BenchMark Quizzes by MDFT Pro

You are defining release strategies for two applications at MDFT Pro as shown in the following table.

Application	Goal
Student Portal	Failure of Student Portal has a major impact on MDFT Pro. You need a small group of users, who opted in to test Student Portal, to test new releases of the application.
Certification Tracker	You need to minimize the time it takes to deploy new releases of Certification Tracker, and you must be able to roll back as quickly as possible.

Which release strategy should you use for Student Portal?

Choose the correct answer from the options below.

Explanations for each answer:

Blue/Green deployment is incorrect. Blue/Green deployment involves maintaining two identical production environments where one is live and one is idle. While this provides fast rollback capability, it doesn't specifically target a small group of opt-in users for testing.
Canary deployment is correct. Canary deployment allows you to release a new version to a small subset of users before rolling it out to the entire infrastructure. This is ideal for the Student Portal scenario where you need a small group of opted-in users to test new releases before wider deployment.
Rolling deployment is incorrect. Rolling deployment gradually replaces instances of the previous version with the new version. This approach doesn't provide the ability to target a specific small group of users who have opted in for testing.
A/B deployment is incorrect. A/B deployment is primarily used for testing features against specific metrics or user behavior, not for limiting the exposure of a new release to a small group of users who have opted in.

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