A team wants to ensure that when a bug is fixed, the fix is verified by a second developer and the verification is recorded. They also want to trace the fix to the bug report. What should they implement?

Use a pull request with a required reviewer and a GitHub Action that posts the test results to the PR, linking the PR to the bug.

Use a direct commit to main with a commit message referencing the bug.

Use a separate verification branch and merge it without a PR.

Use a GitHub Issue comment to record verification and rely on the team to link the fix.

A team receives a high volume of automated notifications from CI, making it difficult to notice critical bug reports. They want to reduce noise while ensuring that critical bugs are escalated immediately. What should they implement?

Configure CI to post only failed builds to a dedicated channel and use GitHub issue labels with a 'critical' label that triggers a page to on-call.

Subscribe all developers to all repository notifications and create a GitHub Action that sends an email for every issue.

Disable all CI notifications and rely on the team to check the Actions tab.

Use a single chat channel for all notifications and ask developers to filter manually.

A team wants to ensure that when a bug is reported in GitHub Issues, the relevant developers are notified and the issue is automatically linked to the related work item in Azure Boards. What should they implement?

Use a webhook to post the issue to a chat channel and rely on developers to create a work item.

Create a GitHub Action that sends an email to all developers and manually link the issue to Azure Boards.

Disable notifications and ask developers to check the Issues tab daily.

Use GitHub's built-in issue assignment and the Azure Boards app to link issues to work items.

A team needs to trace a specific code change back to the original requirement and forward to the deployed release. They use GitHub and Azure Boards. What should they implement?

Create a separate repository for each work item and merge changes manually.

Link each commit to a work item and use GitHub Releases to tag the commit that is deployed.

Use a naming convention for branches that includes the work item ID and rely on release notes.

Store the work item ID in the commit message and use GitHub search to find it later.

A team wants to enforce that all code changes meet quality standards, but they also want to allow urgent hotfixes to bypass some checks. What should they implement?

Use branch protection with required status checks, but allow a 'hotfix' label to bypass the checks.

Use a separate branch for hotfixes and merge directly to main without checks.

Require all checks on every PR, including hotfixes.

Disable all checks and rely on code review.

Microsoft Certified:DevOps Engineer Expert

Domain 1Objective 1

Design and Implement Traceability and Flow of Work AZ-400 Practice Questions (Page 6)

Part of the Design and implement processes and communications domain, which makes up ~22% of our current practice bank. Microsoft does not publish an official question count, but from its 140-minute exam (~55–95 total, ~12–21 in this domain), expect 4–7 from this objective — we provide 31 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

31questions here

7free pages

6concepts

Questions 26–30

26expert · hard
A team wants to ensure that when a bug is fixed, the fix is verified by a second developer and the verification is recorded. They also want to trace the fix to the bug report. What should they implement?
Select an answer first
27expert · hard
A team receives a high volume of automated notifications from CI, making it difficult to notice critical bug reports. They want to reduce noise while ensuring that critical bugs are escalated immediately. What should they implement?
Select an answer first
28application · medium
A team wants to ensure that when a bug is reported in GitHub Issues, the relevant developers are notified and the issue is automatically linked to the related work item in Azure Boards. What should they implement?
Select an answer first
29application · medium
A team needs to trace a specific code change back to the original requirement and forward to the deployed release. They use GitHub and Azure Boards. What should they implement?
Select an answer first
30expert · hard
A team wants to enforce that all code changes meet quality standards, but they also want to allow urgent hotfixes to bypass some checks. What should they implement?
Select an answer first

Finished these 5 questions?

Review the revealed explanations, or continue through the curriculum.

Next 5 questions →Back to AZ-400

Free Basic Practice is a study aid with revealable answers — not a scored exam. Examers.io is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. “AZ-400” is a trademark of its owner, used for identification only.