Maintain Pipelines AZ-400 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11application · medium

   Your organization's compliance policy requires that build artifacts be retained for 7 years, but the default Azure Pipelines retention policy is 30 days. You need to ensure that artifacts are available for the full 7 years. What should you do?

   • AIncrease the default retention policy for all pipelines to 7 years.
   • BManually download and store the artifacts on a local server after each build.
   • CDisable the retention policy so artifacts are never deleted.
   • DSet a custom retention policy on the pipeline to keep artifacts for 7 years.
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2. 12foundation · easy

   Which factor is most important to consider when designing a retention strategy for pipeline artifacts?

   • ACompliance requirements
   • BPipeline timeout
   • CAgent pool size
   • DTest coverage
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4. 13application · medium

   A team's release pipeline has a high failure rate because a third-party API used in the deployment script occasionally returns transient errors. The team wants to improve pipeline reliability without changing the deployment logic. What should you configure in the pipeline?

   • ARun the deployment task on a different agent to avoid the network issue.
   • BRemove the API call from the pipeline to avoid the failure.
   • CIncrease the timeout of the deployment task to allow more time for the API to respond.
   • DAdd a retry policy to the deployment task that retries the API call on failure.
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5. 14foundation · easy

   Which Azure DevOps feature provides a dashboard widget that can display pipeline health metrics such as failure rate and duration over time?

   • APipeline Analytics
   • BTest Plans
   • CArtifact Feed
   • DService Hooks
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6. 15expert · hard

   Your team manages a pipeline that has a high failure rate. You have implemented retry policies and increased timeouts, but failures persist. You need to identify the root cause and improve reliability. What should you do?

   • ADisable the pipeline until the issue is resolved.
   • BIncrease the number of agents to reduce failures.
   • CUse a different agent pool for the pipeline.
   • DReview pipeline analytics to identify failure patterns and correlate with changes.
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