Exam AZ-400 topic 5 question 5 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's AZ-400

Question #: 5
Topic #: 5

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Your company uses GitHub for source control. GitHub repositories store source code and store process documentation. The process documentation is saved as
Microsoft Word documents that contain simple flow charts stored as .bmp files.
You need to optimize the integration and versioning of the process documentation and the flow charts. The solution must meet the following requirements:
✑ Store documents as plain text.
✑ Minimize the number of files that must be maintained.
✑ Simplify the modification, merging, and reuse of flow charts.
Simplify the modification, merging, and reuse of documents.

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Box 1: Markdown (.md)
Github understands several text formats, including .txt and .md. .md stands for a file written in Markdown.

Box 2: Mermaid diagrams -
Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.
It is a Javascript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.
Reference:
https://ourcodingclub.github.io/tutorials/git/
https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/

by alexax578 at Sept. 5, 2022, 8:36 p.m.

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zellck

Highly Voted 11 months ago

1. Markdown (.md) 2. Mermaid diagrams https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/getting-started-with-writing-and-formatting-on-github/quickstart-for-writing-on-github Markdown is an easy-to-read, easy-to-write language for formatting plain text. You can use Markdown syntax, along with some additional HTML tags, to format your writing on GitHub, in places like repository READMEs and comments on pull requests and issues. https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/writing-on-github/working-with-advanced-formatting/creating-diagrams You can create diagrams in Markdown using three different syntaxes: mermaid, geoJSON and topoJSON, and ASCII STL. Mermaid is a Markdown-inspired tool that renders text into diagrams.

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markp

Highly Voted 1 year, 7 months ago

Correct

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yana_b

Most Recent 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Correct

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alexax578

1 year, 7 months ago

Markdown and Mermaid makes sense to me, correct answer.