Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Program

This program will help you prepare for two major certification exams- AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure and AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions. SkillUp Online’s Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Program aims to prepare you with the knowledge, information, and skills required to ace these certification exams.

• Develop Azure compute solutions
• Develop for Azure storage
• Implement Azure security
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Azure solutions
• Connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services
• Plan for a transformation with shared goals and timelines.
• Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
• Create a team and agile organizational structure.
• Design a tool integration strategy.
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users).
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software.
• Design an authentication and access strategy.
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources.
• Describe the benefits of using Source Control.
• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub.
• Migrate from TFVC to Git.
• Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.
• Build organizational knowledge on code quality.
• Explain how to structure Git repos.
• Describe Git branching workflows.
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews.
• Leverage Git hooks for automation.
• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization.
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components.
• Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines.
• Explain why continuous integration matters.
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines.
• Define Site Reliability Engineering.
• Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback.
• Design processes to automate application analytics.
• Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts.
• Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture.
• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure.
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure.
• Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software.
• Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance.
• Manage organizational security and compliance policies.
• Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines.
• Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings.

• IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure and Azure development.
• Individuals seeking to prepare for the Microsoft AZ-204 and AZ-400 certification exam.

You should have:

• Hands-on experience of Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions, and the Azure Portal.
• Experience writing in an Azure supported language at the intermediate level. (C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java).
• The ability to write code to connect and perform operations on a SQL or NoSQL database product (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar).
• Experience writing code to handle authentication, authorization, and other security principles at the intermediate level.
• A general understanding of HTML, the HTTP protocol, and REST API interfaces.

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.