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Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Certification details

As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations.

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

As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:

  • Developers
  • Site reliability engineers
  • Azure administrators

You must have experience with administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should be familiar with:

  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub.

Important

The English language version of this certification was updated on January 29, 2024. Review the study guide linked on the Exam AZ-400 page for details about recent changes.

Complete one prerequisite

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Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Skills measured

  • Configure processes and communications
  • Design and implement source control
  • Design and implement build and release pipelines
  • Develop a security and compliance plan
  • Implement an instrumentation strategy

Job role: DevOps Engineer

Prerequisites: 2 certifications

Required exams: AZ-400

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Two ways to prepare

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Certification prerequisites

To become a Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, you must earn at least one of the following: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate certification.

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

    As an Azure administrator, you should have subject matter expertise in implementing, managing, and monitoring an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment, including virtual networks, storage, compute, identity, security, and governance.

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

    As an Azure developer, you’re responsible for participating in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.

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** Complete this exam before the retirement date to ensure it is applied toward your certification. After the retirement date, please refer to the related certification for exam requirements.