Academyby Code2Deploy
All courses
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

  1. 01
    DevOps strategy and processWork item flow, Agile planning in Azure Boards, metrics that reflect delivery honestly
  2. 02
    Source control at scaleAzure Repos and Git, branching strategy, pull request policy, large repository handling
  3. 03
    Continuous integrationAzure Pipelines, YAML pipelines, agents and pools, build caching, test integration
  4. 04
    Continuous deliveryMulti-stage releases, environments, approvals and gates, blue-green and canary patterns
  5. 05
    Infrastructure as codeARM templates, Bicep, Terraform on Azure, configuration drift, environment promotion
  6. 06
    Security and complianceSecrets in Key Vault, dependency and container scanning, Defender for Cloud, audit evidence
  7. 07
    Observability and feedbackApplication Insights, alerting, release annotations, closing the loop back to planning
  8. 08
    Exam 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.