A company uses Azure DevOps for its CI/CD pipelines and needs to deploy applications to Azure. They want a solution that supports both Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, and integrates with Azure resources. Which deployment automation solution should they choose?

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Your company runs a hybrid pipeline where some jobs must run on a Windows VM in your on-premises data center and other jobs can run on Linux in the cloud. You use Azure Pipelines. You need to ensure that the Windows jobs always run on the on-premises VM and the Linux jobs run on a Microsoft-hosted agent. What should you configure?

Use a deployment group for the on-premises VM and a separate job for the Linux build.

Create a self-hosted agent pool for the on-premises VM and a separate pool for the Microsoft-hosted agents. Reference the appropriate pool in each job.

Use a container job for the Windows job and a VM template for the Linux job.

Use a single agent pool and set the 'demands' property on each job to specify the operating system.

You have a GitHub repository that contains both application code and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) files. You want to run a Terraform validation pipeline only when changes are made to the 'infra/' directory, and you want to reuse the same validation steps across multiple repositories. What should you configure in GitHub Actions?

Use a 'pull_request_target' trigger with a 'paths' filter and reference a local action.

Use a 'workflow_dispatch' trigger and manually run the validation whenever needed.

Add a 'paths' filter to the workflow's 'pull_request' trigger and use a reusable workflow from a central repository.

Add a 'paths-ignore' filter to the workflow's 'push' trigger and use a composite action for the validation steps.

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Design and Implement Pipelines AZ-400 Practice Questions (Page 7)

Part of the Design and implement build and release pipelines domain, which makes up ~41% of our current practice bank. Microsoft does not publish an official question count, but from its 140-minute exam (~55–95 total, ~23–39 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 34 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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A company uses Azure DevOps for its CI/CD pipelines and needs to deploy applications to Azure. They want a solution that supports both Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, and integrates with Azure resources. Which deployment automation solution should they choose?
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Your company runs a hybrid pipeline where some jobs must run on a Windows VM in your on-premises data center and other jobs can run on Linux in the cloud. You use Azure Pipelines. You need to ensure that the Windows jobs always run on the on-premises VM and the Linux jobs run on a Microsoft-hosted agent. What should you configure?
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33foundation · easy
A team wants to store a set of secret values (like API keys) that can be used across multiple pipelines in Azure DevOps. Which feature should they use?
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34application · medium
You have a GitHub repository that contains both application code and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) files. You want to run a Terraform validation pipeline only when changes are made to the 'infra/' directory, and you want to reuse the same validation steps across multiple repositories. What should you configure in GitHub Actions?
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A company uses Azure DevOps for its CI/CD pipelines and needs to deploy applications to Azure. They want a solution that supports both Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, and integrates with Azure resources. Which deployment automation solution should they choose?

A team wants to store a set of secret values (like API keys) that can be used across multiple pipelines in Azure DevOps. Which feature should they use?

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