Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

15h 58mAdvanced2025-04-17

Authors

Microsoft Press

Microsoft

Paul Furlan

DevOps engineer focused on version control systems and CI/CD pipelines

Course details

Looking to get ready for the Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) certification exam? In this course, designed by Microsoft Press, instructor Paul Furlan covers the essential tools and services required to design and implement Microsoft Azure DevOps solutions. This certification is an ideal fit for any IT professional whose responsibilities include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, coding, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

Skills covered

DevOps FoundationsCloud AdministrationDevOpsAzureCloud PlatformsCert PrepCloud ComputingMicrosoft

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Exam AZ-400 - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions - Introduction

1. Facilitate Communication and Collaboration

02 - Learning objectives
03 - Learn about Azure DevOps
04 - Understand Azure DevOps processes
05 - Learn about Azure DevOps boards
06 - Lab A - Explore Azure Boards
07 - Lab B - Integrate Azure Boards and GitHub
08 - Explore wiki and dashboards
09 - Lab C - Create a wiki
10 - Lab D - Create a dashboard
11 - Integrate external tools
12 - Lab E - Integrate messaging tools
13 - Lab F - Webhooks and ITSM overview

2. Develop a Security and Compliance Plan

14 - Learning objectives
15 - Learn about security and compliance
16 - Design an authentication strategy
17 - Lab A - Learn about Active Directory features
18 - Learn about authentication in Azure DevOps
19 - Lab B - Integrate Active Directory
20 - Lab C - Authenticate to Azure Repos
21 - Lab D - Service connection authentication
22 - Design authorization and governance
23 - Lab E - Set up policies, groups, and access levels
24 - Learn about Azure Key Vault
25 - Lab F - Set up Azure Key Vault
26 - Learn about Azure DevOps variables
27 - Lab G - Use Azure DevOps variables

3. Manage Source Control

28 - Learning objectives
29 - Learn about SCM and VCS tools
30 - Lab A - Create a Git repository
31 - Learn Git
32 - Lab B - Practice Git
33 - Learn about Git workflows, branches, and tags
34 - Lab C - Use Git workflows, branches, and tags
35 - Work with pull requests and branch policies
36 - Lab D - Work with branch policies and pull requests
37 - Learn about merge types
38 - Lab E - Learn about merging and merge conflicts
39 - Learn about advanced repository features
40 - Lab F - Learn about advanced Git features
41 - Learn about GitHub Codespaces
42 - Lab G - Review GitHub Codespaces

4. Define and Implement Continuous Integration

43 - Learning objectives
44 - Develop build pipelines
45 - Lab A - Set up build agents
46 - Lab B - Create classic Azure Pipelines
47 - Lab C - Create YAML pipelines
48 - Learn about package management
49 - Lab D - Create packages
50 - Lab E - Set up feeds
51 - Learn about containers
52 - Lab F - Build a container image
53 - Lab G - Run and push container images
54 - Learn about code quality and security
55 - Lab H - Implement code quality
56 - Lab I - Implement DevSecOps

5. Optimize Build Pipelines

57 - Learning objectives
58 - Integrate external tools
59 - Lab A - Integrate Azure Pipelines with GitHub
60 - Optimize build
61 - Lab B - Optimize pipeline performance
62 - Lab C - Multistage Docker builds
63 - Learn about pipeline monitoring and analytics
64 - Lab D - Review pipeline monitoring and analytics

6. Design Continuous Delivery

65 - Learning objectives
66 - Learn about the application deployment process
67 - Lab A - Set up a release pipeline
68 - Lab B - Set dependencies, approvals, and gates
69 - Understand infrastructure as code
70 - Lab C - Deploy ARM templates
71 - Learn about configuration management
72 - Lab D - Use custom script extension
73 - Lab E - Configure desired state configuration
74 - Lab F - Set up automation state configuration
75 - Learn about Azure app configuration
76 - Lab G - Learn about Azure app configuration

7. Implement Continuous Delivery

77 - Learning objectives
78 - Set up release targets
79 - Lab A - Learn about deployment groups
80 - Lab B - Configure a VM scale set
81 - Lab C - Learn about Azure app service
82 - Lab D - Set up Kubernetes
83 - Test your application
84 - Lab E - Learn about manual and exploratory testing
85 - Lab F - Set up automated testing
86 - Lab G - Learn about test reports
87 - Design and implement a release strategy
88 - Lab H - Set up rolling deployment
89 - Lab I - Configure canary deployment
90 - Lab J - Learn about Blue-Green Deployment

9. Develop an Instrumentation Strategy

100 - Learning objectives
101 - Learn about Azure Monitor
102 - Lab A - Azure Monitor overview
103 - Learn about logging and metrics
104 - Lab B - Logging
105 - Lab C - Metrics
106 - Learn about Application Insights
107 - Lab D - Application Insights
108 - Monitor virtual machines
109 - Lab E - Monitor virtual machines
110 - Set up alerting
111 - Lab F - Set up alerting
112 - Learn about Visual Studio App Center
113 - Lab G - Visual Studio App Center

10. AZ-400 Exam Latest Topics

114 - Learning objectives
115 - Learn about end-to-end traceability
116 - Lab A - End-to-end traceability
117 - Learn about documentation automation
118 - Learn Azure Bicep
119 - Lab B - Azure Bicep
120 - Learn about Azure Automanage machine configuration
121 - Lab C - Azure Automanage machine configuration

Conclusion

122 - Exam AZ-400 - Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions - Summary