M1.8 module quiz
Ten questions. 80% to pass (8 of 10). Open book, unlimited retakes.
Answers are collapsed under each question. Answer first, then check.
Q1
A ZopCloud deploy needs four objects. In order, they are:
A. Account, cloud, service, deploy
B. Organisation, project, deploy, service
C. Project, environment, service, deploy
D. Environment, project, image, service
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Correct: C. The nesting is strict and nothing is created implicitly, so a service cannot exist before the environment that holds it. That predictability is what lets an assistant build the whole chain from one sentence.
Q2
Which step in this module has no assistant equivalent at any level of access?
A. Shipping the first deploy
B. Connecting a cloud account
C. Creating the project
D. Rolling the service back
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Correct: B. Connecting hands over credentials, so it stays a human step. Signing up and granting write access are the other two. Everything after those three is available, which is the point the capstone is making.
Q3
Every write through an assistant is checked against three things. They are:
A. Your token’s expiry, the image registry, and the environment name
B. Your role, the resource’s region, and the time of day the call arrives
C. The org’s write access setting, your role, and your token’s write capability
D. The organisation’s billing plan, your role, and the type of resource touched
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Correct: C. All three have to hold, every call. A refusal is permanent rather than transient, because asking again changes none of the three. A token can deliberately carry less than your identity does.
Q4
Deregistering a cluster from the platform is which write tier?
A. Tier 3, irreversible
B. Tier 1, metadata only
C. Tier 2, reversible
D. It is a read
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Correct: A. The tier is about reversibility and cost, not about how significant the action feels. Creating projects, shipping deploys and rolling back are all tier 2 because you can undo them.
Q5
You ask an assistant for the value of an environment variable it set two minutes ago. It declines. The reason:
A. It needs a fresh token
B. The value is only readable by the deploy pipeline within 60 seconds
C. Tier 3 is required
D. No tool returns an environment variable’s value, at any tier, for any role
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Correct: D. Keys are returned, values never are. This is a property of the surface rather than of your permissions, so more access does not change it. Revealing a secret is a deliberate human action in the console.
Q6
Your service is deployed and answering, but nothing about it appears in ZopNight. The likeliest cause:
A. Discovery has not run since you deployed
B. Write access is switched off for the organisation
C. The service was never exposed publicly
D. The container image is private and cannot be pulled
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Correct: A. Discovery finds cloud resources on its own schedule, so a deploy that finished minutes ago may predate the last run. Exposure decides whether the internet can reach the service, not whether ZopNight can see the compute behind it.
Q7
Which resource created by a typical deploy cannot be put on a schedule?
A. The EC2 instance
B. The RDS instance
C. The node group
D. The load balancer
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Correct: D. A load balancer has no stopped state to move into. It still costs money hourly, so its answer is deletion or consolidation rather than scheduling.
Q8
Your service is down at 10:00. Which pair of facts separates a scheduled stop from a broken deploy?
A. The service URL, the region it runs in, and the project that contains it
B. The resource state with its history, against the deploy state with the replica log
C. This month’s cost against last month’s cost for exactly the same resources
D. The project name and the environment name the service was deployed into
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Correct: B. A scheduled stop leaves the resource stopped with a matching history entry. A broken deploy leaves it running with a replica that will not stay up. Both present as “the service is down”, and the cost figures look the same for the first hour.
Q9
You set an override through an assistant and forget it. What happens?
A. It stays in place until somebody notices it and removes it by hand
B. It clears at the next firing of the schedule it was set against
C. It becomes a permanent change to the schedule it was set against
D. It expires at the time you set, because the platform enforces the expiry
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Correct: D. The expiry is enforced rather than trusted, which matters most in exactly this case: an exception set on your behalf that nobody remembers to undo. A third override on the same resource is a sign the schedule is wrong, not the exception.
Q10
Which of these satisfies the deployment half of the certification requirement?
A. A service deployed last year that is still running now
B. A project created but never deployed into
C. A service deployed last year and deleted in March
D. A teammate’s service in the same organisation
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Correct: A. The rule admits either a deploy created after you started the course, or a service still running now whenever it was created. C is neither, since it predates the course and no longer runs. B has no deploy at all, and D is somebody else’s evidence.
What’s next
Back to Capstone: deploy on ZopCloud, then run it through MCP.