AZ400-Q: define pipeline health

A platform team says a pipeline is “healthy” because it has not failed today. What broader evidence should it track?

  • A) Failure rate, duration, queue time, flaky-test rate, retry behavior, cost/concurrency, and whether deployments meet their operational outcomes. ✓
  • B) Only number of YAML lines.
  • C) Only agent hostnames.
  • D) Only number of developers.

Answer: A. Pipeline health is operational: reliability, performance, cost, and delivery outcomes all matter.

Why not the others: The remaining metrics are narrow activity/inventory measures, not health.

pipeline-maintenance · devops-flow-metrics · telemetry