Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400

Module 1Introduction to DevOps

• What is DevOps?
• Explore the DevOps journey
• Identify transformation teams
• Define organization structure for agile practices
• Explore shared goals and define timelines
• What is Azure DevOps?
• What is GitHub?
• Design a license management strategy
• What is source control?
• Describe working with Git locally

Module 2Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

• Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps
• Link GitHub to Azure Boards
• Configure GitHub Projects
• Manage work with GitHub Project boards
• Customize Project views
• Collaborate using team discussions
• Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles
• Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability
• Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

Module 3Design and implement branch strategies and

• workflows
• Explore branch workflow types
• Explore feature branch workflow
• Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery
• Explore GitHub flow
• Explore fork workflow
• Implement branch merging restrictions
• Version Control with Git in Azure Repos

Module 4Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

• Collaborate with pull requests

Module 5Explore Git hooks

• Implement Git hooks

Module 6Plan foster inner source

• Explore foster inner source
• Implement the fork workflow
• Describe inner source with forks

Module 7Manage and configure repositories

• Work with large repositories
• Explore monorepo versus multiple repos
• Implement a change log
• Implement Scalar and cross repo when cross repo sharing
• Recover specific data by using Git commands
• Purge repository data
• Manage releases with GitHub Repos
• Automate release notes with GitHub
• Create API documentation
• Implement automation of Git history documentation
• Configure source control repository permissions using GitHub
• Configure GitHub tags to organize repositories

Module 8Identify technical debt

• Examine code quality
• Examine complexity and quality metrics
• Measure and manage technical debt
• Integrate other code quality tools
• Plan effective code reviews

Module 9Explore Azure Pipelines

• Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Describe Azure Pipelines
• Understand Azure Pipelines key terms

Module 10Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

• Choose between Microsoft - hosted versus self - hosted agents
• Explore job types
• Explore predefined agent pool
• Understand typical situations for agent pools
• Communicate with Azure Pipelines
• Communicate to deploy to target servers
• Examine other considerations
• Describe security of agent pools
• Configure agent pools and understand pipeline styles

Module 11Describe pipelines and concurrency

• Understand parallel jobs
• Estimate parallel jobs
• Describe Azure Pipelines and open - source projects
• Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer
• Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML
• Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Module 12Design and implement a pipeline strategy

• Configure agent demands
• Explore multi - configuration and multi - agent
• Integrate GitHub repos and Azure Pipelines
• Design and implement a comprehensive testing strategy
• Implement code coverage and show in the pipeline
• Implement multi - job builds
• Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines

Module 13Integrate with Azure Pipelines

• Describe the anatomy of a pipeline
• Understand the pipeline structure
• Detail templates
• Explore YAML resources
• Use multiple repositories in your pipeline
• Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines

Module 14Introduction to GitHub Actions

• What are actions?
• Explore Actions flow
• Understand Workflows
• Describe standard workflow syntax elements
• Explore Events
• Explore Jobs
• Explore Runners
• Examine release and test an action

Module 15Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

• Describe continuous integration with actions
• Examine environment variables
• Share artifacts between jobs
• Examine Workflow badges
• Describe best practices for creating actions
• Mark releases with Git tags
• Create encrypted secrets
• Use secrets in a workflow
• Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD

Module 16Design a container build strategy

• Examine structure of containers
• Work with Docker containers
• Understand Dockerfile core concepts
• Examine multi - stage dockerfiles
• Examine considerations for multiple stage builds
• Explore Azure container - related services
• Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps

Module 17Create a release pipeline

• Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities
• Explore release pipelines
• Explore artifact sources
• Choose the appropriate artifact source
• Examine considerations for deployment to stages
• Explore build and release tasks
• Explore custom build and release tasks
• Explore release jobs
• Understand database deployment task
• Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML

Module 18Explore release recommendations

• Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers
• Explore release approvals
• Explore release gates
• Use release gates to protect quality
• Explore GitOps release strategy and recommendations
• Control Deployments using Release Gates

Module 19Provision and test environments

• Provision and configure target environments
• Configure automated integration and functional test automation
• Understand Shift - left
• Set up and run availability tests
• Explore Azure Load Testing
• Set up and run functional tests

Module 20Manage and modularize tasks and templates

• Examine task groups
• Explore variables in release pipelines

Module 21Automate inspection of health

• Automate inspection of health
• Explore events and notifications
• Explore service hooks
• Configure Azure DevOps notifications
• Configure GitHub notifications
• Explore how to measure quality of your release process
• Examine release notes and documentation
• Examine considerations for choosing release management tools
• Explore common release management tools

Module 22Introduction to deployment patterns

• Explore microservices architecture
• Examine classical deployment patterns
• Understand modern deployment patterns

