AZ-401 Practice Test

Sample AZ-401 Practice Questions

10 real questions from the free AZ-401bank. Pick an answer in your head, then open “Show answer” for the explanation.

1. 1. Your company keeps source code in GitHub and builds with Azure Pipelines YAML pipelines in an Azure DevOps project that also hosts Azure Boards. The Azure Boards GitHub integration is connected, and developers already use AB# mentions in pull request descriptions. Release managers must be able to open a work item and see which build contains its change, the links must appear without developers adding them by hand, and the team does not want to build or maintain a custom service for this. Which action should you take?

   • A. Turn on commit mention linking in the Azure Repos settings so that commits referencing AB# also link the build that contains those commits to the work item
   • B. Enable Automatically link new work items in this build in the YAML pipeline settings so Azure Boards adds an Integrated in build link to associated work items
   • C. Add the AB# work item number to the pipeline run name template so that each build title references the work items that the build contains for the release managers
   • D. Create a service hook subscription on the Build completed event that calls a custom Azure Function to write a build link onto each associated work item
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   Correct answer: B

   Enabling Automatically link new work items in this build in the YAML pipeline settings makes Azure Boards add an Integrated in build link in the Development section of each associated work item when the build finishes, and this works for repositories hosted in GitHub. Commit mention linking is an Azure Repos setting that links commits, not builds, and the repository here is in GitHub. An AB# mention creates links from commit messages, pull request descriptions, and issue descriptions, not from a run name. A service hook with a custom function would create the link only by code the team must build and maintain, which breaks the stated constraint.

2. 2. A project has 40 contributors, and the Payments team wants its own team-level notification subscriptions managed without involving a member of the Project Administrators group. Who can manage those team subscriptions?

   • A. Any member of the Contributors group for the project and its teams
   • B. A team administrator for the Payments team with team-level rights
   • C. A user who has Stakeholder access in the organization and project
   • D. A member of the Readers group for the project and its teams
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   Correct answer: B

   Team notifications can be managed by a team administrator, a Project Administrator, or a Project Collection Administrator. Contributors, Stakeholders, and Readers can manage their own personal notifications but not team subscriptions.

3. 3. A manager wants a scatter-plot chart with a moving average and a standard deviation band that shows how long completed work took after the team started it. Which widget should they add to the dashboard?

   • A. The Cycle Time widget, which plots each completed item as a dot
   • B. The Velocity widget, which shows completed work per sprint
   • C. The Sprint Burndown widget, which shows remaining work in a sprint
   • D. The Cumulative Flow Diagram widget, which shows state distribution
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   Correct answer: A

   The Cycle Time widget plots completed work items as dots on a scatter chart with a moving average line and a standard deviation band. Velocity, sprint burndown, and the cumulative flow diagram present throughput, remaining work, and state distribution rather than per-item elapsed time.

4. 4. A regulated company needs formal change management with an auditable record of decisions. It wants requirements, change requests, risks, and reviews tracked as work item types in the same Azure Boards project. Which default process should the project use?

   • A. Basic, which tracks work with epics, issues, and tasks in a lightweight set for small teams
   • B. Agile, which centers the team backlog on user stories, tasks, and bugs for iterative teams
   • C. Scrum, which centers the team backlog on product backlog items and bugs for sprint teams
   • D. CMMI, which adds Requirement, Change Request, Risk, and Review work item types for formal governance
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   Correct answer: D

   CMMI adds Requirement, Change Request, Risk, and Review work item types and supports formal change management and an auditable record of decisions. Basic offers epics, issues, and tasks, Agile centers on user stories, and Scrum centers on product backlog items and bugs, so none of them provide the change request and risk tracking.

5. 5. An analyst uses an AI assistant connected to the Azure DevOps MCP Server to draft a query for Power BI that counts work items by state and work item type. The project has about 400,000 work items, and the grouping must be done on the server before data reaches Power BI so the refresh stays within the dataset size limit. Which query approach should the assistant produce?

   • A. A WIQL query that returns the full work item list so Power BI counts the rows after import
   • B. A Kusto Query Language summarize statement run against a Log Analytics workspace
   • C. An Analytics OData query that uses $apply with groupby and aggregate on the server
   • D. A flat list managed query exported to a CSV file that Power BI imports on a schedule
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   Correct answer: C

   The Analytics service exposes work tracking data through OData, and $apply with groupby and aggregate performs server-side aggregation so Power BI receives fewer rows. WIQL returns work item lists rather than aggregates, KQL targets Log Analytics data rather than Azure Boards work items, and a CSV export is a static copy.

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