Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

Your development team uses Azure Repos with a Git repository and follows a trunk-based development model. The team wants to implement branch policies to ensure code quality before merging feature branches into the main branch. Which combination of branch policies should you configure to enforce code reviews while maintaining development velocity?

You are designing a CI/CD pipeline in Azure DevOps for a microservices application consisting of 8 services. Each service should only be built and deployed when its specific code changes. The services share some common library code. How should you structure your repository and pipeline strategy?

Your organization requires that all Azure DevOps pipeline deployments to production must be approved by at least two members of the security team, and deployments can only occur during a maintenance window (Saturday 2 AM - 6 AM UTC). Which combination of features should you implement?

You need to implement infrastructure as code for your Azure environment using Azure Pipelines. The solution must support state management, prevent concurrent modifications, and allow for easy rollback. Your team has expertise in declarative configuration. Which approach should you recommend?

Your application team reports that recent deployments have caused performance degradation in production. You need to implement a monitoring strategy that correlates application deployments with performance metrics and automatically alerts when anomalies occur post-deployment. Which Azure services and features should you combine?

Your organization stores sensitive database connection strings and API keys that multiple Azure Pipelines need to access. You must ensure secrets are rotated every 90 days, audit all secret access, and prevent secrets from being exposed in pipeline logs. What solution should you implement?

You are implementing a pull request workflow for a team of 15 developers working on the same codebase. Builds take 20 minutes to complete. To optimize the feedback loop while maintaining code quality, which Azure Pipelines configuration should you use for PR validation?

Your team uses Azure Boards for work item tracking and Azure Repos for source control. Management wants to improve traceability between requirements, code changes, and deployments. Which integration features should you implement to achieve end-to-end traceability?

Your organization needs to scan container images for vulnerabilities before they are deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The solution must block deployments of images with critical vulnerabilities, provide visibility into security issues, and integrate with your existing Azure DevOps pipelines. What approach should you implement?

You are designing a release strategy for a web application that serves global customers. The deployment must minimize risk, allow for quick rollback, and provide the ability to test new features with a subset of users before full rollout. Which deployment pattern should you implement in Azure?