AZ-400 Continuous Delivery & Release Management 2

Question 1

Which Azure DevOps release gate type allows you to pause a deployment until a work item query returns zero results?

Accepted Answer

Query Work Items

Answer

The 'Query Work Items' gate checks an Azure Boards query and blocks deployment if active items (e.g., open bugs) remain.

Question 2

In Azure Pipelines, what is the purpose of a 'deployment group' in release pipelines?

Accepted Answer

A logical set of target machines for agent-based deployments

Answer

Deployment groups are sets of physical or virtual machines registered with Azure DevOps to which releases are deployed using the deployment group agent.

Question 3

A team wants to deploy a new API version alongside the old one, routing 10% of traffic to the new version initially. Which deployment strategy does this describe?

Accepted Answer

Canary deployment

Answer

Canary deployment gradually shifts a small percentage of traffic to the new version before a full rollout.

Question 4

Which Azure Pipelines YAML keyword defines the conditions under which a stage will run?

Accepted Answer

condition

Answer

The 'condition' keyword in YAML pipelines specifies a boolean expression that must evaluate to true for the stage or job to execute.

Question 5

When configuring a multi-stage YAML pipeline, which keyword specifies that Stage B should only run after Stage A completes?

Accepted Answer

dependsOn

Answer

The 'dependsOn' keyword defines stage or job dependencies, ensuring execution order in multi-stage YAML pipelines.

AZ-400 Practice Test

AZ-400 Practice Test

AZ-400 Continuous Delivery & Release Management 2