Your customer wants to move their in-house programming activities to a more agile style of development. You need to recommend a platform for a DevOps approach to application development. Which…

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Options

• AVisualization
• BContainers
• CAI/ML
• DVDI

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  94% (32)

Explanation

Heads up: the marked correct answer appears to be wrong. Based on established cloud and DevOps principles, the correct answer should be B. Containers, not C (AI/ML).

Containers are the foundational workload for DevOps and agile development. They package application code with its dependencies into portable, lightweight units that integrate directly into CI/CD pipelines, enabling rapid iteration, consistent environments across dev/test/prod, and microservices architectures - all core to agile delivery.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. Visualization refers to data/BI dashboards, not application development methodology.
• C. AI/ML addresses machine learning workloads - valuable in its own right, but unrelated to DevOps toolchain adoption.
• D. VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) delivers remote desktop environments to end users, not a development or deployment platform.

Memory tip: Think "DevOps = Docker" - containers (Docker is the dominant container runtime) are synonymous with modern CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes orchestration, and agile deployment. If a question mentions DevOps + application development + agile, containers is almost always the answer.

If this question came from a specific study guide or practice test, I'd recommend flagging it as potentially containing an error - or double-check the source, as some vendor-specific exams (e.g., IBM) occasionally frame questions differently.

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