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Question #: 30
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A Development team decides to adopt a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeCommit for a new application. However, management wants a person to review and approve the code before it is deployed to production.
How can the Development team add a manual approver to the CI/CD pipeline?

A. Use AWS SES to send an email to approvers when their action is required. Develop a simple application that allows approvers to accept or reject a build. Invoke an AWS Lambda function to advance the pipeline when a build is accepted.
B. If approved, add an approved tag when pushing changes to the CodeCommit repository. CodePipeline will proceed to build and deploy approved commits without interruption.
C. Add an approval step to CodeCommit. Commits will not be saved until approved.
D. Add an approval action to the pipeline. Configure the approval action to publish to an Amazon SNS topic when approval is required. The pipeline execution will stop and wait for an approval.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

by WilsonNF at Aug. 13, 2020, 9:56 a.m.

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WilsonNF

Highly Voted 3 years, 10 months ago

D. Add an approval action to the pipeline. Configure the approval action to publish to an Amazon SNS topic when approval is required. The pipeline execution will stop and wait for an approval. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codepipeline/latest/userguide/approvals-action-add.html

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sumanshu

Most Recent 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: D

D) Correct - In AWS CodePipeline, you can add a manual approval action to the pipeline that will stop the pipeline execution and wait for a manual approval before continuing. This approval action can be linked to an Amazon SNS topic, which can notify the approvers when their action is needed. The approvers can then approve or reject the deployment directly within the AWS Management Console

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AsmaZoheb

1 year, 6 months ago

Selected Answer: D

for sure D

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ppardav

2 years ago

Why not C? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/how-to-create-pull-request-approval-rule.html

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npn225

1 year, 10 months ago

Because the question is asking how to implement approval before *deployment to production* rather than before *updating the code base*. Therefore, approval action in the PIPELINE is required rather than an approval step in the AWS CodeCommit repository. Hope this helps!

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rcaliandro

2 years, 1 month ago

Selected Answer: D

D of course, it is possible to add an human approval task to the CI/CD pipeline in order to accept (or eventually reject) the deployment of the new software. The pipeline execution will stop and wait for the human approval

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