AdvancedAZ-400
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Preparation for AZ-400. The expert-level Azure DevOps qualification.
What you'll be able to do
- Design a branching and release strategy a real team can follow
- Build multi-stage pipelines with approvals and gates
- Manage infrastructure as code across environments
- Fold security and compliance checks into the pipeline
Modules
- 01DevOps strategy and processWork item flow, Agile planning in Azure Boards, metrics that reflect delivery honestly
- 02Source control at scaleAzure Repos and Git, branching strategy, pull request policy, large repository handling
- 03Continuous integrationAzure Pipelines, YAML pipelines, agents and pools, build caching, test integration
- 04Continuous deliveryMulti-stage releases, environments, approvals and gates, blue-green and canary patterns
- 05Infrastructure as codeARM templates, Bicep, Terraform on Azure, configuration drift, environment promotion
- 06Security and complianceSecrets in Key Vault, dependency and container scanning, Defender for Cloud, audit evidence
- 07Observability and feedbackApplication Insights, alerting, release annotations, closing the loop back to planning
- 08Exam rehearsalTimed scenario sets, with every wrong answer traced back to the decision behind it
Capstone
Take an application from repository to production through a multi-stage Azure pipeline with IaC, approvals, scanning and monitoring wired in.
Exam format — AZ-400
Around 150 minutes, scenario-heavy, covering process and tooling decisions rather than syntax recall.