| 1. Key CI/CD/Jenkins Concepts |
18% |
This topic comprises approximately 18% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:
•Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration Concepts
- Define continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous deployment
- Difference between CI and CD
- Stages of CI and CD
- Continuous delivery versus continuous deployment
•Jobs
- What are jobs in Jenkins?
- Types of jobs
- Scope of jobs
•Builds?What are builds in Jenkins?
- What are build steps, triggers, artifacts, and repositories?
- Build tools configuration
•Source
- What are source code management systems and how are they used?
- Cloud-based SCMs
- Jenkins changelogs
- Incremental updates v clean check out
- Checking in code
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Branch and Merge Strategies
•Testing
- Benefits of testing with Jenkins
- Define unit test, smoke test, acceptance test, automated verification/functional tests
•Notifications
- Types of notifications in Jenkins
- Importance of notifications
•Distributed Builds
- What are distributed builds?
- Functions of masters and agents
•Plugins
- What are plugins?
- What is the plugin manager?
•Jenkins Rest API
- How to interact with it
- Why use it?
•Security
- Authentication versus authorization
- Matrix security
- Definition of auditing, credentials, and other key security concepts
•Fingerprints
- What are fingerprints?
- How do fingerprints work?
•Artifacts
- How to use artifacts in Jenkins
- Storing artifacts
•Using 3rd party tools
- How to use 3rd party tools
•Installation Wizard
- What is the Jenkins Installation Wizard?
- How to use the Wizard?
- Which configurations are covered by the Installation Wizard?
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| 2. Jenkins usage (features and functionality) |
23% |
This topic comprises approximately 23% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:
•Jobs
- Organizing jobs in Jenkins
- Parameterized jobs
- Usage of Freestyle/Pipeline/Matrix jobs
•Builds
- Setting up build steps and triggers
- Configuring build tools
- Running scripts as part of build steps
•Source Code Management
- Polling source code management
- Creating hooks
- Including version control tags and version information
•Testing
- Testing for code coverage
- Test reports in Jenkins
- Displaying test results
- Integrating with test automation tools
- Breaking builds
•Notifications
- Setup and usage
- Email notifications, instant messaging
- Alarming on notifications
•Distributed Builds
- Setting up and running builds in parallel
- Setting up and using SSH agents, JNLP agents, cloud agents
- Monitoring nodes
•Plugins
- Setting up and using Plugin Manager
- Finding and configuring required plugins
•CI/CD
- Using Pipeline (formerly known as “Workflow”)
- Integrating automated deployment
- Release management process
- Pipeline stage behavior
•Jenkins Rest API
- Using REST API to trigger jobs remotely, access job status, create/delete jobs
•Security
- Setting up and using security realms
- User database, project security, Matrix security
- Setting up and using auditing
- Setting up and using credentials
•Fingerprints
- Fingerprinting jobs shared or copied between jobs
•Artifacts
- Copying artifacts
- Using artifacts in Jenkins
- Artifact retention policy
•Alerts
- Making basic updates to jobs and build scripts
- Troubleshooting specific problems from build and test failure alerts
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| 3. Building Continuous Delivery (CD) Pipelines |
16% |
This topic comprises approximately 16% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:
•Pipeline Concepts
- Value stream mapping for CD pipelines
- Why create a pipeline?
- Gates within a CD pipeline
- How to protect centralized pipelines when multiple groups use same tools
- Definition of binary reuse, automated deployment, multiple environments
- Elements of your ideal CI/CD pipeline - tools?Key concepts in building scripts (including security/password, environment information, etc.)
•Upstream and downstream?Triggering jobs from other jobs
- Setting up the Parameterized Trigger plugin
- Upstream/downstreamjobs
•Triggering
- Triggering Jenkins on code changes
- Difference between push and pull
- When to use push vs. pull
•Pipeline (formerly known as “Workflow”)
- Benefits of Pipeline vs linked jobs
- Functionalities offered by Pipeline
- How to use Pipeline
- Pipeline stage view
•Folders
- How to control access to items in Jenkins with folders
- Referencing jobs in folders
•Parameters
- Setting up test automation in Jenkins against an uploaded executable
- Passing parameters between jobs
- Identifying parameters and how to use them: file parameter, string parameter
- Jenkins CLI parameters
•Promotions
- Promotion of a job
- Why promote jobs?
- How to use the Promoted Builds plugin
•Notifications
- How to radiate information on CD pipelines to teams
•Pipeline Multibranch and Repository Scanning
- Usage of Multibranch jobs
- Scanning GitHub and BitBucket Organization
- ScanningbasicSCMrepositories
•Pipeline Global Libraries
- How to share code across Pipelines
- Usages of the Shared Libraries
- Interaction with Folders and Repository scanning
- Security and Groovy sandbox
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| 4. CD-as-Code Best Practices |
10% |
This topic comprises approximately 10% of the exam. Questions cover the following topics:
•Distributed builds architecture
•Fungible (replaceable) agents
•Master-agent connectors and protocol
•Tool installations on agents
•Cloud agents
•Traceability
•High availability |
