Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert AZ 400
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Course Overview
This course equips students with skills to develop and execute DevOps processes. It covers planning, source control, Git scaling, artifact consolidation, dependency management, secret handling, continuous integration, container build strategy, release planning, workflow setup, deployment pattern implementation, and feedback mechanism optimization.
Key Features
- Official Microsoft Azure live class training content
- Azure exam voucher included
- Access to official Microsoft courseware aligned to the examination
- Live online training from Microsoft-certified trainers
- Practice labs and projects with integrated Azure labs
- Official course completion badge/certificate hosted on the Microsoft Learn portal
- Official Microsoft Azure live class training content
- Live online training from Microsoft-certified trainers
- Azure exam voucher included
- Practice labs and projects with integrated Azure labs
- Access to official Microsoft courseware aligned to the examination
- Official course completion badge/certificate hosted on the Microsoft Learn portal
- Official Microsoft Azure live class training content
- Live online training from Microsoft-certified trainers
- Azure exam voucher included
- Practice labs and projects with integrated Azure labs
- Access to official Microsoft courseware aligned to the examination
- Official course completion badge/certificate hosted on the Microsoft Learn portal
Skills Covered
- Configure processes and communications
- Design and implement build and release pipelines
- Implement an instrumentation strategy
- Design and implement source control
- Develop a security and compliance plan
- Configure processes and communications
- Design and implement source control
- Design and implement build and release pipelines
- Develop a security and compliance plan
- Implement an instrumentation strategy
- Configure processes and communications
- Design and implement source control
- Design and implement build and release pipelines
- Develop a security and compliance plan
- Implement an instrumentation strategy
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Benefits
Azure continues to experience significant growth, with Microsoft’s intelligent cloud revenue (which includes Azure) growing at a rate of 24.3% in Q1 of 2024.
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Course Curriculum
Eligibility
To be eligible for the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam, you need to meet one of the following:
- Have subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous value delivery in organizations.
- Have expertise in designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.
You should be able to work with cross-functional teams that include, but not limited to:
- Developers
- Site reliability engineers
- Azure administrators
You should have strong skills on:
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub
- Have subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous value delivery in organizations.
- Have expertise in designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.
You should be able to work with cross-functional teams that include, but not limited to:
- Developers
- Site reliability engineers
- Azure administrators
You should have strong skills on:
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub
Pre-requisites
You must earn at least one of the following certifications as a prerequisite:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Post the certification, you need to appear for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions- AZ-400 exam to become a Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
Post the certification, you need to appear for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions- AZ-400 exam to become a Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Course Content
Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert AZ 400
PreviewLesson 01: Course Introduction
Preview1.01 Welcome to AZ 400 Course
00:341.02 Certification Overview
01:421.03 Skill Covered
03:101.04 Azure Overview
09:10
Lesson 02: Design and Implement Logging
Preview2.01 Assess and Configure a Logging Framework
01:572.02 Design a Storage Strategy
06:162.03 Design a Log Aggregation and Query Strategy
02:172.04 Manage Access Control to Logs
01:212.05 Integrate Crash Analytics
03:45
Lesson 03: Design and Implement Telemetry
3.01 Design and Implement Distributed Tracing
02:473.02 Inspect Application Performance Indicators
02:143.03 Inspect Infrastructure Performance Indicators
03:343.04 Define and Measure Key Metrics
02:273.05 Implement Alerts on Key Metrics
05:53
Lesson 04: Integrate Logging and Monitoring Solutions
Preview4.01 Configure and Integrate Container Monitoring
02:264.02 Configure and Integrate with Monitoring Tools
03:124.03 Create Feedback Loop from Platform Monitoring Tools
03:00
Lesson 05: Develop an Actionable Alerting Strategy
Preview5.01 Identify and Recommend Metrics on Which to Base Alerts
01:235.02 Implement Alerts Based on Application Health Checks
03:065.03 Analyze Combinations of Metrics
02:395.04 Implement Alerts for Self-Healing Activities
01:52
Lesson 06: Design a Failure Prediction Strategy
6.01 Analyze Behavior of System with Regards to Load and Failure Conditions
03:336.02 Calculate When a System Will Fail under Various Conditions
04:356.03 Measure Baseline Metrics for System
03:11
Lesson 07: Design and Implement a Health Check
7.01 Analyze System Dependencies to Determine Which Dependency Should Be Included in Health Check
