AZ-400T00: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

AZ-400T00

Overview

About the course

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students 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.

Audience Profile

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Job Role: DevOps Engineer

Preparation for exam: AZ-400

Course Details

Course Ref: AZ-400T00
Course Duration: 4 days
Course Location: Virtual Classroom
Course Dates: 24—27 March 2025
Course Price: £2295+VAT

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Modules

Introduction to DevOps
Choose the right project
Describe team structures
Choose the DevOps tools
Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
Introduction to source control
Describe types of source control systems
Work with Azure Repos and GitHub
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
Explore Azure Pipelines
Manage Azure Pipelines 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
Design a container build strategy
Introduction to continuous delivery
Create a release pipeline
Explore release recommendations
Provision and test environments
Manage and modularize tasks and templates
Automate inspection of health

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
Integrate with identity management systems
Manage application configuration data
Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management
Create Azure resources using Azure Resources Manager templates
Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI
Explore Azure Automation with DevOps
Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Implement Bicep
Introduction to Secure DevOps
Implement open-source software
Software Composition Analysis
Static analyzers
OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
Security Monitoring and Governance
Explore package dependencies
Understand package management
Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts
Implement a versioning strategy
Introduction to GitHub Packages
Implement tools to track usage and flow
Develop monitor and status dashboards
Share knowledge within teams
Design processes to automate application analytics
Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

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.