Exam AZ-400 preparation focuses on designing and implementing DevOps processes across GitHub and Azure DevOps. The course covers work tracking, source control, build and release pipelines, deployment strategies, infrastructure as code, security and compliance, and instrumentation based on the current Microsoft exam objectives.
Prerequisites
- Experience administering and developing solutions in Microsoft Azure
- Experience implementing Azure DevOps solutions
- Experience implementing GitHub solutions
- Working knowledge of source control and Git
- Understanding of CI/CD concepts and DevOps practices
- Familiarity with software development and infrastructure administration
- Knowledge of security, monitoring, testing, deployment, and automation concepts
Microsoft recommends that candidates have experience with both Azure administration and development, along with experience implementing GitHub and Azure DevOps solutions.
What Will You Learn
- Design and implement DevOps processes and communication
- Design source control strategies with Git and GitHub
- Implement branching, pull requests, branch policies, and repository management
- Design and implement build and release pipelines
- Develop YAML-based Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows
- Implement testing strategies, quality gates, and code coverage
- Design deployment strategies including blue-green, canary, ring, and progressive deployments
- Implement infrastructure as code using Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, and configuration management
- Manage pipeline agents, runners, artifacts, dependencies, and pipeline performance
- Implement authentication, authorization, permissions, and service connections
- Manage secrets using Azure Key Vault and secretless authentication
- Implement security and compliance scanning with GitHub Advanced Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Configure monitoring with Azure Monitor and related telemetry services
- Analyze DevOps and application metrics using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- Implement traceability, dashboards, feedback mechanisms, and operational monitoring
Who Should Do This Training
- DevOps Engineers
- Azure DevOps Engineers
- Azure Developers
- Azure Administrators
- GitHub Engineers
- Site Reliability Engineers
- Infrastructure Engineers
- Software Developers
- Security Engineers
- Cloud Engineers
- DevOps Consultants
- Professionals preparing for Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions