Hello, and welcome to Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions. The focus of this learning path is to prepare you for Microsoft’s AZ-400 exam. However, even if you’re not planning on sitting the exam, this learning path will help you get started on your way to becoming a Microsoft Azure DevOps specialist.

My name is Thomas Mitchell, and I’m an Azure content producer at Cloud Academy.

The AZ-400 exam will test your knowledge in several key subject areas. You’ll be expected to understand how to design a DevOps strategy, implement DevOps development processes, implement continuous integration, and implement continuous delivery. You will also be expected to know how to implement dependency management, implement application infrastructures, and implement continuous feedback. It’s quite in-depth.

This learning path has been designed to align closely with the published learning objectives covered by the AZ-400 exam. Therefore, we’ll begin by teaching you how to design a DevOps strategy. You’ll learn skills that you’ll need to recommend migration and consolidations strategies and to design and implement an agile work management approach. We’ll also get into skills needed for designing a quality strategy and for designing a secure development process. We will even touch on skills needed to design a tool integration strategy.

As you move through the learning path, you’ll learn about version control, source control, and how to implement and build infrastructure in a DevOps environment. We’ll look at code flow, mobile DevOps strategies, and application configuration management.

Other topics covered in this learning path include things like code quality, security policies, and container build strategies. We’ll even look at release strategy design and release management workflow. You’ll also learn skills necessary for implementing deployment patterns.

Security, compliance, and dependency management strategies will also be presented.

We will dive into application infrastructure topics that include infrastructure as code implementation, management of Azure Kubernetes service infrastructure, and infrastructure compliance and security.

Skills that are needed to implement continuous feedback will also be covered. We will, for example, cover system feedback mechanisms, system feedback routing, and feedback optimization.

Completing all courses in this learning path will allow you to learn the skills necessary to sit the AZ-400 exam. As you can see, there’s quite a bit to get through! So, let’s get started!

AZ-400 Exam Preparation - Introduction