Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

On your 4-day accelerated Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification course, you'll get the skills you need to be successful as an Azure DevOps Engineer. You'll learn to combine people, process and technology to deliver products and services that meet business and end user needs.

Your expert Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) will immerse you in the curriculum with Firebrand's unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique, helping you to build and retain information faster. You'll also have 24/7 lab access at the training centre, so you can test your skills and make the most of your stay.

During your 4 day accelerated DevOps Engineer course you'll learn how to:

• Plan for the 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

Courseware: AZ-400T00-AC

• Module 1: Get started on a DevOps transformation journey
• Module 2: Development for enterprise DevOps
• Module 3: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Module 4: Design and implement a release strategy
• Module 5: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines
• Module 6: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
• Module 7: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance
• Module 8: Design and implement a dependency management strategy
• Module 9: Implement continuous feedback

Before attending this course you must hold one of the following certifications:

• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate

You should also have the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• Be proficient with Agile practices
• Have experience in both Azure administration and Azure development - with expertise in at lease one of these areas
• Have the ability to design and implement DevOps practices for:
• version control
• compliance
• infrastructure as code
• configuration management
• build, release and testing using Azure technologies

On this course, you'll take the following exams, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

You will be tested on the following skills and knowledge areas:

• Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)
• Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10%)
• Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)
• Manage source control (10-15%)
• Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)
• Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)
• Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy (10-15%)