AZ-400T00 – Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

AZ-400T00 – Designing and Implementing
Microsoft DevOps solutions

AZ-400T00 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

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Objectives

Understand what DevOps is and the steps to accomplish it
Identify teams to implement the process
Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
Plan and define timelines for goals
Understand different projects and systems to guide the journey
Select a project to start the DevOps transformation
Identify groups to minimize initial resistance
Identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Understand agile practices and principles of agile development
Create a team and agile organizational structure
Identify ideal DevOps team members
Select and configure tools for collaboration
Design a tool integration strategy
Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
Design an authentication and access strategy
Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
Describe GitHub Projects and Azure Boards
Link Azure Boards and GitHub
Configure and Manage GitHub Projects and boards
Customize Project views
Understand source control
Apply best practices for source control
Describe the benefits of using source control
Apply source control practices in your development process
Explain differences between centralized and distributed version control
Understand Git and TFVC
Develop using Git
Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Work with GitHub Codespaces
Understand Git repositories
Implement mono repo or multiple repos
Explain how to structure Git Repos
Implement a change log
Describe Git branching workflows
Implement feature branches
Implement GitHub Flow
Fork a repo
Leverages pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
Give feedback using pull requestsConfigure branch policies
Use GitHub mobile for pull requests approvals
Identify and manage technical debt
Integrate code quality tools
Plan code reviews
Describe complexity and quality metrics
Understand Git hooks
Identify when used Git hooks
Implement Git hooks for automation
Explain Git hooks’ behavior
Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
Implement fork workflow
Choose between branches and forks
Share code between forks
Understand large Git repositories
Explain VFS for Git
Use Git Large File Storage (LFS)
Purge repository data
Manage and Automate Release Notes with GitHub
Describe Azure Pipelines
Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
Decide Pipeline automation responsibility
Understand Azure Pipeline key terms
Choose between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents
Install and configure Azure Pipelines Agents
Configure agent pools
Make the agents and pools secure
Explore communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines
Use and estimate parallel jobs
Use Azure Pipelines for open-source or private projects
Use Visual Designer
Work with Azure Pipelines and YAML
Explain why continuous integration matters
Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
Explain benefits of continuous integration
Describe build properties
Define a build strategy
Explain and configure demands
Implement multi-agent builds
Use different source control types available in Azure Pipelines
Describe advanced Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure
Detail templates and YAML resources
Implement and use multiple repositories
Explain GitHub Actions and workflows
Create and work with GitHub Actions and Workflows
Describe Events, Jobs and Runners
Examine output and release management for actions
Implement Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
Use environment variables
Share artifacts between jobs and use Git tags
Create and manage secrets
Design a container strategy
Work with Docker Containers
Create an Azure Container Registry
Explain Docker microservices and containers
Explain continuous delivery (CD)
Implement continuous delivery in your development cycle
Understand releases and deployment
Identify project opportunities to apply CDExplain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
Implement release jobs
Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
Define the components of a release pipeline and use artifact sources
Create a release approval plan
Implement release gates
Provision and configure target environment
Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
Configure functional test automation and run availability tests
Setup test infrastructure
Use and manage task and variable groups
Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
Use variables in release pipelines
Implement automated inspection of health
Create and configure events
Configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub
Create service hooks to monitor pipeline
Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
Choose a release management tool
Describe deployment patterns
Explain microservices architecture
Understand classical and modern deployment patterns
Plan and design your architecture
Explain deployment strategies
Implement blue green deployment
Understand deployment slots
Implement and manage feature toggles”
Describe deployment strategies
Implement canary release
Explain traffic manager
Understand dark launching
Implement progressive exposure deployment
Implement A/B testing
Implement CI/CD with deployment rings
Identify the best deployment strategy
Integrate Azure DevOps with identity management systems
Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO)
Understand and create a service principal
Create managed service identities
Rethink application configuration data
Understand separation of concerns
Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines
Manage secrets, tokens and certificates
Describe Azure App Configuration
Understand Key-value pairs
Understand app configuration feature management
Implement application configuration
Understand how to deploy your environment
Plan your environment configuration
Choose between imperative versus declarative configuration
Explain idempotent configuration
Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates
Understand Azure Resource Manager templates and template components
Manage dependencies and secrets in templates
Organize and modularize templates
Create Azure resources using Azure CLI
Understand and work with Azure CLI
Run templates using Azure CLIExplains Azure CLI commands
Implement automation with Azure DevOps
Create and manage runbooks
Create webhooks
Create and run a workflow runbook and PowerShell workflows
Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Describe Azure Automation State Configuration
Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure
Plan for hybrid management
Learn what Bicep is
Learn how to install it and create a smooth authoring experience
Use Bicep to deploy resources to Azure
Deploy Bicep files in Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code
Identify SQL injection attack
Understand DevSecOps
Implement pipeline security
Understand threat modeling
Implement open-source software
Explain corporate concerns for open-source components
Describe open-source licenses
Understand the license implications and ratings
Inspect and validate code bases for compliance
Integrate security tools like WhiteSource with Azure DevOps
Implement pipeline security validation
Interpret alerts from scanning tools
Configure GitHub Dependabot alerts and security
Understand Static Analyzers
Work with SonarCloud
Work with CodeQL in GitHub
Interpret alerts from scanning tools
Understand OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers
Implement OWASP Security Coding Practices
Understand compliance for code bases
Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Understand Azure policies
Describe initiatives, resource locks and Azure Blueprints
Work with Microsoft Defender for Identity
Define dependency management strategy
Identify dependencies
Describe elements and componentization of a dependency management
Scan your codebase for dependencies
Implement package management
Manage package feed
Consume and create packages
Publish packages
Identify artifact repositories
Migrate and integrate artifact repositories
Secure package feeds
Understand roles, permissions and authentication
Implement a versioning strategy
Promote packages
Push packages from pipeline
Describe semantic and explore best practices for versioning
Publish packages
Install packages
Delete and restore packages
Configure access control and visibility
Implement tools to track feedback
Plan for continuous monitoringImplement Application Insights
Use Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Configure Azure Dashboards
Work with View Designer in Azure Monitor
Create Azure Monitor Workbooks
Monitor with Power BI
Share knowledge with development teams
Work with Azure DevOps Wikis
Integrate with Azure Boards
Automate application analytics
Assist DevOps with rapid responses and augmented search
Integrate telemetry
Implement monitoring tools and technologies
Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
Improve application performance
Explain server response time degradation
Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts

