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You have a free tier of an Azure DevOps organization named Contoso. Contoso contains 10 private projects. Each project has multiple jobs with no dependencies. You frequently run the jobs on five self-

The correct answer is C. Purchase self-hosted parallel jobs.. As the number of queued builds and releases exceeds the number of parallel jobs you have, your build and release queues will grow longer. When you find the queue delays are too long, you can purchase additional parallel jobs as needed. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devop

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Question

You have a free tier of an Azure DevOps organization named Contoso. Contoso contains 10 private projects. Each project has multiple jobs with no dependencies. You frequently run the jobs on five self-hosted agents but experience long build times and frequently queued builds. You need to minimize the number of queued builds and the time it takes to run the builds. What should you do?

Options

  • AConfigure the pipelines to use the Microsoft-hosted agents.
  • BRegister additional self-hosted agents.
  • CPurchase self-hosted parallel jobs.
  • DPurchase Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs.

How the community answered

(51 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    8% (4)
  • C
    76% (39)
  • D
    12% (6)

Explanation

As the number of queued builds and releases exceeds the number of parallel jobs you have, your build and release queues will grow longer. When you find the queue delays are too long, you can purchase additional parallel jobs as needed. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/licensing/concurrent-jobs?view=azure- devops&tabs=self-hosted#how-much-do-parallel-jobs-cost

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