Microsoft Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Dumps: Updated Questions & Answers (April 2026)

Scenario: Access to Azure DevOps must be restricted to specific IP addresses.

Azure DevOps is authenticated through Azure Active Directory. You can use Azure AD ' s conditional access to prevent logins from certain geographies and address ranges.

Step 1: Understand the Requirements

You want to ensure that audit events (such as user actions, project changes, security settings, etc.) from your Azure DevOps organization are logged and available in a Log Analytics workspace in Azure.

This enables centralized monitoring and security compliance.

Step 2: Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure:

You have an Azure subscription .

You have permission to create or use a Log Analytics workspace in the Azure portal.

You are a Project Collection Administrator or Organization Owner in Azure DevOps.

Step 3: Create or Identify a Log Analytics Workspace

Go to the Azure portal .

In the search bar, type Log Analytics workspaces and click the service.

Click + Create to create a new workspace (or select an existing workspace if you have one).

Provide the following:

Subscription: your Azure subscription.

Resource Group: create a new or use an existing one.

Name: a unique name for the workspace (like DevOpsAuditWorkspace).

Region: choose the same region as your Azure DevOps organization if possible.

Click Review + Create, then Create to deploy the workspace.

Step 4: Configure Azure DevOps to Stream Audit Logs

Azure DevOps can stream audit logs to your Log Analytics workspace using the Azure DevOps Audit Stream feature.

In your browser, go to your Azure DevOps organization : https://dev.azure.com/{YourOrganizationName}

In the bottom-left corner, click on the Organization Settings gear icon.

In the left menu, click on Audit logs .

In the top-right, click on Audit streams .

Click on + Add stream to create a new stream.

In the New audit stream pane, do the following:

Stream type: select Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) .

Azure subscription: select the subscription containing your Log Analytics workspace.

Resource group: select the resource group.

Log Analytics workspace: select the workspace created in Step 3.

Click Save .

Step 5: Validate the Audit Stream Connection

Go back to the Audit streams page in Azure DevOps to confirm the stream shows as Connected .

To validate logs:

In the Azure portal, go to your Log Analytics workspace .

In the left menu, click on Logs .

Use the query:

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AzureDevOpsAuditing

| sort by TimeGenerated desc

You should see audit events from your Azure DevOps organization appear in the results.

To enable streaming of diagnostic telemetry for asingle or a pooled database, follow these steps:

1. Go to Azure SQL database resource.

2. Select Diagnostics settings.

3. Select Turn on diagnostics if no previous settings exist, or select Edit setting to edit a previous setting. You can create up to three parallel connections to stream diagnostic telemetry.

4. Select Add diagnostic setting to configure parallel streaming of diagnostics data to multiple resources.

5. Enter a setting name for your own reference.

6. Select a destination resource for the streaming diagnostics data: Archive to storage account, Stream to an event hub, or Send to Log Analytics.

7. For the standard, event-based monitoring experience, select the following check boxes for database diagnostics log telemetry: Query Store Runtime Statistics

8. For an advanced, one-minute-based monitoring experience, select the check box for Basic metrics.

9. Select Save.

Step 1: Write the KQL Query

Open Azure Data Explorer:

Navigate to Azure Data Explorer and sign in with your credentials.

Access the Securitylogs Database:

Open the Securitylogs database.

Write the Query:

Use the following KQL query tocount the number of inbound requests for each source IP address:

InboundBrowsing

| where Timestamp between (datetime(2021-10-01) .. datetime(2021-12-31))

| summarize NumberOfRequests = count() by SourceIP

| project SourceIP, NumberOfRequests

Step 2: Export the Query Results

Run the Query:

Execute the query in Azure Data Explorer.

Export the Results:

Once the query results are displayed, click on the Export button.

Choose the export format (e.g., CSV) and specify the export path as C:\Samples.

By following these steps, you will have successfully written a KQL query to count the number of inbound requests for each source IP address during the last three months of 2021 and exported the results to C:\Samples

Step 1: Navigate to the Library

Navigate to Azure DevOps:

Go to Azure DevOps and sign in with your credentials.

Select Your Project:

Choose Project1 from your list of projects.

Access the Library:

In the left-hand menu, select Pipelines  >  Library.

Step 2: Create a Variable Group

Create a New Variable Group:

On the Library page, click on + Variable group.

Configure the Variable Group:

Name: Enter varGroup1.

Description: Optionally, add a description for thevariable group.

Add Variables:

Click on + Add to add a new variable.

Variable Name: Enter serverName.

Value: Enter server1.

Click OK.

Click on + Add again to add another variable.

Variable Name: Enter dbName.

Value: Enter db1.

Click OK.

Save the Variable Group:

Click on Save to save the variable group.

By following these steps, you will have successfully created a variable groupnamed varGroup1 containing the specified variables