AZ-400 Designing and Implementing DevOps Certification

Version 2.0 July 2022

Completed a major refresh of the AZ-400 course. This is to align with the major changes made to the AZ-400 exam by Microsoft on the 13th of July.

All sections are being refreshed. Sections are being added as NEW and will contain a refresh of all key concepts and demos.

The course now aligns with the new exam objectives

• Configure processes and communications

• Design and implement source control

• Design and implement build and release pipelines

• Develop a security and compliance plan

• Implement an instrumentation strategy

Version 1.1 Mar 2021

• Updated chapters on working with GitHub - This is to reflect the changes made to the naming convention of the main branch. GitHub now refers to the master branch as the main branch.

• Updated the chapters on working with Git repositories from Visual Studio 2019 - With the newer version of Visual Studio 2019, the way on working with Git Repositories has changed.

This course is designed for students who want to attempt the Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

This course has contents for the Exam AZ-400

The objectives covered in this course are

• Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)

• Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10%)

• Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)

• Manage source control (10-15%)

• Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)

• Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)

• Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy (10-15%)

In this course , you will learn aspects which includes the following

• Working with Azure Boards

• How to work with Git - Here there are extensive labs on working with Git repositories. Here you will also learn how to work with Azure Repos

• How to create and implement Build pipelines using Azure Pipelines

• How to use Jenkins for configuration management

• Implementing security in your continuous pipeline

• Building your infrastructure with ARM templates. There are also chapters on how to work with Terraform

• Releasing your applications with Azure Release Pipelines