Overview
Gain subject matter expertise to work with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value as an Azure DevOps Engineer.
Validate mastery of skills required to design and implement strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback with the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
This expert-level Azure DevOps course is a good fit for you if your responsibilities include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, and source control, along with security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback. You should have experience working with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value.
Skills Covered
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Introduction to DevOps
- Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Design and Implement Branch Strategies and Workflows
- Collaborate with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
- Explore Git Hooks
- Plan and Foster Inner Source
- Manage and Configure Repositories
- Identify Technical Debt
- Explore Azure Pipelines
- Manage Azure Pipeline Agents and Pools
- Describe Pipelines and Concurrency
- Design and Implement a Pipeline Strategy
- Integrate with Azure Pipelines
- Introduction to GitHub Actions
- Learn Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
- Design a Container Build Strategy
- Create a Release Pipeline
- Explore Release Recommendations
- Provision and Test Environments
- Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
- Automate Inspection of Health
- Introduction to Deployment Patterns
- Implement Blue-Green Deployment and Feature Toggles
- Implement Canary Releases and Dark Launching
- Implement A/B Testing and Progressive Exposure Deployment
- Integrate with Identity Management Systems
- Manage Application Configuration Data
- Explore Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
- Create Azure Resources Using Azure Resource Manager Templates
- Create Azure Resources Using Azure CLI
- Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
- Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Implement Bicep
- Introduction to Secure DevOps
- Implement Open-Source Software
- Software Composition Analysis
- Security Monitoring and Governance
- Explore Package Dependencies
- Understand Package Management
- Migrate, Consolidate, and Secure Artifacts
- Implement a Versioning Strategy
- Introduction to GitHub Packages
- Implement Tools to Track Usage and Flow
- Develop Monitor and Status Dashboards
- Share Knowledge Within Teams
- Design Processes to Automate Application Analytics
- Manage Alerts, Blameless Retrospectives, and a Just Culture
Who Should Attend
Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
This AZ-400T00 Microsoft Official Course prepares students for the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification exam.
The AZ-400 exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: develop an instrumentation strategy; develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy; develop a security and compliance plan; manage source control; facilitate communication and collaboration; define and implement continuous integration; and define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy.
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:
- Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
- Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.
- Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following resources:
- Instructor-led course: AZ-900T00: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking:
- Instructor-led courses: AZ-104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator
If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking:
- Free online: Create Serverless applications
- Instructor-led course: AZ-204T00: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
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Course Modules
- Introduction
- What Is DevOps?
- Explore the DevOps Journey
- Identify Transformation Teams
- Define Organization Structure for Agile Practices
- Explore Shared Goals and Define Timelines
- What Is Azure DevOps?
- What Is GitHub?
- Design a License Management Strategy
- What Is Source Control?
- Describe Working with Git Locally
- Introduction to Azure Repos
- Introduction to GitHub
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Introduction to GitHub Projects and Project Boards
- Introduction to Azure Boards
- Configure Projects and Teams in Azure DevOps
- Link GitHub to Azure Boards
- Configure GitHub Projects
- Manage Work with GitHub Project Boards
- Customize Project Views
- Collaborate Using Team Discussions
- Design and Implement a Strategy for Feedback Cycles
- Design and Implement Source, Bug, and Quality Traceability
- Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Explore Branch Workflow Types
- Explore Feature Branch Workflow
- Explore Git Branch Model for Continuous Delivery
- Explore GitHub Flow
- Explore Fork Workflow
- Implement Branch Merging Restrictions
- Version Control with Git in Azure Repos
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Introduction
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Collaborate with pull requests
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Exercise Azure Repos collaborating with pull requests
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Introduction to Git hooks
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Implement Git hooks
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Explore foster inner source
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Implement the fork workflow
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Describe inner source with forks
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Work with large repositories
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Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
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Implement a change log
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Implement Scalar and cross repo when cross repo sharing
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Recover specific data by using Git commands
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Purge repository data
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Manage releases with GitHub Repos
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Automate release notes with GitHub
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Create API documentation
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Implement automation of Git history documentation
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Configure source control repository permissions using GitHub
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Configure GitHub tags to organize repositories
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Examine code quality
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Examine complexity and quality metrics
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Introduction to technical debt
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Measure and manage technical debt
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Introduction to GitHub Advanced Security
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Integrate other code quality tools
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Plan effective code reviews
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
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Describe Azure Pipelines
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Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
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Explore job types
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Introduction to agent pools
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Explore predefined agent pool
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Understand typical situations for agent pools
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Communicate with Azure Pipelines
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Communicate to deploy to target servers
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Examine other considerations
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Describe security of agent pools
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Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Understand Parallel Jobs
- Estimate Parallel Jobs
- Describe Azure Pipelines and Open‑Source Projects
- Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
- Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
- Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Configure Agent Demands
- Explore Multi‑Configuration and Multi‑Agent
- Integrate GitHub Repos and Azure Pipelines
- Design and Implement a Comprehensive Testing Strategy
- Implement Code Coverage and Display It in the Pipeline
- Implement Multi‑Job Builds
- Explore Source Control Types Supported by Azure Pipelines
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Describe the Anatomy of a Pipeline
- Understand the Pipeline Structure
- Detail Templates
- Explore YAML Resources
- Use Multiple Repositories in Your Pipeline
- Migrate a Pipeline from Classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Introduction
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What are actions?
