Practice Test 1 | Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions | AZ-400 | Dumps | Mock Test

Answer – B

PMD is a source code analyzer. It finds common programming flaws like unused variables, empty catch blocks, unnecessary object creation, and so forth.

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard.

Below is a snippet contains a short introduction to PMD tool:

In Azure DevOps, you can enable this as shown in the Microsoft documentation below.

Option A  is incorrect as this tool is only used for style checks.

Option B is CORRECT as both tools in combination (PMD and CheckStyle) help to improve the code quality.

Option C is incorrect as this tool is only used for style checks.

Option D is incorrect as you need to use either a Maven or Gradle build task.

For more information on PMD and enabling it for a Java project, please visit the below URL-

• https://pmd.github.io/
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/the-maven-build-task-now-supports-pmd-analysis-out-of-the-box/
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/gradle-build-task-supports-checkstyle-analysis/