Azure DevOps Learning Pathway

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Going further.. and further… Role Based Certification

Candidates for this certification should have > Azure DevOps documentation < Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Security/Compliance Prerequisite: Azure Admin (AZ-104) or Azure Developer (AZ-204)
subject matter expertise working with people, > Azure DevOps Labs < • SRE principles and practices: virtuous cycles • Identity and access | Managed Identities
processes, and technologies to continuously • Azure Monitor: Action Groups | Schema • Azure Active Directory groups AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps
deliver business value. Candidates must be Continuous Integration • Overview of the reliability pillar • Service Endpoints Solutions
familiar with both Azure administration and • Key concepts for new Azure Pipelines users • Health monitoring • What is Azure Key Vault?
development and must be expert • Pipeline Tasks | Pipeline Agents • Service Fabric health monitoring • Azure Key Vault – Overview • Develop an instrumentation strategy (5-10%)
in at least one of these areas. This certification • Run quality tests in your build pipeline by Communication & Collaboration • Configure and manage secrets in Key Vault • Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy (5-10%)
is a good fit if your responsibilities include: using Azure Pipelines • About dashboards/ charts/reports/widgets • Key Vault certificates • Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)
• Quickstart: trigger a pipeline run from • DevOps Dashboards | Adding a Chart • Using secrets from Key Vault in a pipeline • Manage source control (10-15%)
• Designing and implementing strategies for GitHub Actions • Azure DevOps Reporting • Scanning Open-Source Libraries • Facilitate communication and collaboration (10-15%)
collaboration, code, infrastructure, source • Run functional tests in Azure Pipelines • Azure Boards documentation • Protect your cloud workloads • Define and implement continuous integration (20-25%)
control, security, compliance, continuous • Overview of testing with Azure DevOps • Azure Boards & GitHub • Understand Security Considerations for • Define and implement a continuous delivery and release
integration, testing, delivery, monitoring • Create test plans and test suites • Link GitHub commits, pull requests, and Application Lifecycle Management Solution management strategy (10-15%)
and feedback • Release approvals and gates overview issues to work items Source Control
• Manage build dependencies with Azure • Tutorial: Follow a user story, bug, issue, or • Monorepo vs. multi-repo • Develop an instrumentation strategy
• New to the Cloud or Azure? Start with Artifacts other work item or pull request • Choosing the right version control for your • Develop a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) strategy
Azure Fundamentals • Azure Artifacts: Feeds | Views • About Wikis, READMEs, and Markdown project • Develop a security and compliance plan
• Data Fundamentals • Semantic Versioning (SemVer) • Release artifacts and artifact sources • How do I migrate a project to GitHub? • Manage source control
• Virtualization - Sharing cloud resources • Use a PowerShell script to customize your • Integrate with service hooks • What is Azure Repos? • Facilitate communication and collaboration
• Cloud computing basics for developers pipeline • Create a service hook for Azure DevOps • Manage and store large files in Git • Define and implement continuous integration
• Linux on Azure • Desired State Configuration (DSC) with Microsoft Teams • Improve code quality with branch policies
• Get started with Azure DevOps • Azure Pipelines: Agents | Triggers • Create a service hook for Azure DevOps • Check out multiple repositories in your Doing More
• DevOps at Microsoft • Configure infrastructure in Azure Pipelines with Slack pipeline
• Introduction to Kubernetes on Azure Continuous Delivery • Integrate third-party services • How Microsoft uses Git • DevOps Resource Center
• Threat Modelling Security Fundamentals • What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)? • Webhooks • Customizing Git - Git Hooks • Enabling resilient DevOps practices with code to cloud
• Take your first steps with Python • IaC – Sample Architecture Instrumentation • Managing code review assignment for your automation
• Understanding Kubernetes (20 x videos) • Create a release pipeline in Azure Pipelines • Use monitoring and analytics to gain team • Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
• Explore DevOps Technology • Deployment Jobs operational insights • Managing scheduled reminders • Build great solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-
• Migrate from Jenkins to Azure Pipelines • Designing your Azure Monitor Logs • Create your first pipeline Architected Framework
GitHub • Automate deployments with Release deployment • Create a build pipeline
• Introduction to GitHub Management • Roles, permissions, and security • Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign-
• What is Azure Pipelines? • What is Distributed Tracing? on (SSO) integration with a GitHub Prerequisites:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• CI/CD Deployment: Classic pipelines • Unify monitoring solutions in Azure Enterprise Cloud Organization
AZ-400: Designing and Implementing or
• Deploy applications with Azure DevOps • Identify performance bottlenecks • Is GitOps the next big thing in DevOps?
Microsoft DevOps Solutions Microsoft Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
• Third Party DevOps solutions • Monitoring solutions in Azure Monitor • ChatOps - Communication and
Official Practice Test • Azure Automation State Configuration • Analyse alerts to establish a baseline collaboration
Check out the Administrator and Developer Pathways
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