CV0-004 Deployment Practice Question
A cloud engineer is designing a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps. They need to ensure that code changes are automatically built, tested, and deployed to a staging environment, and then after manual approval, deployed to production. Which pipeline configuration should they use?
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Multi-stage pipeline with environment approvals on the production stage
Azure DevOps multi-stage pipelines allow defining stages such as build, test, and deploy, with gates and approvals. An approval gate on the production stage ensures manual review before deployment.
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Multi-stage pipeline with environment approvals on the production stage
Why this is correct
A multi-stage pipeline separates build, test, staging and production into discrete stages, and environment approvals gate the production stage so deployment waits for manual sign-off. This satisfies both the automated staging deployment and the approval-before-production constraint.
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Single stage pipeline with conditional deployment
Why it's wrong here
A single stage pipeline with conditional deployment cannot model separate staging and production environments with an approval gate between them. It is tempting because conditional logic does control task execution, and would be correct for branching within one environment, not for gated cross-environment promotion.
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Release pipeline with continuous deployment trigger
Why it's wrong here
A release pipeline with a continuous deployment trigger fires on every successful build, so code reaches production without the required manual approval gate. It is tempting because release pipelines do handle multi-stage promotion, and would be correct if the production stage had a pre-deployment approval configured.
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Build pipeline only
Why it's wrong here
A build pipeline only compiles and tests code; it performs no deployment to staging or production. It is tempting because build pipelines do run automated builds and tests, and would be correct if the requirement stopped at continuous integration without any release or approval stages.
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