AZ-400T00: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Azure DevOps technologies can help you build an end-to-end continuous delivery pipeline faster and more securely, whether you're just starting with DevOps implementation or looking to integrate with existing toolchains and processes.
The modern IT landscape places a strong emphasis on collaborating with people, optimizing processes, and leveraging technologies to continuously deliver business value. If you possess these skills, then Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert is the ideal role-based certification for you.
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About this course
The Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification validates expertise in designing and executing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.
The Azure DevOps Engineer Expert course equips learners with the knowledge and skills to design and implement effective DevOps processes and practices. Over the span of five days, students will gain the ability to plan for DevOps, leverage source control, scale Git for large enterprises, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, execute 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.
This expert-level course in Azure DevOps is well-suited for individuals whose job responsibilities involve designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, and source control, while also ensuring security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback. Prior experience working with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value is required.
Who should attend?
The individuals who enroll in this course are either interested in implementing and designing DevOps processes or are preparing to take the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
Prerequisites
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:
- 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.
Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to DevOps
This module explores the key areas that organizations must apply to start their DevOps transformation Journey, change the team’s mindset, and define timelines and goals.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
- Identify teams to implement the process
- Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
- Plan and define timelines for goals
Module 2: Choose the right project
This module helps organizations decide the projects to start applying the DevOps process and tools to minimize initial resistance.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
- Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
- Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
- Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Module 3: Describe team structures
This module explores agile development practices and helps to define and to configure teams and tools for collaboration.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
- Create a team and agile organizational structure
- Identify ideal DevOps team members
- Select and configure tools for collaboration
Module 4: Choose the DevOps tools
This module explores Azure DevOps and GitHub tools and helps organizations define their work management tool and licensing strategy.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- 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
Module 5: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
This module introduces you to GitHub Projects, GitHub Project Boards and Azure Boards. It explores ways to link Azure Boards and GitHub, configure GitHub Projects and Project views, and manage work with GitHub Projects.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
- Link Azure Boards and GitHub
- Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards
- Customize Project views
Module 6: Introduction to source control
This module introduces you to the basics of source control, exploring benefits and best practices.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand source control
- Apply best practices for source control
- Describe the benefits of using source control
Module 7: Describe types of source control systems
This module describes different source control systems such Git and TFVC and helps with the initial steps for Git utilization.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Apply source control practices in your development process
- Explain differences between centralized and distributed version control
- Understand Git and TFVC
- Develop using Git
Module 8: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
This module introduces you to Azure Repos and GitHub and explores ways to migrate from TFVC to Git, and work with GitHub Codespaces for development.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
- Migrate from TFVC to Git
- Work with GitHub Codespaces
Module 9: Structure your Git Repo
This module examines Git repositories structure, explains the differences between mono versus multiple repos, and helps you create a changelog.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand Git repositories
- Implement mono repo or multiple repos
- Explain how to structure Git Repos
- Implement a change log
Module 10: Manage Git branches and workflows
This module explores Git branching types, concepts, and models for the continuous delivery process. It helps companies defining their branching strategy and organization.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe Git branching workflows
- Implement feature branches
- Implement GitHub Flow
- Fork a repo
Module 11: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos
This module presents pull requests for collaboration and code reviews using Azure DevOps and GitHub mobile for pull request approvals. It helps understanding how pull requests works and how to configure them.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
- Give feedback using pull requests
- Configure branch policies
- Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals
Module 12: Identify technical debt
This module examines technical debt, complexity, quality metrics, and plans for effective code reviews and code quality validation.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Identify and manage technical debt
- Integrate code quality tools
- Plan code reviews
- Describe complexity and quality metrics
Module 13: Explore Git hooks
This module describes Git hooks and their usage during the development process, implementation, and behavior.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand Git hooks
- Identify when used Git hooks
- Implement Git hooks for automation
- Explain Git hooks’ behavior
Module 14: Plan foster inner source
This module explains how to use Git to foster inner sources across the organization, implement Fork and its workflows.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
- Implement fork workflow
- Choose between branches and forks
- Share code between forks
Module 15: Manage Git repositories
This module explores how to work with large repositories, purge repository data and manage and automate release notes using GitHub.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand large Git repositories
- Explain VFS for Git
- Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)
- Purge repository data
- Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub
Module 16; Explore Azure Pipelines
This module introduces Azure Pipelines concepts and explains key terms and components of the tool, helping you decide your pipeline strategy and responsibilities.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe Azure Pipelines
- Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
- Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
- Understand Azure Pipeline key terms
Module 17: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools
This module explores differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, detail job types, and introduces agent pools configuration. You will understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage its security. Also, it explores communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines to target servers.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
- Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents
- Configure agent pools
- Make the agents and pools secure
- Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines
Module 18: Describe pipelines and concurrency
