Jenkins Interview Questions and Answers – Part 5

The easiest way to get a plugin for Jenkins is ______________ .

• from inside Jenkins itself (Ans)
• by building it from source
• creating a plugin request call
• downloading an installer package

Which of the following is REQUIRED for using Jenkins?

• Java in your Path
• .NET framework
• Web server
• Java 1.5 or higher (Ans)

A workspace is ______________ .

• the central configuration area for Jenkins
• the directory Jenkins checks source code out to (Ans)
• the only part of Jenkins that lives in the cloud
• the directory that Jenkins caches files at

One of the primary problems that continuous integration addresses is ______________ .

• language choice
• group think
• isolated development (Ans)
• formatting code

Parallelization in Jenkins can best be achieved by ______________ .

• setting parallel to true in the Jenkins config
• breaking up your build into multiple jobs (Ans)
• writing multi-threaded job scripts
• using multiple jenkins master servers

Jenkins can be started from the command line by using what command?

• jar jenkins.war
• java -run jenkins.war
• java -jar jenkins.war (Ans)
• run jenkins.war

When implementing unit testing in Jenkins it is important to never ______________ .

• run the tests in parallel to anything else
• leave tests broken (Ans)
• write small tests
• report the test results

Jenkins is really a tool that can be used to ______________ most aspects of continuous integration?

• undo
• reverse engineer
• automate (Ans)
• dispel

Security can be set at an individual job level in Jenkins.

• false
• true (Ans)

A good first step for moving a build over to Jenkins is to ________________ .

• conver everything to Java
• disable unit tests
• diagram the manual process (Ans)
• get a full build in a failed state

An important step in making sure that the build process is taken seriously is to ______________ .

• have management introduce the new build process
• never leave the build in a broken state (Ans)
• send out a report on each build
• set off the smoke alarm every time the build breaks

Jenkins used to be called ______________ .

• burly
• hudson (Ans)
• jeeves
• cheeves

The Join trigger plugin ______________ .

• makes 2 jobs run at the same time
• makes a single job split into many jobs
• makes sure multiple jobs are complete before downstream jobs can run (Ans)
• makes jenkins show a different icon

What should the http port be set to in order to disable regular http in favor of https?

• 0
• 43
• 8080
• -1 (Ans)

What technology allows for connecting a slave node directly from in the browser?

• .NET remoting
• JNLP (Ans)
• SSL
• RDP

One of the major conflicts that led to a split of the early Jenkins project was _______________.

• whether or not it should only work with Java applications
• how much to charge for it
• what language to write it in
• whether or not to keep the project on Java.net (Ans)

Jenkins is primarily written in ______________.

• ruby
• python
• C#
• java1 (Ans)

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