AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
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About This Course
Course Description:
This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices.
Students 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.
Learning Objectives
Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Create a team and agile organizational structure
Design a tool integration strategy
Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
Design an authentication and access strategy
Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
Describe the benefits of using Source Control
Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
Migrate from TFVC to Git
Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
Build organizational knowledge on code quality
Explain how to structure Git repos
Describe Git branching workflows
Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
Leverage Git hooks for automation
Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
Explain why continuous integration matters
Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
Define Site Reliability Engineering
Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
Design processes to automate application analytics
Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
Manage organizational security and compliance policies
Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings
Inclusions
- Certified Instructor-led training
- Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
- *For more details call: 858-208-4141 or email: training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com
Pre-requisites
- 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.
Target Audience
- Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.
Curriculum
207 Lessons40h
Module 1: Planning for DevOps
Module 2: Getting started with Source Control
Module 3: Managing Technical Debt
Module 4: Working with Git for Enterprise DevOps
Module 5: Configuring Azure Pipelines
Module 6: Implementing Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines
Module 7: Managing Application Configuration and Secrets
Module 8: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions
Module 9: Designing and Implementing a Dependency Management Strategy
Module 10: Designing a Release Strategy
Module 11: Implementing Continuous Deployment using Azure Pipelines
Module 12: Implementing an Appropriate Deployment Pattern
Module 13: Managing Infrastructure and Configuration using Azure Tools
Module 14: Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools Available with Azure
Module 15: Managing Containers using Docker
Module 16: Creating and Managing Kubernetes Service Infrastructure
Module 17: Implementing Feedback for Development Teams
Module 18: Implementing System Feedback Mechanisms
Module 19: Implementing Security in DevOps Projects
Module 20: Validating Code Bases for Compliance
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Inclusions
- Certified Instructor-led training
- Official Training Seminar Student Handbook
- Collaboration with classmates (not currently available for self-paced course)
- Real-world learning activities and scenarios
- Exam scheduling support*
- Enjoy job placement assistance for the first 12 months after course completion.
- This course is eligible for CCS Learning Academy’s Learn and Earn Program: get a tuition fee refund of up to 50% if you are placed in a job through CCS Global Tech’s Placement Division*
- Government and Private pricing available.*
- *For more details call: 858-208-4141 or email: training@ccslearningacademy.com; sales@ccslearningacademy.com
