Team
Q3
DevOps
December Holidays
Agile
100

What Nike Pillar does our team fall under?

What is Serve?

100

What months are in Q3?

What is December, January, and February?

100

What is the practice that automates the processes between IT teams, in order that they can build, test, and release software faster and more reliably?

What is DevOps?

100

When does Hanukkah begin in 2019?

What is December 22 - December 30?

While it always starts on the 25th day of the Hebrew month Kislev, that date can correspond to anywhere from late November to late December

100

What numerical scale do we use for estimation?

What is Fibonnaci?

200

What Product Area does our team steward?

What is Profile & Login?

200

Name the encryption method that will be used for the new password hashing algorithm on idnRegistration, idnLogin, idnSwoosh, and idnSesame.

What is Argon2?

200

What does MTTR mean?

What is Mean Time to Resolution?

200
What secular holiday falls on December 23rd and created by the writers of television's Seinfeld?

What is Festivus?

Festivus is essentially anti-Christmas, a backlash to the commercialization of Christmas and involves the airing of grievances. 

Practices include the "Airing of Grievances" meal, in which each person tells everyone else all the ways they have disappointed them over the past year. 

After the meal, the "Feats of Strength" are performed, involving wrestling the head of the household to the floor, with the holiday ending only if the head of the household is pinned.

200

True or False: Agile is synonymous with Scrum.

False.

Agile describes approaches and frameworks. 

Scrum is one of the Agile frameworks used in projects. Other approaches in Agile are Lean programming, extreme programming, and hybrid methodologies, just to name a few.

300

Name the four roster tables.

  • idn-roster-users 

  • idn-roster-addresses 

  • Idn-roster-user-deletions 

  • Idn-roster-uniqueness 

300

What is the service that is replacing LocTool in Q3?

What is Bodega?

300

What are the pillars of Observability?

What is Metrics, Tracing, and Logging?

300

What holiday tradition did the King of Siam start in the 1800s?

What is White Elephant?

“According to legend, the tradition of white elephant gifts began long ago when the King of Siam—now Thailand—gave an actual white elephant to anyone he disliked. These rare elephants were quite expensive to care for. The white elephant was also a respected symbol in Thai and Buddhist cultures, so you couldn’t get away with regifting it or putting it to work.”

300

Finish the Agile values:

  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over ...?...

What is "following a plan"?

400

Name this service.

"Instead of pre-defined views, you now ask for specific data fields, and if you have the permission to see them, they are returned."

What is idnAccount?

400

Identify the incorrect Acceptance Criteria for the Waffle Iron Migration for Roster effort.

  • Identity data is secured to Identity engineers (and PO) only
  • Roster is in it's own AWS account
  • No more than 3% downtime
  • All auditing functionality still works

What is "No more than 3% downtime?"

Acceptance Criteria should read: "No downtime"

400

Name 3 DevOps best practices.

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Microservices

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring and Logging

Communication and Collaboration

400

What German and Austrian holiday falls on December 5th?

What is Krampusnacht?

The night when Krampus reigns. If you survive, you might get presents on St. Nicholas Day (12/6).

400

What does eNPS stand for?

What is Employee Net Promoter Score?

500

What 2 systems call idnSwoosh?

What is Unite Nginx and CSP?

500

What technology will no longer be supported in February 2020?

What is Node 8?

500

What is the DevOps term for being aware of how your actions not only affect your team, but all the other teams involved in the release process?

What is Systems Thinking?

500

How many reindeer are featured in the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas?”

Eight. Rudolph was not included.

Dasher; Dancer; Prancer; Vixen; Comet; Cupid; Donder; and Blitzen.


500

This metric measures the total time from the moment a story enters the backlog, until it is completed as part of a sprint.

What is Lead Time?

It measures the total time for a requirement to be realized and start earning value – the speed of your value chain.