DevOps / Cloud Engineer interview questions (235)

99 questions

• What is a Git commit and what does it contain?

  Fresher
• What is the difference between git fetch and git pull?

  Fresher
• What is a branch in Git and why is it cheap?

  Fresher
• What does git init do and what is inside the .git folder?

  Fresher
• What is the difference between git add, git commit and git push?

  Fresher
• What is a Git remote and what does origin mean?

  Fresher
• What is a pull request and what is it for?

  Fresher
• What does git status show and what states can a file be in?

  Fresher
• What do git log --oneline --graph and other log options show?

  Fresher
• What is the difference between Git and GitHub?

  Fresher
• How do you create a branch, switch to it and publish it?

  Fresher
• How can you refer to a commit with a short hash, HEAD~2 or HEAD^?

  Fresher
• What is a Git repository and how do you clone one?

  Fresher
• Why should you not commit node_modules, build output or .env files?

  Fresher
• What is the difference between git rm and deleting a file manually?

  Fresher
• What is the staging area and why does Git have it?

  Junior
• Your push is rejected as non-fast-forward; what happened and how do you fix it?

  Junior
• How do you undo the last commit but keep your changes?

  Junior
• How does git stash work and what are its limitations?

  Junior
• What is HEAD, and what does a detached HEAD mean?

  Junior