Microsoft Practice Test AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

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The AZ-400 practice test trains you in designing and implementing Microsoft DevOps solutions.

Why should I take the AZ-400 exam?

The AZ-400 certification offers you the perfect opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of DevOps, and how to progress in your career as a DevOps engineer, having the skills to combine people, processes, and technologies to deliver valuable products and services that meet end-user needs and business objectives. The AZ-400 certification exam is an obligatory requirement to obtain the Microsoft certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification, along with either the AZ-104 or the AZ-204.

The AZ-400 practice test includes two different modes: certification and practice mode. Certification mode allows you to assess your knowledge and discover your weak areas, with practice mode allowing you to focus on the areas that need development.

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Questions: 147
Release Date: 06/2021 (Last Update: 08/2024)
Job Role: DevOps Engineer
Language: English

The AZ-400 practice test contains 147 questions and covers the following objectives:

Design and implement processes and communications -22 questions

Design and implement traceability and flow of work

Design and implement a structure for the flow of work, including GitHub Flow
Design and implement a strategy for feedback cycles, including notifications and GitHub issues
Design and implement integration for tracking work, including GitHub projects, Azure Boards, and repositories
Design and implement source, bug, and quality traceability

Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for DevOps

Design and implement a dashboard, including flow of work, such as cycle times, time to recovery, and lead time
Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for project planning
Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for development
Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for testing
Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for security
Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for delivery
Design and implement appropriate metrics and queries for operations

Configure collaboration and communication

Document a project by configuring wikis and process diagrams, including Markdown and Mermaid syntax
Configure release documentation, including release notes and API documentation
Automate creation of documentation from Git history
Configure integration by using webhooks
Configure integration between Azure Boards and GitHub repositories
Configure integration between GitHub or Azure DevOps and Microsoft Teams

Design and implement a source control strategy –20 questions

Design and implement branching strategies for the source code

Design a branch strategy, including trunk-based, feature branch, and release branch
Design and implement a pull request workflow by using branch policies and branch protections
Implement branch merging restrictions by using branch policies and branch protections

Configure and manage repositories

Design and implement a strategy for managing large files, including Git Large File Storage (LFS) and git-fat
Design a strategy for scaling and optimizing a Git repository, including Scalar and cross-repository sharing
Configure permissions in the source control repository
Configure tags to organize the source control repository
Recover specific data by using Git commands
Remove specific data from source control

Design and implement build and release pipelines -70 questions

Design and implement a package management strategy

Recommend package management tools including GitHub Packages registry and Azure Artifacts
Design and implement package feeds and views for local and upstream packages
Design and implement a dependency versioning strategy for code assets and packages, including semantic versioning (SemVer) and date-based (CalVer)
Design and implement a versioning strategy for pipeline artifacts

Design and implement a testing strategy for pipelines

Design and implement quality and release gates, including security and governance
Design a comprehensive testing strategy, including local tests, unit tests, integration tests, and load tests
Implement tests in a pipeline, including configuring test tasks, configuring test agents, and integration of test results
Implement code coverage analysis

Design and implement pipelines

Select a deployment automation solution, including GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
Design and implement a GitHub runner or Azure DevOps agent infrastructure, including cost, tool selection, licenses, connectivity, and maintainability
Design and implement integration between GitHub repositories and Azure Pipelines
Develop and implement pipeline trigger rules
Develop pipelines by using YAML
Design and implement a strategy for job execution order, including parallelism and multi-stage pipelines
Develop and implement complex pipeline scenarios, such as hybrid pipelines, VM templates, and self-hosted runners or agents
Create reusable pipeline elements, including YAML templates, task groups, variables, and variable groups
Design and implement checks and approvals by using YAML-based environments

Design and implement deployments

Design a deployment strategy, including blue-green, canary, ring, progressive exposure, feature flags, and A/B testing
Design a pipeline to ensure that dependency deployments are reliably ordered
Plan for minimizing downtime during deployments by using virtual IP address (VIP) swap, load balancing, rolling deployments, and deployment slot usage and swap
Design a hotfix path plan for responding to high-priority code fixes
Design and implement a resiliency strategy for deployment
Implement feature flags by using Azure App Configuration Feature Manager
Implement application deployment by using containers, binaries, and scripts
Implement a deployment that includes database tasks

Design and implement infrastructure as code (IaC)

Recommend a configuration management technology for application infrastructure
Implement a configuration management strategy for application infrastructure
Define an IaC strategy, including source control and automation of testing and deployment
Design and implement desired state configuration for environments, including Azure Automation State Configuration, Azure Resource Manager, Bicep, and Azure Automanage Machine Configuration
Design and implement Azure Deployment Environments for on-demand selfdeployment

Maintain pipelines

Monitor pipeline health, including failure rate, duration, and flaky tests
Optimize a pipeline for cost, time, performance, and reliability
Optimize pipeline concurrency for performance and cost
Design and implement a retention strategy for pipeline artifacts and dependencies
Migrate a pipeline from classic to YAML in Azure Pipelines

Develop a security and compliance plan -22 questions

Design and implement authentication and authorization methods

Choose between Service Principals and Managed Identity (including system-assigned and user-assigned)
Implement and manage GitHub authentication, including GitHub Apps,GITHUB_TOKEN, and personal access tokens
Implement and manage Azure DevOps service connections and personal access tokens
Design and implement permissions and roles in GitHub
Design and implement permissions and security groups in Azure DevOps
Recommend appropriate access levels, including stakeholder access in Azure DevOps and outside collaborator access in GitHub
Configure projects and teams in Azure DevOps

