Exam Tips AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Course details

Are you a cloud engineer, architect, or developer planning to obtain the AZ-400 certification? In this course, cloud system developer Zarina Meeran walks you through preparing for the portion of the exam devoted to designing and implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions. Zarina shows you the tools and skills that you’ll need to develop an instrumentation strategy. She discusses how to build a site reliability engineering (SRE) strategy, then goes over developing a security and compliance plan with Azure Key Vault and Azure Policy. With these policies, you need an excellent understanding of how to manage source control effectively, and Zarina covers what you need to know. She dives into ways you can facilitate communication and collaboration, define and implement continuous integration, and plan continuous delivery and release management strategies. Plus, Zarina goes into what you can expect in exam logistics and exam question layouts.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Designing and implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions
02 - Why get Azure certified
03 - What you should know

1. Develop an Instrumentation Strategy

04 - Overview of instrumentation strategy
05 - Azure Monitor
06 - Measure key metrics
07 - Alerts on key metrics

2. Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Strategy

08 - Overview of site reliability engineering strategies
09 - Health check
10 - Health check alerts

3. Develop a Security and Compliance Plan

11 - Overview of security and compliance plans
12 - Azure Key Vault
13 - Azure Policy
14 - Break the glass

4. Manage Source Control

15 - Overview of source control
16 - Azure Repos
17 - Integrate GitHub with Azure Repos
18 - Branching strategies for source code
19 - Pull request (PR) guidelines

5. Facilitate Communication and Collaboration

20 - Overview of communication and collaboration
21 - Create a dashboard in Azure DevOps
22 - Integrate GitHub with Azure Boards

6. Define and Implement Continuous Integration

23 - Overview of continuous integration
24 - Design a testing strategy
25 - Build pipelines

7. Continuous Delivery and Release Management Strategies

26 - Continuous delivery and release management strategies
27 - Infrastructure as code
28 - Release pipeline
29 - Release strategy design
30 - Release strategy implementation

8. What to Expect

31 - Exam logistics
32 - Exam question layout

Conclusion

33 - Where to go from here