Microsoft Certified:DevOps Engineer Expert
Domain 3Objective 6
Maintain Pipelines AZ-400 Practice Questions (Page 2)
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 41 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 6–10
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Your pipeline takes 45 minutes to complete. The build step takes 20 minutes, the test step takes 15 minutes, and the deployment step takes 10 minutes. You need to reduce the total time to under 30 minutes while maintaining quality. What should you do?
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Which setting in Azure Pipelines controls the maximum number of jobs that can run simultaneously in a single pipeline run?
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Your release pipeline sometimes fails because a deployment script has a syntax error that is only caught at runtime. You want to catch these errors earlier and improve reliability. What should you do?
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Which practice increases pipeline reliability by ensuring that a temporary infrastructure issue does not cause a permanent pipeline failure?
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Your organization uses a mix of hosted and self-hosted agents. The hosted agents are used for PR validation, and self-hosted agents are used for release pipelines. You notice that the cost of hosted agents is high because PRs are frequent. You want to reduce cost without slowing down PR validation. What should you do?
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