AZ-400T01-A: Implementing DevOps Development Processes

Module 1: Getting started with Source Control

1. What is Source Control?

2. Benefits of Source Control

3. Types of source control systems

4. Introduction to Azure Repos

5. Migrating from TFVC to Git

6. Authenticating to your Git Repos

Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps

1. How to structure your git repo

2. Git Branching workflows

3. Collaborating with Pull Requests

4. Why care about GitHooks?

5. Fostering Internal Open Source

6. Git Version

7. Public projects

8. Files in Git

Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure

1. The concept of pipelines in DevOps

2. Azure Pipelines

3. Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents

4. Agent pools

5. Pipelines & Concurrency

6. Azure DevOps and Open Source projects

7. Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer

8. Setup private agents

9. Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines

10. Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines

11. Analyze & Integrate Docker multi-stage builds

Module 4: Managing application config & secrets

1. Introduction to Security

2. Implement secure & compliant development process

3. Rethinking application config data

4. Manage secrets, tokens & certificates

5. Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline

Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

1. Introduction to Mobile DevOps

2. Introduction to Visual Studio App Center

3. Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups

4. Manage target UI test device sets

5. Provision tester devices for deployment

6. Create public and private distribution groups

AZ-400T02-A: Implementing Continuous Integration

Module 1: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

1. Continuous Integration Overview

2. Implementing a Build Strategy

Module 2: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

1. Managing Code Quality

2. Managing Security Policies

Module 3: Implementing a Container Build Strategy

1. Implementing a Container Build Strategy

AZ-400T03-A: Implementing Continuous Delivery

Module 1: Design a Release Strategy

1. Introduction to Continuous Delivery

2. Release strategy recommendations

3. Building a High Quality Release pipeline

4. Choosing a deployment pattern

5. Choosing the right release management tool

Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow

1. Create a Release Pipeline

2. Provision and Configure Environments

3. Manage And Modularize Tasks and Templates

4. Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline

5. Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation

6. Automate Inspection of Health

Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

1. Introduction into Deployment Patterns

2. Implement Blue Green Deployment

3. Feature Toggles

4. Canary Releases

5. Dark Launching

6. AB Testing

7. Progressive Exposure Deployment

AZ-400T04-A: Implementing Dependency Management

Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

1. Introduction

2. Packaging dependencies

3. Package management

4. Implement a versioning strategy

Module 2: Manage security and compliance

1. Introduction

2. Package security

3. Open source software

4. Integrating license and vulnerability scans

AZ-400T05-A: Implementing Application Infrastructure

Module 1: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools

1. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management

2. Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates

3. Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI

4. Create Azure Resources using Azure PowerShell

5. Additional Automation Tools

6. Version Control

Module 2: Azure Deployment Models and Services

1. Deployment Models and Options

2. Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services

3. Azure Automation with DevOps

4. Desired State Configuration (DSC)

5. Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services

6. Azure Service Fabric

Module 3: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

1. Azure Kubernetes Service

Module 4: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure

1. Chef

2. Puppet

3. Ansible

4. Cloud-Init

5. Terraform

Module 5: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

1. Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps

2. Azure Security Center

AZ-400T06-A: Implementing Continuous Feedback

Module 1: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

1. The inner loop

2. Continuous Experimentation mindset

3. Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction

4. Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback

5. Design process to automate application analytics

Module 2: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams

1. Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow

2. Implement routing for mobile application crash report data

3. Develop monitoring and status dashboards

4. Integrate and configure ticketing systems

Module 3: Optimize feedback mechanisms

1. Site Reliability Engineering

2. Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline

3. Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

4. Analyze alerts to establish a baseline

5. Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

AZ-400T07-A: Designing a DevOps Strategy

Module 1: Planning for DevOps

1. Transformation Planning

2. Project Selection

3. Team Structures

Module 2: Planning for Quality and Security

1. Planning a Quality Strategy

2. Planning Secure Development

Module 3: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools

1. Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

2. Migrating and Integrating Source Control