AZ-400 — questions

You are designing the development process for your company. You need to recommend a solution for continuous inspection of the company's code base to locate common code patterns that are known to be problematic. What should you include in the recommendation?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. The lead developer at your company reports that adding new application features takes longer than expected due to a large accumulated technical debt. You need to recommend changes to reduce the accumulated technical debt. Solution: You recommend reducing the code coupling and the dependency cycles? Does this meet the goal?

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.

Your company is building a new solution in Java. The company currently uses a SonarQube server to analyze the code of .NET solutions. You need to analyze and monitor the code quality of the Java solution. Which task types should you add to the build pipeline?

Your company is building a new solution in Java. The company currently uses a SonarQube server to analyze the code of .NET solutions. You need to analyze and monitor the code quality of the Java solution. Which task types should you add to the build pipeline?

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 action should you include in the recommendation?

During a code review, you discover many quality issues. Many modules contain unused variables and empty catch blocks. You need to recommend a solution to improve the quality of the code. What should you recommend?

Your development team is building a new web solution by using the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). You need to make a custom package available to all the developers. The package must be managed centrally, and the latest version must be available for consumption in Visual Studio automatically. Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You use GitHub for source control. A file that contains sensitive data is committed accidentally to the Git repository of a project. You need to delete the file and its history form the repository. Which two tools can you use? Each correct answer presents a complete solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Your company uses GitHub for source control. The company has a team that performs code reviews. You need to automate the assignment of the code reviews. The solution must meet the following requirements: • Prioritize the assignment of code reviews to team members who have the fewest outstanding assignments. • Ensure that each team member performs an equal number of code reviews in any 30-day period. • Prevent the assignment of code reviews to the team leader. Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a GitHub repository. You create a new repository in Azure DevOps. You need to recommend a procedure to clone the repository from GitHub to Azure DevOps. What should you recommend?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. The lead developer at your company reports that adding new application features takes longer than expected due to a large accumulated technical debt. You need to recommend changes to reduce the accumulated technical debt. Solution: You recommend increasing the code duplication. Does this meet the goal?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. The lead developer at your company reports that adding new application features takes longer than expected due to a large accumulated technical debt. You need to recommend changes to reduce the accumulated technical debt. Solution: You recommend increasing the test coverage. Does this meet the goal?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution. After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen. The lead developer at your company reports that adding new application features takes longer than expected due to a large accumulated technical debt. You need to recommend changes to reduce the accumulated technical debt. Solution: You recommend reducing the code complexity. Does this meet the goal?

During a code review, you discover quality issues in a Java application. You need to recommend a solution to detect quality issues including unused variables and empty catch blocks. What should you recommend?

You use Azure Artifacts to host NuGet packages that you create. You need to make one of the packages available to anonymous users outside your organization. The solution must minimize the number of publication points. What should you do?

You use GitHub for source control and project-related discussions. You receive a notification when an entry is made to any team discussion. You need to ensure that you receive email notifications only for discussions in which you commented or in which you are mentioned. Which two Notifications settings should you clear? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have an Azure Automation account that contains a runbook. The runbook is used to configure the application infrastructure of an Azure subscription. You have a project in Azure DevOps named Project1. Project1 contains a repository that stores code for the runbook. You need to ensure that every committed change to the code will update automatically and publish the runbook to Azure Automation. What should you configure?

You use Git for source control. You enable GitHub code scanning. You raise a pull request from a non-default branch. In the code scanning output, you receive the following error message: “Analysis not found.” You need to ensure that the code scanning completes successfully for the pull request. Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

You have a GitHub repository that contains multiple versions of an Azure Pipelines template. You plan to deploy multiple pipelines that will use a template stored in the repository. You need to ensure that you use a fixed version of the template. What should you use to reference which version of the template repository to use?