Jenkins Practice Exam

About Jenkins
Jenkins is an open-source Continuous Integration server written in Java for orchestrating a chain of actions to achieve the Continuous Integration process in an automated fashion. Jenkins supports the complete development life cycle of software from building, testing, documenting the software, deploying, and other stages of the software development life cycle.

Jenkins is a widely used application around the world that has around 300k installations and growing day by day. By using Jenkins, software companies can accelerate their software development process, as Jenkins can automate build and test at a rapid rate.

It is a server-based application and requires a web server like Apache Tomcat. The reason Jenkins software became so popular is that of its monitoring of repeated tasks which arise during the development of a project. For example, if your team is developing a project, Jenkins will continuously test your project builds and show you the errors in early stages of your development.

Why is Jenkins important?

Jenkins facilitates continuous integration and continuous delivery in software projects by automating parts related to build, test, and deployment. This makes it easy for developers to continuously work on the betterment of the product by integrating changes to the project.

Benefits of Jenkins are
•    Lowers the Effort of Converting CLI to GUI
•    The Pipeline Integrates Individual Jobs for a Bigger Purpose
•    Keeps People in Sync, Especially in Slack
•    Auditing the Previous Run Is Possible and Effortless
•    Project Management Now Has More Accurate Data Support

Who should take the Jenkins Exam?
•    Agile / CI/CD  professionals
•    Software developers or programmers
•    Anyone who wants to assess their Jenkins skills
•    Recruitment consultants
•    Professionals working in outsourced companies responsible for Jenkins
•    Anyone interested in Jenkins

Knowledge and Skills required for the Jenkins Practice Exam

Professionals with good technical bent of mind and communication skills are able to excel easily.

Jenkins Practice Exam Objectives

Jenkins exam focuses on assessing your skills and knowledge in applying Jenkins for software application development expecially in DevOps.

Jenkins Practice Exam Pre-requisite

Knowledge  of cloud computing and DevOps is prerequisite for the Jenkins exam.

Jenkins Certification Course Outline
1. Building in Jenkins
2. Distributing a Build
3. Building from SCM
4. Working with Artifacts and Fingerprints
5. Security in Jenkins
6. Jenkins Installation
7. Build Triggers
8. Parameterizing builds


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Jenkins Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199