Question 390
After the team applies this response: Model job dependencies with stages, dependsOn and explicit success conditions so independent tests run in parallel. In the situation—An Azure Pipelines job calls an expensive integration suite before compiling shared dependencies, causing avoidable reruns. Which evidence BEST demonstrates the response is effective?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This evidence directly verifies the proposed control under the stated failure scenario: Inspect the pipeline execution graph and confirm deployment starts only after required upstream jobs succeed. The governing engineering principle is: Declarative job dependencies encode correct ordering while enabling safe parallel execution.
Incorrect Answers
Idempotent configuration converges on a desired state instead of assuming every script starts from a clean host. The needed step here is to inspect the pipeline execution graph and confirm deployment starts only after required upstream jobs succeed.
Kubernetes rolling updates depend on readiness and spare capacity, not just a Deployment status of updated. The appropriate remedy is to inspect the pipeline execution graph and confirm deployment starts only after required upstream jobs succeed.
Desired-state management requires observing actual state and controlling deviations from reviewed definitions. Instead, the response must inspect the pipeline execution graph and confirm deployment starts only after required upstream jobs succeed.






Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) Practice Tests