A team needs to create a reusable virtual machine image for their self-hosted agents to ensure consistent tooling. Which Azure service is designed for creating and storing VM images?

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You are designing an Azure Pipelines YAML pipeline for a critical production deployment. You have the following requirements: 1) The deployment must not start until a change advisory board (CAB) approves it. 2) The deployment must be automatically rejected if the build artifact has a known vulnerability. 3) The deployment should be paused if the target environment is currently being used by another deployment. What should you implement?

Use a pre-deployment gate that calls a REST API to check for CAB approval and a 'condition' to skip the deployment if a vulnerability is found.

Use a manual validation task for CAB approval, a vulnerability scan task, and a 'lock' keyword in the YAML.

Use an environment with an approval check, a vulnerability scan task that fails the pipeline, and a 'deployment' job that uses the environment's exclusive lock.

Use a branch policy on the production branch and a vulnerability scan task.

A team stores their code in GitHub and wants to use Azure Pipelines to build and deploy it. What is the first step to integrate a GitHub repository with an Azure Pipeline?

Create a GitHub Actions workflow

Set up a webhook in GitHub to call Azure Pipelines

Install the Azure Pipelines app in GitHub

Create a service connection to GitHub in Azure DevOps

A pipeline has three stages: Build, Test, and Deploy. The team wants Deploy to run only after Test succeeds. Which YAML feature enforces this order?

Using the `condition` keyword on the Deploy stage

Using the `dependsOn` keyword on the Deploy stage

Defining stages sequentially in the `stages` list

Placing all steps in a single job

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A team needs to create a reusable virtual machine image for their self-hosted agents to ensure consistent tooling. Which Azure service is designed for creating and storing VM images?
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You are designing an Azure Pipelines YAML pipeline for a critical production deployment. You have the following requirements: 1) The deployment must not start until a change advisory board (CAB) approves it. 2) The deployment must be automatically rejected if the build artifact has a known vulnerability. 3) The deployment should be paused if the target environment is currently being used by another deployment. What should you implement?
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A team stores their code in GitHub and wants to use Azure Pipelines to build and deploy it. What is the first step to integrate a GitHub repository with an Azure Pipeline?
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A pipeline has three stages: Build, Test, and Deploy. The team wants Deploy to run only after Test succeeds. Which YAML feature enforces this order?
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In Azure Pipelines, which feature allows you to define a reusable set of steps that can be included in multiple pipelines?
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A team needs to create a reusable virtual machine image for their self-hosted agents to ensure consistent tooling. Which Azure service is designed for creating and storing VM images?

A team stores their code in GitHub and wants to use Azure Pipelines to build and deploy it. What is the first step to integrate a GitHub repository with an Azure Pipeline?

A pipeline has three stages: Build, Test, and Deploy. The team wants Deploy to run only after Test succeeds. Which YAML feature enforces this order?

In Azure Pipelines, which feature allows you to define a reusable set of steps that can be included in multiple pipelines?

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