• Part 1 — AZ-400T01: 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 PipelinesAnalyze & 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 dataManage 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 CenterManage 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
• Part 2 — AZ-400T02: 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 StrategyLab : 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 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 SonarCloudLab : 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 StrategyLab : 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.Part 3 — AZ-400T03: 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 toolLab : 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 HealthLab : 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 gateLab : 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 jobUse 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 TogglesCanary 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
• Part 4 — AZ-400T04: Implementing Dependency Management
• Module 1: Designing a Dependency Management Strategy
• Lessons
• Introduction
• Packaging dependencies
• Package management
• Implement a versioning strategyLab : 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 feedsPart 5 — AZ-400T05: 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 ToolsVersion ControlLab 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
• Module 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 ServiceLab 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 AzureLessonsChefPuppetAnsibleCloud-InitTerraformLab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using XModule 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 CenterLab 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: Completion
• Lessons
• Final Exam
• Part 6 — AZ-400T06: 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 TeamsLab : 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 flowIntegrate 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
• Part 7 — AZ-400T07: Designing a DevOps Strategy
• Module 1: Planning for DevOps
• In this module, students will learn about transformation planning, project selection, and team structures.
• Lessons
• Transformation Planning
• Project Selection
• Team Structures
• Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
• After completing this module students will be able to:Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Module 2: Planning for Quality and Security
• In this module, students will learn about developing a quality strategy and planning for secure development.
• Lessons
• Planning a Quality Strategy
• Planning Secure Development
• Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and AzureDevOps
• After completing the module, students will be able to:Develop a project quality strategy
• Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules.
• Module 3: Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools
• In this module, students will learn about migrating and consolidating artifacts, and migrating and integrating source control measures.Lessons Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts
• Migrating and Integrating Source ControlLab : Integrating Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines with Eclipse

After completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Migrate and consolidate artifacts

• Migrate and integrate source control measures