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 Azure DevOps Engineer Expert course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms during this 4-days Azure DevOps training.
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Skills Covered
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
- Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
- Create a team and agile organizational structure
- Design a tool integration strategy
- Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
- Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
- Design an authentication and access strategy
- Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
- Describe the benefits of using Source Control
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
- Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
- Build organizational knowledge on code quality
- Explain how to structure Git repos
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Leverage Git hooks for automation
- Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
- Define Site Reliability Engineering
- Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
- Design processes to automate application analytics
- Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
- Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
- Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
- Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
- Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
- Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
- Manage organizational security and compliance policies
- Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
- Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings
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
This module explores the key areas that organizations must apply to start their DevOps transformation Journey, change the team’s mindset, and define timelines and goals.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
- Identify teams to implement the process
- Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
- Plan and define timelines for goals
Prerequisites
None
This module helps organizations decide the projects to start applying the DevOps process and tools to minimize initial resistance.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
- Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
- Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
- Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Prerequisites
None
This module explores agile development practices and helps to define and to configure teams and tools for collaboration.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
- Create a team and agile organizational structure
- Identify ideal DevOps team members
- Select and configure tools for collaboration
Prerequisites
None
This module explores Azure DevOps and GitHub tools and helps organizations define their work management tool and licensing strategy.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Design a tool integration strategy
- Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
- Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
- Design an authentication and access strategy
- Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces you to GitHub Projects, GitHub Project Boards and Azure Boards. It explores ways to link Azure Boards and GitHub, configure GitHub Projects and Project views, and manage work with GitHub Projects.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Link Azure Boards and GitHub
- Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards
- Customize Project views
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces you to the basics of source control, exploring benefits and best practices.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand source control
- Apply best practices for source control
- Describe the benefits of using source control
Prerequisites
None
This module describes different source control systems such Git and TFVC and helps with the initial steps for Git utilization.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Apply source control practices in your development process
- Explain differences between centralized and distributed version control
- Understand Git and TFVC
- Develop using Git
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces you to Azure Repos and GitHub and explores ways to migrate from TFVC to Git, and work with GitHub Codespaces for development.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
- Work with GitHub Codespaces
Prerequisites
None
This module examines Git repositories structure, explains the differences between mono versus multiple repos, and helps you create a changelog.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand Git repositories
- Implement mono repo or multiple repos
- Explain how to structure Git Repos
- Implement a change log
This module explores Git branching types, concepts, and models for the continuous delivery process. It helps companies defining their branching strategy and organization.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Implement feature branches
- Implement GitHub Flow
- Fork a repo
This module presents pull requests for collaboration and code reviews using Azure DevOps and GitHub mobile for pull request approvals. It helps understanding how pull requests works and how to configure them.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Give feedback using pull requests
- Configure branch policies
- Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals
Prerequisites
None
This module examines technical debt, complexity, quality metrics, and plans for effective code reviews and code quality validation.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Identify and manage technical debt
- Integrate code quality tools
- Plan code reviews
- Describe complexity and quality metrics
Prerequisites
None
This module describes Git hooks and their usage during the development process, implementation, and behavior.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand Git hooks
- Identify when used Git hooks
- Implement Git hooks for automation
- Explain Git hooks’ behavior
This module explains how to use Git to foster inner sources across the organization, implement Fork and its workflows.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
- Implement fork workflow
- Choose between branches and forks
- Share code between forks
This module explores how to work with large repositories, purge repository data and manage and automate release notes using GitHub.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand large Git repositories
- Explain VFS for Git
- Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)
- Purge repository data
- Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces Azure Pipelines concepts and explains key terms and components of the tool, helping you decide your pipeline strategy and responsibilities.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe Azure Pipelines
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
- Understand Azure Pipeline key terms
This module explores differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, detail job types, and introduces agent pools configuration. You will understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage its security. Also, it explores communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines to target servers.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
- Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents
- Configure agent pools
- Make the agents and pools secure
- Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines
This module describes parallel jobs and how to estimate their usage. Also, it presents Azure Pipelines for open-source projects, explores Visual Designer and YAML pipelines.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Use and estimate parallel jobs
- Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects
- Use Visual Designer
- Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML
Prerequisites
None
This module details continuous integration practice and the pillars for implementing it in the development lifecycle, its benefits, and properties.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
- Explain benefits of continuous integration
- Describe build properties
This module describes pipeline strategies, configuring them, implementing multi-agent builds, and what source controls Azure Pipelines supports.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Define a build strategy
- Explain and configure demands
- Implement multi-agent builds
- Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines
This module details Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure, templates, YAML resources, and how to use multiple repositories in your pipeline.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure
- Detail templates and YAML resources
- Implement and use multiple repositories
In this module, you will learn what GitHub Actions, action flow, and its elements are. Understand what events are, explore jobs and runners, and how to read console output from actions.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain GitHub Actions and workflows
- Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
- Describe Events, Jobs and Runners
- Examine output and release management for actions
This module details continuous integration using GitHub Actions and describes environment variables, artifacts, best practices, and how to secure your pipeline using encrypted variables and secrets.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
- Use environment variables
- Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags
- Create and manage secrets
This module helps you plan a container build strategy, explains containers and their structure, introduces Docker, microservices, Azure Container Registry, and related services.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Design a container strategy
- Work with Docker Containers
- Create an Azure Container Registry
- Explain Docker microservices and containers
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces continuous delivery concepts and their implementation in a traditional IT development cycle.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain continuous delivery (CD)
- Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
- Understand releases and deployment
- Identify project opportunities to apply CD
Prerequisites
None
This module describes Azure Pipelines capabilities, build and release tasks.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
- Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
- Implement release jobs
This module explores the critical release strategy recommendations that organizations must consider when designing automated deployments and explains how to define components of a release pipeline and artifact sources, create approves, and configure release gates.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
- Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
- Create a release approval plan
- Implement release gates
This module details target environment provisioning, service connections creation process, and test infrastructure setup. You will learn how to configure functional test automation and run availability tests.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Provision and configure target environment
- Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
- Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
- Setup test infrastructure
This module describes the creation of task and variable groups and using release variables and stage variables in your pipeline.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Use and manage task and variable groups
- Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
- Use variables in release pipelines
Prerequisites
None
This module describes how to automate the inspection of health events, configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub, set up service hooks to monitor pipelines, measure the quality of your release process, and detail release gates for quality purposes. You will examine release management tools and details about them.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement automated inspection of health
- Create and configure events
- Configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Create service hooks to monitor pipeline
- Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
- Choose a release management tool
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces deployment patterns and explains microservices architecture to help improve the deployment cycle and examine classical and modern deployment patterns.
Learning objectives
- Describe deployment patterns
- Explain microservices architecture
- Understand classical and modern deployment patterns
- Plan and design your architectur
This module describes the blue-green deployment process and introduces feature toggle techniques to implement in the development process.
Learning objectives
“By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain deployment strategies
- Implement blue green deployment
- Understand deployment slots
- Implement and manage feature toggles”
This module describes deployment strategies around canary releases and dark launching and examines traffic managers.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe deployment strategies
- Implement canary release
- Explain traffic manager
- Understand dark launching
Prerequisites
None
This module introduces A/B test and progressive exposure deployment concepts and explores CI/CD with deployment rings — ring-based deployment.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement progressive exposure deployment
- Implement A/B testing
- Implement CI/CD with deployment rings
- Identify the best deployment strategy
Prerequisites
None
This module describes the integration with GitHub and single sign-on (SSO) for authentication, service principals, and managed service identities.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems
- Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
- Understand and create a service principal
- Create managed service identities
Prerequisites
None
This module explores ways to rethink application configuration data and the separation of concerns method. It helps you understand configuration patterns and how to integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines. Also, describes Azure App Configuration and details Key-value pairs and App Configuration feature management.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Rethink application configuration data
- Understand separation of concerns
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
- Describe Azure App Configuration
- Understand Key-value pairs
- Understand app configuration feature management
- Implement application configuration
Prerequisites
None
This module describes key concepts of infrastructure as code and environment deployment creation and configuration. Also, understand the imperative, declarative, and idempotent configuration and how it applies to your company.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand how to deploy your environment
- Plan your environment configuration
- Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
- Explain idempotent configuration
Prerequisites
None
This module explores Azure Resource Manager templates and their components and details dependencies and modularized templates with secrets.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Understand Azure Resource Manager templates and template components
- Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
- Organize and modularize templates
Prerequisites
None
This module explains Azure CLI to create Azure resources, run templates, and detail Azure CLI commands.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
- Understand and work with Azure CLI
- Run templates using Azure CLI
- Explains Azure CLI commands
Prerequisites
None
This module describes Azure Automation with Azure DevOps, using runbooks, webhooks, and PowerShell workflows. You’ll learn how to create and manage automation for your environment.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement automation with Azure DevOps
- Create and manage runbooks
- Create webhooks
- Create and run a workflow runbook and PowerShell workflows
Prerequisites
None
This module describes Desired State Configuration (DSC) and its components for implementation. You can exercise how to import, compile and automate your environment creation, and use DSC for Linux automation on Azure.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Describe Azure Automation State Configuration
- Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
- Plan for hybrid management
Prerequisites
None
This module explains Bicep and how it integrates with different tools such as Azure CLI and Visual Studio Code for environment deployment configuration.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Learn what Bicep is
- Learn how to install it and create a smooth authoring experience
- Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure
- Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code
This module introduces DevSecOps concepts, SQL injection attacks, threat modeling, and security for continuous integration.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Identify SQL injection attack
- Understand DevSecOps
- Implement pipeline security
- Understand threat modeling
This module explores open-source software and corporate concerns with software components. Also, it explains common open-source licenses, license implications, and ratings.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement open-source software
- Explain corporate concerns for open-source components
- Describe open-source licenses
- Understand the license implications and ratings
This module explains Composition Analysis, how to inspect and validate code bases for compliance, integration with security tools, and integration with Azure Pipelines.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
- Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps
- Implement pipeline security validation
- Interpret alerts from scanning tools
- Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts and security
This module introduces the static analyzers SonarCloud and CodeQL in GitHub.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand Static Analyzers
- Work with SonarCloud
- Work with CodeQL in GitHub
- Interpret alerts from scanning tools
This module explores OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers for penetration testing, results, and bugs.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
- Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices
- Understand compliance for code bases
This module describes security monitoring and governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its usage scenarios, Azure Policies, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and security practices related to the tools.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Understand Azure policies
- Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints
- Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity
This module explores dependency management concepts and helps to identify project dependencies. You will learn how to decompose your system, identify dependencies, and package componentization.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Define dependency management strategy
- Identify dependencies
- Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
- Scan your codebase for dependencies
This module describes package feeds, common public package sources, and how to create and publish packages.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement package management
- Manage package feed
- Consume and create packages
- Publish packages
This module details package migration, consolidation, and configuration to secure access to package feeds and artifact repositories.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Identify artifact repositories
- Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
- Secure package feeds
- Understand roles, permissions and authentication
This module explains versioning strategies for packaging, best practices for versioning, and package promotion.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement a versioning strategy
- Promote packages
- Push packages from pipeline
- Describe semantic and explore best practices for versioning
This module introduces you to GitHub Packages. It explores ways to control permissions and visibility, publish, install, delete and restore packages using GitHub.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Publish packages
- Install packages
- Delete and restore packages
- Configure access control and visibility
This module introduces you to continuous feedback practices and tools to track usage and flow, such as Azure Logs Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Application Insights.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement tools to track feedback
- Plan for continuous monitoring
- Implement Application Insights
- Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)
This module explains steps to develop monitoring with Azure Dashboards, work with View Designer and Azure Monitor, and create Azure Monitor Workbooks. Also, explore tools to supports monitoring with Power BI.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Configure Azure Dashboards
- Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
- Create Azure Monitor Workbooks
- Monitor with Power BI
Prerequisites
None
This module describes how to share knowledge within teams, Azure DevOps Wikis, and integration with Azure Boards.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Share knowledge with development teams
- Work with Azure DevOps Wikis
- Integrate with Azure Boards
Prerequisites
None
This module helps designing process to Application Insights, explores telemetry and monitoring tools and technologies.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Automate application analytics
- Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search
- Integrate telemetry
- Implement monitoring tools and technologies
This module examines alerts, blameless retrospectives and creates a just culture. It helps improving application performance, reducing meaningless and non-actionable alerts, and explains server response-time degradation.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
- Improve application performance
- Explain server response time degradation
- Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
Prerequisites
None
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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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Whether you’re an established professional or new to the field, Microsoft in-person and online IT training and certification will give you the expertise you need in a specific product or technology. When you learn from our expert Microsoft Certified Trainers, be assured that what you’ll learn will be accurate, complete, and up to date. Choose training that aligns with your budget, from instructor-led classroom or live virtual training, self-paced on-demand, blended learning or on-site private classes.
