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Phase 9: QA, Publishing & Capstone

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Chapter 7: Assessment: Publishing & Deployment Mastery70%

Assessment: Publishing & Deployment Mastery

Duration: 20 minutes Passing Score: 80% (16/20 correct)

Multiple Choice Questions

Platform Selection (5 questions)

1. Which platform is best for deploying a Next.js application?

  • A) Netlify
  • B) Railway
  • C) Vercel ✓
  • D) Heroku

2. What advantage does Cloudflare Pages offer over competitors?

  • A) Free database
  • B) Unlimited bandwidth on free tier ✓
  • C) Built-in CMS
  • D) Email hosting

3. Which platform provides one-click PostgreSQL provisioning?

  • A) Vercel
  • B) Netlify
  • C) Railway ✓
  • D) GitHub Pages

4. For a static documentation site, which is the most cost-effective option?

  • A) AWS S3 + CloudFront
  • B) GitHub Pages ✓
  • C) DigitalOcean Droplet
  • D) Vercel Pro

5. Which deployment platform is specifically optimized for JAMstack?

  • A) Railway
  • B) Render
  • C) Netlify ✓
  • D) Fly.io

CI/CD Concepts (5 questions)

6. In GitHub Actions, what triggers a workflow on every pull request?

- A) on: push
- B) on: pull_request ✓
- C) on: merge
- D) on: commit

7. What is the purpose of preview deployments?

  • A) Test performance in production
  • B) Review changes before merging to main ✓
  • C) Deploy to multiple regions
  • D) Create backups

8. Which GitHub Actions step is required first in most workflows?

  • A) actions/setup-node
  • B) actions/cache
  • C) actions/checkout ✓
  • D) actions/upload-artifact

9. How do you run jobs sequentially in GitHub Actions?

  • A) Use parallel: false
  • B) Use needs: [job-name] ✓
  • C) Use depends-on
  • D) Use wait-for

10. What does runs-on: ubuntu-latest specify?

  • A) The deployment target
  • B) The virtual machine for the job ✓
  • C) The Node.js version
  • D) The database server

Environment Management (5 questions)

11. Where should API keys be stored in a production application?

  • A) In the code repository
  • B) In environment variables ✓
  • C) In a config.js file
  • D) In localStorage

12. What is the correct three-environment strategy?

  • A) Dev → Test → Prod
  • B) Local → Cloud → Edge
  • C) Development → Preview → Production ✓
  • D) Staging → Beta → Release

13. In Vercel, how do you set environment variables for all environments?

  • A) Add to each environment separately ✓
  • B) Use .env file
  • C) Add to vercel.json
  • D) Use --env flag

14. What happens if you commit .env file to GitHub?

  • A) GitHub automatically encrypts it
  • B) Secrets are exposed publicly ✓
  • C) Deployment will fail
  • D) Nothing, it's secure

15. How does Railway inject environment variables?

  • A) Through .env files
  • B) As system environment variables ✓
  • C) Through config.json
  • D) Via CLI arguments

Documentation & Best Practices (5 questions)

16. What is the primary purpose of Storybook?

  • A) API testing
  • B) Component documentation and development ✓
  • C) Database migrations
  • D) State management

17. Which format is used for API documentation in OpenAPI?

  • A) JSON or XML
  • B) YAML or JSON ✓
  • C) Markdown
  • D) TypeScript

18. What is the benefit of mkdocs gh-deploy?

  • A) Deploys to Vercel
  • B) Automatically builds and publishes to GitHub Pages ✓
  • C) Creates pull request
  • D) Generates API docs

19. What should you do before deploying to production on Friday afternoon?

  • A) Deploy immediately
  • B) Wait until Monday unless urgent ✓
  • C) Deploy to all environments at once
  • D) Skip testing to save time

20. What is the purpose of a health check endpoint?

  • A) Monitor user activity
  • B) Verify service is running correctly ✓
  • C) Check database size
  • D) Test API performance

Practical Assessment

Task 1: Deployment (10 points)

Deploy a React application to Vercel with:

  • Automatic HTTPS (2 points)
  • Preview deployment for a PR (3 points)
  • Environment variables configured (2 points)
  • Custom domain (optional, 3 bonus points)

Task 2: CI/CD Pipeline (10 points)

Create a GitHub Actions workflow that:

  • Runs tests on every push (3 points)
  • Deploys to staging on PR merge (3 points)
  • Deploys to production on main branch (4 points)

Task 3: Documentation (5 points)

Set up MkDocs Material with:

  • At least 3 pages (2 points)
  • Custom theme configuration (2 points)
  • Deployed to GitHub Pages (1 point)

Scoring

CategoryPointsYour Score
Multiple Choice (20 questions × 1)20
Practical Task 110
Practical Task 210
Practical Task 35
Total45

Passing Score: 36/45 (80%)

Answer Key

  1. C, 2. B, 3. C, 4. B, 5. C
  2. B, 7. B, 8. C, 9. B, 10. B
  3. B, 12. C, 13. A, 14. B, 15. B
  4. B, 17. B, 18. B, 19. B, 20. B

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