How To Prepare For Azure DevOps Engineer Expert: Az-400 Exam…
The world of DevOps is constantly growing and changing with new tools and platforms arriving just about every single day. With all of these tools comes with responsibility to effectively manage DevOps processes and its integrations.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: 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; and define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy.
I just got my AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Certification And Now it is time to share my preparation notes for those who are interested to pass this exam and get certified in AZ-400.
Before we preparing, we should be knowing very well that what this certification is all about and what are the prerequisites.
Below are the topics included in this exam:
- Develop an instrumentation strategy (5–10%)
- Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5–10%)
- Develop a security and compliance plan (10–15%)
- Manage source control (10–15%)
- Facilitate communication and collaboration (10–15%)
- Define and implement continuous integration (20–25%)
- Define and implement a continuous delivery and release management strategy (10–15%)
For more detail : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/az-400
Basic Information about the Exam..
Tips To Prepare Az-400 Exam…
With the basic information about the az-400 exam, candidates could easily start their AZ-400 exam preparation. However, what can you do to ensure that you get successful results from your preparations?
Take a look at the following best practices recommended by experts to pass the az-400 successfully.
If you have working experience on the DevOps ,Exam is going to be little easy to crack compare to someone who doesn't have an working experience and attempting for the exam.
Stick with Azure and DevOps basics while preparing for the az-400 exam and be focused towards your goal. There are lots for material available on the Udemy and other learning platforms you can pick any relevant course as per your convenient, In course itself you will see some practice test which will be really helpful…
Be prepared for questions on :-
Azure Repos
TFSVC vs Git
Azure DevOps pipelines : Build & Release
Jenkins
Azure App Center
Azure Boards
Azure Key Vault
Azure Automation + PowerShell DSC
Azure Kubernetes Services
Docker Containers
Azure Resource Manager Templates
- A company has an Azure DevOps organization and an Azure subscription. A pipeline is going to be setup to build a containerized application and deploy the application onto an Azure container instance. You have to ensure the container instance is restarted whenever the application stops responding. Which of the following can be implemented for this requirement?
Ans: Add a liveness probe to the yaml configuration of the application.
2. You have to build an application that will be making use of the following assets
a) Storage of source code
b) Storage of large and frequently updated binary assets
c) A common library that would be used across multiple applications
Which of the following would you use as the storage for the following requirement?
“Storage of source code”
Ans: Azure Repos
Note: During exam be calm and focus on the question also there is no negative marking etc so try attempting all the questions.
In start of the exam there is one case study with five questions associated, Once you finish the first question you will see next set of questions.
References:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/release-flow
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/branch-policies?view=azure-devops
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/deploy/azure-key-vault?view=azure-devops
https://www.azuredevopslabs.com/labs/vstsextend/azurekeyvault/
https://www.azuredevopslabs.com/labs/azuredevops/yaml/
Good luck…
Thankyou!!!
