Design and Implement a Testing Strategy for Pipelines AZ-400 Practice Questions (Page 9)

Questions 41–45

1. 41application · medium

   A company has a multi-stage YAML pipeline that deploys to production. They want to require manual approval from a specific user group before the production deployment proceeds. What should you configure?

   • AAdd an approval gate to the production stage in the YAML pipeline.
   • BAdd a PowerShell script that waits for a file to appear in a storage account.
   • CConfigure a branch policy that requires a reviewer for production branches.
   • DUse a release pipeline with a pre-deployment condition that checks for a specific work item.
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2. 42application · medium

   A team wants to run unit tests and publish code coverage to the pipeline. They also want to fail the build if coverage is below a certain threshold. What should they configure in the test task?

   • AEnable code coverage collection and set a coverage threshold in the test task.
   • BPublish the test results and manually review the coverage report.
   • CUse a separate build task to collect coverage after the tests run.
   • DConfigure a release gate to check coverage after deployment.
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4. 43application · medium

   An organization requires that all container images be scanned for vulnerabilities before they are deployed. The pipeline currently builds images and pushes them to a registry. What should be added to the pipeline to enforce this policy?

   • AA release gate that checks the image tag format.
   • BA manual approval step that asks the security team to review the image.
   • CA unit test task that validates the application code.
   • DA security gate that runs a vulnerability scan on the image and fails the pipeline if critical vulnerabilities are found.
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5. 44application · medium

   A developer wants to run unit tests locally before pushing code to the repository, but the tests depend on a database that is only available in the CI environment. The developer needs to validate the code quickly without waiting for the pipeline. What should the developer do?

   • AInstall a full copy of the production database locally to run the tests.
   • BSkip unit tests locally and only run integration tests in the pipeline.
   • CRun the unit tests with a local in-memory database and mock the data access layer.
   • DCommit the code and rely on the CI pipeline to run the tests and report failures.
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6. 45application · medium

   A team wants to enforce a minimum code coverage threshold of 80% for new code in their .NET application. They use Azure Pipelines and want the build to fail if coverage is below the threshold. Which approach should you use?

   • AAdd a script task that runs 'dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"' and then parse the coverage report to fail the build if below 80%.
   • BUse the .NET Core tool installer task to install a specific SDK version, then run tests with the 'dotnet test' command.
   • CAdd a quality gate in the release pipeline that checks coverage after deployment.
   • DConfigure the build to run 'dotnet build' with the '--no-restore' flag and rely on the compiler to check coverage.
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