Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert: AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions
Certification Exam:
- 1 Course | 46m
- Includes Test Prep
- 15 Courses | 15h 19m 24s
Explore how to continuously deliver valuable products and services by combining users, processes and technologies as you prepare for the AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
GETTING STARTED
Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Introducing Azure DevOps
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GETTING STARTED
MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Migration & Consolidation Strategy for Tools
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COURSES INCLUDED
Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Introducing Azure DevOps
At the heart of cloud, source control management is a repository to hold application code, and to track changes to a source code repository, a source code management tool is used. In this course, learn how to secure, organize, and manage the life cycle of data in a source code repository. Next, discover how to integrate your source control management system with the bigger picture of DevOps pipelines, identity management, GitOps, and ChatOps. Finally, practice integrating GitHub Codespaces into your repository workflows. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
10 videos |
1h 18m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Modern Source Control Strategies
One of the most painful things for a developer to experience is spending hours on a project only to have that work overwritten by a coworker. In an agile world of continuous development, source control is one of the most important factors for preserving valid code. In this course, learn how to select and implement a source control management system. Next, discover the challenges associated with managing large files or multiple repositories. Finally, explore some review process best practices needed to ensure the final product is worthy of production. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
11 videos |
59m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Branching Source Code
Software developers working as a team on the same codebase must share their changes in a way that is consistent and allows for rollback. This is why having a strategy for managing branches in your source control system is so important. In this course, learn how to deploy a trunk-based branching strategy with feature and release branches. Next, discover how pull requests can be used to enable writing, merging, and shipping code in the context of a secured versioning control system. Finally, explore how to enforce static code analysis for code quality consistency on pull requests. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
10 videos |
1h 6m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Repositories & Tools
At the heart of cloud, source control management is a repository to hold application code, and to track changes to a source code repository, a source code management tool is used. In this course, learn how to secure, organize, and manage the life cycle of data in a source code repository. Next, discover how to integrate your source control management system with the bigger picture of DevOps pipelines, identity management, GitOps, and ChatOps. Finally, practice integrating GitHub Codespaces into your repository workflows. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
13 videos |
1h 18m
Assessment
Badge
Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Design Azure Build Automation
In application development, it's important to get a continuous integration (CI) pipeline set up as early as possible. Once tests are added to the pipeline, you can build knowing that you can't merge code to the main branch that doesn't pass your tests. Continuous integration developers often commit code daily, and updates are automatically built and tested before merging. In this course, learn how to design build automation by integrating the build pipeline with external tools. Next, practice implementing different quality control and testing tools so your code meets quality standards. Finally, learn how to integrate multiple tools to create the desired CI flow. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
10 videos |
1h 13m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Package Management Strategy
Imagine receiving a gift and then struggling to find the batteries to make it work. Similarly, in software, all the pieces have to be in place for it to work correctly. Package managers provide this service in addition to helping to ensure consistency and security in developed software. In this course, explore various package management tools and learn how to manage the integration and migration of different source control systems. Next, investigate how to design different elements such as linked feeds and reporting dependencies. Finally, learn how to version code assets, packages, and deployment artifacts. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
11 videos |
59m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: CI Build Strategy
The build process is what takes raw code and turns it into a usable application. This process is critical to the success of any development project and can be quite complex. In this course, learn how to design and implement a build agent infrastructure to ensure the build process is as stable and automated as possible. Next, examine the aspects of maintenance required for a pipeline, such as the monitoring and analysis of the build load. Finally, identify tools to standardize your builds across the organization. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Micros DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
14 videos |
1h 37m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Developing Deployment Solutions
