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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Correct answer & explanation
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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
Correct. Multi-stage pipelines with approval gates meet the requirement.
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Single stage pipeline with conditional deployment
Why it's wrong here
A single stage does not separate environments effectively.
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Release pipeline with continuous deployment trigger
Why it's wrong here
Release pipelines exist but multi-stage YAML pipelines are more modern and flexible.
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Build pipeline only
Why it's wrong here
Build only does not include deployment stages.
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