are aligned throughout their life cycle to your organization's needs.
Employ lean principles to help teams start small, identifying the outcomes and resources needed to
test the business vision and value. Adapt and adjust continually, measuring actual progress, and
customer requirements so teams can shift direction with agility.
NO.3 Which three foundational principles upon which DevOps is built take a holistic approach to
DevOps?
A. develop and test against production-like systems
B. plan and deliver based on stated requirements
C. deploy with repeatable reliable processes
D. monitor and validate operational quality
Answer: A,C,D
Explanation:
*Develop/Test *Deploy *Operate
NO.4 What are three core capabilities included within the collaborative development practice in
DevOps?
A. continuous integration
B. customer feedback analysis
C. continuous testing
D. service virtualization
Answer: A,B,D
Explanation:
Develop/Test Innovate ideas through collaborative development and testing with IBM Service
Virtualization and IBM Rational Test Workbench, and leverage Web IDE and continuous integration
capabilities as-a-service as part of IBM DevOps services for Bluemix.
NO.5 A customer is interested in Jazz and a core IBM CLM solution. The customer is concerned about
their team's ability to adopt all of the CLM products. They do not want to burden their software
teams with complexity or slow down development due to a high learning curve.
Which statement best positions an IBM CLM solution for this customer?
A. In order to achieve value from an IBM ALM solution, you need to address the core lifecycle
activities of requirements, development, and testing together through the adoption of Rational
Requirements Composer. Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager.
B. You can mix open source tools with an IBM CLM solution and still achieve the same value as using
all of the core CLM products in order to reduce complexity.
C. You should wait until you are ready to adopt CLM as a whole so that you can get the most value
out of the solution for your projects. We have training that will help you in your adoption.
D. The IBM solution for ALM can be adopted in part or as a whole, depending on your most
immediate needs and where you will see the most immediate value.
Answer: D
NO.6 You are at a preliminary meeting with a client and are discussing deployment.
Which client pain point would lead you toward a recommendation of IBM UrbanCode Deploy?
A. Testing teams are suffering delays verifying new features due to poor application installation
documentation.
B. Development managers are complaining of having difficulty getting their teams to achieve good
agile planning practices.
C. There is a team of administrators that support the current application portfolio, but they are
uncertain about their ability to support any growth of it.
D. Customers have many complaints about the ease-of-use concerning your main flagship application
user interface.
Answer: B
Explanation:
*IBM UrbanCode Deploy is a tool for automating application deployments through your
environments. It is designed to facilitate rapid feedback and continuous delivery in agile development
while providing the audit trails, versioning and approvals needed in production.
*UrbanCode Deploy provides Clear visibility: what is deployed where and who changed what
Automated, consistent deployments and rollbacks of applications Orchestration of changes across
servers, tiers and components Configuration and security differences across environments Integrated
with middleware, provisioning and service virtualization