AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training

Overview

One of the new Azure Certifications based on roles that certifies the abilities of Azure DevOps Professionals is Azure DevOps Solutions. You must pass the “AZ-400” exam to be certified by Microsoft to work as an Azure DevOps Engineer. You’ll have the knowledge of the AZ-400 that you need to prepare and succeed once you’ve finished this course.

Register for our Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions AZ-400 course right away to acquire the technical know-how and practical expertise necessary to successfully complete the certification test. Your ability to develop, implement, and manage source control for Azure DevOps apps will be enhanced by taking this course. The questions in these practice tests are comparable to those on the actual certification exams so you can have a full understanding of the exam. 

Prerequisites 

• General knowledge of DevOps concepts
• Javascript, Java, TypeScript, PHP, Python, C#, or Node.js programming knowledge is required of participants.
• Basic understanding of networking and cloud computing ideas.

Modules 

 Module 1: Get started on a DevOps transformation journey

• Introduction to DevOps
• Choose the right project
• Describe team structures
• Choose the DevOps tools
• Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
• Introduction to source control
• Describe types of source control systems
• Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
• Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
• Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos

 Module 2: Development for enterprise DevOps

• Structure your Git Repo
• Manage Git branches and workflows
• Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
• Explore Git hooks
• Plan foster inner source
• Manage Git repositories
• Identify technical debt
• Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos

 Module 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

• Explore Azure Pipelines
• Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
• Describe pipelines and concurrency
• Explore Continuous integration
• Implement a pipeline strategy
• Integrate with Azure Pipelines
• Introduction to GitHub Actions
• Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
• Design a container build strategy
• Configuring agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
• Enabling continuous integration with Azure Pipelines
• Integrating external source control with Azure Pipelines
• Implementing GitHub Actions by using DevOps Starter
• Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service web apps

 Module 4: Design and implement a release strategy

• Introduction to continuous delivery
• Explore release strategy recommendations
• Build a high-quality release pipeline
• 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
• Creating a release dashboard
• Controlling deployments using Release Gates

 Module 5: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

• Create a release pipeline
• Provision and test environments
• Manage and modularize tasks and templates
• Automate inspection of health
• Manage application configuration data
• Integrate with identity management systems
• Implement application configuration
• Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
• Setting up and running functional tests
• Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

 Module 6: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

• Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
• Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Implement Bicep
• Azure deployments using Azure Resource Manager templates

 Module 7: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance

• Introduction to Secure DevOps
• Implement open-source software
• Software Composition Analysis
• Static analyzers
• OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
• Security Monitoring and Governance
• Implement security and compliance in Azure Pipelines
• Managing technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps

 Module 8: Design and implement a dependency management strategy

• Explore package dependencies
• Understand package management
• Migrate, consolidate, and secure artifacts
• Implement a versioning strategy
• Introduction to GitHub Packages
• Package management with Azure Artifacts

 Module 9: Implement continuous feedback

• 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
• Monitoring application performance with Application Insights
• Integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
• Sharing Team Knowledge using Azure Project Wikis

Target Audience

• IT professionals aspiring to be Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• IT professionals getting ready for the Microsoft AZ-400 exam
• System administrators, developers, and IT pros learn how to build full DevOps solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Professionals who want to master the newest DevOps practices and move away from traditional development
• Professionals with a background in software engineering and a basic understanding of DevOps 

Learning objective

• Create a DevOps plan
• Use DevOps development techniques.
• Use a continuous integration strategy
• Adopt a continuous delivery strategy
• Manage dependencies by implementation
• Put application infrastructure in place
• Use ongoing feedback

FAQs 

What important topics will be covered for the Azure-400 exam?

For the purpose of preparing for the AZ-400 certification exam, all of the domains and the topics that fall within them are crucial. Infrastructure as code, infrastructure and configuration management, migration and consolidation, version control, code flow, Azure Kubernetes service, system feedback mechanisms, container builds, release management, and dependency management are some of the key topics you shouldn’t skip while preparing for the AZ-400 exam.

What courses can I do before or after this course?

Microsoft Azure Administrator is advised prior to AZ-104T00-A.

Developing and implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions is advised after passing AZ-400T00-A.

What is the validity of the course certificate?

When you pass the exam and receive your Azure certification, it remains valid for a year.