Providing the software to the customer is where the rubber meets the road. Continuous delivery assembles your product, automatically testing the quality and functionality along the way, and produces deployable deliverables. In this course, learn how to choose a deployment solution and implement elements such as infrastructure as code (IaC). Next, discover how to develop both application and database deployment processes. Finally, explore configuration management and examine some complex deployment issues, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and deploying builds across multiple regions. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
12 videos |
1h 29m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Planning Release Management
Efficiency is everything in the world of continuous release, and developers can combine release targets depending on the release deliverable. In this course, learn how to orchestrate the right selection and release deliverables, including the order of dependencies, focusing on the efficiencies of shared release configurations and the use of release gates and approval processes. Next, examine and design strategies that will handle the deployment environment to ensure deployments are staged correctly. Finally, discover the potential issues that may arise during configuration, downtime, or code fixes. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
12 videos |
1h 17m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Planning DevOps Security
Cloud development is a high-stakes world where changes come fast, as can the theft of ideas and code. As a result, part of building a good DevOps framework is to protect those resources in your pipeline. In this course, learn how to design a secure solution to control access to your build infrastructure. Next, examine different methods for securing your solution through service principles and connections that will help to eliminate back doors. Finally, learn how to use secrets and secret files to preserve the integrity of your connections. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
11 videos |
1h 8m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Vulnerability Scanning
Applications do not stand alone as they are inexorably tied to the related services, infrastructure, and components that are used to create them. Unfortunately, that means that all of those areas can introduce risks to the security and stability of your finished product. In this course, learn how to mitigate risk by automating the scanning of dependencies and ensuring that license compliance is being met. Next, practice scanning and automating source code and organizational policy compliance, as well as automating builds triggered by updates using Azure Container Registry (ACR). Finally, examine break glass solutions for when immediate remediation is needed. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
11 videos |
1h 5m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Developing an Alert Strategy
No one wants to wait when there are issues that require a sysadmin to get back to you. Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software engineering approach that tackles IT and operations problems through code, which helps when scaling to very large systems. In this course, learn how to gather the information needed to trigger many self-healing types of operations. Next, explore how to implement alerts based on metrics, logs, or health checks. Finally, discover how to notify users of degraded systems and implement alerts that can trigger scaling or failover operations. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
11 videos |
1h 7m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Health & Failure Management
With the right data you can predict the future! In this course you will learn how to design a failure prediction strategy. First, find out how the load on a system that will lead to failure can be anticipated. Then you will see how predictive maintenance can be used as a preemptive remedy. Finally, you'll focus on health checks that can be used to validate the health of the application and its dependencies so that remediation times can be minimized as much as possible. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
13 videos |
1h 15m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Design Azure DevOps Logging
Without the tools to capture and query logged information it becomes difficult to make the best decisions in the process of looping through the development pipeline. In this course you'll learn why logging is a critical part of any DevOps instrumentation strategy. You'll learn how to design a strategy to aggregate, store, and query the logs associated with software delivery as well as integrating data from crash analytics. You'll see how to use Kusto queries to pull relevant information from Log Analytics. Finally, you'll see how to manage access control to ensure access to logs is controlled. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
9 videos |
46m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Telemetry & Logging Solutions
When trying to plan for scaling or potential failures due to resource limitations, you need the right numbers to tell you what kind of pressures your system will be under. In this course, learn how to implement tools to gather telemetry data and identify and inspect application and infrastructure performance indicators. Next, examine how to design and implement distributed tracing and how to define, measure, and configure alerts on key metrics. Finally, practice integrating logging and monitoring solutions to get the most accurate picture of your environment possible. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
15 videos |
1h 25m
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Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Communication & Collaboration
Do you want the good news or the bad news? You want both, of course! In this course, learn how to create communication tools such as dashboards, user analytics, and Azure Boards to facilitate communication and collaboration and populate communication channels. Next, discover how to generate and assess process documentation to ensure that old and new employees have the necessary accurate information. Finally, explore how to automatically tie monitoring tools with communication platforms so that the flow of information is another continuous process. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.
14 videos |
1h 27m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Migration & Consolidation Strategy for Tools
Explore Microsoft Azure DevOps migration and consolidation tools in this 11-video course, preparing learners for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include the tools available in the cloud for implementing a DevOps strategy; sharing packages across the organization for more reliable and scalable builds; and how to implement test plans and test cases to drive quality through the development process. Next, you will learn to utilize Azure Boards for tracking tasks, features, and bugs; use Azure Boards to plan and work, linking to GitHub for commits and pull requests; and migrate data from TFS to Azure DevOps. Then learn to migrate data to Git for source control and integrate it with Azure DevOps; integrate Selenium into the pipeline for code testing; and plan a project with Azure Boards. Create a package that can be reused/shared; create a test case for Azure; and use Azure Boards to track a task. Then use Selenium for code testing, and create a task within a project on Azure Boards.
11 videos |
1h 2m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Design & Implement Agile Work Management Approach
Discover how to use Azure DevOps tools and processes to implement an Agile work management approach in preparation for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered in this 16-video course include tools offered by Azure DevOps for use by Agile teams; working with Azure Boards within Agile methodology; and how to utilize Azure Boards to work with backlogs and to plan sprints. Next, learn to utilize queries within Azure Boards to find work assignments; work with items in Azure Boards to streamline personal work flows; and manage individual work portfolios and calendars across teams. Identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and other DevOps measurements; measure and refine Azure Kubernetes Service cluster performance; and define work in progress limits for Agile development team. Learn to implement techniques and practices to guide a team in working to Agile methodology and implement tools to share code and promote collaboration between teams. View a backlog using Azure Board, use Azure DevOps to create a Sprint, set time tracking, use Azure Queries, and set WIP limits.
16 videos |
1h 16m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Design a Quality Strategy & Secure Development Process
Discover how to examine code behind a cloud application for security and quality and explore quality metrics, security validation, testing strategies, and secure development lifecycle in this 15-video course, helping prepare learners for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered here include how to improve quality of code for DevOps development; learning to recognize the quality of the code in an application for DevOps development; and identifying metrics that measure the quality of code for DevOps quality. Next, utilize feature flags to enable and disable application components for a DevOps quality strategy; how to avoid technical debt for a DevOps quality strategy; and test performance of code for a DevOps quality strategy. Learn the codebase requirements for a secure DevOps development process; ensure that infrastructure is compliant to security directives for secure DevOps development; and recommend a strategy for implementing the secure development lifecycle in DevOps development. Finally, learn to automate the inspection and compliance of code for DevOps development; and automate the inspection and compliance of infrastructure for secure DevOps development.
15 videos |
1h 10m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Tool Integration
Examine how to integrate Azure DevOps tools into the application creation and deployment strategy in this 13-video course, which explores licensing, software development lifecycle, authentication and access, and cloud hybridization, in preparation for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to utilize licensing efficiently in Azure DevOps; streamlining user licensing in Azure DevOps; and learning to license concurrent pipelines. Next, learn to implement cost efficient test environments; work within limitations of open-source software licensing; and work with licenses for all aspects of the Azure DevOps suite. You will learn to streamline licensing package management in Azure DevOps; recommend a strategy for an end-to-end development lifecycle; and integrate monitoring and feedback into the Azure DevOps pipeline. Learn to securely manage user access to the Azure DevOps environment; integrate on-premises and cloud resources; and learn components of the software development lifecycle. Finally, learn about managing and licensing of group rules, open-source license types, tiers of jobs in Azure Pipelines, and private cloud characteristics.
