Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Course AZ-400T01-A: Implementing DevOps Development Processes

Module 1: Getting started with Source Control

Lessons

• What is Source Control?
• Benefits of Source Control
• Types of source control systems
• Introduction to Azure Repos
• Migrating from TFVC to Git
• Authenticating to your Git Repos

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using source control
• Migrate from TFVC to Git

Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps

Lessons

• How to structure your git repo? Mono Repo or Multi-Repo?
• Git Branching workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests
• Why care about GitHooks?
• Fostering Internal Open Source
• Git Version
• public projects
• Storing Large files in Git

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps

Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure

Lessons

• The concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
• Agent pools
• Pipelines & Concurrency
• Azure DevOps loves Open Source projects
• Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
• Setup private agents
• Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
• Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines
• Analyse & Integrate Docker multi stage builds

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Implement and manage build infrastructure

Module 4: Managing application config & secrets

Lessons

• Demo: SQL Injection attack
• Implement secure & compliant development process
• Rethinking application config data
• Manage secrets, tokens & certificates
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Manage application config & secrets

Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

Lessons

• Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
• Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups
• Manage target UI test device sets
• Provision tester devices for deployment
• Provision tester devices for deployment

Course AZ-400T02-A: Implementing Continuous Integration

Module 1: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

In this module, you'll be introduced to continuous integration principles including: benefits, challenges, build best practices, and implementation steps. You will also learn about implementing a build strategy with workflows, triggers, agents, and tools.

Lessons

• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy

Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lab : Creating a Jenkins Build Job and Triggering CI

After completing this module, you will:

• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Module 2: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

In this module, you will be learn how to manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions. You will also learn how to manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.

Lessons

• Managing Code Quality
• Managing Security Policies

Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

Lab : Checking Vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt and Azure DevOps

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.
• Manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.
• Manage code quality including technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions.

Module 3: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

In this module, you will learn how to implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers. You will also learn how to implement containers using Docker.

Lessons

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lab : Existing .NET Applications with Azure and Docker Images

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers.
• Implement containers using Docker.

Course AZ-400T03-A: Implementing Continuous Delivery

Module 1: Design a Release Strategy

Lessons

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release strategy recommendations
• Building a High Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing a deployment pattern
• Choosing the right release management tool
• Building a release strategy
• Differentiate between a release and a deployment
• Define the components of a release pipeline
• Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
• Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
• Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
• Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
• Choose a release management tool

Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow

Lessons

• Introduction
• Create a Release Pipeline
• Provision and Configure Environments
• Manage And Modularise Tasks and Templates 
• Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
• Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
• Automate Inspection of Health
• Building a release management workflow
• Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
• Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
• Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
• Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
• Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
• Embed testing in the pipeline
• List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports
• Create a release gate

Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Lessons

• Introduction into Deployment Patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

Module 4: Hands-On Lab

Lab : Microsoft 365 Tenant and Service Management

• Exercise 1: Set up a Microsoft 365 trial tenant
• Exercise 2: Managing Microsoft 365 users, groups, and administration
• Exercise 3: Configuring Rights Management and compliance
• Exercise 4: Monitor and troubleshoot Microsoft 365

Course AZ-400T04-A: Implementing Dependency Management

Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lessons

• Introduction
• Packaging dependencies
• Package management
• Implement versioning strategy
• Recommend artifact management tools and practices
• Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
• Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
• Identify and recommend standardised package types and versions across the solution
• Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages
• Manage security and compliance

Module 2: Manage security and compliance

Lessons

• Introduction
• Package security
• Open source software
• Integrating license and vulnerability scans
• Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards
• Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
• Configure secure access to package feeds

Course AZ-400T05-A: Implementing Application Infrastructure

Module 1: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools

Lessons

• Learning Objectives
• Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
• Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
• Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
• Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
• Additional Automation Tools
• Version Control
• Lab Deploy to Azure using ARM templates
• Module Review Questions

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

Module 2: Azure Deployment Models and Services

Lessons

• Learning Objectives
• Deployment Models and Options
• Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
• Azure Automation with DevOps
• Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
• Azure Service Fabric
• Lab Azure Automation - IaaS or PaaS deployment
• Module Review Questions

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

Module 3: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

Lessons

• Learning Objectives
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster
• Module Review Questions

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

Module 4: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure

Lessons

• Learning Objectives
• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Cloud-Init
• Terraform
• Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X
• Module Review Questions

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform

Module 5: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

Lessons

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
• Azure Security Center
• Lab Integrate a scanning extension or tool in an AZ DevOps pipeline/security center
• Module Review Questions

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

Course AZ-400T06-A: Implementing Continuous Feedback

Module 1: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

Lessons

• The inner loop
• Continuous Experimentation midset
• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyse user feedback from external sources
• Design process to automate application analytics

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyse user feedback from external sources
• Design routing for client application crash report data
• Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
• Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools

Module 2: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams

Lessons

• Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
• Implement routing for mobile application crash report data
• Develop monitoring and status dashboards
• Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management system

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Configure crash report integration for client applications
• Develop monitoring and status dashboards
• Implement routing for client application crash report data
• Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
• Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management

Module 3: Optimise feedback mechanisms

Lessons

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Analyse telemetry to establish a baseline
• Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
• Analyse alerts to establish a baseline
• Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Analyse alerts to establish a baseline
• Analyse telemetry to establish a baseline
• Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
• Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

Course AZ-400T07-A: Designing a DevOps Strategy

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

In this module, you will learn about transformation planning, project selection, and team structures.

Lessons

• Transformation Planning
• Project Selection
• Team Structures

Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

After completing this module you will be able to:

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
• Create a team and agile organisational structure

Module 2: Planning for Quality and Security

In this module, you will learn about developing a quality strategy and planning for secure development.

Lessons

• Planning a Quality Strategy
• Planning Secure Development

Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and AzureDevOps

After completing the module, you will be able to:

• Develop a project quality strategy
• Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.

Module 3: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools

In this module, you will learn about migrating and consolidating artifacts, and migrating and integrating source control measures.

Lessons

• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
• Migrating and Integrating Source Control

Lab : Integrating Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines with Eclipse

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Migrate and consolidate artifacts
• Migrate and integrate source control measures

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