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Objective 2.1

PCDE

Designing pipelines

Objective 2.1 sits in Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing, which carries 25% of the Cloud DevOps Engineer 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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2-1Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing

A team edits a delivery pipeline configuration while an older release is still being promoted. Which configuration does that older release use?

The edited pipeline, applied at the next promotionEdits do not reach in-flight work, which is the whole point of storing a copy per release.
The snapshot taken when that release was createdCorrect · your answerCorrect: the copy is frozen at that instant.
The configuration attached to the destination targetA target names a runtime destination; it carries no copy of the pipeline definition.
Whichever version the CI system last submittedThe CI system triggers a release and hands over artifacts, but it holds no pipeline state.

Correct.

Concept

A long-running deployment must not change shape underneath itself. Freezing the definition at the moment work begins is what makes a promotion hours later reproducible and auditable.

Why B

Every release carries an instance of the pipeline and its targets exactly as they stood at creation time, and later edits to the definition leave that copy untouched. Tool versions are stored the same way.

Source

Each release includes the pipeline instance , a "snapshot" of the delivery pipeline and targets as they were configured when the release was created.

Google Cloud: Cloud Deploy service architecture, checked August 2026
#cloud-deploy#delivery-pipeline#releases

Now you: objective 2.1 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

2-1Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing

An engineer is told that a release references artifacts. Within this delivery model, what is an artifact?

Sample question 2 of 3

2-1Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing

A team specifies both post-deploy hooks and verification on a target. In what order does a rollout run those two?

Sample question 3 of 3

2-1Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including continuous testing

A team deploys to several clusters at once through a multi-target. Which rollout structure does that produce?

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