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Explore Actions flow
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Understand Workflows
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Describe standard workflow syntax elements
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Explore Events
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Explore Jobs
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Explore Runners
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Examine release and test an action
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Describe Continuous Integration with Actions
- Examine Environment Variables
- Share Artifacts Between Jobs
- Examine Workflow Badges
- Describe Best Practices for Creating Actions
- Mark Releases with Git Tags
- Create Encrypted Secrets
- Use Secrets in a Workflow
- Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Examine Structure of Containers
- Work with Docker Containers
- Understand Dockerfile Core Concepts
- Examine Multi-Stage Dockerfiles
- Examine Considerations for Multi-Stage Builds
- Explore Azure Container-Related Services
- Deploy Docker Containers to Azure App Service Web Apps
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Describe Azure DevOps Release Pipeline Capabilities
- Explore Release Pipelines
- Explore Artifact Sources
- Choose the Appropriate Artifact Source
- Examine Considerations for Deployment to Stages
- Explore Build and Release Tasks
- Explore Custom Build and Release Tasks
- Explore Release Jobs
- Understand Database Deployment Task
- Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Understand the Delivery Cadence and Types of Triggers
- Explore Release Approvals
- Explore Release Gates
- Use Release Gates to Protect Quality
- Explore GitOps Release Strategy and Recommendations
- Control Deployments Using Release Gates
- Module Assessment
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Introduction
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Provision and configure target environments
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Exercise – set up service connections
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Configure automated integration and functional test automation
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Understand Shift-left
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Set up and run availability tests
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Explore Azure Load Testing
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Set up and run functional tests
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Examine task groups
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Explore variables in release pipelines
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Exercise – create and manage variable groups
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Automate Inspection of Health
- Explore Events and Notifications
- Explore Service Hooks
- Configure Azure DevOps Notifications
- Configure GitHub Notifications
- Explore How to Measure Quality of Your Release Process
- Examine Release Notes and Documentation
- Examine Considerations for Choosing Release Management Tools
- Explore Common Release Management Tools
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Introduction
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Explore microservices architecture
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Examine classical deployment patterns
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Understand modern deployment patterns
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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What is blue-green deployment?
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Explore deployment slots
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Introduction to feature toggles
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Describe feature toggle maintenance
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Explore canary releases
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Examine traffic manager
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Understand dark launching
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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What is A/B testing?
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Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Integrate GitHub with Single Sign‑On (SSO)
- Design and Implement Permissions and Roles in GitHub
- Design and Implement Permissions and Security Groups in Azure DevOps
- Explore Workload Identities
- Implement Managed Identities
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Rethink Application Configuration Data
- Explore Separation of Concerns
- Understand External Configuration Store Patterns
- Implement Azure DevOps Secure Files
- Introduction to Azure App Configuration
- Examine Key‑Value Pairs
- Examine App Configuration Feature Management
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates
- Examine DevOps Inner and Outer Loop
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Introduction
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Explore environment deployment
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Examine environment configuration
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Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
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Understand idempotent configuration
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
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Explore template components
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Manage dependencies
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Modularize templates
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Manage secrets in templates
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Module assessment
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Summary
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Introduction
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What is Azure CLI?
