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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

Implementing DevOps Development Processes

  1. You are developing a Microsoft .NET Core application and want to analyze the application to check whether there are any open source libraries with known security vulnerabilities being used. Which of the following products can you use for such an analysis? [Choose two.]
    1. Jenkins
    2. WhiteSource Bolt
    3. Snyk
    4. App Center
  2. You are currently using (i) JIRA, (ii) GitLab, and (iii) Octopus Deploy for some of your DevOps processes. You want to consolidate your DevOps tools and have chosen to go with Azure DevOps. Which Azure DevOps services should you use to replace these? Choose the correct service to replace these three services. [Match three pairs.]
    1. Azure Pipelines
    2. Azure Repos
    3. Azure Boards
    4. Azure Artifacts
  3. You are evaluating different options for build agents. What are valid arguments for opting for private agents over Microsoft-hosted agents? [Choose two.]
    1. You need custom software to be available on the agent before any job is executed.
    2. You need to ensure...