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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide - Second Edition

By : Subhajit Chatterjee, Swapneel Deshpande, Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag
Book Image

Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions AZ-400 Exam Guide - Second Edition

By: Subhajit Chatterjee, Swapneel Deshpande, Henry Been, Maik van der Gaag

Overview of this book

The AZ-400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions certification helps DevOps engineers and administrators get to grips with practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), containerization, and zero downtime deployments using Azure DevOps Services. This new edition is updated with advanced topics such as site reliability engineering (SRE), continuous improvement, and planning your cloud transformation journey. The book begins with the basics of CI/CD and automated deployments, and then moves ahead to show you how to apply configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) along with managing databases in DevOps scenarios. As you make progress, you’ll explore fitting security and compliance with DevOps and find out how to instrument applications and gather metrics to understand application usage and user behavior. This book will also help you implement a container build strategy and manage Azure Kubernetes Services. Lastly, you’ll discover quick tips and tricks to confidently apply effective DevOps practices and learn to create your own Azure DevOps organization. By the end of this DevOps book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to ensure seamless application deployments and business continuity.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Digital Transformation through DevOps
5
Part 2 – Getting to Continuous Delivery
9
Part 3 – Expanding Your DevOps Pipeline
15
Part 4 – Closing the Loop
18
Part 5 – Advanced Topics

Designing a DevOps Strategy

  1. You are tasked with introducing Azure DevOps into your organization. Right now, there are many other tools being used for deployments. You are asked which of the following tools can integrate with Azure DevOps. [There can be any number of answers.]
    1. Octopus Deploy
    2. Jira
    3. Jenkins
    4. App Center
  2. You are asked to create a dashboard for your team that displays information about how your team is working. You should focus on displaying metrics and charts that encourage Agile and DevOps ways of working. Which metrics do you choose? [Choose three.]
    1. A widget that shows the average cycle time for work items
    2. A widget that shows the outcome (success or failure) for the most recent deployments
    3. A widget that shows the number of lines of code added per day
    4. A widget that shows the number of pull requests currently open within the team
  3. You are asked to implement static code analysis within your project. What is the best time to do this?
    1. During the build stage, just before artifacts...