AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

Course Description:

The AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions course is a 5-day course that is designed to teach students the knowledge and skills to implement DevOps processes. The course will discuss how to use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, and implement and managing build infrastructure.

This course provides knowledge and skills to implement the DevOps practices of continuous integration, continuous delivery, dependency management, continuous feedback, deploy an application infrastructure in DevOps pipelines and design a DevOps strategy.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Describing the benefits of using source control

• Migrating from TFVC to Git

• Scaling Git for Enterprise DevOps

• Implementing and managing build infrastructure

• Manage application config & secrets

• Implementing a mobile DevOps strategy

• Explaining why continuous integration matters

• Implementing continuous integration using Azure DevOps

• Configuring builds and the options available

• Creating an automated build workflow

• Integrating other build tooling with Azure DevOps

• Creating hybrid build processes

• Describing what is meant by code quality and how it is measured

• Detecting code smells

• Integrating automated tests for code quality

• Reporting on code coverage during testing

• Adding tooling to measure technical debt

• Detecting open source and other licensing issues

• Implementing a container build strategy

• Differentiate between a release and a deployment

• Defining the components of a release pipeline

• Explaining things to consider when designing your release strategy

• Classifying a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both

• Describing the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation

• Explaining deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense

• Choosing a release management tool

• Explaining the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling

• Describing what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks

• Classifying an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool

• Explaining why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline

• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job

• Using release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline

• Deployinging to an environment securely, using a service connection

• Embedding testing in the pipeline

• Listing the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports

• Creating a release gate

• Describing deployment patterns

• Implementing Blue Green Deployment

• Implementing Canary Release

• Implementing Progressive Exposure Deployment

• Recommending 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

• Identifying and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution

• Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages

• Managing security and compliance

• Inspecting open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards

• Configuring build pipeline to access package security and license rating

• Configuring secure access to package feeds

• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles

• Deploying and managing infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologi