AZ-400 — questions

You have an Azure subscription named Subscription1 that contains a custom Azure policy named Policy1. Policy1 is an audit policy that monitors naming convention compliance for the resources deployed to Subscription1. You have a pipeline named Pipeline1 in Azure Pipelines. Pipeline1 deploys Azure Resource Manager (ARM) resources to Subscription1. You need to ensure that the resources deployed by Pipeline1 comply with Policy1. What should you add to Pipeline1?

You have a project in Azure DevOps. You need to push notifications about pull requests to a Microsoft Teams channel. The solution must minimize development effort. What should you do?

You have an Azure DevOps project that produces Node Package Manager (npm) packages. Multiple projects consume the packages. You need to configure Azure Artifacts to ensure that both the latest and pre-release versions of the packages are available for consumption. What should you do?

You have an Azure subscription that contains the resources shown in the following table. Project produces npm packages that are published to Feed1. Feed1 is consumed by multiple projects. You need to ensure that only tested packages are available for consumption. The solution must minimize development effort. What should you do?

Your company has an Azure DevOps project that produces Node Package Manager (npm) packages. Multiple projects consume the packages. You need to minimize the amount of disk space used by older packages in Azure Artifacts. What should you modify?

Your company builds a multi-tier web application. You use Azure DevOps and host the production application on Azure virtual machines. Your team prepares an Azure Resource Manager template of the virtual machine that you will use to test new features. You need to create a staging environment in Azure that meets the following requirements: • Minimizes the cost of Azure hosting • Provisions the virtual machines automatically • Uses the custom Azure Resource Manager template to provision the virtual machines What should you do?

Your company uses Azure DevOps to manage the build and release processes for applications. You use a Git repository for applications source control. You plan to create a new branch from an existing pull request. Later, you plan to merge the new branch and the target branch of the pull request. You need to use a pull request action to create the new branch. The solution must ensure that the branch uses only a portion of the code in the pull request. Which pull request action should you use?

You are designing a build pipeline in Azure Pipelines. The pipeline requires a self-hosted agent. The build pipeline will run once daily and will take 30 minutes to complete. You need to recommend a compute type for the agent. The solution must minimize costs. What should you recommend?

You have a project in Azure DevOps. You have an Azure Resource Group deployment project in Microsoft Visual Studio that is checked in to the Azure DevOps project. You need to create a release pipeline that will deploy resources by using Azure Resource Manager templates. The solution must minimize administrative effort. Which task type should you include in the solution?

You have an Azure DevOps project that contains a release pipeline and a Git repository. When a new code revision is committed to the repository, a build and release is triggered. You need to ensure that release information for the pipeline is added automatically to the work items associated to the Git commit. What should you do?

Your company has a release pipeline in an Azure DevOps project. You plan to deploy to an Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster by using the Helm package and deploy task. You need to install a service in the AKS namespace for the planned deployment. Which service should you install?

You plan to use Terraform to deploy an Azure resource group from a Windows system. You need to install the required frameworks to support the planned deployment. Which two frameworks should you install? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have an approval process that contains a condition. The condition requires that releases be approved by a team leader before they are deployed. You have a policy stating that approvals must occur within eight hours. You discover that deployment fail if the approvals take longer than two hours. You need to ensure that the deployments only fail if the approvals take longer than eight hours. Solution: From Post-deployment conditions, you modify the Time between re-evaluation of gates option. Does this meet the goal?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have an approval process that contains a condition. The condition requires that releases be approved by a team leader before they are deployed. You have a policy stating that approvals must occur within eight hours. You discover that deployment fail if the approvals take longer than two hours. You need to ensure that the deployments only fail if the approvals take longer than eight hours. Solution: From Pre-deployment conditions, you modify the Time between re-evaluation of gates option. Does this meet the goal?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have an approval process that contains a condition. The condition requires that releases be approved by a team leader before they are deployed. You have a policy stating that approvals must occur within eight hours. You discover that deployment fail if the approvals take longer than two hours. You need to ensure that the deployments only fail if the approvals take longer than eight hours. Solution: From Pre-deployment conditions, you modify the Timeout setting for pre-deployment approvals. Does this meet the goal?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. You have an approval process that contains a condition. The condition requires that releases be approved by a team leader before they are deployed. You have a policy stating that approvals must occur within eight hours. You discover that deployment fail if the approvals take longer than two hours. You need to ensure that the deployments only fail if the approvals take longer than eight hours. Solution: From Post-deployment conditions, you modify the Timeout setting for post-deployment approvals. Does this meet the goal?

You have a free tier of an Azure DevOps organization named Contoso. Contoso contains 10 private projects. Each project has multiple jobs with no dependencies. The build process requires access to resource files located in an on-premises file system. You frequently run the jobs on five self-hosted agents but experience long build times and frequently queued builds. You need to minimize the number of queued builds and the time it takes to run the builds. What should you do?

You have an Azure DevOps project named Project1 and an Azure subscription named Sub1. Sub1 contains an Azure SQL database named DB1. You need to create a release pipeline that uses the Azure SQL Database Deployment task to update DB1. Which artifact should you deploy?

Your company has a project in Azure DevOps for a new web application. The company uses ServiceNow for change management. You need to ensure that a change request is processed before any components can be deployed to the production environment. What are two ways to integrate ServiceNow into the Azure DevOps release pipeline? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Your company develops an application named App1 that is deployed in production. As part of an application update, a new service is being added to App1. The new service requires access to an application named App2 that is currently in development. You need to ensure that you can deploy the update to App1 before App2 becomes available. You must be able to enable the service in App1 once App2 is deployed. What should you do?