Designing and Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

• Describe the benefits of using source control • Migrate from TFVC to Git • Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps • Implement and manage build infrastructure • Manage application config & secrets • Implement a mobile DevOps strategy • Explain why continuous integration matters • Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps • Configure builds and the options available • Create an automated build workflow • Integrate other build tooling with Azure DevOps • Create hybrid build processes • Describe what is meant by code quality and how it is measured • Detect code smells • Integrate automated tests for code quality • Report on code coverage during testing • Add tooling to measure technical debt • Detect open source and other licensing issues • Implement a container build strategy • Differentiate between a release and a deployment • Define the components of a release pipeline • Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy • Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality of both • Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation • Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense • Choose a release management tool • Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling • Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks  • Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool • Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline • Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job • Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline • Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection • Embed testing in the pipeline • List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using, alerts, service hooks and reports • Create a release gate • Describe deployment patterns • Implement Blue Green Deployment • Implement Canary Release • Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment • 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 • Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating • Configure secure access to package feeds • Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles • Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI • Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure • Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster • Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform • Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure • Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure • Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction • Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources • Design routing for client application crash report data • Recommend monitoring tools and technologies • Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools • Configure crash report integration for client applications • Develop monitoring and status dashboards • Implement routing for client application crash report data • Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow • Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team's work management system • 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 • Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines. • Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs. • Create a team and agile organizational structure. • Develop a project quality strategy. • Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules. • Migrate and consolidate artifacts. • Migrate and integrate source control measures.