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AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
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AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Build your knowledge of how to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Get hands-on experience in using Azure Repos, Github, and more.
Benefit from instructor-led preparation for the AZ-400 certification exam with tips, tricks, guidance, and mentored support.
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It is not possible to enroll for individual courses on this program. If you wish to take this course, please enroll for the full program.
AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions is a five-day course for professionals who are looking to work as a DevOps engineer, software developer, operations team member, project manager, or IT manager.
During this course, you will gain knowledge and hands-on experience of agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards. You will learn about source control and how to migrate from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos. You will explore how to manage Technical Debt, and how to configure Azure Pipelines. And you will also discover how to integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps.
In addition, you will become familiar with how to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions. You will also develop a good understanding of designing and implementing a dependency management strategy and release strategy. And you will learn how to implement a deployment pattern, as well as manage infrastructure using various Azure tools and third-party tools like Docker, Kubernetes etc. Finally, you will explore in detail key aspects such as system feedback mechanisms, implementing security in DevOps projects, and validating code bases for compliance.
Overall, this course will prepare you for taking the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification exam. Entry for the exam is not included. However, you will get a clear overview of the Microsoft certification process, plus you will get tips and tricks, testing strategies, practice questions, and useful information to help you pass the exam successfully.
This course comprises 58 purposely designed modules that take you on a carefully defined learning journey.
It is an instructor-led course which runs to a fixed schedule, with set start and finish dates. It is driven forward by your instructor and features live sessions that are aired at a set time. You will, however, have time to complete certain activities at your own pace outside of the live sessions.
The materials for each module are accessible from the start of the course and will remain available for the duration of your enrollment. Methods of learning and assessment will include reading material, hands-on labs, and online exams questions.
As part of our mentoring service you will have access to valuable guidance and support throughout the course. We provide a dedicated discussion space where you can ask questions, chat with your peers, and resolve issues.
Once you have successfully completed the course, you will earn your Certificate of Completion.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- 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
- IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure.
- Individuals seeking to prepare for the Microsoft AZ-400 certification exam
- You should be familiar with cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
- You should have proven expertise in at least one of the following areas: Azure administration and Azure development. Plus, you should be familiar with both.
- You should have experience of version control, agile software development, and core software development principles. It is also helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software.
Course Outline
Introduction
Grading Scheme
Pre-Requisites
Exam and Certification Details
About this module
What is DevOps?
Explore the DevOps journey
Identify transformation teams
Explore shared goals and define timelines
Quiz
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Explore greenfield and brownfield projects
Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects
Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement
Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)
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Explore agile development practices
Explore principles of agile development
Define organization structure for agile practices
Explore ideal DevOps team members
Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration
Select tools and processes for agile practices
Quiz
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What is Azure DevOps?
What is GitHub?
Explore an authorization and access strategy
Migrate or integrate existing work management tools
Migrate or integrate existing test management tools
Design a license management strategy
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Introduction to GitHub Projects and Project boards
Introduction to Azure Boards
Link GitHub to Azure Boards
Configure GitHub Projects
Manage work with GitHub Project boards
Customize Project views
Collaborate using team discussions
Agile plan and portfolio management with Azure Boards
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Explore DevOps foundational practices
What is source control?
