AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Exam

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This Exam contains multiple choices, multi selection and true or false questions.
Exam Time Limit: 90 Minutes

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Design a DevOps Strategy (20-25%)

  • Recommend a migration and consolidation strategy for DevOps tools

·         Analyze existing artifact (e.g. deployment packages, NuGet) and container repositories

·         Analyze existing test management tools

·         Analyze existing work management tools

·         Recommend migration and integration strategies for artifact repositories, source control, test management, and work management

  • Design and implement an Agile work management approach

·         Identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and DevOps measurements (e.g. cycle time, lead time, Azure Kubernetes Service, WIP limit)

·         Implement tools and processes to support Agile work management

·         Mentor team members on Agile techniques and practices

·         Recommend an organization structure that supports scaling Agile practices

·         Recommend in-team and cross-team collaboration mechanisms

  • Design a quality strategy

·         Analyze existing quality environment

·         Identify and recommend quality metrics

·         Recommend a strategy for feature flag lifecycle

·         Recommend a strategy for measuring and managing technical debt

·         Recommend changes to team structure to optimize quality

·         Recommend performance testing strategy

  • Design a secure development process

·         Inspect and validate code base for compliance

·         Inspect and validate infrastructure for compliance

·         Recommend a secure development strategy

·         Recommend tools and practices to integrate code security validation (e.g. static code analysis)

·         Recommend tools and practices to integrate infrastructure security validation

  • Design a tool integration strategy

·         Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps users, concurrent pipelines, test environments, open source software licensing, DevOps tools and services, package management licensing)

·         Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software

·         Design a strategy for integrating monitoring and feedback to development teams

·         Design an authentication and access strategy

·         Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Implement DevOps Development Processes (20-25%)

  • Design a version control strategy

·         Recommend branching models

·         Recommend version control systems

·         Recommend code flow strategy

  • Implement and integrate source control

·         Integrate external source control

·         Integrate source control into third-party continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems

  • Implement and manage build infrastructure

·         Implement private and hosted agents

·         Integrate third party build systems

·         Recommend strategy for concurrent pipelines

·         Manage VSTS pipeline configuration (e.g. agent queues, service endpoints, pools, webhooks)

  • Implement code flow

·         Implement pull request strategies

·         Implement branch and fork strategies

·         Configure branch policies

  • Implement a mobile DevOps strategy

·         Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups

·         Manage target UI test device sets

·         Provision tester devices for deployment

·         Create public and private distribution groups

  • Managing application configuration and secrets

·         Implement a secure and compliant development process

·         Implement general (non-secret) configuration data

·         Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates

·         Implement applications configurations (e.g. Web App, Azure Kubernetes Service, containers)

·         Implement secrets management (e.g. Web App, Azure Kubernetes Service, containers, Azure Key Vault)

·         Implement tools for managing security and compliance in the pipeline

Implement Continuous Integration (10-15%)

  • Manage code quality and security policies

·         Monitor code quality

·         Configure build to report on code coverage

·         Manage automated test quality

·         Manage test suites and categories

·         Monitor quality of tests

·         Integrate security analysis tools (e.g. SonarQube, WhiteSource Bolt, Open Web Application Security Project)

  • Implement a container build strategy

·         Create deployable images (e.g. Docker, Azure Container Registry)

·         Analyze and integrate Docker multi-stage builds

  • Implement a build strategy

·         Design build triggers, tools, integrations, and workflow

·         Implement a hybrid build process

·         Implement multi-agent builds

·         Recommend build tools and configuration

·         Set up an automated build workflow

Implement Continuous Delivery (10-15%)

  • Design a release strategy

·         Recommend release tools

·         Identify and recommend release approvals and gates

·         Recommend strategy for measuring quality of release and release process

·         Recommend strategy for release notes and documentation

·         Select appropriate deployment pattern

  • Set up a release management workflow

·         Automate inspection of health signals for release approvals by using release gates

·         Configure automated integration and functional test execution

·         Create a release pipeline (e.g. Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Fabric, WebApp)

·         Create multi-phase release pipelines

·         Integrate secrets with release pipeline

·         Provision and configure environments

·         Manage and modularize tasks and templates (e.g. task and variable groups)

  • Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

·         Implement blue-green deployments

·         Implement canary deployments

·         Implement progressive exposure deployments

·         Scale a release pipeline to deploy to multiple endpoints (e.g. deployment groups, Azure Kubernetes Service, Service Fabric)

Implement Dependency Management (5-10%)

  • Design a dependency management strategy

·         Recommend artifact management tools and practices

·         Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse

·         Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages

·         Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution

·         Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages

  • Manage security and compliance

·         Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards (e.g. GPLv3)

·         Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating (e.g. Black Duck, White Source)

·         Configure secure access to package feeds

Implement Application Infrastructure (15-20%)

  • Design an infrastructure and configuration management strategy

·         Analyze existing and future hosting infrastructure

·         Analyze existing Infrastructure as Code technologies

·         Design a strategy for managing technical debt on templates

·         Design a strategy for using transient infrastructure for parts of a delivery lifecycle

·         Design a strategy to mitigate infrastructure state drift

  • Implement Infrastructure as Code

·         Create nested resource templates

·         Manage secrets in resource templates

·         Provision Azure resources

·         Recommend an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy

·         Recommend appropriate technologies for configuration management

  • Manage Azure Kubernetes Service infrastructure

·         Provision Azure Kubernetes Service (e.g. using ARM templates, CLI)

·         Create deployment file for publishing to Azure Kubernetes Service (e.g. kubectl, Helm)

·         Develop a scaling plan

  • Implement infrastructure compliance and security

·         Implement compliance and security scanning

·         Prevent drift by using configuration management tools

·         Set up an automated pipeline to inspect security and compliance

Implement Continuous Feedback (10-15%)

  • Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

·         Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction (e.g. Send a Smile, app analytics)

·         Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources (e.g. Twitter, Reddit, Help Desk)

·         Design routing for client application crash report data (e.g. HockeyApp)

·         Recommend monitoring tools and technologies

·         Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools

  • Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams

·         Configure crash report integration for client applications

·         Develop monitoring and status dashboards

·         Implement routing for client application crash report data (e.g. HockeyApp)

·         Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow

·         Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management system (e.g. IT Service Management connector, ServiceNow Cloud Management, App Insights work items)

  • Optimize feedback mechanisms

·         Analyze alerts to establish a baseline

·         Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline

·         Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages

·         Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

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Exam Time Limit: 90 Minutes


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