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Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400 Practice Question

An organization stores client secrets in Azure Key Vault and uses a YAML pipeline in Azure DevOps to deploy resources. Compliance mandates that:

  • Secrets must never appear in logs or artifacts.
  • Only tasks that require a secret may read it at runtime.
  • Build administrators must be unable to view or export the secret values from the Azure DevOps portal. Which design meets all requirements while keeping the pipeline definition entirely in Git?

  • Declare the secrets directly in the YAML file by using variables with the isSecret: true attribute and reference them in the tasks.

  • Call the AzureKeyVault@2 task in the job to download only the required secrets at runtime; reference the resulting secret variables in subsequent tasks.

  • Commit an encrypted JSON file containing the secrets to the repository and decrypt it during the build by using a GPG private key stored as a secure file.

  • Create a variable group in Azure DevOps, manually add each secret as a secret variable, and reference the group in the pipeline.

Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400
Develop a security and compliance plan
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