The AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions online instructor-led live Azure DevOps certification course covers the skills and concepts required to design and implement Azure DevOps processes and practices. In this Azure DevOps course, participants will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, 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 optimize feedback mechanisms.
Azure DevOps enables individuals to align themselves with the constantly evolving dynamics of the DevOps space. Microsoft Azure is increasingly becoming a preferred platform for open-source projects, making Azure DevOps an essential skill for cloud administrators and cloud developers everywhere. It helps teams to plan work, collaborate on developing code, as well as build & deploy applications together. It helps foster a culture & encourage processes that facilitate teamwork between developers, project managers, and other contributors for developing software. The Microsoft Azure DevOps training course is intended for professionals who design and implement strategies in the enterprise for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback. Azure DevOps professionals who bring together the processes, the people, and the technologies to meet the requirements of the end-users and achieve business goals will find this Microsoft Azure DevOps online training especially useful.
With 25+ practical lab exercises following the official Microsoft lab outline, this Microsoft Azure DevOps online certification course will ensure you gain a thorough understanding of all the essential concepts as well as the complete exam outline to ace the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification exam. Once you clear the exam, you will achieve the credentials of a Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.
Strategic Application
- Introduction to DevOps
- Choose the right project
- Describe team structures
- Migrate to DevOps
- Introduction to source control
- Describe types of source control systems
- Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
Lab : Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards
Lab : Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
- Structure your Git Repo
- Manage Git branches and workflows
- Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
- Identify technical debt
- Explore Git hooks
- Plan foster inner source
- Manage Git repositories
Lab : Version controlling with Git in Azure Repos
- Explore Azure Pipelines
- Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
- Describe pipelines and concurrency
- Explore Continuous integration
- Implement a pipeline strategy
- Integrate with Azure Pipelines
- Introduction to GitHub Actions
- Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
Lab : Configuring agent pools and understanding pipeline styles
- Introduction to continuous delivery
- Explore release strategy recommendations
- Build a high-quality release pipeline
- Introduction to deployment patterns
- Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
- Implement canary releases and dark launching
- Implement A-B testing and progressive exposure deployment
Lab : Controlling deployments using Release Gates
Lab : Creating a release dashboard
Lab : Feature flag management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps
- Create a release pipeline
- Configure and provision environments
- Manage and modularize tasks and templates
- Automate inspection of health
- Manage application configuration data
- Integrate with identity management systems
- Implement application configuration
Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
Lab : Setting up and running functional tests
Lab : Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
- Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
- Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
- Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
- Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Introduction to Chef and Puppet
- Implement Ansible
- Implement Terraform
Lab : Deployments using Azure Resource Manager templates
Lab : Ansible with Azure
Lab : Automating infrastructure deployments in the cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
- Introduction to Secure DevOps
- Implement open-source software
- Software Composition Analysis
- Static analyzers
- OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
- Security Monitoring and Governance
Lab : Managing technical debt with SonarQube and Azure DevOps
Lab : Implement security and compliance in Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Explore package dependencies
- Understand package management
- Migrate, consolidating and secure artifacts
- Implement a versioning strategy
Lab : Package management with Azure Artifacts
- Design a container build strategy
- Implement Docker multi-stage builds
- Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Explore Kubernetes tooling
- Integrate AKS with Pipelines
Lab : Deploying Docker Containers to Azure App Service web apps
Lab : Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Services
- Implement tools to track usage and flow
- Implement route for mobile application crash report data
- Develop monitor and status dashboards
- Share knowledge within teams
- Explore SRE and design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
- Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
- Design processes to automate application analytics
- Manage alerts, Blameless retrospectives and a just culture
Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams
Lab : Monitoring application performance with Application Insights
Organizational Impact
Customer support
Dedicated technical team to answer your queries at any time, no matter where you are
Live instructor-led training
An interactive, online, live session with an industry expert who serves as your technical trainer/instructor
hands-on learning model
Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)
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Microsoft Azure DevOps is the cloud-based DevOps service offered by Microsoft providing a complete range of tools for managing software development projects. It comprises five core services:
- Azure Boards
- Azure Pipeline
- Azure Repos
- Azure Test Plans
- Azure Artifacts
AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions is an official Microsoft certification examination. This examination is a part of the requirements for an individual to be a Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert.
Upon clearing the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Certification exam, you will earn the credentials of a Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert.
The AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solution Certification Exam and the Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert certification is a good fit for your role if your responsibilities include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.
The AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions Certification Exam measures the following skills:
- Develop an instrumentation strategy
- Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy
- Develop a security and compliance plan
- Manage source control
- Facilitate communication and collaboration
- Define and implement continuous integration
- Define and implement continuous delivery and release management strategy
Yes, the learner needs to have either of the two below certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
This live instructor-led is for 40 hours. Classes would be conducted over the weekends.
An internet speed of a minimum of 2 Mbps is essential to smoothly attend the live sessions of the online instructor-led AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions training and certification course.
When you enroll for this online AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions course, you get lifetime access to our Learning Management System (LMS) which would be your one-stop destination to access class recordings, presentations, sample codes, projects, and lots of other learning material related to this AZ-400 training. Even if you miss a session, a recording of that session, as well as all the other sessions would be available on the LMS that you can access anytime, anywhere.
For any queries you may have during this AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions online training, you can reach out to our technical support team and they will guide you accordingly.
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