According to PeopleCert DevOps Foundation v3.6, the five primary values that guide successful DevOps adoption are summarized in the CALMS framework: Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing . Culture focuses on breaking down silos, encouraging trust, and promoting collaboration between development, operations, security, QA, and business teams. Automation is essential for speeding up delivery, reducing manual errors, and ensuring repeatability across the software delivery lifecycle. Lean emphasizes the elimination of waste, limiting work in progress (WIP), and improving flow. Measurement means using metrics and data to inform decisions, identify bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvement. Sharing fosters transparency, knowledge transfer, and a unified approach to goals and problem-solving. Option A replaces automation and lean principles with softer collaboration aspects, which are important but not recognized as the formal value set. Option C replaces “Measurement” with “Metrics,” which is only a part of measurement. Option D substitutes “Accountability” for “Automation,” which is not part of the CALMS model. Therefore, the official correct set of values per the DevOps Foundation syllabus is B . [References:, PeopleCert DevOps Foundation v3.6 – Core Values Section (CALMS), The DevOps Handbook, Gene Kim et al. – Part I: The Three Ways, Accelerate, Forsgren, Humble, Kim Chapter on Culture and Capabilities, ]
Question 2
Which of the following of Continuous Delivery does NOT contribute positively to SDO Performance?
Correct Answer: A
Explanation:
High-performing organizations use Continuous Delivery practices to improve Software Delivery and Operational (SDO) performance . B : Psychological safety encourages open communication, incident reporting, and learning from failures. C : Trunk-based development reduces integration issues and supports continuous integration/delivery. D : Cloud technologies provide scalable, on-demand environments that speed up delivery and testing. On the other hand, A —a heavyweight change process—slows down delivery, increases lead time, and often fails to improve change success rates. Research cited in Accelerate shows that manual, centralized change approvals correlate with lower performance, while automated, peer-reviewed changes produce better reliability and faster delivery. [References:, PeopleCert DevOps Foundation v3.6 – Continuous Delivery and Change Management, Accelerate Change Approval Process Findings, The DevOps Handbook– Deployment Pipeline Best Practices, ]
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