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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400T00-A)

Learnfast is a Microsoft Silver Learning Partner. This is an authorised Microsoft Official Course (MOC), a preparation course for the AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions exam. 

Welcome to the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions course. 

 

This five-day course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Learners will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms. 

 

Job role: DevOps Engineer 

 

Features & Benefits

          

  • This course provides an Azure pass and time for students to participate in hands-on labs. 
  • Learners will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications. 
  • An additional fee is payable for exam vouchers. 
  • Take full advantage of our new Hybrid Learning by attending on campus or virtually. Have all your classes ready to be downloaded and watched, anytime, anywhere. (Read More)

          

  • Attendees will learn practical skills which can be applied in the work environment.  

Outcomes & Objectives

Upon completion of this course, learners will have acquired these skills 

  • Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines 
  • Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs 
  • Create a team and agile organization structure 
  • Describe the benefits of using Source Control 
  • Migrate from TFVC to Git 
  • Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps 
  • Recommend artifact management tools and practices 
  • Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse 
  • Migrate and consolidate artifacts 
  • Migrate and integrate source control measures 
  • Manage application config and secrets 
  • Develop a project quality strategy 
  • Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules 
  • Implement and manage build infrastructure 
  • Explain why continuous integration matters 
  • Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps 
  • Manage code quality including: technical debt, SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions 
  • Manage security policies with open source, OWASP, and WhiteSource Bolt 
  • Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers 
  • Implement containers using Docker 
  • 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 
  • 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 
  • 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  
  • 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  
  • Describe deployment patterns  
  • Implement Blue Green Deployment  
  • Implement Canary Release  
  • Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment  
  • 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  
  • Implement a mobile DevOps strategy 
  • Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles.  
  • Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI  
  • Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure 
  • Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster  
  • Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform  
  • Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure  
  • Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure  
  • 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  
  • 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  

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  • Duration

    In Class/Virtual Class, Hybrid Learning (Learn More) 

    • 5 Days (08:30 – 16:00) Classes are  presented via our Hybrid Learning allowing  learners the flexibility to attend on campus or in the comfort of their home or workplace. 

  • Course Prerequisites

    Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of: 

     

    • Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations. 
    • Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas. 
    • Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software. 

    If you are new to Azure and cloud computing, consider one of the following courses: 

    If you are new to Azure Administration, consider taking: 

    If you are new to Azure Developer, consider taking: 

Our Delivery Methods

Our innovative "myWay” learning methodology is built around the students individual learning requirement, allowing each student to learn in a style that is most suitable for their skills set, knowledge and schedule.

Instructor-Led Classes

Reach your full potential through our “myWay Instructor-Led” classes combined with interactive lessons, supporting video content, practical assignments and in field experience, done during the traditional 08:00 – 16:00 working day.

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Online Mentored Learning

Do a course at your pace via our “myWay Online Mentored Learning”, combining self-study with supported interactive online video lectures, an online course mentor, extra resources, questionnaires and more, all supported via out Online Student Portal.

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Part Time Mentored Learning

Designed for the working professional, our part time programmes provides you with the flexibility and benefit of our myWay Blended Learning with at home exercises/assignments and mentored or in-class lectures at a manageable schedule and pace.

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Our Hybrid Delivery Methods

Our Hybrid Delivery Methods

myWay Hybrid Learning is a technology mediated delivery method that extends the benefit of flexibility and technology to all students. Each Hybrid delivery method is described in the section below.

#AnywhereAnytime

Have all your classes ready to be downloaded and watched, anytime, anywhere.

#NoStudentLeftBehind

Never miss a classs because of health, traffic, or transport issues.

#Flexibility

A personalized class schedule, attend class on campus, virtually or both.

 

In Class or Virtual Class Based Learning

A technology mediated delivery method allowing campus based class or virtual class attendance, or a combination of both. Classes can be in the form of lecture based or mentored based.

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Mentored Online Learning

A technology mediated, self paced online delivery method with personal mentorship.

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What you get

On completion the learner will earn:   

 

Note: All certificates are electronically issued.  

Important Notes

  • Learners to arrive at the training venue from 08:00 in preparation for 08:30 starting time 
  • Bookings are only confirmed upon receipt of the proof of payment or an official company purchase order. 
  • For full day, on campus courses, Learnfast will supply you with a computer to use for training (if applicable),& tea/coffee and a full lunch. Catering is not included for On-Site training and laptops are available for hire at an additional cost if required. 
  • Cancellation or rescheduling requests must be in writing and reach us via email at least 5-10 working days prior to the course commencement date. Full course fees will be retained for no shows. 
  • Virtual learners are required to have a stable internet connection & a working headset available for sound purposes.  
  • Learners who use their own laptops are fully responsible to ensure that administration rights, software installations, etc. are working sufficiently prior to training. 
  • Learnfast reserves the right to cancel or postpone dates if we require to do so and undertake to inform clients in writing and telephonically of these changes. 
  • Learnfast is not responsible for costs associated with cancellation of classes such as flight and accommodation for clients. 
 
Module 1: Planning for DevOps 
This module covers planning for DevOps. 
 
  • Transformation Planning 
  • Project Selection 
  • Team Structures 
  • Migrating to Azure DevOps 
 
Module 2: Getting Started with Source Control 
In this module learners will learn how to get started with Source Control.
 
  • What is Source Control 
  • Benefits of Source Control 
  • Types of Source Control Systems 
  • Introduction to Azure Repos 
  • Introduction to GitHub 
  • Migrating from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos 
 
Module 3: Managing Technical Debt 
In this module leaners will learn about managing technical debt. 
 
  • Identifying Technical Debt 
  • Knowledge Sharing within Teams 
  • Modernizing Development Environments with Codespaces 
 
Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps 
This module covers how to work with Git for Enterprise DevOps. 
 
  • How to Structure Your Git Repo 
  • Git Branching Workflows 
  • Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos 
  • Why Care About Git Hooks 
  • Fostering Inner Source 
  • Managing Git Repositories 
 
Module 5: Configuring Azure Pipelines 
In this module learners will learn to configure Azure Pipelines. 
 
  • The Concept of Pipelines in DevOps 
  • Azure Pipelines 
  • Evaluate use of Hosted versus Self-Hosted Agents 
  • Agent Pools 
  • Pipelines and Concurrency 
  • Azure DevOps and Open-Source Projects (Public Projects) 
  • Azure Pipelines YAML versus Visual Designer 
 
Module 6:  Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines 
This module covers implementation of continuous integration using Azure Pipelines. 
 
  • Continuous Integration Overview 
  • Implementing a Build Strategy 
  • Integration with Azure Pipelines 
  • Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines 
  • Set Up Self-Hosted Agents 
 
Module 7:   Managing Application Configuration and Secrets 
In this module learners will be taught how to manage application configuration and secrets. 
 
  • Introduction to Security 
  • Implement a Secure Development Process 
  • Rethinking Application Configuration Data 
  • Manage Secrets, Tokens, and Certificates 
  • Integrating with Identity Management Systems 
  • Implementing Application Configuration 
 
Module 8: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions 
This module covers the implementation of continuous integration with GitHub Actions. 
  • GitHub Actions 
  • Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions 
  • Securing Secrets for GitHub Actions 
Module 9: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy 
In this module learners will design and implement a Dependency Management Strategy. 
 
  • Packaging Dependencies 
  • Package Management 
  • Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts 
  • Package Security 
  • Implementing a Versioning Strategy 
 
Module 10: Designing a Release Strategy 
This module covers the design of a release strategy. 
 
  • Introduction to Continuous Delivery 
  • Release Strategy Recommendations 
  • Building a High-Quality Release pipeline 
  • Choosing the Right Release Management Tool 
 
Module 11: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines 
In this module will teach learners how to implement continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines. 
 
  • Create a Release Pipeline 
  • Provision and Configure Environments 
  • Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates 
  • Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation 
  • Automate Inspection of Health 
 
Module 12: Implementing an Appropriate Deployment Pattern 
This module covers implementation of an appropriate deployment pattern. 
 
  • Introduction to Deployment Patterns 
  • Implement Blue Green Deployment 
  • Feature Toggles 
  • Canary Releases 
  • Dark Launching 
  • AB Testing 
  • Progressive Exposure Deployment 
 
Module 13: Managing Infrastructure and Configuration using Azure Tools 
In this module learners will learn how to manage infrastructure and configuration using Azure Tools. 
 
  • Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management 
  • Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates 
  • Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI 
  • Azure Automation with DevOps 
  • Desired State Configuration (DSC) 
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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400T00-A)
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  4. Tea/coffee and a light lunch will be provided.
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  6. The minimum notice of cancellation is 5 (five) working days prior to the course commencement date. If you fail to do so the full amount is payable.
  7. Students are to be at the training venue by 08h00 in preparation for a 08h30 start time.
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