This module describes parallel jobs and how to estimate their usage. Also, it presents Azure Pipelines for open-source projects, explores Visual Designer and YAML pipelines.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Use and estimate parallel jobs
- Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects
- Use Visual Designer
- Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML
Module 19: Explore continuous integration
This module details continuous integration practice and the pillars for implementing it in the development lifecycle, its benefits, and properties.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain why continuous integration matters
- Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
- Explain benefits of continuous integration
- Describe build properties
Module 20: Implement a pipeline strategy
This module describes pipeline strategies, configuring them, implementing multi-agent builds, and what source controls Azure Pipelines supports.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Define a build strategy
- Explain and configure demands
- Implement multi-agent builds
- Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines
Module 21: Integrate with Azure Pipelines
This module details Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure, templates, YAML resources, and how to use multiple repositories in your pipeline.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure
- Detail templates and YAML resources
- Implement and use multiple repositories
Module 22: Introduction to GitHub Actions
In this module, you will learn what GitHub Actions, action flow, and its elements are. Understand what events are, explore jobs and runners, and how to read console output from actions.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain GitHub Actions and workflows
- Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
- Describe Events, Jobs and Runners
- Examine output and release management for actions
Module 23: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions
This module details continuous integration using GitHub Actions and describes environment variables, artifacts, best practices, and how to secure your pipeline using encrypted variables and secrets.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
- Use environment variables
- Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags
- Create and manage secrets
Module 24: Design a container build strategy
This module helps you plan a container build strategy, explains containers and their structure, introduces Docker, microservices, Azure Container Registry, and related services.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Design a container strategy
- Work with Docker Containers
- Create an Azure Container Registry
- Explain Docker microservices and containers
Module 25: Introduction to continuous delivery
This module introduces continuous delivery concepts and their implementation in a traditional IT development cycle.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain continuous delivery (CD)
- Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
- Understand releases and deployment
- Identify project opportunities to apply CD
Module 26: Create a release pipeline
This module describes Azure Pipelines capabilities, build and release tasks.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
- Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
- Implement release jobs
Module 27: Explore release recommendations
This module explores the critical release strategy recommendations that organizations must consider when designing automated deployments and explains how to define components of a release pipeline and artifact sources, create approves, and configure release gates.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
- Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
- Create a release approval plan
- Implement release gates
Module 28: Provision and test environments
This module details target environment provisioning, service connections creation process, and test infrastructure setup. You will learn how to configure functional test automation and run availability tests.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Provision and configure target environment
- Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
- Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
- Setup test infrastructure
Module 29: Manage and modularize tasks and templates
This module describes the creation of task and variable groups and using release variables and stage variables in your pipeline.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Use and manage task and variable groups
- Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
- Use variables in release pipelines
Module 30: Automate inspection of health
This module describes how to automate the inspection of health events, configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub, set up service hooks to monitor pipelines, measure the quality of your release process, and detail release gates for quality purposes. You will examine release management tools and details about them.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement automated inspection of health
- Create and configure events
- Configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Create service hooks to monitor pipeline
- Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
- Choose a release management tool
Module 31: Introduction to deployment patterns
This module introduces deployment patterns and explains microservices architecture to help improve the deployment cycle and examine classical and modern deployment patterns.
Learning objectives
- Describe deployment patterns
- Explain microservices architecture
- Understand classical and modern deployment patterns
- Plan and design your architecture
Module 32: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles
This module describes the blue-green deployment process and introduces feature toggle techniques to implement in the development process.
Learning objectives
“By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Explain deployment strategies
- Implement blue green deployment
- Understand deployment slots
- Implement and manage feature toggles”
Module 33: Implement canary releases and dark launching
This module describes deployment strategies around canary releases and dark launching and examines traffic managers.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Describe deployment strategies
- Implement canary release
- Explain traffic manager
- Understand dark launching
Module 34: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment
This module introduces A/B test and progressive exposure deployment concepts and explores CI/CD with deployment rings — ring-based deployment.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement progressive exposure deployment
- Implement A/B testing
- Implement CI/CD with deployment rings
- Identify the best deployment strategy
Module 35: Integrate with identity management systems
This module describes the integration with GitHub and single sign-on (SSO) for authentication, service principals, and managed service identities.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems
- Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
- Understand and create a service principal
- Create managed service identities
Module 36: Manage application configuration data
This module explores ways to rethink application configuration data and the separation of concerns method. It helps you understand configuration patterns and how to integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines. Also, describes Azure App Configuration and details Key-value pairs and App Configuration feature management.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Rethink application configuration data
- Understand separation of concerns
- Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
- Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
- Describe Azure App Configuration
- Understand Key-value pairs
- Understand app configuration feature management
- Implement application configuration
Module 37: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
This module describes key concepts of infrastructure as code and environment deployment creation and configuration. Also, understand the imperative, declarative, and idempotent configuration and how it applies to your company.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand how to deploy your environment
