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AZ 400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Training Course Content

The AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Training Course covers a comprehensive curriculum designed to equip participants with the skills to implement DevOps strategies, including Agile work management, quality assurance, security processes, and tool integration. The course consists of 26 sessions that address various aspects of DevOps, such as continuous integration, deployment patterns, infrastructure management, and feedback mechanisms. Participants will learn to design and implement effective DevOps practices using Microsoft Azure tools and technologies.

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AZ 400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Training Course Content

The AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Training Course covers a comprehensive curriculum designed to equip participants with the skills to implement DevOps strategies, including Agile work management, quality assurance, security processes, and tool integration. The course consists of 26 sessions that address various aspects of DevOps, such as continuous integration, deployment patterns, infrastructure management, and feedback mechanisms. Participants will learn to design and implement effective DevOps practices using Microsoft Azure tools and technologies.

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AZ - 400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Training Course Content

Session 1: Design a DevOps strategy

Migration and consolidation strategy - DevOps tools

➢ Analyze existing artifact - deployment packages, NuGet, Maven, npm


➢ Container repositories
➢ Test management tools
➢ Work management tools
➢ Recommend migration and integration strategies
o Artifact repositories
o Source control
o Test management
o Work management

Session 2: Understanding Agile work management approach

➢ Identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and DevOps measurements


➢ Agile work management
➢ Mentor team members on Agile techniques and practices
➢ Scaling Agile practices
➢ Understanding in-team and cross-team collaboration mechanisms

Session 3: Design a quality strategy

➢ Analyze existing quality environment


➢ Working quality metrics
➢ Feature flag lifecycle
➢ Measuring and managing technical debt
➢ Changes to team structure to optimize quality
➢ Recommend performance testing strategy

Session 4: Design a secure development process

➢ Inspect and validate code base for compliance


➢ Inspect and validate infrastructure for compliance
➢ Secure development strategy
➢ Integrate code security validation - static code analysis
➢ Integrate infrastructure security validation

Session 5: Design a tool integration strategy


➢ To design a license management strategy
• VSTS users
• concurrent pipelines
• test environments,
• open source software licensing
• third-party DevOps tools and services
• package management licensing
➢ Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
➢ Integrating monitoring and feedback to development teams
➢ Authentication and access strategy
➢ Integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Session 6: Implement DevOps development processes

Design a version control strategy

➢ Working with Branching models


➢ Introduction to Version control systems
➢ Understaning Code flow strategy

Session 7: Implement and integrate source control

➢ External source control


➢ Integrate source control into third-party continuous integration and continuous
deployment (CI/CD) systems

Session 8: Implement and manage build infrastructure

➢ Private and hosted agents


➢ Working with third party build systems
➢ Concurrent pipelines
➢ Manage Azure pipeline configuration
• Agent queues
• Service endpoints
• Pools
• Webhooks

Session 9: Implement code flow

➢ Pull request strategies


➢ Branch and fork strategies
➢ configure branch policies
Session 10: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

➢ Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups


➢ Target UI test device sets
➢ Provision tester devices for deployment
➢ Create public and private distribution groups

Session 11: Managing application configuration and secrets

➢ Secure and compliant development process


➢ General (non-secret) configuration data
➢ secrets, tokens, and certificates
➢ applications configurations
• Web App
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• containers
➢ Secrets management
• Web App
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• containers
• Azure Key Vault
➢ Managing security and compliance in the pipeline

Session 12: Implement continuous integration

Manage code quality and security policies

➢ Monitor code quality


➢ Configure build to report on code coverage
➢ Automated test quality
➢ Test suites and categories
➢ Monitor quality of tests
➢ Security analysis tools
• SonarQube,
• White Source Bolt
• Open Web Application Security Project

Session 13: Implement a container build strategy

➢ create deployable images


• Docker
• Hub
• Azure Container Registry
➢ Docker multi-stage builds

Session14: Implement a build strategy

➢ Design build triggers, tools, integrations, and workflow


➢ Hybrid build process
➢ Multi-agent builds
➢ Build tools and configuration (e.g. Azure Pipelines, Jenkins)
➢ set up an automated build workflow

Session 15: Implement continuous delivery

Design a release strategy

➢ Release tools
➢ Identify and recommend release approvals and gates
➢ Measuring quality of release and release process
➢ Recommend strategy for release notes and documentation
➢ select appropriate deployment pattern

Session 16: Set up a release management workflow

➢ Automate inspection of health signals for release approvals by using release gates
➢ Configure automated integration and functional test execution
➢ Create a release pipeline
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Service Fabric
• WebApp
➢ Create multi-phase release pipelines
➢ Integrate secrets with release pipeline
➢ Provision and configure environments
➢ Manage and modularize tasks and templates - task and variable groups

Session17: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

➢ Implement blue-green deployments


➢ Implement canary deployments
➢ Implement progressive exposure deployments
➢ Scale a release pipeline to deploy to multiple endpoints
• Deployment groups
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Service Fabric

Session 18: Implement dependency management

Design a dependency management strategy

➢ Artifact management tools and practices (Azure Artifacts, npm, Maven, Nuget)
➢ Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
➢ Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
➢ Standardized package types and versions across the solution
➢ Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages

Session 19: Manage security and compliance

➢ Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with
corporate standards (e.g., GPLv3)
➢ Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating (e.g., Black Duck,
White Source)
➢ Configure secure access to package feeds

Session 20: Implement application infrastructure

Design an infrastructure and configuration management strategy

➢ Existing and future hosting infrastructure


➢ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies
➢ managing technical debt on templates
➢ Transient infrastructure for parts of a delivery lifecycle
➢ Mitigate infrastructure state drift

Session 21: Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

➢ Create nested resource templates


➢ Manage secrets in resource templates
➢ Provision Azure resources
➢ Recommend an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy
➢ Recommend appropriate technologies for configuration management
• ARM Templates
• Terraform
• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
Session 22: Manage Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure

➢ Provision Azure Kubernetes Service - ARM templates, CLI


➢ Create deployment file for publishing to Azure Kubernetes Service - kubectl, Helm
➢ Develop a scaling plan

Session 23: Implement infrastructure compliance and security

➢ Compliance and security scanning


➢ Prevent drift by using configuration management tools
➢ Automate configuration management by using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
➢ Automate configuration management by using a VM Agent with custom script
extensions
➢ Set up an automated pipeline to inspect security and compliance

Session 24: Implement continuous feedback

Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

➢ Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction - Send a Smile, app analytics


➢ Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources - Twitter,
Reddit, Help Desk
➢ Design routing for client application crash report data
➢ Monitoring tools and technologies
➢ Feature usage tracking tools
Session 25: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams

➢ Configure crash report integration for client applications


➢ Develop monitoring and status dashboards
➢ Implement routing for client application crash report data
➢ Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
➢ Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management
system
• IT Service Management connector
• ServiceNow Cloud Management
• App Insights work items

Session 26: Optimize feedback mechanisms

➢ Analyze alerts to establish a baseline


➢ Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
➢ Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
➢ Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

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