Explore benefits of source control
Explore best practices for source control
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Understand centralized source control
Understand distributed source control
Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control
Examine and choose Git
Understand objections to using Git
Describe working with Git locally
Quiz
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Introduction to Azure Repos
Introduction to GitHub
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Use GIT-TFS
Develop online with GitHub Codespaces
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Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
Implement a change log
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Explore branch workflow types
Explore feature branch workflow
Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
Explore GitHub flow
Explore fork workflow
Version control with Git in Azure repos
Quiz
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Collaborate with pull requests
Exercise - Azure Repos collaborating with pull requests
Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals
Quiz
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Examine code quality
Examine complexity and quality metrics
Introduction to technical debt
Measure and manage technical debt
Integrate other code quality tools
Plan effective code reviews
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Introduction to Git hooks
Implement Git hooks
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Explore foster inner source
Implement the fork workflow
Describe inner source with forks
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Work with large repositories
Purge repository data
Manage releases with GitHub Repos
Automate release notes with GitHub
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Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
Describe Azure Pipelines
Understand Azure Pipelines key terms
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Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents
Explore job types
Introduction to agent pools
Explore predefined agent pool
Understand typical situations for agent pools
Communicate with Azure Pipelines
Communicate to deploy to target servers
Examine other considerations
Describe security of agent pools
Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
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Understand parallel jobs
Estimate parallel jobs
Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects
Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
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Introduction to continuous integration
Learn the four pillars of continuous integration
Explore benefits of continuous integration
Describe build properties
Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
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Configure agent demands
Implement multi-agent builds
Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines
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Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
Understand the pipeline structure
Detail templates
Explore YAML resources
Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
Integrate external source control with Azure Pipelines
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What are Actions?
Explore Actions flow
Understand workflows
Describe standard workflow syntax elements
Explore events
Explore jobs
Explore runners
Examine release and test an action
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Describe continuous integration with actions
Examine environment variables
Share artifacts between jobs
Examine Workflow badges
Describe best practices for creating actions
Mark releases with Git tags
Create encrypted secrets
Use secrets in a workflow
Implement GitHub Actions For CI/CD
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Examine structure of containers
Work with Docker containers
Understand Dockerfile core concepts
Examine multi-stage Dockerfiles
Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
Explore Azure container-related services
Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps
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Explore traditional IT development cycle
What is continuous delivery?
Move to continuous delivery
Understand releases and deployments
Understand release process versus release
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Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
Explore release pipelines
Explore artifact sources
Choose the appropriate artifact source
Exercise - Select an artifact source
Examine considerations for deployment to stages
Exercise - Set up stages
Explore build and release tasks
Explore custom build and release tasks
Explore release jobs
Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML
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Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
Exercise - Select your delivery and deployment cadence
Explore release approvals
Exercise - Set up manual approvals
Explore release gates
Use release gates to protect quality
Control deployments using release gates
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Provision and configure target environments
Exercise - Set up service connections
Configure automated integration and functional test automation
Understand Shift-left
Set up and run availability tests
Explore Azure Load Testing
Set up and run functional tests
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Examine task groups
Exercise - create and manage task groups
Explore variables in release pipelines
Understand variable groups
Exercise - create and manage variable groups
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Automate inspection of health
Explore events and notifications
Explore service hooks
Exercise - Set up service hooks to monitor the pipeline
Configure Azure DevOps notifications
Configure GitHub notifications
Explore how to measure quality of your release process
Examine release notes and documentation
Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
Explore common release management tools
Create a release dashboard
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Explore microservices architecture
Examine classical deployment patterns
Understand modern deployment patterns
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What is blue-green deployment?
Explore deployment slots
Exercise - set up a blue–green deployment
Introduction to feature toggles
Describe feature toggle maintenance
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Explore canary releases
Examine Traffic Manager
Understand dark launching
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What is A/B testing?
Explore CI-CD with deployment rings
Exercise - Ring-based deployment
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Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
Explore service principals
Explore Managed Identity
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Rethink application configuration data
Explore separation of concerns
Understand external configuration store patterns
Introduction to Azure App Configuration
Examine Key-value pairs
Examine App configuration feature management
Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
Enable Dynamic Configuration Feature Flags
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Explore environment deployment
Examine environment configuration
Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
Understand idempotent configuration
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Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
Explore template components
Manage dependencies
Modularize templates
Manage secrets in templates
Azure deployments using Resource Manager templates
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What is Azure CLI?
Work with Azure CLI
Exercise - Run templates using Azure CLI
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Create automation accounts
What is a runbook?
Understand automation shared resources
Explore runbook gallery
Examine webhooks
Explore source control integration
Explore PowerShell workflows
Create a workflow
Exercise - Create and run a workflow runbook
Examine checkpoint and parallel processing
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Understand configuration drift
Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
Examine DSC configuration file
Exercise - Import and compile
Exercise - Onboard machines for management
Explore hybrid management
Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
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What is Bicep?
