Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions — Information & Free Practice

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• Design and implement processes and communications — Official range: 10–15% (Practice allocation: 12.82%)

  • Design and implement traceability and flow of work
  • Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for DevOps
  • Configure collaboration and communication
• Design and implement a source control strategy — Official range: 10–15% (Practice allocation: 12.82%)

  • Design and implement branching strategies for the source code
  • Configure and manage repositories
• Design and implement build and release pipelines — Official range: 50–55% (Practice allocation: 53.85%)

  • Design and implement a package management strategy
  • Design and implement a testing strategy for pipelines
  • Design and implement pipelines
  • Design and implement deployments
  • Design and implement infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • Maintain pipelines
• Develop a security and compliance plan — Official range: 10–15% (Practice allocation: 12.82%)

  • Design and implement authentication and authorization methods
  • Design and implement a strategy for managing sensitive information in automation
  • Automate security and compliance scanning
• Implement an instrumentation strategy — Official range: 5–10% (Practice allocation: 7.69%)

  • Configure monitoring for a DevOps environment
  • Analyze metrics from instrumentation