DRAG DROP Your company plans to deploy an application to the following endpoints: • Ten virtual machines hosted in Azure. • Ten virtual machines hosted in an on-premises data center environment All the virtual machines have the- Azure Pipelines agent. You need to implement a release strategy for deploying the application to the endpoints. What should you recommend using to deploy the application to the endpoints? To answer, drag the appropriate components to the correct endpoint. Each component may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or soon to view content NOTE: Each correct selection n worth one point.

Deployment groups are the correct recommendation for both scenarios because the question specifies that all virtual machines have the Azure Pipelines agent installed. A deployment group is a logical set of deployment target machines (both cloud and on-premises) with agents installed on each one. It allows you to organize servers into environments (e.g., "Production") and execute deployment tasks on all grouped machines in parallel.

While Resource groups are used to manage Azure resources, they do not apply to on-premises environments and are not the primary mechanism for coordinating agent-based application deployments within Azure Pipelines. Management groups are for governance scope, and Application roles relate to security/access control, not deployment orchestration.

Microsoft Learn. (2022). Provision deployment groups. Azure DevOps. Retrieved from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/deployment-groups/

Quote: "A deployment group is a logical set of deployment target machines that have agents installed on each one. Deployment groups represent the physical environments; for example, 'Dev', 'Test', 'UAT', and 'Production'."

Relevance: Confirms that deployment groups are the organizational unit for machines with agents.

Microsoft Learn. (2023). Deployment group jobs. Azure DevOps. Retrieved from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/process/deployment-group-phases

Quote: "A deployment group job runs on the machines in a deployment group... You can specify the deployment group and the tags to filter the machines."

Relevance: Validates the use of deployment groups for executing deployment strategies across multiple endpoints.