Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert AZ-400 Practice Question

Your organization manages requirements and bugs in Azure Boards but keeps source code in a public GitHub repository. You are designing end-to-end traceability so that, when a developer pushes a commit or opens a pull request, the related Azure Boards work item is automatically linked and later displays the build, test, and release information that results from the change.

You create an Azure Pipelines YAML build that is triggered by changes in the GitHub repository and a multiline stage-based release pipeline that deploys the build to production. You need to configure the solution so that project managers can open a work item in Azure Boards and see, without manual effort, the following linked artifacts:

the commit or pull request that implemented the change
the automated test run produced by the build
the release stage that deployed the build to production

Which action will provide the required traceability with the least additional configuration?

Create a custom Azure DevOps Analytics view that joins WorkItemSnapshot, Build, and Release tables.
Require developers to include an Azure Boards work-item keyword such as "Fixes AB#" in every commit message or pull-request description.
Install and configure the Azure Boards GitHub app for the repository.
Enable the "Report deployment status to Boards" setting on the release pipeline.

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Answer Description

Using the work-item linking syntax (for example, Fixes AB#123) inside commit messages or pull-request descriptions creates a relationship record in Azure Boards as soon as GitHub pushes the event to Azure DevOps. From that single link, Azure DevOps can automatically propagate associations to the build produced by the commit, the test run generated during that build, and any release stages that later deploy the same build-provided those pipelines were created in the same Azure DevOps project. No extra tasks, extensions, or manual queries are required.

Enabling the Report deployment status to Boards option only links release stages; if a commit is not already associated with the work item, the chain is broken. Adding the Azure Boards app to the repository only surfaces Boards information inside GitHub and does not create cross-artifact links inside Azure DevOps. Creating custom Analytics views provides reporting but cannot generate the links themselves.

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