Objective 2.3

PCD

Testing

Objective 2.3 sits in Building and testing applications, which carries 23% of the Cloud Developer exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Google Cloud page it rests on.

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A worked example

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2-3Building and testing applications

A team runs its integration tests as a verification container after a deployment finishes. What decides whether that verification passed?

The time the container took to finishDuration is not compared against any threshold here.
The log lines the container emittedOutput is kept for diagnosis and never parsed for a verdict.
The exit code the container returnsCorrect · your answerCorrect. Zero passes, anything else does not.
A report file written to the workspaceNo artifact is collected from the container to reach a decision.

Correct.

Concept

A test runner needs one machine-readable signal that any language and any framework can produce, and a process already has exactly one on the way out.

Why C

Success is read from the exit code of the container: zero means the verification passed, and any other value means it failed.

Source

Verification success is determined by the exit code generated by the container. 0 indicates success. A non-zero exit code indicates failure. To generate the expected verification result, make sure the container exits with the appropriate exit code.

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Now you: objective 2.3 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

2-3Building and testing applications

A team defines three verification containers for one target and two of them come back clean. What verdict does the verification reach?

Sample question 2 of 3

2-3Building and testing applications

A team sees a verify job return a non-zero code after the deploy job had already succeeded. What state does the rollout end up in?

Sample question 3 of 3

2-3Building and testing applications

A team wants its verification containers to run on the same cluster as the application rather than off to one side. Which deployments allow that?

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