Azure DevOps Engineer Exam: Question 22

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This is the AZ400 certification prep question 22 of 50. Your team is designing a release pipeline for Azure DevOps. You want to enforce that no high priority bugs exist in Azure Boards before deploying to production. Which Azure DevOps feature should you use? A, release gates with a work item query condition. B, pipeline artifacts. C, pipeline variables. Or D, pipeline triggers. Now, B is incorrect because artifacts store outputs, but they don't enforce quality checks. C is incorrect because variables store configuration, not quality gates. And D is incorrect because triggers control when a pipeline runs, not whether it should proceed based on bug counts. So, the correct answer is A. Azure DevOps release gates allow you to define automated checks before [music] or after deployment. A work item query gate can block the release if a high priority bugs are open in Azure Boards, which enforces quality standards before production. Check out our AZ400 course on codecloud.com.