13 videos |
46m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Version & Source Control
Discover how to integrate version and source control management into Azure DevOps application and infrastructure pipelines, in this 17-video course preparing learners for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam. Key concepts covered here include implementing a version control system; branching models; and utilizing Git as a version control system. Next, learn how to utilize TFVC as a version control system; learn about code flow strategy; and identify uses for source control in DevOps pipeline. Then learn to implement a source control system with Azure DevOps; integrate source control into DevOps pipeline; implement private and hosted agents; and integrate third-party build systems into Azure DevOps pipeline. Configure Azure DevOps pipeline; manage agent queues in Azure DevOps pipeline; and use web-hooks to interact with external applications based on events in the pipeline. Trigger multiple pipelines in Azure DevOps; use Git as a source control for versioning; and integrate an external source control. Then use source control for continuous integration-continuous deployment (CI/CD), integrate a third-party build system into Azure DevOps, and use service endpoints for an external application.
17 videos |
1h 8m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Code Flow & Mobile DevOps
In this 11-video course, learners explore the flow of code through the CI/CD (continuous integration-continuous delivery) pipeline, and to determine the DevOps strategy that identifies the tools to adopt to service the business' and team's requirements. Prepare for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam by exploring a strategy for mobile app development and learning how to manage the flow of code through the DevOps cycle, and examine various strategies for a pull request, forking and branching. You will learn to use the Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, how to do App center testing, and how to target UI (User Interface) device sets. Next, learn to use the App Center to provision tester devices, and to distribute release binaries to end user devices. Then you will learn about several frameworks supported by the App Center Test, including Appium, Espresso, Xamarin.UITest, and XCUITest. Finally, the course examines how to implement continuous integration and delivery, well dependency management in application infrastructure, and continuous feedback.
11 videos |
43m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Application Configuration & Secrets
This 11-video course, which can be used to prepare for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, explores Azure DevOps data protection, and how Azure protects the main pillars of data protection: data availability, service availability, service security, and data privacy. First, learners will be introduced to Azure App Service, and learn how to configure Azure tools to utilize secrets for secure access and development. This course next examines the Azure App Service with containers, and how it enables users to deploy applications that runs on Linux or Windows box. You will learn how to manage secrets, tokens, and certificates, and learn to implement the security components in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), a managed container service to protect application workloads. Then learners will examine Microsoft's Azure Key Vault to store various types of secret or key data. Finally, you will learn how to implement Key Vault with Azure pipelines and implement Azure policies for managing security and compliance.
11 videos |
57m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Manage Code Quality & Security Policies
Explore how to use Azure DevOps to manage the quality of code, to integrate security tools, and policies into the continuous integration pipeline in this 11-video course, used to help prepare learners for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, you will examine characteristics of good and bad code quality measured by the speed of the software; writing reusable code; and removing unnecessary code. Then, learn how to use Azure Monitor to monitor the application quality and performance, and review code coverage. This course next examines Azure's Test Suites and Categories, which are groups of test cases that collectively form a single test scenario within a test plan. You will learn how to integrate security analysis tools, and to use SonarQube for automated inspection of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security issues on applications in more than 20 programming languages. Finally, learn to implement the WhiteSource Bolt tool to scan open-source components for known vulnerabilities.
11 videos |
48m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Azure DevOps Infrastructure
This 16-video course examines the use of containers and build tools available in Azure DevOps for infrastructure, and the DevOps methodology of application deployment, while preparing learners for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, you will learn that containers can help to make applications portable, reduce issues, hardware, and operating system differences by abstracting those components out of the application environment. Next, learners see how to use the Docker platform management utility for containers, and Kubernetes to automate deployment. Learn to use Azure Container Registry to configure and manage containers, and how to implement multi-stage builds in the CI/CD (continuous integration-continuous delivery) pipeline. This course then explains how to build strategy by using Azure Pipelines, and how to use Jenkins to build triggers in workflow. Finally, you will learn to use Azure DevOps for implementing build process for on-premises and cloud platforms, and to create automated build workflows to build an app from source.
16 videos |
1h 4m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Design and Set Up Release Strategy & Workflow
Examine how to design a release strategy, and to build a release management workflow for Azure DevOps solutions in this 18-video course, which helps learners prepare for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, you will learn about release approvals, and how to create a strategy for measuring release quality. Next, learn to create release notes in the Release Notes Generator, how to specify deployment targets, and to implement approvals. Learners observe how to integrate Jenkins automation server, and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) into pipelines by using Azure Service Fabric. You will learn to deploy applications to Azure Web Apps; to use the Azure Key Vault for storage of sensitive information; how to integrate secrets in Azure key vault into the pipeline; and how to build a CI/CD (continuous integration-continuous delivery) environment. The course then demonstrates how to encapsulate a sequence of predefined tasks into a reusable task, and use variable groups to store across multiple pipelines. Finally, you will learn to use Azure Test.
18 videos |
1h 13m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Implement Deployment Patterns
This 9-video course, which helps prepare learners for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, explores several deployment patterns, and how to implement a deployment pattern by using Azure DevOps. In this course, you will learn to identify and implement a suitable deployment pattern based on an organization's business needs. You will examine Blue/Green deployments which allow testing of the new application version before sending production traffic to it, along with the Canary deployment method to roll out new versions of an application without significant outage or disruption times. Then learn how progressive exposure deployments allow one to troubleshoot and reduce the scale of the impact of performance degradation. The course demonstrates how to perform a multistage deployment, and explores triggers, approvals, and release gates in the release pipeline. Explore deployment groups, a collection of target machines, in Azure pipelines. You will learn to deploy applications to Azure Kubernetes Services Containers. Finally, you will learn how use the Azure Service Fabric to distribute microservice applications.
9 videos |
31m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Dependency Management & Security Compliance
This 20-video course explores implementation of dependency management, and how to automate security and compliance scanning in the Azure DevOps pipeline, as part of preparations for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, learners will examine dependency management, the Azure utility, which supports Maven, NPM, NuGet and Python, to manage, share, and version packages. You will learn to collaborate with packages, to identify reasonable code, run Azure functions from a package, and explore packaged version strategies. This course then demonstrates how to utilize packages of reusable code, and to implement security and compliance scanning in the DevOps pipeline. Learners will examine open-source licensing compliance by using Black Duck to assess package security. You will learn to use Azure package feeds, and how to work with the secure DevOps kit to manage subscription security. You will examine secure development, continuous assurance, and how to run a security verification test. Finally, learn how to gain and control insights from telemetry data generated by Secure DevOps Kit for Azure.
20 videos |
1h 19m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Infrastructure as Code & Security Compliance
Learners can explore several tools available on Azure to create infrastructure code, to manage security, and configuration drift of infrastructure in this 13-video course, used in preparation for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, learners will examine infrastructure configuration management, and ARM (Azure Resource Manager) to deploy and manage resources within the Azure subscription. You will then learn to use SonarCloud and the Azure activity log to monitor drift. You will explore Microsoft's Azure Policy to create, assign, manage policies, and to enforce rules and resources in the subscription; and explore AzSK (Secure DevOps Kit for Azure) to enhance your Azure investment. Learners will observe how to use Chef, which automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across a network. Next, learn to use PowerShell DSC to programmatically configure, deploy, and manage across your network. You will learn to manage technical debt on templates, and how to use custom script extensions to maintain configuration management. Finally, you will learn how to inspect security and compliance issues.
13 videos |
52m
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Implement Infrastructure as Code
This 16-video course, used in preparation for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, explores several tools available in Azure to create infrastructure as code. First, learners will examine ARM Azure Resource Manager), the management layer for all operations in Azure, and learn how to use Nested Resource Templates to deploy and configure resources on Azure's cloud platform. Next, you will learn to use ARM templates to deploy new resources, provide configuration settings, and to retrieve information stored in other places, for example, retrieving secrets from Azure Key Vault. Then explore Terraform, a utility for managing infrastructure as code, and Chef, an automation tool to automate deployment of applications and their dependencies, and to accelerate and standardize infrastructure configuration. You will explore Ansible to deploy and manage infrastructure as code; learn to use AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) with Ansible; and learn to use Helm to manage Kubernetes applications. Finally, learners will use Azure DevOps projects to scale applications.