In this blog post we reveal the 5 reasons why role-based tech training & certification is the secret to business success.
Microsoft Certifications 2022: 10 Things to Look for in an IT Program for Your Employees
We live in a rapidly changing world of technology, where every day brings innovation. How can you keep pace in this era of digital transformation? Microsoft technologies, offers a comprehensive collection of training options and a wide array of role-based certifications to help you pick up new skills or brush up on old ones.
Microsoft Certification 2022: 10 Reasons to Earn a MSFT Certification
Why get certified?
There’s a high demand today for IT professionals with skills in security, networking, and the cloud—and, according to the 2018 Pearson VUE report on the value of IT certification, those are the top three fields people sought certification in last year. There’s also a rapidly growing demand for people with AI skills—in every field, including business apps.
But it’s not only developers, cloud solution architects, and cybersecurity experts, however, who need to demonstrate their skills. More and more industry roles require proficiency in specialized skills. As the business world continues its digital transformation, the need for people with skills using the latest technologies increases, which means that sales managers, marketers, brand developers, data analysts, and business apps solution developers and architects can also benefit from certification.
From Beginner to Expert: Your Guide to Microsoft Power Platform Certifications
Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a beginner, the Power Platform’s low-code and no-code tools make it easy to build custom apps, automate tasks, analyze data, and create chatbots with ease and efficiency.
Ready to take your business to the next level? Learn how Power Platform can help solve your most pressing business problems.
Top 7 IT Skills to Survive in 2023: Master One Today
In today’s digital age, IT skills have become the backbone of nearly every industry. From cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, staying ahead of the curve is no longer an option — it’s a necessity.
Whether you’re a fresh graduate exploring the tech landscape or a seasoned professional looking to upskill, this guide is your roadmap to success. In this blog, we will unveil the top 7 IT skills that are set to dominate in 2023. These skills have been carefully curated based on industry trends, market demands, and the potential they hold for shaping the future.
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.
Learn how Azure DevOps unifies people, process, and technology to bring better products to customers faster with our AZ-400T00: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions course.
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
Microsoft Certifications have long been recognized as a valuable and reliable way for professionals to break into the tech industry. As the global demand for skilled IT professionals continues to grow, holding a Microsoft Certification not only confers a level of authority and expertise but also offers a competitive edge in an increasingly crowded job market.
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.
To stay up to date, IT pros are constantly learning and adding skills. The IDC study concluded that Microsoft Learning Partners are well positioned to help organizations achieve their business and learning goals. The IT leaders who were surveyed found the most value from a Learning Partner that provides:
- An end-to-end solution which starts with identifying skill gaps, simplifies the learning experience, and finishes by evaluating how well the Learning Partner met the organization goals.
- Scale, flexibility, and speed to train teams of any size, in any location, amid changing circumstances.
- Value-added services, such as hands-on labs, classroom training, and custom content that help the skills development program succeed.
- High-quality content and delivery, meaning accurate, relevant courseware, top-notch instructors, and a path to certification, if needed.
We’d recommend the following courses to compliment skills acquired from AZ-400T00:
AZ-140T00: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
This course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. Students will learn through a mix of demonstrations and hands-on lab experiences deploying virtual desktop experiences and apps on Windows Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments.
AZ-400-AO: Azure Boards-GitHub Integration
This session will guide you how to connect Azure Boards with one or more GitHub repositories. And By connecting Azure Boards with GitHub repositories, you enable linking between GitHub commits, pull requests, and issues to work items.
AZ-500T00: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities on Microsoft Azure. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations.
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.
