Environment Management for Development Quiz

What you'll be asked

1. Which type of environment is typically used by developers to build and test features in isolation before merging them into the main codebase?
2. When managing multiple environments in an ALM pipeline, why is it considered a best practice to use environment variables instead of hard-coding configuration values?
3. In a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) workflow, what is the primary purpose of a 'Staging' or 'Pre-production' environment?
4. What is the primary risk associated with 'Environment Drift' in an ALM lifecycle?
5. Your team is implementing 'Infrastructure as Code' (IaC) to manage environments. If a developer manually updates a firewall rule in the production portal instead of updating the IaC template, what is the recommended remediation strategy?

Answers and explanations come after you submit.