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Install Azure CLI
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Execute Azure CLI commands interactively
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Create an Azure CLI script for Bash
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Tips to use the Azure CLI successfully
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Create Automation Accounts
- What Is a Runbook?
- Understand Automation Shared Resources
- Explore Runbook Gallery
- Examine Webhooks
- Explore Source Control Integration
- Explore PowerShell Workflows
- Create a Workflow
- Explore Hybrid Management
- Examine Checkpoint and Parallel Processing
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Understand Configuration Drift
- Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Explore Azure Automation State Configuration (DSC)
- Examine DSC Configuration File
- Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- What Is Bicep?
- Install Bicep
- Exercise – Create Bicep Templates
- Understand Bicep File Structure and Syntax
- Exercise – Deploy a Bicep File from Azure Pipelines
- Exercise – Deploy a Bicep File from GitHub Workflows
- Deployments Using Azure Bicep Templates
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Introduction
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Describe SQL injection attack
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Understand DevSecOps
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Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
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Explore key validation points
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Explore continuous security validation
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Understand threat modeling
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Explore CodeQL in GitHub
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Explore How Software is Built
- What is Open-Source Software?
- Explore Corporate Concerns with Open-Source Software Components
- Introduction to Open-Source Licenses
- Explore Common Open-Source Licenses
- Examine License Implications and Ratings
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Inspect and Validate Code Bases for Compliance
- Explore Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
- Implement GitHub Dependabot Alerts and Security Updates
- Integrate SCA Checks into Pipelines
- Examine Tools for Assessing Package Security and License Compliance
- Automate Container Scanning, Including Container Images
- Interpret Alerts from Scanner Tools
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Implement Pipeline Security
- Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud Usage Scenarios
- Explore Azure Policy
- Understand Policies
- Explore Initiatives
- Explore Resource Locks
- Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
- Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- What Is Dependency Management?
- Describe Elements of a Dependency Management Strategy
- Identify Dependencies
- Understand Source and Package Componentization
- Decompose Your System
- Scan Your Codebase for Dependencies
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Explore Packages
- Understand Package Feeds
- Explore Package Feed Managers
- Explore Common Public Package Sources
- Explore Self-Hosted and SaaS-Based Package Sources
- Consume Packages
- Introduction to Azure Artifacts
- Publish Packages
- Package Management with Azure Artifacts
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Identify Existing Artifact Repositories
- Migrate and Integrate Artifact Repositories
- Secure Access to Package Feeds
- Examine Roles
- Examine Permissions
- Examine Authentication
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Understand Versioning of Artifacts
- Explore Semantic Versioning
- Examine Release Views
- Promote Packages
- Explore Best Practices for Versioning
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Publish Packages
- Install a Package
- Delete and Restore a Package
- Explore Package Access Control and Visibility
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Understand the Inner Loop
- Introduction to Continuous Monitoring
- Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
- Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Explore Application Insights
- Implement Application Insights
- Design and Implement Metrics and Queries
- Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Configure Monitoring in GitHub
- Explore Azure Dashboards
- Explore Azure Monitor Workbooks
- Explore Power BI
- Build Your Own Custom Application
- Monitor Pipeline Health (Failure Rate, Duration, Flaky Tests)
- Optimize a Pipeline for Cost, Time, Performance, and Reliability
- Optimize Pipeline Concurrency for Performance and Cost
- Module Assessment
- Summary
- Introduction
- Share Acquired Knowledge Within Development Teams
- Introduction to Azure DevOps Project Wikis
- Integrate GitHub and Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams
- Share Team Knowledge Using Azure Project Wiki
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Introduction
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Explore rapid responses and augmented search
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Integrate telemetry
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Examine monitoring tools and technologies
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Explore IT Service Management Connector
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Module assessment
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Summary
- Introduction
- Examine When to Get a Notification
- Explore How to Fix It
- Explore Smart Detection Notifications
- Improve Performance
- Understand Server Response Time Degradation
- Reduce Meaningless and Non-Actionable Alerts
- Examine Blameless Retrospective
- Develop a Just Culture
- Module Assessment
- Summary
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Exam & Certification
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
To earn the DevOps Engineer Expert certification, you must pass Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions and you must earn either the Azure Administrator Associate or the Azure Developer Associate certification. You can take care of these requirements in any order you’d like—as long as you have either the Azure Administrator or Developer certification and you’ve passed Exam AZ-400.
