This guide covers the complete curriculum for the AZ-400 exam, mapping to official exam objectives for designing and implementing DevOps strategies on Microsoft Azure.
This guide works best as a loop: read a chapter, test yourself with practice questions, look up unfamiliar terms in the glossary, then move to the next chapter.
18 chapters covering every exam objective. Each chapter includes key concepts, exam tips, common traps, comparison tables, and a 5-question quiz at the end.
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View exam guideIntroduction to DevOps and Azure DevOps
Objective 1.1 · Design a DevOps strategy
Planning for DevOps Transformation
Objective 1.2 · Design a DevOps strategy
Source Control Strategy Design
Objective 2.1 · Design a source control strategy
Implementing and Managing Source Control
Objective 2.2 · Implement and manage source control
Designing a Build Pipeline
Objective 3.1 · Design a build pipeline
Implementing a Build Pipeline
Objective 3.2 · Implement a build pipeline
Managing Build Quality and Package Dependencies
Objective 3.3 · Manage build quality and package dependencies
Designing a Release Pipeline
Objective 4.1 · Design a release pipeline
Implementing a Release Pipeline
Objective 4.2 · Implement a release pipeline
Implementing Deployment Patterns and Strategies
Objective 4.3 · Implement deployment patterns and strategies
Managing Infrastructure as Code Using Azure
Objective 5.1 · Implement infrastructure as code
Designing and Implementing Instrumentation Strategy
Objective 6.1 · Design and implement an instrumentation strategy
Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure DevOps
Objective 6.2 · Monitor and troubleshoot Azure DevOps
Designing a Security and Compliance Plan
Objective 7.1 · Design a security and compliance plan
Implementing Security and Compliance in Pipelines
Objective 7.2 · Implement security and compliance in pipelines
Managing Azure DevOps Processes and Communications
Objective 8.1 · Manage Azure DevOps processes and communications
Implementing Work Item Management and Agile Planning
Objective 8.2 · Implement work item management and agile planning
Final Review and Exam Preparation
Objective 9.1 · Prepare for the exam
Free AZ-400 practice questions with full explanations. Test what you learn chapter by chapter.
AZ-400 Practice Questions