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Explain branching, pull requests, artefacts and environment promotion
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Platform Engineering Academy · Enterprise Interview Preparation
DevOps Engineer Interview Path
Prepare for Git, CI/CD, Terraform, containers, Kubernetes, security controls, deployment strategies and delivery metrics.
Objective: Show end-to-end understanding of how a change moves safely from source control to production and back through feedback loops.
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Core interview fundamentals
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Describe pipeline stages, secrets, approvals and policy gates
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03
Compare rolling, blue-green, canary and feature-flag deployment patterns
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Scenario and architecture challenges
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Diagnose a failed deployment with incomplete telemetry
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02
Design reusable pipelines for multiple teams and environments
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03
Recover from infrastructure drift, state problems or a broken release
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Communication and delivery expectations
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Explain lead time, deployment frequency, failure rate and recovery time
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02
Communicate release risk and rollback criteria
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03
Balance delivery speed with auditability and change control
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Readiness evidence and practice plan
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Prepare one pipeline design and one incident walkthrough
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02
Practise Terraform plan, state and drift questions
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Demonstrate evidence from build, test, security and deployment controls
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