AZ-400T01-A: Implementing DevOps Development Processes

Module 1: Getting started with Source Control
Lessons
 What is Source Control?
 Benefits of Source Control
 Types of source control systems
 Introduction to Azure Repos
 Migrating from TFVC to Git
 Authenticating to your Git Repos
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Describe the benefits of using source control
 Migrate from TFVC to Git
Module 2: Scaling git for enterprise DevOps
Lessons
 How to structure your git repo
 Git Branching workflows
 Collaborating with Pull Requests
 Why care about GitHooks?
 Fostering Internal Open Source
 Git Version
 Public projects
 Files in Git
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps
Module 3: Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure
Lessons
 The concept of pipelines in DevOps
 Azure Pipelines
 Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
 Agent pools
 Pipelines & Concurrency
 Azure DevOps and Open Source projects
 Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
 Setup private agents
 Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines
 Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines
 Analyze & Integrate Docker multi-stage builds
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Implement and manage build infrastructure

Module 4: Managing application config & secrets
Lessons
 Introduction to Security
 Implement secure & compliant development process
 Rethinking application config data
 Manage secrets, tokens & certificates
 Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Manage application config & secrets
Module 5: Implement a mobile DevOps strategy
Lessons
 Introduction to Mobile DevOps
 Introduction to Visual Studio App Center
 Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups
 Manage target UI test device sets
 Provision tester devices for deployment
 Create public and private distribution groups
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

AZ-400T02-A: Implementing Continuous Integration

Module 1: Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
In this module, you’ll be introduced to continuous integration principles including: benefits,
challenges, build best practices, and implementation steps. You will also learn about
implementing a build strategy with workflows, triggers, agents, and tools.
Lessons
 Continuous Integration Overview
 Implementing a Build Strategy
Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines
Lab : Creating a Jenkins Build Job and Triggering CI
After completing this module, students will:
 Explain why continuous integration matters
 Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps
Module 2: Managing Code Quality and Security Policies
In this module, you will be learn how to manage code quality including: technical debt,
SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions. You will also learn how to manage security policies
with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.

Lessons
 Managing Code Quality
 Managing Security Policies
Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
Lab : Checking Vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt and Azure DevOps
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling
solutions.
 Manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt.
 Manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling
solutions.
Module 3: Implementing a Container Build Strategy
In this module, you will learn how to implement a container strategy including how
containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers. You
will also learn how to implement containers using Docker.
Lessons
 Implementing a Container Build Strategy
Lab : Existing .NET Applications with Azure and Docker Images
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual
machines and how microservices use containers.
 Implement containers using Docker.

AZ-400T03-A: Implementing Continuous Delivery
Module 1: Design a Release Strategy
Lessons
 Introduction to Continuous Delivery
 Release strategy recommendations
 Building a High Quality Release pipeline
 Choosing a deployment pattern
 Choosing the right release management tool
Lab : Building a release strategy
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Differentiate between a release and a deployment
 Define the components of a release pipeline
 Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy

 Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of
both
 Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and
documentation
 Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
 Choose a release management tool
Module 2: Set up a Release Management Workflow
Lessons
 Create a Release Pipeline
 Provision and Configure Environments
 Manage And Modularize Tasks and Templates
 Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
 Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
 Automate Inspection of Health
Lab : Automating your infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and
Azure Pipelines
Lab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault
Lab : Setting up and Running Load Tests
Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests
Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gate
Lab : Creating a Release Dashboard
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management
Tooling
 Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available
deployment tasks
 Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool
 Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
 Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
 Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
 Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection
 Embed testing in the pipeline
 List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using,
alerts, service hooks and reports
 Create a release gate

Module 3: Implement an appropriate deployment pattern
Lessons
 Introduction into Deployment Patterns
 Implement Blue Green Deployment
 Feature Toggles
 Canary Releases
 Dark Launching
 AB Testing
 Progressive Exposure Deployment
Lab : Blue-Green Deployments
Lab : Traffic Manager
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Describe deployment patterns
 Implement Blue Green Deployment
 Implement Canary Release
 Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

AZ-400T04-A: Implementing Dependency Management
Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
Lessons
 Introduction
 Packaging dependencies
 Package management
 Implement a versioning strategy
Lab : Updating packages
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Recommend artifact management tools and practices
 Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
 Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
 Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the
solution
 Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes
packages
 Manage security and compliance

Module 2: Manage security and compliance
Lessons
 Introduction
 Package security
 Open source software
 Integrating license and vulnerability scans
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align
with corporate standards
 Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
 Configure secure access to package feeds

AZ-400T05-A: Implementing Application Infrastructure
Module 1: Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools
Lessons
 Learning Objectives
 Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
 Create Azure REsources using ARM Templates
 Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
 Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
 Additional Automation Tools
 Version Control
 Lab Deploy to Azure using ARM templates
 Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
 Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as
ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI
Module 2: Azure Deployment Models and Services
Lessons
 Learning Objectives
 Deployment Models and Options
 Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
 Azure Automation with DevOps
 Desired State Configuration (DSC)
 Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
 Azure Service Fabric
 Lab Azure Automation – IaaS or PaaS deployment
 Moduel Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

Module 3: Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
Lessons
 Learning Objectives
 Azure Kubernetes Service
 Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster
 Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster
Module 4: Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure
Lessons
 Learning Objectives
 Chef
 Puppet
 Ansible
 Cloud-Init
 Terraform
 Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X
 Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure,
such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform
Module 5: Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure
Lessons
 Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
 Azure Security Center
 Lab Integrate a scanning extension or tool in an AZ DevOps pipeline/security center
 Module Review Questions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a
release pipeline and application infrastructure
 Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
Module 6: Course Completion
Lessons
 Final Exam

AZ-400T06-A: Implementing Continuous Feedback
Module 1: Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms
Lessons
 The inner loop
 Continuous Experimentation mindset
 Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
 Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback

 Design process to automate application analytics
Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams
Lab : Feature Flags
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
 Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
 Design routing for client application crash report data
 Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
 Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools
Module 2: Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams
Lessons
 Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
 Implement routing for mobile application crash report data
 Develop monitoring and status dashboards
 Integrate and configure ticketing systems
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Configure crash report integration for client applications
 Develop monitoring and status dashboards
 Implement routing for client application crash report data
 Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
 Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team’s work
management
Module 3: Optimize feedback mechanisms
Lessons
 Site Reliability Engineering
 Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
 Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts
 Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
 Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
After completing this module, students will be able to:
 Analyze alerts to establish a baseline
 Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline
 Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages
 Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts