AZ-400T00-A: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions

Course structure

Lesson 1: Development for enterprise DevOps

Module 1: Introduction to DevOps

Module 2: Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards

Module 3: Design and implement branch strategies and workflows

Module 4: Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos

Module 5: Explore Git hooks

Module 6: Plan foster inner source

Module 7: Manage and configure repositories

Module 8: Identify technical debt

Lesson 2: Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

Module 1: Explore Azure Pipelines

Module 2: Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools

Module 3: Describe pipelines and concurrency

Module 4: Design and implement a pipeline strategy

Module 5: Integrate with Azure Pipelines

Module 6: Introduction to GitHub Actions

Module 7: Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions

Module 8: Design a container build strategy

Lesson 3: Design and implement a release strategy

Module 1: Create a release pipeline

Module 2: Explore release recommendations

Module 3: Provision and test environments

Module 4: Manage and modularize tasks and templates

Module 5: Automate inspection of health

Lesson 4: Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines

Module 1: Introduction to deployment patterns

Module 2: Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles

Module 3: Implement canary releases and dark launching

Module 4: Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment

Module 5: Integrate with identity management systems

Module 6: Manage application configuration data

Lesson 5: Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC

Module 1: Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management

Module 2: Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates

Module 3: Create Azure resources using Azure CLI

Module 4: Explore Azure Automation with DevOps

Module 5: Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC)

Module 6: Implement Bicep

Lesson 6: Implement security and validate code bases for compliance

Module 1: Introduction to Secure DevOps

Module 2: Implement open-source software

Module 3: Software Composition Analysis

Module 4: Security Monitoring and Governance

Lesson 7: Design and implement a dependency management strategy

Module 1: Explore package dependencies

Module 2: Understand package management

Module 3: Migrate, consolidate, and secure artifacts

Module 4: Implement a versioning strategy

Module 5: Introduction to GitHub Packages

Lesson 8: Implement continuous feedback

Module 1: Implement tools to track usage and flow

Module 2: Develop monitor and status dashboards

Module 3: Share knowledge within teams

Module 4: Design processes to automate application analytics

Module 5: Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture