Into which environment does the Test step in a CI/CD job allow you to deploy your application?

Question

Options

• AMobile Services
• BPrivate server
• CLocal workspace
• DCloud Foundry

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  5% (1)
• D
  91% (20)

Explanation

D is correct because the Test stage in a CI/CD pipeline (particularly in IBM Cloud DevOps toolchains) is specifically designed to deploy your application to Cloud Foundry, a PaaS environment, so automated tests can run against a live, deployed instance before promotion to production.

• A (Mobile Services) is wrong - Mobile Services is a backend platform for mobile app features (push notifications, authentication), not a deployment target in a CI/CD Test stage.
• B (Private server) is wrong - CI/CD pipelines in cloud toolchains don't deploy to private/on-premises servers during the Test stage; that would defeat the purpose of a managed cloud pipeline.
• C (Local workspace) is wrong - the Test stage runs in the cloud pipeline, not on a developer's local machine; local testing happens before code is pushed, outside the CI/CD flow.

Memory tip: Think "Test → Cloud Foundry" as the middle step - Build compiles the code, Test deploys to Cloud Foundry to validate it, and Deploy promotes it to production. CF is the "staging ground" for testing.

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