Module 23Implement blue - green deployment and feature

• toggles
• What is blue- green deployment?
• Explore deployment slots
• Describe feature toggle maintenance

Module 24Implement canary releases and dark launching

• Explore canary releases
• Examine traffic manager
• Understand dark launching

Module 25Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure

• deployment
• What is A/B testing?
• Explore CI - CD with deployment rings

Module 26Integrate with identity management systems

• Integrate GitHub with single sign- on (SSO)
• Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
• Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
• Explore workload identities
• Implement managed identities

Module 27Manage application configuration data

• Rethink application configuration data
• Explore separation of concerns
• Understand external configuration store patterns
• Implement Azure DevOps secure files
• Examine Key - value pairs
• Examine App configuration feature management
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
• Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
• Examine DevOps inner and outer loop
• Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
• Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags

Module 28Explore infrastructure as code and configuration

• management
• Explore environment deployment
• Examine environment configuration
• Understand imperative versus declarative configuration
• Understand idempotent configuration

Module 29Create Azure resources using Azure Resource

• Manager templates
• Why use Azure Resource Manager templates?
• Explore template components
• Manage dependencies
• Modularize templates
• Manage secrets in templates

Module 30Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI

• What is Azure CLI?
• Work with Azure CLI

Module 31Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

• Create automation accounts
• What is a runbook?
• Understand automation shared resources
• Explore runbook gallery
• Examine webhooks
• Explore source control integration
• Explore PowerShell workflows
• Create a workflow
• Explore hybrid management
• Examine checkpoint and parallel processing

Module 32Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

• Understand configuration drift
• Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC)
• Examine DSC configuration file
• Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure

Module 33Implement Bicep

• What is Bicep?
• Install Bicep
• Understand Bicep file structure and syntax
• Deployments using Azure Bicep templates

Module 34Introduction to Secure DevOps

• Describe SQL injection attack
• Understand DevSecOps
• Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline
• Explore key validation points
• Explore continuous security validation
• Understand threat modeling
• Explore CodeQL in GitHub

Module 35Implement open -source software

• Explore how software is built
• What is open- source software?
• Explore corporate concerns with open- source software components
• Explore common open- source licenses
• Examine license implications and ratings

Module 36Software Composition Analysis

• Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
• Explore software composition analysis (SCA)
• Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates
• Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines
• Examine tools for assess package security and license rate
• Automate container scanning, including container images
• Interpret alerts from scanner tools

Module 37Security Monitoring and Governance

• Implement pipeline security
• Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios
• Explore Azure Policy
• Understand policies
• Explore initiatives
• Explore resource locks
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Configure GitHub Advanced Security for GitHub and Azure DevOps

Module 38Explore package dependencies

• What is dependency management?
• Describe elements of a dependency management strategy
• Identify dependencies
• Understand source and package componentization
• Decompose your system
• Scan your codebase for dependencies

Module 39Understand package management

• Explore packages
• Understand package feeds
• Explore package feed managers
• Explore common public package sources
• Explore self - hosted and SaaS based package sources
• Consume packages
• Publish packages
• Package management with Azure Artifacts

Module 40Migrate consolidate and secure artifacts

• Identify existing artifact repositories
• Migrate and integrating artifact repositories
• Secure access to package feeds
• Examine roles
• Examine permissions
• Examine authentication

Module 41Implement a versioning strategy

• Understand versioning of artifacts
• Explore semantic versioning
• Examine release views
• Promote packages
• Explore best practices for versioning

Module 42Introduction to GitHub Packages

• Publish packages
• Install a package
• Delete and restore a package
• Explore package access control and visibility

Module 43Implement tools to track usage and flow

• Understand the inner loop
• Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Explore Application Insights
• Implement Application Insights
• Design and implement metrics and queries
• Monitor application performance with Application Insights

Module 44Develop monitor and status dashboards

• Configure monitoring in GitHub
• Explore Azure Dashboards
• Explore Azure Monitor workbooks
• Explore Power BI
• Build your own custom application
• Monitor pipeline health, including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
• Optimize a pipeline for cost, time, performance, and reliability
• Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance and cost

Module 45Share knowledge within teams

• Share acquired knowledge within development teams
• Integrate GitHub and Azure DevOps with Microsoft Teams
• Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki

Module 46Design processes to automate application analytics

• Explore rapid responses and augmented search
• Integrate telemetry
• Examine monitoring tools and technologies
• Explore IT Service Management Connector

Module 47Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just

• culture
• Examine when to get a notification
• Explore how to fix it
• Explore smart detection notifications
• Improve performance
• Understand server response time degradation
• Reduce meaningless and non- actionable alerts
• Examine blameless retrospective
• Develop a just culture