Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

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Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise working with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value.

Responsibilities for this role include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

A candidate for this exam must be familiar with both Azure administration and development and must be expert in at least one of these areas.

Part of the requirements for: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

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  • AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

    Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean

    Retirement date: none

    This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: develop an instrumentation strategy; develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy; develop a security and compliance plan; manage source control; facilitate communication and collaboration; define and implement continuous integration; and define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy.

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Skills measured

  • The content of this exam was updated on March 23, 2021. Please download the exam skills outline below to see what changed.
  • Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)
  • Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10%)
  • Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)
  • Manage source control (10-15%)
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)
  • Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)
  • Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy (10-15%)

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