Design and implement a strategy for managing sensitive information in automation

Implement and manage secrets, keys, and certificates by using Azure Key Vault
Implement and manage secrets in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
Design and implement a strategy for managing sensitive files during deployment, including Azure Pipelines secure files
Design pipelines to prevent leakage of sensitive information

Automate security and compliance scanning

Design a strategy for security and compliance scanning, including dependency, code, secret, and licensing scanning
Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud DevOps Security
Configure GitHub Advanced Security for both GitHub and Azure DevOps
Integrate GitHub Advanced Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Automate container scanning, including scanning container images and configuring an action to run CodeQL analysis in a container
Automate analysis of licensing, vulnerabilities, and versioning of open-source components by using Dependabot alerts

Implement an instrumentation strategy -13 questions

Configure monitoring for a DevOps environment

Configure Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to integrate with DevOps tools
Configure collection of telemetry by using Application Insights, VM Insights, Container Insights, Storage Insights, and Network Insights
Configure monitoring in GitHub, including enabling insights and creating and configuring charts
Configure alerts for events in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines

Analyze metrics from instrumentation

Inspect infrastructure performance indicators, including CPU, memory, disk, and network
Analyze metrics by using collected telemetry, including usage and application performance
Inspect distributed tracing by using Application Insights
Interrogate logs using basic Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries

Notes:

The bullets that follow each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how we are assessing that skill. Related topics may be covered in the exam.
Most questions cover features that are general availability (GA). The exam may contain questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.

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What can I expect to earn if I pass the AZ-400 exam?

On passing the AZ-400, and obtaining a job as a senior developer, you can expect to earn a salary in the United States of approximately $175,000.

Source: Nigel Franks International.

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AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

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AZ-400 PRACTICE TEST

Why should you use the MeasureUp practice test?

The MeasureUp AZ-400 practice test is the most realistic simulation of the actual certification exam on the market, giving you the perfect opportunity to pass the official AZ-400 exam on the first go. With our Test Pass Guarantee, you can be sure of success as we offer all of your money back if you do not pass. The AZ-400 practice test has been created by leading experts in administering and developing in Azure.

How to use an online Practice Test

In a Practice Test there are two specific test-taking modes to prepare students for their certification: Certification Mode and Practice Mode.

Practice Mode. The Practice Mode allows users to highly customize their testing environment. They may select how many questions they want to include in their assessment, the maximum time to finish the test, the possibility to randomize the question order, and select how and which questions will be shown in the test.
Certification Mode. The Certification Mode simulates the actual testing environment users will encounter when taking a certification exam. They are timed and do not allow users to request the answers and explanations to questions until after the test.

Will the questions be the same as the actual exam?

Although the questions will emulate those of the official exam in terms of style, content, level of difficulty, for reasons of copyright they will not be exactly the same. This will allow you to fully understand the content you are studying so that, no matter how the questions are focused, you can be confident you are covering the same material and that you will have no problem in passing the exam.

AZ-400 CERTIFICATION EXAM

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How to prepare for the AZ-400 exam

Review the exam domains carefully.
Create your study plan for your preparation.
Enroll for the MeasureUp practice tests. Our practice tests emulate the actual exam in terms of style, format, skill sets, question structure, and level of difficulty, and can be taken in two different formats: practice mode and certification mode.
Practice, practice, practice! After looking at all the questions available in the test, checking the correct answers, reviewing the explanations regarding all the different answer options, and consulting the carefully chosen references, it is now time to use the test’s Certification Mode. This is the closest experience you’ll get to the real exam. And when you pass the Certification Mode twice consecutively with a score of 90% or more, you know you are… Exam ready!

What characteristics does the AZ-400 exam have?

Question number: 50-55 questions
Exam duration: 100- 120 minutes
Passing Score: All technical exam scores are reported on a scale of 1 to 1,000. A passing score is 700 or greater. As this is a scaled score, it may not equal 70% of the points. A passing score is based on the knowledge and skills needed to demonstrate competence as well as the difficulty of the questions.

Is the AZ-400 difficult?

The AZ-400 is an expert-level exam. In order to pass the AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert exam, you will ideally be familiar with both administration and development, being an expert in one of the two areas. You should also have relevant experience in administrator and developer roles.

What is the AZ-400 certification?

The Microsoft AZ-400 is an obligatory part of the Microsoft certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification, along with either the AZ-104 or the AZ-204. It validates that the candidate has an in-depth understanding of DevOps with the skills to combine people, processes, and technologies to deliver valuable products and services that meet end-user needs and business objectives. The exam contains approximately 55 questions with a duration of 120 minutes and contains the following objectives: Configure processes and communications, design and implement source control, design and implement build and release pipelines, develop a security and compliance plan, and implement an instrumentation strategy.

How to prepare for AZ-400 exam?

As the Microsoft AZ-400 exam is an obligatory part of the Microsoft certified: DevOps Engineer Expert certification, along with either the AZ-104 or the AZ-204 associate-level exams, it is recommended that you first start with one of these two exams. When it comes to the AZ-400 exam, you can prepare by studying with the MeasureUp AZ-400 practice test. This practice test allows you to discover and focus on your weak areas so that you use your time wisely. The AZ-400 practice test also lets you gain invaluable exam experience.

Is the AZ-400 worth it?

The AZ-400 exam validates your knowledge and experience as a DevOps expert in one of the world’s leading cloud providers, offering the possibility to build a solid career as a DevOps expert and work for some of the most high-profile companies.

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