AZ400-Q: set pipeline retention deliberately
A compliance rule requires deployment evidence for 180 days, but large temporary test artifacts need only seven days. Which policy is appropriate?
- A) Keep everything forever.
- B) Delete every run after seven days.
- C) Set retention according to the evidence requirement and manage temporary artifacts separately with the shortest justified retention. ✓
- D) Store all artifacts in source control.
Answer: C. Retention is a policy decision balancing audit/recovery needs, cost, and exposure. Different evidence classes can have different justified lifetimes.
Why not the others: Indefinite retention creates cost and data risk; deleting proof early violates the requirement. Source control is not an artifact-retention system.