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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 Continuous Delivery

  1. The company you are working for is using ServiceNow as the change management system. There is a rule that ServiceNow should be used to track every deployment to production environments. You are responsible for ensuring that your application is not deployed to the production environment if there is no valid change registered in the change management system. Which of the following will accomplish this? [Choose two.]
    1. You implement a deployment callback that checks for a valid change in ServiceNow.
    2. You add a deployment gate as a precondition to deployment to the production stage.
    3. You add a deployment gate as a postcondition for completing deployment in the QA stage.
    4. You create an environment and call it Production-ServiceNow check.
  2. You need to deploy an application to twelve on-premises virtual machines, grouped into three subnets. Which of the following actions should you perform to have a complete, working solution to do this? [Choose three.]
    1. Create...