AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

The AZ-400 exam, Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions, is a a highly regarded credential that demonstrates a professional’s proficiency in designing and implementing DevOps solutions using Microsoft technologies. This certification validates their expertise in collaborative development and operations processes, continuous integration, testing, delivery, and monitoring of applications. By obtaining this certification, industry professionals can implement DevOps development processes, dependency management, application infrastructure, and design a DevOps strategy

Course Key Learnings:

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

Course Content:

Module1: Introduction

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

Module2: Structure your Git Repo

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

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

Module 4: Design and implement a release strategy

Introduction to continuous delivery
Create a release pipeline
Explore release strategy recommendations
Provision and test environments
Manage and modularize tasks and templates
Automate inspection of health

Module 5: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

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

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

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

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

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

COURSE PREREQUISITES

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.