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Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)

★ 4.8 (300 learners) 60 hrs total 11 modules

Microsoft Azure Azure DevOps ARM Templates Docker Kubernetes Terraform +2 more

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60 hrs: of content
11 modules: in curriculum
16 projects: hands-on builds
Advanced: difficulty

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Frameworks you'll master

8 tools & frameworks

Microsoft Azure Azure DevOps ARM Templates Docker Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins GitHub Actions

Course Curriculum

11 modules · 60 hours · 24 live sessions

DevOps Introduction 1 sessions

Introduction
DevOps Introduction
DevOps Tools
Azure DevOps Certification (AZ400 Badge)
Introduction to Azure and Cloud Computing
IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
Demo on Virtual Machines
Primer to DevOps Project lifecycle
Primer to DevOps Agile Methodology
Primer to DevOps Scrum process
Primer to DevOps Development and Operations
Primer to DevOps About DevOps
Azure DevOps Free Account

Azure DevOps Introduction 1 sessions

Azure DevOps Introduction
Create Azure DevOps FREE account with understanding on Organization in ADO
Azure Repos and Azure Pipeline Overview
Azure Boards Overview
Azure Artifacts Overview
Azure DevOps Servicers VS Azure DevOps Server
Confusion between Azure DevOps, TFS, VSTS, Azure DevOps Server?
Access Levels in Azure DevOps Services (Subscription)
Visual Studio Subscription
Data Protection in Azure DevOps

Configure processes and communications 1 sessions

Getting started with Azure Boards
Creating user stories
Azure Boards
Work item process
Adding tasks to user stories
Now let’s create a sprint
Creating users
Using Dashboards
Using Queries
Seeing dashboards as another user
Understanding permissions
Azure DevOps query permissions
Azure DevOps Dashboard permissions
Azure DevOps Wiki
Azure DevOps Delivery plans
Azure Boards Integration with Microsoft Teams
Trying out another project

