Recertification for MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management (070-499) Free Practice Test

Question 1

You are the product manager for Contoso, Ltd. You are using Microsoft Visual Studio to develop a new product.
Management wants to extend the audience for the new product to include Windows 8 devices. The development team creates an alpha copy of the application for initial testing. A main requirement is to test the application on a device that has never been used for testing.
You need to configure the device for testing after installing the remote debugger.
Which application should you use?

A. Windows App Studio

B. Microsoft Test Tools Adapter

C. Microsoft Test Manager

D. Your Windows Store App

Correct Answer: C

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Question 2

You are using the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 process template. You are a scrum
master leading a scrum team.
Your team is new to Agile and Lean practices.
You need to ensure that your team communicates efficiently.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the
solution. Choose three.)

A. Utilize visual controls, such as task boards.

B. Discuss issues through an email thread.

C. Co-locate team members.

D. Hold a weekly conference call with the entire team to review the bug list.

E. Conduct daily face-to-face stand-up meetings.

F. Document the design of functionality you plan to build.

Correct Answer: A,C,E

Question 3

You design a system architecture that specifies various inter-layer communications. You need to ensure the validity of developers' code against your architecture.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A. Create a gated check-in that uses Code Analysis.

B. Use the architecture explorer to create a DGML model of the architecture.

C. Create a gated check-in that runs a build that validates the rules defined in the layer diagram.

D. Create a gated check-in that runs a build that validates the rules defined in the DGML model.

E. Create a layer diagram and specify the valid namespaces for each layer.

Correct Answer: C,E

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Question 4

Your network environment includes a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 server. All requests pass through an HTTP proxy before reaching users.
You need to allow access to the server over HTTPS for remote workers.
Which two actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose two.)

A. Configure Kerberos authentication.

B. Add the users to the user identities in Internet Information Services (IIS).

C. Configure SSL.

D. Configure Basic authentication.

E. Configure a TFS proxy server.

Correct Answer: C,D

Question 5

You are the lead developer and architect of a development team that develops line of business (LOB) applications.
You need to define an architectural design process for the LOB applications.
Which three architectural goals and principles should you adopt? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose three.)

A. Baseline the architecture to ensure consistency and minimize deviation.

B. Model to analyze and reduce risk.

C. Consider the team velocity.

D. Build to change, instead of building to last.

E. Use models and visualizations as a communication and collaboration tool.

Correct Answer: B,D,E

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Question 6

You are using the Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Capability Maturity Model
Integration (CMMI) Process Improvement 6.0 process template.
A stakeholder has requested a change, but the change request has not received the
attention that it requires.
You need to escalate the change request. What should you do?

A. Create a bug work item.
Link the new bug to the change request.
Escalate the bug to get the change request on track.

B. Create an issue work item.
Link the new issue to the change request.
Escalate the issue to get the change request on track.

C. Create an impediment work item.
Link the new impediment to the change request.
Escalate the impediment to get the change request on track.

D. Create another change request work item.
Link the new change request to the change request.
Escalate the change request to get the change request on track.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 7

Your network environment includes a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 server.
You create a new project using the default Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 template. You want to inform the product owner when a Product Backlog Item (PBI) is ready for testing.
You need to ensure that when the development of a PBI has been completed, the tester is able to change the state of the item to be Ready for Acceptance Testing. You need to achieve this goal without developing custom code.
What are two possible ways to accomplish this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

A. Use the Visual Studio Process Template editor to modify the Product Backlog Item template.

B. Write a Visual Studio Extension (VSIX) so developers can change the state in Visual Studio.

C. Modify the Product Backlog Item template XML and use the witadmin command to import the modified XML.

D. Use the TFSFieldMapping command to map a new state for Product Backlog Item.

Correct Answer: A,C

Question 8

You are a test developer using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
A test case that you maintain needs to be modified to test for a series of values returned after a price calculation. You add a test step to test for these data values.
You need to add a parameter to the test case that represents the expected results.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

