Planning to emerge as a Microsoft Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert? If you’re one of those who have ever aspired to clear AZ 400 certification then this blog post is for you! In this blog post, I am going to cover all the necessary Azure DevOps exam details such as weightage, course content, exam duration, and much more!
This exam requires DevOps professionals who are capable of combining processes, people, and technologies for continuously delivering services and products that meet business objectives and user needs. These professionals must be proficient with Agile practices in software development.
Related Readings: [AZ-400] Azure DevOps Certification Path
Exam Details: Microsoft Azure DevOps (AZ-400)
- Certification Name: AZ-400: Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Pre-requisite: There is as such no pre-requisite for giving the Azure DevOps Certification Exam. However, if you want to earn the Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Badge then you have to clear either the AZ-104 or the AZ-204 exam additionally. You can check out this blog post to know more about the certification on [AZ-104] Azure Administrator.
- Exam Duration: 150-210 minutes
- Number of Questions: 40-60 (One lab with around 10 subtasks)
- Passing score: 700 (Out of 1000)
- Exam Cost: USD 165.00
- Validity: Microsoft has announced that starting from June 2021 all role-based and speciality certifications certifications will be valid for 1 year from the date you cleared the Certification Exam. Microsoft has simplified the certification policy, starting from June 2021 you can simply renew your certification for free by passing an assessment on the Microsoft Learn. This is an annual process for renewing the validity of Certification by Microsoft.
- Exam Languages: English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Russian, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Indonesian (Indonesia)
Furthermore, there are other prerequisites that you should keep in mind before appearing for the AZ 400 exam. Even though these are not mandatory prerequisites, they can improve your chances of qualifying for the exam.
- Proficiency in Agile practices
- The ability for designing and implementing DevOps practices for version control, configuration management, build compliance, release, and testing by leveraging Azure technologies.
- Expertise in streamlining delivery through optimization of practices, creating automation, and implementing strategies for the application code and infrastructure.
Related Readings: Overview of AZ-104 Exam
Type of questions
Below are the type of questions that you can expect
- Single choice questions (based on a scenario): These questions can neither be skipped nor be recorrected later on as you cannot go back once you’ve answered them.
- Single choice questions
- Multiple-choice questions
- Arrange in right sequence type questions
- Case studies with multiple questions
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Learning Path For AZ-400 Certification :
Candidates should have a strong understanding of how to combine processes, people, and technologies for continuously delivering services and products that meet business objectives and user needs. The candidates also need to be familiar with Agile practices in software development before attempting for the Certification Exam.
Related Readings: [AZ-400] Roles And Responsibilities As An Azure DevOps Engineer
AZ-Exam Az-400 Topics:
Check out the table below to have a quick insight into the AZ-400 exam objectives.
Related Readings: AZ-400 Official Detailed Study Guide
With the basic information on the AZ-400 certification exam, we can now proceed towards individual domains in the exam’s scope. I would also outline the specific weight of each domain so that you can know the important topic areas.
1) Design & implement processes and communications: 10 – 15%
- Design & implement traceability and flow of work
- Design & implement appropriate metrics ad queries for DevOps
- Configure collaboration and communication
2) Design & implement a source control strategy: 10 – 15%
- Design and implement branching strategies for the source code
- Configure and manage repositories
Related Readings: Git Branching Strategy.
3) Design & implement build & release pipelines: 50-55%
- Design and implement a package management strategy
- Design and implement a testing strategy for pipelines
- Design and implement pipelines
- Design and implement deployments
- Design and implement infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Maintain pipelines
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4) Develop a security & compliance plan: 10 – 15%
- Design and implement authentication & authorization methods
- Design and implement a strategy for managing sensitive information in automation
- Automate security and compliance scanning
5) Implement an instrumentation strategy: 5-10%
- Configure monitoring for a DevOps environment
- Analyze metrics from instrumentation
Related Readings: CI/CD Pipeline | Continuous Integration | Continuous Deployment
Complete [AZ400] Microsoft Azure DevOps Guide Hands-on Lab
The best way to learn for Azure DevOps Certification AZ-400 is to perform. Especially all the developers want to earn the Certified Azure DevOps Engineer Expert badge and add to their expertise.
Here is the list of our activity guides:
1) Register For Azure DevOps Free Account
2) Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards
3) Version Controlling with Git in Azure Repos
4) Package Management with Azure Artifacts
5) Enabling continuous integration With Azure Pipelines
6) Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps
7) Managing Technical debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud
8) Modernizing your existing ASP.NET apps with Azure
9) Manage open source security and license with white sourcebolt
10) Configuring pipelines as code with YAML
11) Controlling Deployments using Classic Release Gates
12) Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags
13) Monitoring application performance with application insights
14) Deployments using Azure Bicep templates
15) Deploying a Dockerized Java app to Azure Web App for containers
16) Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes services
17) Automating your infrastructure deployments
18) Implement security and compliance in Azure DevOps pipelines
Examples of Scenario Based Questions of Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Liteware Case Study: The scenario described the company to be having 70 branches and due to which they are facing many problems. The following questions were on how to solve the problems.
- Contoso Case Study: There were seven deployment scenarios described in the case study followed by questions. These scenarios were in a table, you might have to go back and forth through this table to answer the following questions.
Also, there might be questions on CI/CD for .NET, Node.js, and Java applications. You need to understand Azure DevOps concepts for different languages.
Related Readings: About DevOps Certification Path
Exam Retake Policy
- First of all, if a candidate fails in the first attempt, he/she has to wait 24 hours before exam retake.
- Secondly, if he/she fails on the 2nd attempt, then they should wait for 14 days to retake the exam.
- A candidate can take a maximum of 5 retakes in a year.
Who This Certification Is For?
- People with non-technical backgrounds such as those involved in selling or purchasing Cloud-based solutions and services or who have some involvement in Cloud-based solutions and services.
- Anyone with a technical background who wants to validate their foundational level knowledge around Cloud services.
The Azure DevOps certification AZ-400 exam enhances your skills as well as demonstrates it among your employers, thus making you stand out.
Related Readings: Azure DevOps Engineer
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I prepare for Azure DevOps certification?
Before you start learning/studying for any certification, you must know about the certification first, like what are the topics covered, what are the pre-requisite for the certification you are planning to take. Azure DevOps Exam covers the knowledge on the following modules:
- Develop an Instrumentation Strategy
- Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy
- Develop a security and compliance plan
- Manage source control
- Facilitate communication and collaboration
- Define and implement continuous integration
- Define and implement continuous delivery and release management strategy
How many attempts are required for Azure certification?
A person can clear any Azure Certification in his/her first attempt if they learn properly and complete all the Hands-on required for the particular certification. Microsoft states the below-mentioned rules for the exam retake:
- First of all, if a candidate fails in the first attempt, he/she has to wait 24 hours before exam retake.
- Secondly, if he/she fails on the 2nd attempt, then they should wait for 14 days to retake the exam.
- At last a candidate can take a maximum of 5 retakes in a year.
Do I need to repay to retake Micrsoft Azure DevOps exam?
Yes, you have to repay for the exam if you have not cleared in single take. You can get a discounted retake. For more information on discounted retake check official Microsoft documentation
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