Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Fast Track (AZ-400)

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using source control
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps
• Implement and manage build infrastructureManage application config & secrets
• Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps
• Configure builds and the options available
• Create an automated build workflow
• Integrate other build tooling with Azure DevOps
• Create hybrid build processes
• Differentiate between a release and a deployment
• Define the components of a release pipeline
• Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
• Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both
• Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
• Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
• Choose a release management tool
• Explain 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
• Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
• Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
• Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
• Embed testing in the pipeline
• List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports
• Create a release gate
• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment
• Recommend artifact management tools and practices
• Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
• Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
• Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution
• Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages
• Manage security and compliance
• Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards
• Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
• Configure secure access to package feeds
• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI
• Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure
• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster
• Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform
• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
• Describe what is meant by code quality and how it is measured
• Detect code smells
• Integrate automated tests for code quality
• Report on code coverage during testing
• Add tooling to measure technical debt
• Detect open source and other licensing issues
• Implement a container build strategy
• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
• Design routing for client application crash report data
• Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
• Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools
• 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
• 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
• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines.
• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs.
• Create a team and agile organizational structure.
• Develop a project quality strategy.
• Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.
• Migrate and consolidate artifacts.
• Migrate and integrate source control measures.