Stress-test judgement

Azure DevOps Academy: Architecture scenarios

Work through ambiguous production situations where several answers may appear reasonable.

Scenario 01

Azure Boards: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Azure Boards. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 02

Azure Repos: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Azure Repos. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 03

Azure Pipelines: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Azure Pipelines. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 04

Azure Artifacts: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Azure Artifacts. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 05

Test Plans: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Test Plans. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 06

Release Pipelines: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Release Pipelines. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 07

YAML Pipelines: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving YAML Pipelines. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 08

Environments: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Environments. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.