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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 delivering Microsoft DevOps solutions that provide continuous security, integration, testing, delivery, deployment, monitoring, and feedback. You design and implement flow of work, collaboration, communication, source control, and automation.
As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:
- Developers
- Site reliability engineers
- Azure administrators
- Security engineers
You must have experience both administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should also have experience implementing both GitHub and Azure DevOps solutions.
Important
The English language version of this certification was updated on July 26, 2024. Review the study guide linked on the Exam AZ-400 page for details about recent changes.
Skills measured
- Design and implement processes and communications
- Design and implement a source control strategy
- 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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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.
Certification exams
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Exam AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
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Retirement date: none
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design and implement processes and communications; design and implement a source control strategy; design and implement build and release pipelines; develop a security and compliance plan; and implement an instrumentation strategy.
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