Content

1.Introduction to DevOps

This module explores the key areas that organizations must apply to start their DevOps transformation Journey, change the team’s mindset, and define timelines and goals.

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2.Choose the right project

This module helps organizations decide the projects to start applying the DevOps process and tools to minimize initial resistance.

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3.Describe team structures

This module explores agile development practices and helps to define and to configure teams and tools for collaboration.

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4.Choose the DevOps tools

This module explores Azure DevOps and GitHub tools and helps organizations define their work management tool and licensing strategy.

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5.Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

This module introduces you to GitHub Projects, GitHub Project Boards and Azure Boards. It explores ways to link Azure Boards and GitHub, configure GitHub Projects and Project views, and manage work with GitHub Projects.

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6.Introduction to source control

This module introduces you to the basics of source control, exploring benefits and best practices.

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7.Describe types of source control systems

This module describes different source control systems such Git and TFVC and helps with the initial steps for Git utilization.

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8.Work with Azure Repos and GitHub

This module introduces you to Azure Repos and GitHub and explores ways to migrate from TFVC to Git, and work with GitHub Codespaces for development.

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9.Structure your Git Repo

This module examines Git repositories structure, explains the differences between mono versus multiple repos, and helps you create a changelog.

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10.Manage Git branches and workflows

This module explores Git branching types, concepts, and models for the continuous delivery process. It helps companies defining their branching strategy and organization.

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11.Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

This module presents pull requests for collaboration and code reviews using Azure DevOps and GitHub mobile for pull request approvals. It helps understanding how pull requests works and how to configure them.

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12.Identify technical debt

This module examines technical debt, complexity, quality metrics, and plans for effective code reviews and code quality validation.

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13.Explore Git hooks

This module describes Git hooks and their usage during the development process, implementation, and behavior.

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14.Plan foster inner source

This module explains how to use Git to foster inner sources across the organization, implement Fork and itsworkflows.

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15.Manage Git repositories

This module explores how to work with large repositories, purge repository data and manage and automate release notes using GitHub.

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16.Explore Azure Pipelines

This module introduces Azure Pipelines concepts and explains key terms and components of the tool, helping you decide your pipeline strategy and responsibilities.

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17.Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

This module explores differences between Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted agents, detail job types, and introduces agent pools configuration. You will understand typical situations to use agent pools and how to manage its security. Also, it explores communication to deploy using Azure Pipelines to target servers.

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18.Describe pipelines and concurrency

This module describes parallel jobs and how to estimate their usage. Also, it presents Azure Pipelines for open source projects, explores Visual Designer and YAML pipelines.

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19.Explore continuous integration

This module details continuous integration practice and the pillars for implementing it in the development lifecycle, its benefits, and properties.

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20.Implement a pipeline strategy

This module describes pipeline strategies, configuring them, implementing multi-agent builds, and what source controls Azure Pipelines supports.

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21.Integrate with Azure Pipelines

This module details Azure Pipelines anatomy and structure, templates, YAML resources, and how to use multiple repositories in your pipeline.

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22.Introduction to GitHub Actions

In this module, you will learn what GitHub Actions, action flow, and its elements are. Understand what events are, explore jobs and runners, and how to read console output from actions.

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23.Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

This module details continuous integration using GitHub Actions and describes environment variables, artifacts, best practices, and how to secure your pipeline using encrypted variables and secrets.

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24.Design a container build strategy

This module helps you plan a container build strategy, explains containers and their structure, introduces Docker, microservices, Azure Container Registry, and related services.