03:237.02 Calculate Healthy Response Timeouts Based on Slo for the Service
03:007.03 Integrate Health Check with Compute Environment
02:26
Lesson 08: Design an Authentication and Authorization Strategy
8.01 Design an Access Solution
01:558.02 Implement Service Principals and Managed Identity
03:488.03 Design an Application Access Solution Using Azure Ad B2C
02:078.04 Configure Service Connections
02:52
Lesson 09: Design a Sensitive Information Management Strategy
9.01 Evaluate and Configure Vault Solution
04:459.02 Manage Security Certificates
03:559.03 Formulate a Plan for Deploying Secret Files as Part of a Release
03:34
Lesson 10: Develop Security and Compliance
Preview10.01 Automate Dependencies Scanning for Security
02:3910.02 Automate Dependencies Scanning for Compliance
02:2310.03 Assess and Report Risks
03:4410.04 Design a Source Code Compliance Solution
04:32
Lesson 11: Design Governance Enforcement Mechanisms
Preview11.01 Implement Azure Policies to Enforce Organizational Requirements
04:3711.02 Implement Container Scanning
02:1811.03 Design Break-The-Glass Strategy for Responding to Security Incidents
01:59
Lesson 12: Plan and Implement Branching Strategies for the Source Code
12.01 Define Pull Requests (PR) Guidelines to Enforce Work Item Correlation
01:1712.02 Implement Branch Merging Restrictions
02:5212.03 Define Branch Strategy
01:4512.04 Design and Implement a PR Workflow
03:06
Lesson 13: Configure Repositories
Preview13.01 Configure Permissions in the Source Control Repository
01:5913.02 Organize the Repository with Git-Tags
01:4213.03 Plan For Content Recovery in All Repository States
02:22
Lesson 14: Integrate Source Control with Tools
14.01 Integrate Github with DevOps Pipelines
03:0614.02 Integrate Github with Identity Management Solutions
01:43
Lesson 15: Communicate Deployment and Release Information with Business Stakeholders
15.01 Create Dashboards Combining Boards and Pipelines
02:2915.02 Design a Cost Management Communication Strategy
04:0015.03 Integrate Github as Repository with Azure Boards
01:21
Lesson 16: Automate Communication with Team Members
16.01 Notify Stakeholders about Key Metrics, Alerts, Severity Using Communication and Project Management Platform
02:3216.02 Integrate Build and Release with Communication Platforms
02:09
Lesson 17: Design Build Automation
Preview17.01 Implement Quality Gates
02:1117.02 Design a Testing Strategy
01:25
Lesson 18: Design a Package Management Strategy
Preview18.01 Recommend Package Management Tools
02:1918.02 Design an Azure Artifacts Implementation Including Linked Feeds
02:3118.03 Design a Versioning Strategy for Deployment Artifacts
02:40
Lesson 19: Design an Application Infrastructure Management Strategy
19.01 Assess a Configuration Management Mechanism for Application Infrastructure
02:3619.02 Define and Enforce Desired State Configuration for Environments
02:45
Lesson 20: Maintain Build Strategy
20.01 Monitor Pipeline Health
02:4420.02 Optimize Build
02:22
Lesson 21: Design a Process for Standardizing Builds Across Organization
Preview21.01 Manage Self-Hosted Build Agents
01:4521.02 Create Reusable Build Subsystems
02:33
Lesson 22: Develop Deployment Scripts and Templates
Preview22.01 Design and Implement Infrastructure as Code
06:3322.02 Develop Application Deployment Process
08:2422.03 Develop Database Deployment Process
04:13
Lesson 23: Implement an Orchestration Automation Solution
Preview23.01 Design the Release Pipeline to Ensure Reliable Order of Dependency Deployments
01:3523.02 Organize Shared Release Configurations and Process
02:3323.03 Design and Implement Release Gates and Approval Processes
02:43
Lesson 24: Plan the Deployment Environment Strategy
24.01 Design a Release Strategy
02:1124.02 Implement the release strategy using Azure Traffic Manager
03:4724.03 Plan for minimizing downtime during deployments using Azure Load Balancer
07:10
Exam & Certification
What benefits do learners receive through Simplilearn’s collaboration with Microsoft Azure?
Upon completing the Microsoft Azure courses at Simplilearn, learners will gain the following advantages:
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They'll earn an official course completion badge/certificate available on the Microsoft Learn portal.
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Students can obtain an official Microsoft course completion transcript, validating their successful program completion.
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Does this new exam and certification replace any existing Azure exams?
No, Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions is the only version launched on January 3, 2019.
When will the old Azure certification competencies expire, and when will the new requirements become valid?
The new AZ-400 exam format went live on January 29, 2024. If you are preparing for AZ-400, we recommend you take the exam after reviewing the change log according to the new format.
Is this course accredited?
Yes, Simplilearn is a Silver Microsoft Partner, and the course is accredited by Microsoft.
Is the exam fee included in the course fee?
Yes, the exam fee is included in the course fee.
What is the total score needed to pass the examination?
A score of 700 or greater is required to pass.
Why Online Bootcamp
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- Learn by working on real-world problemsCapstone projects involving real world data sets with virtual labs for hands-on learning
- Structured guidance ensuring learning never stops24x7 Learning support from mentors and a community of like-minded peers to resolve any conceptual doubts
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