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Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Microsoft expert certification for DevOps engineers delivering continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring and feedback.

Licensing authority: Microsoft

Initial by examination
Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Prerequisite Certifications
{"anyOf":["Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate","Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate"]}
Scope
The credential requires AZ-400 plus at least one named prerequisite certification. These are certification prerequisites, not an assertion that every applicant must newly sit their associated examinations. Prerequisite examinations and renewals are excluded from this task.

Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Provider
Pearson VUE for ordinary individual scheduling; academic delivery options depend on the official registration flow.
Passing score
700 on the technical-exam scaled score of 1–1,000; not a statement of 70% correct.
Examination outline

The authority publishes percentage ranges for each content area. The practice percentages below use the midpoint of each range, normalized to 100%; they are not exact percentages published by the authority. Practice question counts may differ slightly because of rounding.

  • 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
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