AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions

Use monitoring services on Azure to bring operational excellence to your applications and infrastructure.

Build a serverless application architecture, automate your operations, and integrate applications by handling Azure events with Event Grid.

Learn how to design an Azure architecture that uses modern practices and gives you full visibility into what’s happening in your environment.

Application Insights is an Azure service that you can use to monitor the behavior and performance of a web application. If you run a web app in Azure, you can take advantage of several benefits provided by Application Insights simply by enabling it, without changing any of your code. When you complete this module, you’ll know how to enable Application Insights and client-side monitoring and view metrics in the portal.

Use Azure Resource Manager to organize resources, enforce standards, and protect critical assets from deletion.

Monitoring how your cloud resources are performing is crucial to building reliable cloud applications. This module covers what monitoring is, why you need to do it, and how you can about monitoring your resources.

Obtain comprehensive diagnostic information from a web app by adding the Application Insights SDK to your server-side code.

Use Azure Monitor logs to extract valuable information about your infrastructure from log data.

Use application logs in Azure Web Apps to help debug web app code.

Characterize the types of services offered by App Center. Describe the use of App Center to build, distribute, test, and analyze usage of apps.

Learn how to adjust your capacity based on workload and how to optimize network performance, storage, and database performance.

In this workshop, you’ll go through tasks to deploy Spring Boot microservices to Azure Spring Cloud (ASC).

Learn to optimize delivery efficiency by improving work plan visibility across teams.

Use a value stream map to help you examine your existing processes and technologies.

Explore what DevOps is (and isn’t) and learn how to get started with Azure DevOps.

Learn to foster the DevOps values of transparency and team cooperation with Azure Boards.

Learn to use Markdown to communicate with brevity, clarity, and expression.

Collaborate with others and merge only the highest quality code.

Learn to use key GitHub features, including issues, notifications, branches, commits, and pull requests.

Learn best practices for building, hosting, and maintaining a secure repository on GitHub.

Learn to interact with the GitHub API from GitHub Actions by using GitHub Script.

Learn to manage a successful InnerSource program on GitHub through effective discoverability, guidance, and maintenance.

Learn to implement a release based workflow on GitHub using project boards, branches, and releases.

Create two deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Microsoft Azure.

Learn to settle overlapping commits across branches by using merge conflict resolution.

Learn to automate DevOps processes by using GitHub Apps that handle repetitive tasks, enforce team policies, and maintain a tidy repository.

Learn to search and organize repository history by using filters, blame, and cross-linking on GitHub.

Learn to move your existing project to GitHub from a legacy version control system.

Learn how to create workflows that enable you to use Continuous Integration (CI) for your projects.

Learn how to manage changes to your repository source by using pull requests.

Learn to upload your existing project to GitHub.

Migration to the cloud presents new ways to think about your IT expenses. This module teaches you about the factors that influence cost and tools you can use to help estimate and manage your cloud spend.

Learn how continuous monitoring and dashboards give you insight into how customers use your software and where patterns of failure occur.

DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. Discover the first two foundation pillars of DevOps: Culture and Lean Product.

Explore the first two capabilities in the DevOps taxonomy, Continuous Planning and Continuous Integration.

Explore two capabilities in the DevOps taxonomy, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Quality.

Explore two capabilities in the DevOps taxonomy, Continuous Collaboration and Continuous Improvement.

Organizations big and small have started to realize just how crucial system and application reliability is to their business. They’ve also learned just how difficult it is to maintain that reliability while iterating at the speed demanded by the marketplace. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a proven approach to this challenge.

Discover what cloud elasticity means and different ways to scale your cloud resources.

Respond to incidents and activities in your infrastructure through alerting capabilities in Azure Monitor.

Use application logs in Azure Web Apps to help debug web app code.

Learn how to manage site reliability.

Review multidimensional metrics for the load balancer in Azure Monitor Metrics, and check health probe status for the load balancer.

Evaluate monitoring options for an Azure virtual machine (VM). Enable diagnostics to get data about your VM. View VM metrics and create an alert to monitor performance.

Learn how developers write programs that run on the cloud, including how to deploy, be fault-tolerant, load balance, scale, and deal with latency.

Learn best practices for building, hosting, and maintaining a secure repository on GitHub.

Keep tabs on security events in your Azure AD resources by using built-in reporting and monitoring capabilities. Respond to events as they happen, and address security risks before they become a problem.

Storing and handling secrets, encryption keys, and certificates directly is risky, and every usage introduces the possibility of unintentional data exposure. Azure Key Vault provides a secure storage area for managing all your app secrets so you can properly encrypt your data in transit or while it’s being stored.

Secure internal resources, external resources, SaaS applications, and more with Azure Active Directory. Learn about the features and capabilities available in Azure AD.

Learn how Azure can help you protect the workloads you run both in the cloud and in your on-premises datacenter.

Securely authenticate applications to Azure to manage and access Azure services. Service principals and managed identities for Azure resources give your app an Azure Active Directory identity.

Create users in Azure Active Directory. Understand different types of groups. Create a group and add members. Manage business-to-business guest accounts.

Learn about post-incident reviews, a practice necessary to help you sustainably achieve the appropriate level of reliability in your systems, services, and products.

Learn the incident response fundamentals necessary to help you sustainably achieve the appropriate level of reliability in your systems, services, and products.

Learn how to access policies, resource locks, and tags, as well as how Azure services such as Azure Policy and Azure Blueprints can help you build a comprehensive cloud governance strategy.

Discover how to protect your APIs from unauthorized use with API keys and client certificate authentication.

Run configuration management tools in Azure Pipelines to help keep your infrastructure configured as you need.

Set up a continuous integration (CI) pipeline that automates the process of building your application.

Set up automated testing in your pipeline to improve code quality.

Manage your application and the packages it uses across build pipelines.

Learn how to use your own build agent when Microsoft-hosted agents don’t meet your needs.

Set up a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline that automates the process of deploying your application.

Design and create a realistic release pipeline that promotes changes to various testing and staging environments.

Learn how to create workflows that enable you to use Continuous Integration (CI) for your projects.

Run Selenium UI tests, a form of functional testing, in Azure Pipelines.

Run automated load tests by using Apache JMeter, a form of nonfunctional testing, in Azure Pipelines.

Create a desired state configuration script that checks that IIS is installed. Onboard virtual machines (VMs) for management by Azure Automation. Automatically install IIS on the VMs where that feature is missing.

Learn how surveys and application analytics create a feedback loop that helps you understand the voice of the customer.

Learn how continuous monitoring and dashboards give you insight into how customers use your software and where patterns of failure occur.

Learn how to manage site reliability.

Implement a CI/CD pipeline for Azure Functions.

Implement a CI/CD pipeline for Docker containers.

Implement a CI/CD pipeline for multiple containers to Kubernetes.

Set up a continuous delivery (CD) pipeline that automates the process of deploying your application.

Design and create a realistic release pipeline that promotes changes to various testing and staging environments.

Use a release approval in Azure Pipelines to help coordinate database schema changes between developers and database administrators.

Run Selenium UI tests, a form of functional testing, in Azure Pipelines.

Run automated load tests by using Apache JMeter, a form of nonfunctional testing, in Azure Pipelines.

Choose and implement a deployment pattern that helps you smoothly roll out new application features to your users.

Learn how infrastructure as code enables you to describe and automatically provision the infrastructure that you need for your application.

Run configuration management tools in Azure Pipelines to help keep your infrastructure configured as you need.

Learn how to automatically provision Azure SQL Database in Azure Pipelines by using an Azure Resource Manager template.

Set up a continuous integration (CI) pipeline that automates the process of building your application.

Collaborate with others and merge only the highest quality code.

Set up automated testing in your pipeline to improve code quality.

Scan for potential vulnerabilities in your source code during the build process.

Scan open-source components for security vulnerabilities and assess their license ratings when your application builds in Azure Pipelines.

Manage your application and the packages it uses across build pipelines.

Learn how to use your own build agent when Microsoft-hosted agents don’t meet your needs.