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

Introduction

• Designing and implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions
• Why get Azure certified?
• What you should know

1. Develop an Instrumentation Strategy

• Overview of instrumentation strategy
• Azure Monitor
• Measure key metrics
• Alerts on key metrics

2. Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Strategy

• Overview of site reliability engineering strategies
• Health check
• Health check alerts

3. Develop a Security and Compliance Plan

• Overview of security and compliance plans
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Policy
• Break the glass

4. Manage Source Control

• Overview of source control
• Azure Repos
• Integrate GitHub with Azure Repos
• Branching strategies for source code
• Pull request (PR) guidelines

5. Facilitate Communication and Collaboration

• Overview of communication and collaboration
• Create a dashboard in Azure DevOps
• Integrate GitHub with Azure Boards

6. Define and Implement Continuous Integration

• Overview of continuous integration
• Design a testing strategy
• Build pipelines

7. Continuous Delivery and Release Management Strategies

• Continuous delivery and release management strategies
• Infrastructure as code
• Release pipeline
• Release strategy design
• Release strategy implementation

8. What to Expect

• Exam logistics
• Exam question layout

Conclusion

• Where to go from here?