Azure Boards 14 sessions

Azure Boards Introduction and Work Items
Process Templates in ADO (Agile, Scrum, Basic)
Deep Dive into Process Templates
Customization of Process Templates Part 1
Customization of Process Templates Part 2
Customization of Azure Boards
Backlogs in Azure Boards
Sprints in Azure Boards
Area and Iteration Path | Working with Queries
Service Hooks in Azure Boards
Integration with Trello
Azure Repos
Azure Repos Modules
Azure Repos Introduction
Version Control (GIT vs TFVC)
Azure Repos Import
Branches in Azure Repos
Forks in Azure Repos
Branch Polices Introduction
Branch Polices Demo
Branch Locks
Pull Requests (Squash, Semi Linear, Rebase)
Tags in Branches
Which Pull Request to Select?
Branching Strategy
Code Review in Azure Repos
Using APIs in Azure Repos
Revert Changes in Azure Repos
Azure Pipelines
Azure Pipelines Introduction
Enable Classic Editor in your Pipeline
Create your first Azure Pipelines Part 1
Create your first Azure Pipelines Part 2
Granted Pipelines from Azure DevOps
Continuous Integration in Azure Pipelines
YAML Pipelines
.NET Pipeline in Azure Pipelines
SelfHosted Agents vs Microsoft Hosted Agents
Personnel Access Tokens (PAT)
Configure Self Hosted Agents Part 1 on Windows Machine
Configure Self Hosted Agents Part 2 on Windows Machine
Removing Self Hosted agent
Configuring the Self Hosted Agent on Linux Machine
Parallel Jobs (Parallelism) in Azure Pipelines
Parallel Jobs Demo
Triggers in Build Pipelines
Predefined Variables and Troubleshooting in Azure Pipelines
Build Options and Build Number
Service Connection in Azure Pipelines
Service Connection with GitHub
Connect to Azure Active Directory
Service Connection to Azure from ADO
Azure Release Pipelines Introduction
Deploy to App Service
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD)
GitHub Repos with Azure Pipelines
Approvals in Release Pipelines
Pre Deployment and Post Deployment Gate Part 1
Pre Deployment and Post Deployment Gate Part 2
Library Group in Azure Pipelines
Library Group Demo
Task Groups
ARM Templates Introduction
ARM deployment using Azure Portal
Delete Resources
Deploy Resources using Azure Release Pipelines Part 1
Deploy Resources using Azure Release Pipeline Part 2
Deployment Groups in Azure Pipelines
Configure Deployment Group
Sonar Cloud
Sonar Cloud Integration with Azure Demo Part 1
Sonar Cloud with Azure Pipelines
Technical Debt
White Source Bolt
White source Bolt (Mend Bolt) Demo Working with Azure Pipelines
White Source Bolt Integration with Azure Pipeline Demo 2
Azure Key Vault Introduction
Azure Key Vault Deep Dive
Key Vaults in Azure Pipelines
Secure Passwords using Key Vaults (ARM Demo)
Key Vaults in Azure Pipelines (Using ARM)
Key Vaults Outputs
Deployment Strategies
Types of Deployment Strategies (Blue Green, Canary etc)
Deployment Strategy Demo
Docker Introduction
Docker File
Docker Build and Push
Docker Image in Azure Container Registry
Design and implement build pipelines
What is Continuous Integration
About the build process
About the publish process
Now going back to continuous integration
What are Azure Pipelines
Creating a pipeline
Triggering the pipeline
Microsoft hosted agent
Resolving our issue
Selfhosted agent
Lab Deploying the selfhosted agent
Lab Registering the selfhosted agent
Running the pipeline
Exploring the work folder
Deleting your resources
Security at every stage
Using the Mend Bolt tool Setup
Using the Mend Bolt tool Usage
Going back to our base
Adding unit tests
Running unit tests in the pipeline
Code Coverage Adding unit test
Code Coverage Implementation
Azure Pipelines GitHub repository
GitHub status badge
Azure Pipelines Classic Editor
Using Sonar Cloud
Parallel jobs
Note on pipeline caching
Azure Pipelines integration with Microsoft Teams
Using GitHub Actions
Installing Jenkins
Jenkins Creating a build pipeline
Jenkins Integration with Azure repos
Design and implement release pipelines
Understanding deployment
Azure Web App Manual deployment
Azure Web App Release pipelines
Multiple stages in the pipeline
Approvals and gates
Lab Release pipelines Approvals
Lab Azure pipelines Gates Query work items
Lab Azure pipelines Gates Azure Monitor alerts
Lab Azure pipelines Gates Azure Policies
Azure Releases Manual Intervention
Lab Deployment Groups Setup
Lab Deployment Groups Implementation
Azure Web App Azure SQL database
Lab Deploying the Azure Web App
Lab Azure Pipelines SQL Database table
Lab Azure Pipelines Azure Web App Connection string
Release pipeline Associate work items
The next step Containers
Revision Building a Docker image
Revision Deploying a container
Azure Pipeline Azure Container Registry
Azure Pipeline Azure Container Registry Implementation
Azure Pipelines Azure Container Registry Debugging
Lab Azure Container Instance Release pipelines
Revision Deployment to Azure Kubernetes
Lab Pipelines Deployment to Azure Kubernetes
Lab Release pipelines Azure Kubernetes
Quick Note Publish Artifacts
Lab multistage builds
About Container jobs
Working with Container jobs
Design and implement Infrastructure as Code
About managing infrastructure
About ARM templates
Lab ARM Templates Azure Web App
Lab ARM Templates Azure SQL database
Lab ARM Templates Azure virtual machines
Modularize templates
Lab Nested template
Lab Linked template
Lab Release pipelines ARM Templates
What happens if we run the pipeline again
Lab Release pipelines Deleting resources
Quick note on deployment to multiple environments
Lab Release pipelines ARM Templates Artifacts
Lab ARM Templates Dynamic Resource creation
Release pipelines Dynamic Resources
Lab Deploying resources via Azure CLI
Lab Release Pipelines Azure CLI
About Terraform
Installing Terraform
Lab Creating resources via Terraform
Lab Release pipelines Terraform
Lab Azure Release Pipelines YAML
Azure Release Pipelines YAML ARM Templates
Desired State Configuration
Lab Azure Automation DSC
Note File DSC resource
Using VM extensions
Lab Team Services Agent
Lab Custom Script Extension
Virtual Machine Scale Sets
ARM Template Virtual Machine Scale Set
ARM Template Virtual machine scale set extension
Azure DevOps Wiki
Azure DevOps Wiki

