Your organization has a limited number of self-hosted agents. Some pipelines are critical and need to run immediately, while others are non-critical and can wait. You want to ensure critical pipelines get priority. What should you do?

Use separate agent pools for critical and non-critical pipelines.

Disable non-critical pipelines during peak hours.

Set the concurrency limit for non-critical pipelines to 1.

Increase the timeout for critical pipelines.

Which Azure DevOps feature provides a way to export a classic pipeline definition to YAML?

Pipeline editor's 'View YAML' option

Your team's build pipeline takes 30 minutes, and the majority of the time is spent restoring NuGet packages from the internet. The team wants to reduce the pipeline duration. What should you configure?

Change the build to run on a different hosted agent image.

Remove the package restore step from the pipeline.

Increase the number of agents running the build.

Enable pipeline caching for the NuGet packages folder.

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Maintain Pipelines AZ-400 Practice Questions (Page 5)

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 21–25

21foundation · easy
Which Azure DevOps feature allows you to define how long pipeline artifacts are kept before being automatically deleted?
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22foundation · easy
Which setting in Azure Pipelines directly affects the performance of a job by determining the hardware resources available to it?
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23application · medium
Your organization has a limited number of self-hosted agents. Some pipelines are critical and need to run immediately, while others are non-critical and can wait. You want to ensure critical pipelines get priority. What should you do?
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24foundation · easy
Which Azure DevOps feature provides a way to export a classic pipeline definition to YAML?
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25application · medium
Your team's build pipeline takes 30 minutes, and the majority of the time is spent restoring NuGet packages from the internet. The team wants to reduce the pipeline duration. What should you configure?
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Questions 21–25

Which Azure DevOps feature allows you to define how long pipeline artifacts are kept before being automatically deleted?

Which setting in Azure Pipelines directly affects the performance of a job by determining the hardware resources available to it?

Your organization has a limited number of self-hosted agents. Some pipelines are critical and need to run immediately, while others are non-critical and can wait. You want to ensure critical pipelines get priority. What should you do?

Which Azure DevOps feature provides a way to export a classic pipeline definition to YAML?

Your team's build pipeline takes 30 minutes, and the majority of the time is spent restoring NuGet packages from the internet. The team wants to reduce the pipeline duration. What should you configure?

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