AZ-400 Release Management 2

Question 1

Which Azure DevOps feature allows you to require manual approval before a deployment proceeds to a production environment?

Accepted Answer

Pre-deployment approvals

Answer

Pre-deployment approvals in Azure Pipelines require designated approvers to manually authorize a deployment before it proceeds to the target stage.

Question 2

A team wants to automatically roll back a release if Application Insights detects error rates above 5% after deployment. Which release pipeline feature should they configure?

Accepted Answer

Post-deployment gates

Answer

Post-deployment gates evaluate conditions after deployment (such as Application Insights metrics) and can trigger automatic rollback if thresholds are breached.

Question 3

What is the purpose of a deployment group in Azure Pipelines?

Accepted Answer

A logical set of target machines for deployment jobs

Answer

A deployment group is a logical set of physical or virtual target machines, each with an installed agent, used to run deployment jobs across multiple servers.

Question 4

Which deployment strategy deploys a new version to a small subset of servers first, monitors results, then gradually rolls out to all servers?

Accepted Answer

Rolling deployment

Answer

Rolling deployment incrementally updates servers in batches, reducing risk by monitoring each batch before proceeding to the next.

Question 5

In Azure Pipelines, what does a release trigger set to 'Continuous deployment' do?

Accepted Answer

Creates a new release automatically whenever the linked artifact is updated

Answer

A continuous deployment trigger automatically creates and starts a new release pipeline run whenever a new build artifact is published.

AZ-400 Practice Test

AZ-400 Practice Test

AZ-400 Release Management 2