- Plan your environment configuration
- Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
- Explain idempotent configuration
Module 38: Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
This module explores Azure Resource Manager templates and their components and details dependencies and modularized templates with secrets.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Understand Azure Resource Manager templates and template components
- Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
- Organize and modularize templates
Module 39: Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
This module explains Azure CLI to create Azure resources, run templates, and detail Azure CLI commands.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
- Understand and work with Azure CLI
- Run templates using Azure CLI
- Explains Azure CLI commands
Module 40: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
This module describes Azure Automation with Azure DevOps, using runbooks, webhooks, and PowerShell workflows. You’ll learn how to create and manage automation for your environment.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement automation with Azure DevOps
- Create and manage runbooks
- Create webhooks
- Create and run
Module 41: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
This module describes Desired State Configuration (DSC) and its components for implementation. You can exercise how to import, compile and automate your environment creation, and use DSC for Linux automation on Azure.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Describe Azure Automation State Configuration
- Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
- Plan for hybrid management
Module 42: Implement Bicep
This module explains Bicep and how it integrates with different tools such as Azure CLI and Visual Studio Code for environment deployment configuration.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Learn what Bicep is
- Learn how to install it and create a smooth authoring experience
- Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure
- Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code
Module 43: Introduction to Secure DevOps
This module introduces DevSecOps concepts, SQL injection attacks, threat modeling, and security for continuous integration.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Identify SQL injection attack
- Understand DevSecOps
- Implement pipeline security
- Understand threat modeling
Module 44: Implement open-source software
This module explores open-source software and corporate concerns with software components. Also, it explains common open-source licenses, license implications, and ratings.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement open-source software
- Explain corporate concerns for open-source components
- Describe open-source licenses
- Understand the license implications and ratings
Module 45: Software Composition Analysis
This module explains Composition Analysis, how to inspect and validate code bases for compliance, integration with security tools, and integration with Azure Pipelines.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
- Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps
- Implement pipeline security validation
- Interpret alerts from scanning tools
- Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts and security
Module 46: Static analyzers
This module introduces the static analyzers SonarCloud and CodeQL in GitHub.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand Static Analyzers
- Work with SonarCloud
- Work with CodeQL in GitHub
- Interpret alerts from scanning tools
Module 47: OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
This module explores OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers for penetration testing, results, and bugs.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Understand OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
- Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices
- Understand compliance for code bases
Module 48: Security Monitoring and Governance
This module describes security monitoring and governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its usage scenarios, Azure Policies, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and security practices related to the tools.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Understand Azure policies
- Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints
- Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity
Module 49: Explore package dependencies
This module explores dependency management concepts and helps to identify project dependencies. You will learn how to decompose your system, identify dependencies, and package componentization.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Define dependency management strategy
- Identify dependencies
- Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
- Scan your codebase for dependencies
Module 50: Understand package management
This module describes package feeds, common public package sources, and how to create and publish packages.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement package management
- Manage package feed
- Consume and create packages
- Publish packages
Module 51: Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts
This module details package migration, consolidation, and configuration to secure access to package feeds and artifact repositories.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Identify artifact repositories
- Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
- Secure package feeds
- Understand roles, permissions and authentication
Module 52: Implement a versioning strategy
This module explains versioning strategies for packaging, best practices for versioning, and package promotion.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement a versioning strategy
- Promote packages
- Push packages from pipeline
- Describe semantic and explore best practices for versioning
Module 53: Introduction to GitHub Packages
This module introduces you to GitHub Packages. It explores ways to control permissions and visibility, publish, install, delete and restore packages using GitHub.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Publish packages
- Install packages
- Delete and restore packages
Module 54: Implement tools to track usage and flow
This module introduces you to continuous feedback practices and tools to track usage and flow, such as Azure Logs Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Application Insights.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Implement tools to track feedback
- Plan for continuous monitoring
- Implement Application Insights
- Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Module 55: Develop monitor and status dashboards
This module explains steps to develop monitoring with Azure Dashboards, work with View Designer and Azure Monitor, and create Azure Monitor Workbooks. Also, explore tools to supports monitoring with Power BI.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Configure Azure Dashboards
- Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
- Create Azure Monitor Workbooks
- Monitor with Power BI
Module 56: Share knowledge within teams
This module describes how to share knowledge within teams, Azure DevOps Wikis, and integration with Azure Boards.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Share knowledge with development teams
- Work with Azure DevOps Wikis
- Integrate with Azure Boards
Module 57: Design processes to automate application analytics
This module helps designing process to Application Insights, explores telemetry and monitoring tools and technologies.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Automate application analytics
- Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search
- Integrate telemetry
- Implement monitoring tools and technologies
Module 58: Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture
This module examines alerts, blameless retrospectives and creates a just culture. It helps improving application performance, reducing meaningless and non-actionable alerts, and explains server response-time degradation.
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
- Improve application performance
- Explain server response time degradation
- Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
At this time, this course is available for private class and in-house training only. Please contact us for any inquiries.