Designing and Implementing Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400)

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines • Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) • Create a team and agile organizational structure • Design a tool integration strategy • Design a license management strategy (e.g., Azure DevOps and GitHub users) • Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software • Design an authentication and access strategy • Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources • Describe the benefits of using Source Control • Describe Azure Repos and GitHub • Migrate from TFVC to Git • Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions • Build organizational knowledge on code quality • Explain how to structure Git repos • Describe Git branching workflows • Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews • Leverage Git hooks for automation • Use Git to foster inner source across the organization • Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components • Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines • Explain why continuous integration matters • Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines • Define Site Reliability Engineering • Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback • Design processes to automate application analytics • Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts • Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture • Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure • Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure • Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software • Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance • Manage organizational security and compliance policies • Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines • Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings