GitLab CI quiz

Test your GitLab CI knowledge with a free interactive quiz — 40 questions with answers and explanations. No signup needed to play.

What does a GitLab Runner do?

1. What does a GitLab Runner do?
2. What does `artifacts` do differently from `cache`?
3. What does the `environment` keyword on a deploy job enable?
4. What is the relationship between stages and jobs?
5. What predefined variable holds the name of the branch a pipeline is running on?
6. What does the `cache` keyword do in `.gitlab-ci.yml`?
7. Where should you store a secret API token used by a deploy job?
8. What does setting `when: manual` on a job do?
9. What is the purpose of `before_script`?
10. What are GitLab.com "shared runners"?
11. What does `docker-compose`-style multi-line YAML like `script: ['npm ci', 'npm test']` versus a YAML block list accomplish in a job?
12. What does `expire_in` control on an artifact?

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