Designing And Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Training (AZ-400)

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artefacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimise feedback mechanisms.

AZ-400 Course Benefits

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines.

• Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

• Create a team and agile organisational 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 organisational 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 organisation.

• 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 analyse 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 organisational security and compliance policies.

• Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines.

• Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings.

Prerequisites

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of the following:

• Cloud computing concepts, including understanding PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations.

• Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas.

• Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organisation that delivers software.

If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking Course 8542, Microsoft Azure Administrator Training (AZ-104).

If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking Course 8538, Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Training (AZ-204).

Exam Information

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam, part of the path towards the Microsoft role-based certification exam — Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.