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Which of the following is a distributed version control system?
Correct Answer
Git
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DevOps Unit 3
Practice objective questions for quick revision and examination preparation. Try answering each question before revealing the answer.
DevOps - Unit-3
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Git was created by
Correct Answer
Linus Torvalds
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Git was first released in the year
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2005
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Which of the following is a centralised version control system?
Correct Answer
Subversion (SVN)
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Which command copies a remote repository to the local machine?
Correct Answer
git clone
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Which command records staged changes in the local repository?
Correct Answer
git commit
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Which command sends local commits to a remote repository?
Correct Answer
git push
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Which command fetches changes from a remote repository and merges them?
Correct Answer
git pull
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Which command is used to list or create branches?
Correct Answer
git branch
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A pull request is
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a request to merge changes from one branch into another after review
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Gerrit is
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a web-based code review tool for Git
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GitLab is
Correct Answer
a web-based DevOps platform with Git repository management and CI/CD
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Which of the following is NOT a hosted Git service?
Correct Answer
Jenkins
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Docker containers differ from virtual machines because they
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share the host operating system kernel
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Common ways to authenticate with a Git server are
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SSH keys and HTTPS credentials
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The .gitignore file is used to
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list files and patterns that Git should ignore
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A merge conflict occurs when
Correct Answer
the same part of a file is changed differently in two branches
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Which of these version control systems was released first?
Correct Answer
CVS
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The main need for source code control is to
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track history, support collaboration and allow rollback of changes
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The Git staging area is also called the
Correct Answer
index
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In Git, HEAD points to
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the current branch or latest commit checked out
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Which command shows the commit history?
Correct Answer
git log
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In Gerrit, a change is merged into the repository after
Correct Answer
it has been reviewed and approved
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Forking a repository on a hosting service creates
Correct Answer
a personal copy of that repository
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Which of the following best describes Git branching?
Correct Answer
Independent lines of development within a repository
Fill in the Blanks
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Git was created by Linus __________.
Correct Answer
Torvalds
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The command git __________ copies a remote repository to the local machine.
Correct Answer
clone
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Changes are placed in the __________ area before they are committed.
Correct Answer
staging
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A __________ request asks for the changes in a branch to be reviewed and merged.
Correct Answer
pull
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__________ is a web-based code review tool for Git.
Correct Answer
Gerrit
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__________ is a web-based DevOps platform offering Git repositories and CI/CD.
Correct Answer
GitLab
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The __________ file lists patterns of files that Git should ignore.
Correct Answer
.gitignore
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A merge __________ occurs when the same part of a file is changed in two branches.
Correct Answer
conflict
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SVN stands for __________.
Correct Answer
Subversion
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Git is a __________ version control system.
Correct Answer
distributed
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__________ is a pointer to the latest commit of the currently checked out branch.
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HEAD
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The command git __________ uploads local commits to a remote repository.
Correct Answer
push
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__________ is a platform used to package applications into containers.
Correct Answer
Docker
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Git servers can authenticate users with __________ keys.
Correct Answer
SSH
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A __________ is a personal copy of another user's repository on a hosting service.
Correct Answer
fork