Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400 Practice Question

In Azure Pipelines you control the execution order of jobs inside a stage by using job-level dependencies. By adding "dependsOn: Deploy-Database" to the Deploy-WebApp job (or, equivalently, listing the job name under the dependsOn collection) you create an explicit dependency graph. The job will start only after its dependency finishes and returns a successful result. Including the default "condition: succeeded()" (or explicitly setting the condition) further guarantees the second deployment runs only on a successful upstream result. Relying on task order, variable polling, or assuming deployment jobs run after regular jobs does not guarantee sequencing across separate jobs and therefore cannot ensure reliably ordered dependency deployments.