DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

• Introduction to DevOps

• 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

• Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Link Azure Boards and GitHub

• Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards

• Customize Project views

• Design and implement branch strategies and workflows

• Describe Git branching workflows

• Implement feature branches

• Implement GitHub Flow

• Fork a repo

• Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

• Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews

• Give feedback using pull requests

• Configure branch policies

• Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals

• Explore Git hooks

• Understand Git hooks

• Identify when used Git hooks

• Implement Git hooks for automation

• Explain Git hooks' behavior

• Plan foster inner source

• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization

• Implement fork workflow

• Choose between branches and forks

• Share code between forks

• Manage and configure repositories

• Understand large Git repositories

• Explain VFS for Git

• Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)

• Purge repository data

• Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub

• Identify technical debt

• Identify and manage technical debt

• Integrate code quality tools

• Plan code reviews

• Describe complexity and quality metrics

• Explore Azure Pipelines

• Describe Azure Pipelines

• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components

• Decide Pipeline automation responsibility

• Understand Azure Pipeline key terms

• Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

• 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

• Describe pipelines and concurrency

• Use and estimate parallel jobs

• Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects

• Use Visual Designer

• Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML

• Design and implement a pipeline strategy

• Define a build strategy

• Explain and configure demands

• Implement multi-agent builds

• Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines

• Integrate with Azure Pipelines

• Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure

• Detail templates and YAML resources

• Implement and use multiple repositories

• Introduction to GitHub Actions

• Explain GitHub Actions and workflows

• Create and work with GitHub Actions and Work

• Describe Events, Jobs and Runners

• Examine output and release management for actions

• Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

• Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions

• Use environment variables

• Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags

• Create and manage secrets

• Design a container build strategy

• Design a container strategy

• Work with Docker Containers

• Create an Azure Container Registry

• Explain Docker microservices and containers

• Create a release pipeline

• 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

• Explore release recommendations

• 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

• Provision and test environments

• 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

• Manage and modularize tasks and templates

• Use and manage task and variable groups

• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline

• Use variables in release pipelines

• Automate inspection of health

• 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

• Introduction to deployment patterns

• Describe deployment patterns

• Explain microservices architecture

• Understand classical and modern deployment patterns

• Plan and design your architecture

• Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

• Explain deployment strategies

• Implement blue green deployment

• Understand deployment slots

• Implement and manage feature toggles

• Implement canary releases and dark launching

• Describe deployment strategies

• Implement canary release

• Explain traffic manager

• Understand dark launching

• Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

• Implement progressive exposure deployment

• Implement A/B testing

• Implement CI/CD with deployment rings

• Identify the best deployment strategy

• Integrate with identity management systems

• Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems

• Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)

• Understand and create a service principal

• Create managed service identities

• Manage application configuration data

• 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

• Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management

• Understand how to deploy your environment

• Plan your environment configuration

• Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration

• Explain idempotent configuration

• Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates

• 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

• Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI

• Create Azure resources using Azure CLI

• Understand and work with Azure CLI

• Run templates using Azure CLI

• Explains Azure CLI commands

• Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

• Implement automation with Azure DevOps

• Create and manage runbooks

• Create webhooks

• Create and run a workflow runbook and PowerShell workflows

• Plan for hybrid management

• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Describe Azure Automation State Configuration

• Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure

• Plan for hybrid management

• Implement Bicep

• 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

• Introduction to Secure DevOps

• Identify SQL injection attack

• Understand DevSecOps

• Implement pipeline security

• Understand threat modeling

• Implement open-source software

• Implement open-source software

• Explain corporate concerns for open-source components

• Describe open-source licenses

• Understand the license implications and ratings

• Software Composition Analysis

• 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

• Security Monitoring and Governance

• Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Understand Azure policies

• Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints

• Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity

• Explore package dependencies

• Define dependency management strategy

• Identify dependencies

• Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management

• Scan your codebase for dependencies

• Understand package management

• Implement package management

• Manage package feed

• Consume and create packages

• Publish packages

• Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts

• Identify artifact repositories

• Migrate and integrate artifact repositories

• Secure package feeds

• Understand roles, permissions and authentication

• Implement a versioning strategy

• Promote packages

• Push packages from pipeline

• Describe semantic and explore best practices for versioning

• Implement a versioning strategy

• Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Publish packages

• Install packages

• Delete and restore packages

• Configure access control and visibility

• Implement tools to track usage and flow

• Implement tools to track feedback

• Plan for continuous monitoring

• Implement Application Insights

• Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)

• Develop monitor and status dashboards

• Configure Azure Dashboards

• Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor

• Create Azure Monitor Workbooks

• Monitor with Power BI

• Share knowledge within teams

• Share knowledge with development teams

• Work with Azure DevOps Wikis

• Integrate with Azure Boards

• Design processes to automate application analytics

• Automate application analytics

• Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search

• Integrate telemetry

• Implement monitoring tools and technologies

• Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

• Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture

• Improve application performance

• Explain server response time degradation

• Reduce meaningless and nonactionable alerts

• Validate lab environment

• Agile planning and portfolio management with Azure Boards

• Version Control with Git in Azure Repos

• Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles

• Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

• Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD

• Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps

• Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML

• Control Deployments using Release Gates

• Set up and run functional tests

• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

• Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags

• Deployments using Azure Bicep templates

• Package Management with Azure Artifacts

• Monitor Application Performance with Azure Load Testing

• Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki