Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise working with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value.

Responsibilities for this role include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

A candidate for this exam must be familiar with both Azure administration and development and must be expert in at least one of these areas.

Skills measured

• Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)

• Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10%)

• Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)

• Manage source control (10-15%)

• Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)

• Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)

• Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy (10-15%)

- Design and implement logging

-Design and implement telemetry

- Integrate logging and monitoring solutions

- Develop an actionable alerting strategy

- Design a failure prediction strategy

- Design and implement a health check

- Design an authentication and authorization strategy

- Design a sensitive information management strategy

- Develop security and compliance

- Design governance enforcement mechanisms

- Develop a modern source control strategy

- Plan and implement branching strategies for the source code

- Configure repositories

- Integrate source control with tools

- Develop deployment scripts and templates

- Design build automation

- Communicate deployment and release information with business stakeholders