AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional — Question 142
A company is currently using AWS CodeCommit for its source control and AWS CodePipeline for continuous integration. The pipeline has a build stage for building the artifacts, which is then staged in an Amazon S3 bucket.
The company has identified various improvement opportunities in the existing process, and a Solutions Architect has been given the following requirements:
✑ Create a new pipeline to support feature development
✑ Support feature development without impacting production applications
✑ Incorporate continuous testing with unit tests
✑ Isolate development and production artifacts
✑ Support the capability to merge tested code into production code.
How should the Solutions Architect achieve these requirements?
Answer options
- A. Trigger a separate pipeline from CodeCommit feature branches. Use AWS CodeBuild for running unit tests. Use CodeBuild to stage the artifacts within an S3 bucket in a separate testing account.
- B. Trigger a separate pipeline from CodeCommit feature branches. Use AWS Lambda for running unit tests. Use AWS CodeDeploy to stage the artifacts within an S3 bucket in a separate testing account.
- C. Trigger a separate pipeline from CodeCommit tags. Use Jenkins for running unit tests. Create a stage in the pipeline with S3 as the target for staging the artifacts with an S3 bucket in a separate testing account.
- D. Create a separate CodeCommit repository for feature development and use it to trigger the pipeline. Use AWS Lambda for running unit tests. Use AWS CodeBuild to stage the artifacts within different S3 buckets in the same production account.
Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is A because it triggers a separate pipeline specifically for feature branches, allowing for isolated development without affecting production. It uses AWS CodeBuild to run unit tests and stage artifacts in a separate testing account, which supports the requirement for isolating development and production artifacts. The other options either do not adequately separate environments or use incorrect services for the requirements specified.