A. Enter the parameter name into the Parameter Values field and press Enter.

B. Click in the test step Expected Result column and type the parameter name.

C. Click in the test step Action column, then click Insert parameter and type the parameter name.

D. Click in the test step Expected Result column and type the parameter name preceded by the @ symbol.

E. Click in the test step Expected Result column, then click Insert parameter and type the parameter name.

Correct Answer: D,E

Question 9

Your network environment includes a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) server.
You are performing capacity planning for three teams of developers. Each team is developing a different software module. Developers belong to only one team.
You need to ensure that team members can edit only the work items of the module on which they are working.
What should you do?

A. Create three teams under the Team Project for team members of three modules.
For each area corresponding to the team, give Edit work items in this node permission to that team.
Deny that permission to other two teams.

B. Create three teams under the Team Project for team members of three modules.
On the Security tab of the team give Edit work items in this node permission to that team for the corresponding area.
Deny that permission to other two teams.

C. Create three TFS groups at the Team Project level for team members of three modules.
Create three areas for the three modules.
For each area, on the Permissions tab of the groups, give Edit work items in this node permission to the group corresponding to that area.
Deny that permission to other two groups.

D. Create one TFS group at the Team Project level for the team members of the three modules.
Create three areas for the three modules. For each area, give Edit work items in this node permission to the group.

Correct Answer: A

Question 10

Your network environment includes a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 server. You create a new build definition and select the Continuous Integration trigger. The build definition runs a build verification test.
You discover that the build fails because the build verification test has not passed, even though compilation of the source code succeeds.
You need to prevent further check-ins until the code passes the build verification test and the build succeeds.
What should you do?

A. Enable the Builds check-in policy.

B. Configure the server-side check-in event handler to roll back if the earlier build has failed.

C. Configure the build definition's source control folders to be read-only for the other developers.

D. Enable the Testing check-in policy. Select the same test that is used as the build verification test to be run and passed for the check-in to succeed.

Correct Answer: A

Question 11

Your company has a deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS), as well as a proxy server at a development site in a different country.
You need to ensure that the proxy server can communicate with the TFS at headquarters via your company WAN.
Which network port should you use?

A. 8080

B. 80

C. 443

D. 8081

Correct Answer: A

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Question 12

Your network environment includes a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 server.
You lead a team of testers that is testing a specific module of an application. You want to list only the test cases that are assigned to you testers.
You need to create a query on work items of the type Test Case.
What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)

A. Create a team for testers of your module.
Create a work item query that uses the = operator on the Assigned To field and the team of testers.

B. Create a team project level group for testers of your module.
Create a work item query that uses the = operator on the Assigned To field and the group of testers.

C. Create a team project level group for testers of your module.
Create a work item query that uses the IN GROUP operator on the Assigned To field and the group of testers.

D. Create a team for testers of your module.
Create a work item query that uses the IN GROUP operator on the Assigned To field and the team of testers.

Correct Answer: C,D

Question 13

HOTSPOT
Your Scrum team is planning a release and wants to prioritize user stories based on value and risk.
The stories are grouped according to the ratio of value to risk, as shown in the following image. Effort is the same for all user stories.

The product owner on your team wants to ensure a higher return on investment based on
today's prioritization activity.
You need to prioritize these user stories into four sprints for this release.
Use the drop-down menus to select the answer choice that answers each question.

Correct Answer:

Question 14

Your team uses Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to manage test cases. Your team organizes test cases so that the same test case can be associated with multiple test suites.
You plan to create a test case and associate it to two different static test suites named Test Suite 1 and Test Suite 2.
You need to ensure that the test suites reference the same version of the new test case.
Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

A. Drag the test case from Test Suite 1 into Test Suite 2.

B. Right-click on the test case, and select Create a copy and add to test suite.

C. Copy the test case from Test Suite 1, and paste it onto Test Suite 2.

D. Create the test case inside Test Suite 1.

Correct Answer: C,D

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