AZ-400 Release Management 3

Question 1

Which Azure Pipelines artifact type allows a release pipeline to consume packages published to Azure Artifacts feeds?

Accepted Answer

Azure Artifacts artifact

Answer

The Azure Artifacts artifact source type links a release pipeline to a specific feed and package, enabling versioned package consumption in deployments.

Question 2

A DevOps engineer wants to deploy an application to Azure App Service slots and then swap slots with zero downtime. Which task in Azure Pipelines performs the slot swap?

Accepted Answer

Azure App Service Manage

Answer

The 'Azure App Service Manage' task includes a slot swap action that swaps staging and production slots with near-zero downtime.

Question 3

What is the primary purpose of using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like ARM templates or Bicep within a release pipeline?

Accepted Answer

To provision and configure Azure resources consistently as part of the deployment

Answer

IaC tools embedded in release pipelines ensure target infrastructure is provisioned or updated to a desired state before or during application deployment.

Question 4

In a release pipeline, which option ensures that only a specific build branch (e.g., 'main') triggers a continuous deployment?

Accepted Answer

Artifact filters / Branch filters

Answer

Artifact filters (also called branch filters) in the continuous deployment trigger restrict automatic releases to artifacts built from specified branches.

Question 5

Which Azure service should a DevOps engineer integrate with a release pipeline gate to query the health of an external REST API before allowing deployment to proceed?

Accepted Answer

Invoke REST API gate

Answer

The 'Invoke REST API' gate calls an external HTTP endpoint and evaluates the response, allowing or blocking the release based on the result.

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AZ-400 Release Management 3