Azure Boards Dashboards (Create Lucrative Charts for Visualization) 1 sessions

Azure Boards Dashboards
Azure DevOps Dashboards Demo
Azure DevOps Dashboards Demo Part 2
Azure DevOps Dashboards Demo Part 3
Azure DevOps Dashboards Demo Part 4

Azure Artifacts 1 sessions

Azure Artifacts Modules
Azure Artifacts Introduction
Feeds in Azure Artifacts
Build Artifacts VS Azure Artifacts
Views
Upstreams
Azure Artifacts Demo
Azure Artifact Demo Part 2
Azure Artifacts Demo on Views and Upstream

Azure Test Plans 1 sessions

Azure Test Plans Introduction
Azure Test Plans Deep Dive
Testing Types (Manual. Automation, Exploratory)
Start Free Trial for Azure Test Plans and Create your first Test Plan
Test Execution
Azure Test Plans Execution
Test Execution and Progress Report
Azure Test Plans Parameters
Azure Test Plans Parameters Demo
Configurations
Azure Test Plans with Pipelines
Azure Test Plans Test Execution

Deployments, Packages and Test Plans 2 sessions

The fear of changes
BlueGreen Deployments
Azure Web App Deployment Slots
Lab Azure Web App Deployment Slots
Lab Azure Pipelines Deployment Slots
Canary deployments
Azure Traffic Manager
Lab Azure Traffic Manager
Lab Azure Pipelines Azure Traffic Manager
Using a rolling deployment
Using a Load Balancer
Lab Azure Load Balancer VM Setup
Lab Azure Load Balancer Configuration
Using the Load Balancer in a pipeline
Package Management
Lab Creating and publishing a package
Lab Consuming the package
Azure Artifacts Other aspects
Azure Artifacts Upstream sources
Lab Azure Pipelines Package Publish
Pipeline reports
Note Flaky tests
Azure App Config
Lab Using Selenium
Azure Test Plans
Subscribe to Test Plans Trial
Creating Test cases
Running the test cases
Test and Feedback extension

Develop a security and compliance plan 1 sessions

Understanding variables
Lab More on working with variables
Defining variables in the pipeline
Lab Variable groups YAML pipelines
Variable groups Classic pipelines
Lab Azure Key Vault
Lab Azure Key Vault Pipelines
Azure Key Vault Variable groups
Lab Azure Key Vault ARM Templates Static reference
Lab Azure Key Vault ARM Templates Dynamic reference
Using OWASP Tool Build pipeline
Using OWASP Tool Release pipeline
Review of service connections
Review of personal access tokens
Note on secure files
GitHub Code Scanning

Azure DevOps Administration 1 sessions

Azure DevOps Status Page (To check for any Outages)
Azure DevOps Usage (Organization)

Implement an instrumentation strategy 1 sessions

Quick look at the Azure Monitor service
Azure Monitor Setting up alerts
Azure Monitor Dynamic thresholds
Log Analytics workspace
Using a Log Analytics workspace
Service Map solution
Virtual Machine Scale Sets Notification
What are Application Insights
Example on using Application Insights
Application Insights Availability test
Application Insights Other feature
Important note on Application Insights
Note Azure Container Instances probes
Note Azure DevOps notifications
Note on IT Service Management Connector
Database Migration from OnPrem to Azure SQL
Migration Agenda
What is migration?
Migration Advantages and Example
SQL Server and Database creation on Cloud
Installing SQL on the Onpremises
Download SSMS
Migration Process and Enabling Sa user
Migration Demo 1
Final Migration

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Batch Type	Schedule	Duration	Next Start Date	Availability
Weekend	Sat & Sun, 10am–1pm	10 weeks	5 Sept 2026	Available
Weekday	Mon–Fri, 7–9pm	8 weeks	7 Sept 2026	Available
Fast-track	Mon–Sun, 6 hours/day	2 weeks	14 Sept 2026	Available

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