You’re a leader at making DevOps an effective practice for your organization. Earn your certification to help advance your career, gain recognition as an expert, and validate your technical knowledge and abilities as you drive your career into the future.
Training & Certification Guide
Candidates for the Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification should have subject matter expertise working with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value.
Responsibilities for this role include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.
A candidate for this certification must be familiar with both Azure administration and development and must be expert in at least one of these areas.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: develop an instrumentation strategy; develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy; develop a security and compliance plan; manage source control; facilitate communication and collaboration; define and implement continuous integration; and define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy.
Skills measured:
- Develop an instrumentation strategy
- Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy
- Develop a security and compliance plan
- Manage source control
- Facilitate communication and collaboration
- Define and implement continuous integration
- Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy
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Frequently Asked Questions
A compound of development (Dev) and operations (Ops), DevOps is the union of people, process, and technology to continually provide value to customers.
What does DevOps mean for teams? DevOps enables formerly siloed roles—development, IT operations, quality engineering, and security—to coordinate and collaborate to produce better, more reliable products. By adopting a DevOps culture along with DevOps practices and tools, teams gain the ability to better respond to customer needs, increase confidence in the applications they build, and achieve business goals faster.
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Teams that adopt DevOps culture, practices, and tools become high-performing, building better products faster for greater customer satisfaction. This improved collaboration and productivity is also integral to achieving business goals like these:
- Accelerating time to market
- Adapting to the market and competition
- Maintaining system stability and reliability
- Improving the mean time to recovery
Azure DevOps provides developer services for allowing teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications. Azure DevOps supports a collaborative culture and set of processes that bring together developers, project managers, and contributors to develop software. It allows organizations to create and improve products at a faster pace than they can with traditional software development approaches.
You can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services or on-premises using Azure DevOps Server. For information on the differences between the cloud versus on-premises platforms, see Azure DevOps Services and Azure DevOps Server.
You’re a leader at making DevOps an effective practice for your organization. Earn your certification to help advance your career, gain recognition as an expert, and validate your technical knowledge and abilities as you drive your career into the future
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The number of questions on a certification exam is subject to change as Microsoft make updates to ensure it aligns with current changes in the technology and job role. Most Microsoft Certification exams typically contain between 40-60 questions; and around 60-140 minutes.
Starting June 30 2021, all newly earned role-based and specialty certifications will be valid for one year from the date the certification was earned.
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AZ-600T00: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub
This AZ-600T00: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub course teaches Azure administrators and Azure Stack Hub operators how to plan, deploy, package, update, and maintain the Azure Stack Hub infrastructure. Lessons include deploying Azure Stack Hub, managing the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace, offering App Services and Event Hub resource providers, managing Azure Stack Hub registration, and maintaining system health.
AZ-700T00: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
This course teaches Network Engineers how to design, implement, and maintain Azure networking solutions. This course covers the process of designing, implementing, and managing core Azure networking infrastructure, Hybrid Networking connections, load balancing traffic, network routing, private access to Azure services, network security and monitoring. Learn how to design and implement a secure, reliable, network infrastructure in Azure and how to establish hybrid connectivity, routing, private access to Azure services, and monitoring in Azure.
AZ-800T00: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
This AZ-800T00: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure course teaches IT Professionals how to manage core Windows Server workloads and services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.
AZ-801T00: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services
This four-day instructor-led course is designed for IT professionals who configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. These professionals manage and support an infrastructure that includes on-premises and Azure IaaS-hosted Windows Server-based workloads.
Learn how Microsoft Azure certifications enables and empowers you and your organization to meet the challenges of today’s cloud-based digital world.
