Microsoft Recertification for MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management Sample Questions:

1. You develop a solution that contains an ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) application. You have a continuous integration build named CodeBuild which compiles the application. Your information technology (IT) department provides you with a virtual machine (VM) for testing purposes. The VM has Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5 installed and configured.
Currently, developers publish to the VM directly from Visual Studio when the test team requests a deployment. The current release process is unreliable and burdensome to the development team.
You need to create an efficient and flexible method to automate the deployment of the website when requested by the test team.
What should you do?

A) Make the IIS Web Directory on the test VM a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) file share.
Modify the CodeBuild, setting this share as the drop folder for the build.
Instruct the test team to invoke the CodeBuild when they wish to test.
B) Create a Powershell script that copies the website from the build drop folder to the test VM.
Check in the script to TFS.
Add an activity to the CodeBuild workflow that invokes the PowerShell script.
C) Customize the CodeBuild workflow to copy the website from the build drop folder to the IIS web directory on the test VM.
Instruct the test team to invoke the CodeBuild when they wish to test.
D) Create a standard environment using the test VM.
Create a lab workflow named DeployBuild and select CodeBuild as the source build.
Configure a deployment command to copy the website from the build drop folder to the IIS web directory.
Instruct the test team to invoke the DeployBuild when they request a new release.

2. Your team uses Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) to manage
software development processes that have multiple team projects associated to a single team project collection.
You install a second TFS server in order to establish a test environment for future changes.
You need to copy the contents of your team project collection to your new TFS installation.
Which two actions should you perform first? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

A) Detach the team project collection from TFS.
B) Attach the team project collection on the new server.
C) Create a backup of the team project collection database.
D) Configure your new TFS to use the same databases as your initial TFS.

3. Your company's Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) installation has a robust data tier that includes a Data Warehouse Server and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.
During the typical processing of your data warehouse, you see that the length of time it takes for the warehouse adapters to pull data from the operational store, transform it, and then write it to the warehouse is incrementally increasing.
You need to decrease the time between refreshes in order to reduce the processing time.
Which service should you access to change the settings?

A) TeamProjectCollectionService
B) JobsService
C) AdministrationService
D) WarehouseControlWebService

4. You manage several developers who are working on multiple applications.
A business analyst requests an audit trail of work item changes for all prospective releases.
You need to implement a strategy to provide the audit trail.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A) Enable static code analysis during the automated build.
B) Enable a check-in policy that requires a work item be associated with the check-in.
C) Enable the automated build option to associate work items with the build.
D) Enable a check-in policy that requires a successful build prior to check-in.
E) Require developers to update the comments field of their tasks with details of any code changes for their tasks.
F) Request that developers enter the work item ID in the check-in comments for any code changes they make.

5. DRAG DROP
You have a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. A new server is installed with Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard.
You want to migrate TFS to the new hardware and upgrade it to TFS 2013. You install TFS 2013 on the new hardware.
You need to complete the migration and upgrade.
Which three actions should you perform in sequence? To answer, move the appropriate actions from the list of actions to the answer area and arrange them in the correct order.

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