Install Bicep
Exercise - Create Bicep templates
Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
Exercise - Deploy a Bicep file from Azure Pipelines
Exercise - Deploy a Bicep file from GitHub workflows
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Describe SQL injection attack
Understand DevSecOps
Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
Explore key validation points
Explore continuous security validation
Understand threat modeling
Exercise threat modeling
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Explore how software is built
What is open-source software
Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components
Introduction to open-source licenses
Explore common open-source licenses
Examine license implications and ratings
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Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
Explore software composition analysis
Integrate WhiteSource with Azure DevOps pipeline
Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
Examine tools for assess package security and license rate
Interpret alerts from scanner tools
Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure Pipeline
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Explore SonarCloud
Explore CodeQL in GitHub
Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps
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Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices
Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test
Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs
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Implement pipeline security
Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
Explore Azure Policy
Understand policies
Explore initiatives
Explore resource locks
Explore Azure Blueprints
Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
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What is dependency management?
Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
Identify dependencies
Understand source and package componentization
Decompose your system
Scan your codebase for dependencies
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Explore packages
Understand package feeds
Explore package feed managers
Explore common public package sources
Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources
Consume packages
Introduction to Azure Artifacts
Publish packages
Package Management with Azure Artifacts
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Identify existing artifact repositories
Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
Secure access to package feeds
Examine roles
Examine permissions
Examine authentication
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Understand versioning of artifacts
Explore semantic versioning
Examine release views
Promote packages
Exercise - Promote a package
Explore best practices for versioning
Exercise - Push from the pipeline
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Publish packages
Install a package
Delete and restore a package
Explore package access control and visibility
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Understand the inner loop
Introduction to continuous monitoring
Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Explore Application Insights
Implement Application Insights
Exercise - Add Application Insights to an ASP.NET core application
Monitor application performance with Application Insights
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Explore Azure Dashboards
Examine view designer in Azure Monitor
Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
Explore Power BI
Build your own custom application
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Share acquired knowledge within development teams
Introduction to Azure DevOps project wikis
Integrate with Azure Boards
Integrate Azure DevOps and Teams
Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki
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Explore rapid responses and augmented search
Integrate telemetry
Examine monitoring tools and technologies
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Examine when get a notification
Explore how to fix it
Explore smart detection notifications
Improve performance
Understand server response time degradation
Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
Examine blameless retrospective
Develop a just culture
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FAQs
AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions is a five-day course for DevOps engineers, software developers, operations team members, project managers, and IT managers who want to work as a DevOps engineer, software developer, operations team member, project manager, or IT manager. However, it is also ideal for individuals looking to prepare for the AZ-400 certification exam.
This training will provide you with knowledge and hands-on experience using Azure Boards for agile planning and portfolio management. You'll learn about source control and how to use Azure Repos to migrate from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git. You'll learn how to deal with Technical Debt and set up Azure Pipelines. You'll also learn how to use Azure Key Vault in conjunction with Azure DevOps.
Yes, it will help to prepare you for taking the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification exam. Please note that entry is not included in the exam. You will, however, receive a comprehensive understanding of the Microsoft certification procedure, as well as tips and tricks, testing techniques, practice questions, and other important information to assist you in passing the exam.
Each module's materials are available from the start of the course and will stay so for the duration of your enrolment. Reading materials, hands-on experiments, and online exam questions will be used in the learning and evaluation process.
- You should have a basic understanding of cloud computing concepts, including PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.
- You should be able to demonstrate expertise in at least one of the following areas: Azure administration and Azure development. Furthermore, you should be acquainted with both.
- Version control, agile software development, and core software development principles should all be familiar to you. It's also advantageous to have prior experience working for a software company.
Type of certificate
Certificate of completion
About this course
58 Modules
21 Skills
Includes
Discussion Space
58 Knowledge checks
12 Labs
02 Practice exams
03 Projects
Create
Azure Boards
GitHub Actions and workflows
Release dashboard
Release pipeline
Azure resources
Exercises to explore
Azure portal
Azure DevOps
GitHub
Azure Pipelines
Azure Repos
Azure Artifacts
Azure tools
Azure CLI
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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