Planning to emerge as a Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert? If you’re one of those who have ever aspired to clear this certification then this blog post is for you! In this blog post, I am going to cover all the necessary exam details such as weightage, course content, exam duration and much more! So, read below to get all the latest updates regarding this certification.
This exam requires DevOps professionals who are capable of combining processes, people, and technologies for continuously delivering services and products that meet business objectives and user needs. These professionals must be proficient with Agile practices in software development.
Exam Details: Microsoft Azure DevOps (AZ-400)
- Certification Name: AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Target Audience: There is only 1 pre-requisite for taking this exam. The candidate must have cleared either the AZ-104 or the AZ-203 exam. You can check out this blog post to know more about the certification on [AZ-104] Azure Administrator.
- Exam Duration: 150-210 minutes
- Number of Questions: 40-60 (One lab with around 10 subtasks)
- Passing score: 700 (Out of 1000)
- Exam Cost: USD 165.00
- Validity: 2 years
- Exam Languages: English, Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
Furthermore, there are other prerequisites that you should keep in mind before appearing for the AZ-400 exam. Even though these are not mandatory prerequisites, they can improve your chances of qualifying the exam.
- Proficiency in Agile practices
- The ability for designing and implementing DevOps practices for version control, configuration management, build compliance, release, and testing by leveraging Azure technologies.
- Expertise in streamlining delivery through optimization of practices, creating automation, and implementing strategies for the application code and infrastructure.
Type of questions
Below are the type of questions that you can expect
- Single choice questions (based on a scenario): These questions can neither be skipped nor be recorrected later on as you cannot go back once you’ve answered them.
- Single choice questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Arrange in right sequence type questions
- Case studies with multiple questions
AZ-400 Exam Topics:
Check out the table below to have a quick insight into the AZ-400 exam objectives.
With the basic information on the AZ-400 Azure certification exam, we can now proceed towards individual domains in the exam’s scope. I would also outline the specific weight of each domain so that you can know the important topic areas.
1) Develop an Instrumentation Strategy – 5 to 10%
- Design and implement logging
- Design and implement telemetry
- Integrate logging and monitoring solutions
2) Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy – 5 to 10%
- Develop an actionable alerting strategy
- Design a failure prediction strategy
- Design and implement a health check
3) Develop a security and compliance plan – 10 to 15%
- Design an authentication and authorization strategy
- Design a sensitive information management strategy
- Develop security and compliance
- Design governance enforcement mechanisms
4) Manage source control – 10 to 15%
- Develop a modern source control strategy
- Plan and implement branching strategies for the source code
- Configure repositories
- Integrate source control with tools
5) Facilitate communication and collaboration – 10 to 15%
- Communicate deployment and release information with business stakeholders
- Generate DevOps process documentation
- Automate communication with team members
6) Define and implement continuous integration – 20 to 25%
- Design build automation
- Design a package management strategy
- Design an application infrastructure management strategy
- Implement a build strategy
- Maintain build strategy
- Design a process for standardizing builds across organization
7) Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy – 10 to 15%
- Develop deployment scripts and templates
- Implement an orchestration automation solution
- Plan the deployment environment strategy
Note: you can further read our blog to know more about the hands-on lab exercises you must perform to clear this certification.
Complete [AZ400] Microsoft Azure DevOps Guide Hands-on Lab ^
The best way to learn for AZ400 DevOps Certification is to perform. Especially all the developers want to earn the Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert: Hands-on Lab badge and add Azure DevOps Engineer Expert to their expertise.
Here is the list of our activity guides:
1) Register For Azure DevOps Free Account
2) Linking Azure DevOps And GitHub/Bitbucket
3) Importing A Repo From Github/Bitbucket Into Azure DevOps
4) Creating A New Branch And Set Branch Policies And Branch Security
5) Creating A New CI Pipeline For A Sample Build Using YAML
6) Installing A Self-hosted Agent
7) Creating Azure Boards And Kanban Boards
8) Creating A Dashboard And How To Customize The Reports
9) A key Vault In Azure DevOps And How To Use It In CI/CD
10) How To Store The Artifacts And How To Use It In CI/CD
11) Checking Vulnerabilities using WhiteSource Bolt And Azure DevOps
12) Managing Technical Debt With Azure DevOps And SonarCloud
Examples of Scenario Based Questions of Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Liteware Case Study: The scenario described the company to be having 70 branches and due to which they are facing many problems. The following questions were on how to solve the problems.
- Contoso Case Study: There were seven deployment scenarios described in the case study followed by questions. These scenarios were in a table, you might have to go back and forth through this table to answer the following questions.
Also, there might be questions on CI/CD for .NET, Node.js and Java applications. You need to understand Azure DevOps concepts for different languages.
Exam Retake Policy
- First of all, if a candidate fails in the first attempt, he/she has to wait 24 hours before exam retake.
- Secondly, if he/she fails in the 2nd attempt, then they should wait for 14 days to retake the exam.
- A candidate can take a maximum of 5 retakes in a year.
Who This Certification Is For?
- People with non-technical backgrounds such as those involved in selling or purchasing Cloud-based solutions and services or who have some involvement in Cloud-based solutions and services.
- Anyone with a technical background who needs to validate their foundational level knowledge around Cloud services.
The certification exam enhances your skills as well as demonstrates it among your employers, thus making you stand out.
Next Task For You
Interested in other Microsoft Azure Certifications as well? Check out this blog post to know all about the [AZ-104] Microsoft Azure Certification Exam.
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