AZ-400T00 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of 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 organization that delivers software.

AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator

AZ-204T00: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

What is DevOps?

Explore the DevOps journey

Identify transformation teams

Explore shared goals and define timelines

Explore greenfield and brownfield projects

Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects

Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement

Identify groups to minimize initial resistance

Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs)

Explore agile development practices

Explore principles of agile development

Define organization structure for agile practices

Explore ideal DevOps team members

Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration

Select tools and processes for agile practices

What is Azure DevOps?

What is GitHub?

Explore an authorization and access strategy

Migrate or integrate existing work management tools

Migrate or integrate existing test management tools

Design a license management strategy

Link GitHub to Azure Boards

Configure GitHub Projects

Manage work with GitHub Project boards

Customize Project views

Collaborate using team discussions

Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

Explore DevOps foundational practices

What is source control?

Explore benefits of source control

Explore best practices for source control

Understand centralized source control

Understand distributed source control

Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control

Examine and choose Git

Understand objections to using Git

Describe working with Git locally

Migrate from TFVC to Git

Use GIT-TFS

Develop online with GitHub Codespaces

Explore monorepo versus multiple repos

Implement a change log

Explore branch workflow types

Explore feature branch workflow

Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery

Explore GitHub flow

Explore fork workflow

Version Control with Git in Azure Repos

Collaborate with pull requests

Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals

Examine code quality

Examine complexity and quality metrics

Measure and manage technical debt

Integrate other code quality tools

Plan effective code reviews

Implement Git hooks

Explore foster inner source

Implement the fork workflow

Describe inner source with forks

Work with large repositories

Purge repository data

Manage releases with GitHub Repos

Automate release notes with GitHub

Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps

Describe Azure Pipelines

Understand Azure Pipelines key terms

Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents

Explore job types

Explore predefined agent pool

Understand typical situations for agent pools

Communicate with Azure Pipelines

Communicate to deploy to target servers

Examine other considerations

Describe security of agent pools

Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles

Understand parallel jobs

Estimate parallel jobs

Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects

Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer

Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML

Learn the four pillars of continuous integration

Explore benefits of continuous integration

Describe build properties

Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Configure agent demands

Implement multi-agent builds

Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines

Describe the anatomy of a pipeline

Understand the pipeline structure

Detail templates

Explore YAML resources

Use multiple repositories in your pipeline

What are Actions?

Explore Actions flow

Understand workflows

Describe standard workflow syntax elements

Explore events

Explore jobs

Explore runners

Examine release and test an action

Describe continuous integration with actions

Examine environment variables

Share artifacts between jobs

Examine Workflow badges

Describe best practices for creating actions

Mark releases with Git tags

Create encrypted secrets

Use secrets in a workflow

Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD

Examine structure of containers

Work with Docker containers

Understand Dockerfile core concepts

Examine multi-stage dockerfiles

Examine considerations for multiple stage builds

Explore Azure container-related services

Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps

Explore traditional IT development cycle

What is continuous delivery?

Move to continuous delivery

Understand releases and deployments

Understand release process versus release

Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities

Explore release pipelines

Explore artifact sources

Choose the appropriate artifact source

Examine considerations for deployment to stages

Explore build and release tasks

Explore custom build and release tasks

Explore release jobs

Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML

Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers

Explore release approvals

Explore release gates

Use release gates to protect quality

Control Deployments using Release Gates

Provision and configure target environments

Configure automated integration and functional test automation

Understand Shift-left

Set up and run availability tests

Explore Azure Load Testing

Set up and run functional tests

Examine task groups

Explore variables in release pipelines

Understand variable groups

Automate inspection of health

Explore events and notifications

Explore service hooks

Configure Azure DevOps notifications

Configure GitHub notifications

Explore how to measure quality of your release process

Examine release notes and documentation

Examine considerations for choosing release management tools

Explore common release management tools

Explore microservices architecture

Examine classical deployment patterns

Understand modern deployment patterns

What is blue-green deployment?

Explore deployment slots

Describe feature toggle maintenance

Explore canary releases

Examine Traffic Manager

Understand dark launching

What is A/B testing?

Explore CI-CD with deployment rings

Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)

Explore service principals

Explore Managed Identity

Rethink application configuration data

Explore separation of concerns

Understand external configuration store patterns

Examine Key-value pairs

Examine App configuration feature management

Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines

Manage secrets, tokens and certificates

Examine DevOps inner and outer loop

Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags

Explore environment deployment

Examine environment configuration

Understand imperative versus declarative configuration

Understand idempotent configuration

Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?

Explore template components

Manage dependencies

Modularize templates

Manage secrets in templates

Deployments using Azure Bicep templates

What is Azure CLI?

Work with Azure CLI

Create automation accounts

What is a runbook?

Understand automation shared resources

Explore runbook gallery

Examine webhooks

Explore source control integration

Explore PowerShell workflows

Create a workflow

Examine checkpoint and parallel processing

Understand configuration drift

Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)

Examine DSC configuration file

Explore hybrid management

Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure

What is Bicep?

Install Bicep

Understand Bicep file structure and syntax

Describe SQL injection attack

Understand DevSecOps

Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline

Explore key validation points

Explore continuous security validation

Understand threat modeling

Explore how software is built

What is open-source software

Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components

Explore common open-source licenses

Examine license implications and ratings

Inspect and validate code bases for compliance

Explore software composition analysis (SCA)

Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines

Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates

Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines

Examine tools for assess package security and license rate

Interpret alerts from scanner tools

Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline

Explore SonarCloud

Explore CodeQL in GitHub

Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps

Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices

Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test

Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs

Implement pipeline security

Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios

Explore Azure Policy

Understand policies

Explore initiatives

Explore resource locks

Explore Azure Blueprints

Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity

What is dependency management?

Describe elements of a dependency management strategy

Identify dependencies

Understand source and package componentization

Decompose your system

Scan your codebase for dependencies

Explore packages

Understand package feeds

Explore package feed managers

Explore common public package sources

Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources

Consume packages

Publish packages

Package management with Azure Artifacts

Identify existing artifact repositories

Migrate and integrating artifact repositories

Secure access to package feeds

Examine roles

Examine permissions

Examine authentication

Understand versioning of artifacts

Explore semantic versioning

Examine release views

Promote packages

Explore best practices for versioning

Publish packages

Install a package

Delete and restore a package

Explore package access control and visibility

Understand the inner loop

Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)

Explore Application Insights

Implement Application Insights

Monitor application performance with Application Insights

Explore Azure Dashboards

Examine view designer in Azure Monitor

Explore Azure Monitor workbooks

Explore Power BI

Build your own custom application

Share acquired knowledge within development teams

Integrate with Azure Boards

Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki

Explore rapid responses and augmented search

Integrate telemetry

Examine monitoring tools and technologies

Examine when get a notification

Explore how to fix it

Explore smart detection notifications

Improve performance

Understand server response time degradation

Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts

Examine blameless retrospective

Develop a just culture