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Question 1 · Ordering · Continuous Integration
A new engineer has to fix a bug in a repository they have never worked in. The team works on short-lived branches, and nothing reaches the main branch without review.
Arrange the seven steps from first to last.
clone copies the repository to your machine. checkout -b creates a branch and switches to it, so the fix is kept apart from the main branch. After editing, add stages the changes, commit records them with a message, and push sends the branch to the server. The pull request asks the team to review and merge it, and it is where the pipeline’s checks run.
Question 2 · Matching · Automation Coding Concepts
You’re reading the team’s automation standards, and five terms come up on every page.
Match each description to the term it defines.
YAML shows structure by indentation and is what most playbooks and pipelines are written in; JSON uses braces, brackets and quoted keys. An idempotent task can run any number of times and leave the system the same as running it once, which is what makes automation safe to repeat. Declarative code describes the result you want and lets the tool work out the steps; imperative code lists the steps.
Question 3 · Linux command line · System Configuration
The configuration tool that normally sets up application servers is down, and node07 has to be ready within the hour. The state it should be in is written in desired-state.yml in your home directory. You’ll apply it by hand, exactly as the tool would.
Read the file, then make the server match it.
The file declares four things: a group, a user in that group who can’t sign in interactively, a folder owned by that user, and a service that is running and enabled. Each becomes one command: groupadd, useradd with -g for the primary group and -s for the shell, chown -R for the folder and everything in it, and systemctl enable --now. A configuration tool does the same work, but checks first and changes only what differs.
Question 4 · Sorting · Continuous Integration
A pipeline runs three sets of tests, fastest first. The team is deciding which set each new test belongs in.
Put each test under its kind.
A unit test checks one small piece of code on its own, with anything external replaced by a stand-in, so it runs in milliseconds. An integration test checks that real parts work together: the code with its database, or two services with each other. An end-to-end test drives the whole deployed system the way a user would. The pipeline runs the fast tests first so most failures are found in seconds.
Question 5 · Matching · Continuous Delivery
The team wants to release more often with less risk, and the delivery handbook describes five techniques for doing so.
Match each description to the technique.
A feature flag separates deploying code from releasing it: the code ships switched off and is turned on later, for some users or all. A canary release limits a bad version to a small share of traffic. Blue-green keeps the old environment ready to switch back to. A rollback returns to the previous version when a release goes wrong. The artifact repository keeps every versioned build, which is what makes a rollback possible.
CompTIA’s page on performance-based questions doesn’t list AutoOps+ yet, so check CompTIA’s exam page for its question types. These tasks practice the exam’s objectives in the hands-on style CompTIA uses on its other exams. CompTIA’s page on performance-based questions, read on November 12, 2026.
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CompTIA describes performance-based questions as exam items that test your ability to solve problems in real-world settings. Most are simulations: an approximation of a tool such as a firewall, a network diagram, a terminal window or an operating system.
You don’t pick an answer. You do the task, and there can be more than one correct way to do it.
Try each question cold. Getting it wrong first and then reading why teaches more than reading the answer and nodding along.
A right answer reached by guessing is a wrong answer waiting for exam day. Every question here explains why each part is what it is.
CompTIA says a simulation question can be skipped and returned to later, with your work saved. If one is eating your time, move on, answer the multiple-choice questions and come back.
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CompTIA’s page on performance-based questions doesn’t list AutoOps+ yet, so check CompTIA’s exam page for its question types. These tasks practice the exam’s objectives in the hands-on style CompTIA uses on its other exams. That is from CompTIA’s page on performance-based questions, read on November 12, 2026.
No. They’re original tasks written to each exam’s published objectives. Using leaked real exam questions breaks every vendor’s exam rules.
CompTIA says a performance-based question can have more than one correct way through it, that its scoring allows for the different approaches, and that partial credit may be given. Here, each question is scored by its parts, so you can see which part you missed.
CompTIA says a simulation question can be skipped and returned to later, and that your work on it is saved when you move on. A virtual-environment question has to be completed when you reach it: a warning screen tells you so first.
No. It’s a practice terminal that runs in your browser. It understands the real commands the task needs and answers the way the real system would, but it isn’t a full operating system: nothing is installed, and nothing you type can break anything.
No. The questions run in your browser and nothing is saved. Sign up only if you want full practice exams and progress tracking.
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