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Question #: 3
Topic #: 5

Your company uses Azure DevOps for the build pipelines and deployment pipelines of Java-based projects.
You need to recommend a strategy for managing technical debt.
Which two actions should you include in the recommendation? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. Configure post-deployment approvals in the deployment pipeline.
B. Configure pre-deployment approvals in the deployment pipeline.
C. Integrate Azure DevOps and SonarQube.
D. Integrate Azure DevOps and Azure DevTest Labs.

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Suggested Answer: BC 🗳️

by chaudh at June 13, 2020, 2:05 p.m.

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ttm_19

Highly Voted 4 years, 11 months ago

What Azure DevTest Labs has to do with technical debt? Correct answer: B & C

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Luisete22222

4 years, 3 months ago

It has to do, because if you increase testing, you decrease technical debt.

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Yatoom

2 years, 7 months ago

No, you are thinking about Azure DevOps Test Plans. Azure DevTest Labs is s a service for easily creating, using, and managing infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) virtual machines (VMs) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments in labs.

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warchoon

2 years, 6 months ago

B seems to be correct https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/identify-technical-debt/5-measure-manage-technical-debt

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ttm_19

Highly Voted 4 years, 11 months ago

Is there a correct answer at all among those options? Checking for technical debt tasks should be an automated task (via SonarQube). But deployment approvals are for manual action by a team member. For automated check it should have been: implementing a pre-deployment gate with SonarQube action. Since there is not such option, the closes one is B&C.

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rreeey

4 years, 10 months ago

B and C is correct, from pre-approval, you can set quality gate with sonarqube

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Sylph

4 years, 2 months ago

Correct https://azuredevopslabs.com/labs/vstsextend/sonarcloud/

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maniak5576

4 years, 9 months ago

Pre-deployment approval means, that senior engineer can look at your code and perform code review before deploying. He can also take a look at Sonar analysis and decide if it will introduce any technical debt. Its helpful.

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MrAZ105

Most Recent 7 months, 1 week ago

Selected Answer: BC

BC are correct

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vsvaid

1 year, 5 months ago

Selected Answer: BC

Agree with B and C

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yana_b

1 year, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: BC

Correct

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Aravindking

2 years ago

Selected Answer: BC

given answers is correct and supported by bard AI frm google : The correct answers are: Integrate Azure DevOps and SonarQube. SonarQube is a static code analysis tool that can be used to identify technical debt in Java code. By integrating SonarQube with Azure DevOps, you can automatically scan your code for technical debt and generate reports that can be used to prioritize and track the debt. Configure pre-deployment approvals in the deployment pipeline. Pre-deployment approvals can be used to prevent code with technical debt from being deployed to production. By requiring approval from a designated approver, you can ensure that only code that meets the quality standards is deployed.

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zellck

2 years ago

Selected Answer: BC

BC is the answer. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/identify-technical-debt/5-measure-manage-technical-debt

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zellck

2 years ago

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/approvals/?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml Teams can also take advantage of the Approvals and Gates feature to control the workflow of the deployment pipeline. Each stage in a release pipeline can be configured with pre-deployment and post-deployment conditions that can include waiting for users to manually approve or reject deployments, and checking with other automated systems that specific conditions are met.

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ehurfheiz

2 years, 7 months ago

Selected Answer: BC

Seems to be BC

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alexPera84

2 years, 8 months ago

Selected Answer: BC

I think that having a check on pre deploy and sonar for static analysis help us to avoid the tech debt.

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Atos

2 years, 8 months ago

This isn't a great question. I'd lean towards C/D just because they are specifically aimed at further testing. But a "Pre-deployment approval" helps with the process which is still part of technical debt. Hopefully this question has been updated as its subjective.

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giuliohome

2 years, 9 months ago

Selected Answer: CD

C of course plus more testing, hence D see already presents comments of chaudh, pepepecas, Luisete22222 and Morettimaxi (all those should be transformed to voting comment to be more visible)

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francis6170

3 years, 11 months ago

Got this in the AZ-400 exam (June 2021).

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Pniaq

4 years, 2 months ago

B C checked

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laweg

4 years, 2 months ago

C & D. D isn't actually clear why it makes sense, but you could assume that it means there's testing in place. However, I believe it cannot be A & B because creating approval barriers in your deployments is known to increase technical debt.

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passtest100

4 years, 6 months ago

A C is making more sense. the reason A is better than B is: 1 the question ask the STRATEGY rather than prevention before the debt happen. 2 the debt is necessary in a short term request, but how to reduce the cost the debt create is the strategy jobs. 3 in practical experience, it did happen from time to time that we did the job first and supplement the approval later. 4 so the post approval makes more sense than B

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