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25.Introduction to continuous delivery

This module introduces continuous delivery concepts and their implementation in a traditional IT development cycle.

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26.Create a release pipeline

This module describes Azure Pipelines capabilities, build and release tasks.

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27.Explore release recommendations

This module explores the critical release strategy recommendations that organizations must consider when designing automated deployments and explains how to define components of a release pipeline and artifact sources, create approves, and configure release gates.

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28.Provision and test environments

This module details target environment provisioning, service connections creation process, and test infrastructure setup. You will learn how to configure functional test automation and run availability tests.

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29.Manage and modularize tasks and templates

This module describes the creation of task and variable groups and using release variables and stage variables in your pipeline.

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30.Automate inspection of health

This module describes how to automate the inspection of health events, configure notifications in Azure DevOps and GitHub, set up service hooks to monitor pipelines, measure the quality of your release process, and detail release gates for quality purposes. You will examine release management tools and details about them.

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31.Introduction to deployment patterns

This module introduces deployment patterns and explains microservices architecture to help improve the deployment cycle and examine classical and modern deployment patterns.

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32.Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

This module describes the blue-green deployment process and introduces feature toggle techniques to implement in the development process.

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33. Implement canary releases and dark launching

This module describes deployment strategies around canary releases and dark launching and examines traffic managers.

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34.Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

This module introduces A/B test and progressive exposure deployment concepts and explores CI/CD with deployment rings — ring-based deployment.

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35.Integrate with identity management systems

This module describes the integration with GitHub and single sign-on (SSO) for authentication, serviceprincipals, and managed service identities.

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36.Manage application configuration data

This module explores ways to rethink application configuration data and the separation of concerns method. It helps you understand configuration patterns and how to integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines. Also, describes Azure App Configuration and details Key-value pairs and App Configuration feature management.

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37.Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management

This module describes key concepts of infrastructure as code and environment deployment creation and configuration. Also, understand the imperative, declarative, and idempotent configuration and how it applies to your company.

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38.Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates

This module explores Azure Resource Manager templates and their components and details dependencies and modularized templates with secrets.

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39.Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI

This module explains Azure CLI to create Azure resources, run templates, and detail Azure CLI commands.

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40.Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

This module describes Azure Automation with Azure DevOps, using runbooks, webhooks, and PowerShell workflows. You’ll learn how to create and manage automation for your environment.

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41.Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

This module describes Desired State Configuration (DSC) and its components for implementation. You can exercise how to import, compile and automate your environment creation, and use DSC for Linux automation on Azure.

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42.Implement Bicep

This module explains Bicep and how it integrates with different tools such as Azure CLI and Visual Studio Code for environment deployment configuration.

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43.Introduction to Secure DevOps

This module introduces DevSecOps concepts, SQL injection attacks, threat modeling, and security for continuous integration.

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44.Implement open-source software

This module explores open-source software and corporate concerns with software components. Also, it explains common open-source licenses, license implications, and ratings.

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45.Software Composition Analysis

This module explains Composition Analysis, how to inspect and validate code bases for compliance, integration with security tools, and integration with Azure Pipelines.

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46.Static analyzers

This module introduces the static analyzers SonarCloud and CodeQL in GitHub.

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47.OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers

This module explores OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers for penetration testing, results, and bugs.

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48.Security Monitoring and Governance

This module describes security monitoring and governance with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and its usage scenarios, Azure Policies, Microsoft Defender for Identity, and security practices related to the tools.

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49.Explore package dependencies

This module explores dependency management concepts and helps to identify project dependencies. You will learn how to decompose your system, identify dependencies, and package componentization.

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50.Understand package management

This module describes package feeds, common public package sources, and how to create and publish packages.

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51. Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts

This module details package migration, consolidation, and configuration to secure access to package feeds and artifact repositories.

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52.Implement a versioning strategy

This module explains versioning strategies for packaging, best practices for versioning, and package promotion.

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53.Introduction to GitHub Packages

This module introduces you to GitHub Packages. It explores ways to control permissions and visibility, publish, install, delete and restore packages using GitHub.

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54.Implement tools to track usage and flow

This module introduces you to continuous feedback practices and tools to track usage and flow, such as Azure Logs Analytics, Kusto Query Language (KQL), and Application Insights.

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55.Develop monitor and status dashboards

This module explains steps to develop monitoring with Azure Dashboards, work with View Designer and Azure Monitor, and create Azure Monitor Workbooks. Also, explore tools to supports monitoring with Power BI.

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56.Share knowledge within teams

This module describes how to share knowledge within teams, Azure DevOps Wikis, and integration with Azure Boards.

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57.Design processes to automate application analytics

This module helps designing process to Application Insights, explores telemetry and monitoring tools and technologies.

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58.Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture

This module examines alerts, blameless retrospectives and creates a just culture. It helps improving application performance, reducing meaningless and non-actionable alerts, and explains server response-time degradation.

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Audience

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

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.

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