A company is using Azure DevOps to deploy a critical application. The deployment must be fully automated, but the team needs to ensure that a failed deployment does not affect production. They also need to maintain a history of configuration changes for compliance. The team is considering using Azure App Configuration with a DevOps pipeline. What is the best practice?

Use Azure DevOps variable groups for configuration.

Use Azure App Configuration with a staging and production store, and use the DevOps pipeline to promote configuration changes after validation.

Use a single App Configuration store for all environments and update it directly from the pipeline.

Store configuration in Azure Key Vault and use the pipeline to update secrets.

A company is integrating an on-premises legacy SOAP service with a new cloud-based REST API. The cloud API must call the on-premises service securely without opening inbound firewall ports. The integration must be reliable and support request-response semantics. What should you recommend?

Use Azure Application Gateway with a site-to-site VPN.

Use Azure API Management to proxy the SOAP service.

Use Azure Service Bus relay to forward messages between the two services.

Use Azure Relay to expose the on-premises SOAP service to the cloud API.

A company has a legacy SOAP-based web service that is still used by several partners. The company wants to expose this service to new cloud-based clients while minimizing changes to the existing service. Which approach should the architect recommend?

Use Azure Logic Apps to call the SOAP service and expose it as a GraphQL endpoint.

Expose the existing SOAP service directly to the internet without any changes.

Use Azure API Management to create a SOAP pass-through API or convert it to REST.

Rewrite the service as a REST API and deprecate the SOAP endpoint.

A company wants to automate the deployment of a web app to Azure App Service. They use GitHub for source control and want to deploy on every push to the main branch. They also need to run integration tests before deployment and roll back automatically if the deployment fails. Which approach should they use?

Create an Azure DevOps pipeline that triggers on GitHub pushes, runs tests, and uses deployment slots with auto-swap and rollback

Use Azure App Service's built-in deployment center with continuous deployment

Use GitHub Actions to deploy directly to App Service without tests

Use Azure Pipelines with a YAML pipeline that deploys to a staging slot and then swaps, but without rollback

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A company is using Azure DevOps to deploy a critical application. The deployment must be fully automated, but the team needs to ensure that a failed deployment does not affect production. They also need to maintain a history of configuration changes for compliance. The team is considering using Azure App Configuration with a DevOps pipeline. What is the best practice?
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7application · medium
A company is integrating an on-premises legacy SOAP service with a new cloud-based REST API. The cloud API must call the on-premises service securely without opening inbound firewall ports. The integration must be reliable and support request-response semantics. What should you recommend?
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8foundation · easy
A team wants to automate the deployment of an Azure Web App whenever code is pushed to the main branch of a GitHub repository. Which Azure DevOps feature should they use?
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9foundation · easy
A company has a legacy SOAP-based web service that is still used by several partners. The company wants to expose this service to new cloud-based clients while minimizing changes to the existing service. Which approach should the architect recommend?
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10application · medium
A company wants to automate the deployment of a web app to Azure App Service. They use GitHub for source control and want to deploy on every push to the main branch. They also need to run integration tests before deployment and roll back automatically if the deployment fails. Which approach should they use?
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A company is integrating an on-premises legacy SOAP service with a new cloud-based REST API. The cloud API must call the on-premises service securely without opening inbound firewall ports. The integration must be reliable and support request-response semantics. What should you recommend?

A team wants to automate the deployment of an Azure Web App whenever code is pushed to the main branch of a GitHub repository. Which Azure DevOps feature should they use?

A company has a legacy SOAP-based web service that is still used by several partners. The company wants to expose this service to new cloud-based clients while minimizing changes to the existing service. Which approach should the architect recommend?

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