🃏 Security & Testing Flashcards

Practice DevSecOps and testing strategy concepts for AZ-400.

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What is shift-left testing?

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Moving testing earlier in the development lifecycle (closer to the developer). Catches defects when they are cheaper to fix.

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Q: What is shift-left testing?

A: Moving testing earlier in the development lifecycle (closer to the developer). Catches defects when they are cheaper to fix.

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Q: What is the difference between SAST and DAST?

A: SAST analyzes source code without executing it (white-box). DAST tests a running application from the outside (black-box).

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Q: What is an SBOM?

A: Software Bill of Materials: a comprehensive inventory of all components, libraries, and dependencies in a software artifact. Required for supply chain security.

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Q: What are quality gates in a pipeline?

A: Automated checkpoints that block promotion if criteria are not met: code coverage thresholds, zero critical vulnerabilities, passing tests.

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Q: How does Key Vault integrate with pipelines?

A: Variable groups link to Key Vault secrets. At pipeline runtime, secrets are fetched and injected as pipeline variables without exposing values in logs.

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