16 videos |
1h
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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Implement Continuous Feedback
Examine the tools available in Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center to implement continuous feedback in this 18-video course, which describes several system feedback mechanisms. While preparing for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, learners will observe how to use Visual Studio App Center to analyze client application crash reports to measure end-user satisfaction. You will learn to use the Application Insights module to monitor live web apps; how to analyze user feedback from external sources; and how to use the feedback link widget as a platform for testers. You will then examine Azure Monitor, a central platform for collection and analysis of telemetry generated by applications and alert baselines to monitor and diagnose app issues. Next, learners can explore Azure's test plans for software development teams to automate and manage tasks. You will learn to use Microsoft Test and Feedback, a browser-based extension to test applications. Finally, you will examine ongoing tuning to reduce chatter.
18 videos |
1h 10m
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AZ-400: Configure Processes and Communications Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Configure Processes and Communications Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark assesses your ability to configure and manage the processes and communication channels required for effective DevOps practices, automate tasks, and ensure high-quality and reliable software delivery. You will be evaluated on your skills in creating, customizing, and optimizing processes, as well as using collaboration tools and communication channels to facilitate communication and collaboration between teams. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they can effectively manage and automate the entire software development lifecycle while ensuring high quality and reliability. They are also able to implement best practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD), automate manual tasks, and improve efficiency and productivity.
17m
| 17 questions
AZ-400: Design and Implement Source Control Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Design and Implement Source Control Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark assesses your ability to design and implement effective source control strategies for software development. You will be evaluated on your skills in effectively creating and managing code branches, managing conflicts and merges, and implementing code reviews to ensure code quality and compliance with development standards. You will also be evaluated on your ability to implement best practices for version control, automate build and deployment processes, and improve efficiency and productivity. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they are able to design and implement effective source control strategies, manage code repositories, and ensure code quality and compliance. This competency is essential for software development teams to work together efficiently and effectively, deliver high-quality code, and ensure continuous improvement.
22m
| 22 questions
AZ-400: Design and Implement Build and Release Pipelines Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Design and Implement Build and Release Pipelines Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to design and implement effective build and release pipelines for software development. You will be evaluated on your ability to create automated build and release processes that integrate with source control systems, perform tests, and deploy code to different environments. You will also be evaluated on your skills in using tools to create and manage pipelines, configure triggers, and automate tasks, as well as implementing best practices for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the ability to create and manage efficient and reliable build and release pipelines. This competency is essential for software development teams to deliver high-quality code quickly and securely, reduce deployment errors, and ensure continuous improvement.
32m
| 32 questions
AZ-400: Develop a Security and Compliance Plan Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Develop a Security and Compliance Plan Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to develop and implement effective security and compliance plans for software development. You will be evaluated on your ability to identify and mitigate security risks, comply with regulations and standards, and establish an organizational culture of security. You will also be evaluated on your skills in developing and implementing security and compliance plans, using tools to monitor and manage security risks and compliance requirements, and implementing best practices for secure software development. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the ability to develop and implement effective security and compliance plans. This competency is essential for software development teams to protect sensitive data, ensure compliance with regulations and standards, and maintain the trust of customers and stakeholders.
13m
| 13 questions
AZ-400: Implement an Instrumentation Strategy Competency (Intermediate Level)
The Implement an Instrumentation Strategy Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark assesses your ability to implement effective instrumentation strategies for software development. You will be evaluated on your ability to collect and analyze data from different sources, monitor performance and usage, and optimize system behavior and user experience. You will also be evaluated on your skills in implementing instrumentation strategies that include monitoring and logging tools, telemetry data collection, and analysis techniques. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the ability to implement effective instrumentation strategies. This competency is essential for software development teams to monitor and optimize system performance, improve user experience, and ensure continuous improvement.
24m
| 24 questions
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