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GitLab Certified CI/CD Associate
Continuous integration and delivery on GitLab: a pipeline defined with the code and composed with includes, rules where the first match wins and needs turning stages into a graph, runners selected by tag with the executor deciding isolation, and artifacts against optional caches; then environments giving deployment history and rollback, parent and child and merge train pipelines, security scanners reporting on the merge request, short-lived credentials from a vault, and the merged configuration view that answers most pipeline questions.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Pipeline structure, runners and jobs | Not published |
| Environments, advanced pipelines, security and optimisation | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. What does dynamic application security testing require that static testing does not?
- A running instance of the application to probe — correct
- A manifest listing each of the declared dependencies
- An image built and pushed to the registry
- A coverage report produced by the test job
Why: Dynamic testing exercises the application over its interfaces while it runs, so a deployed instance is a prerequisite. Static analysis needs only the code.
2. Why does variable precedence matter?
- The most specific definition wins — correct
- Variables are equal in rank
- Just project variables apply
- Precedence sets the pipeline stages
Why: Variables can be defined at many levels, and precedence rules decide which value applies when they conflict.
The real GitLab CI/CD Associate exam
| Length | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | A mix of knowledge questions and hands-on tasks |
| Pass mark | Scaled score; GitLab does not publish the percentage |
| Price | Purchased per attempt, with free learning paths on GitLab University |
| Recommended before you sit it | None enforced. Git familiarity and basic pipeline experience are assumed. |
| Valid for | 2 years |
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