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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

Questions

As we conclude this chapter, here is a list of questions for you to test your knowledge of this chapter’s material. You will find the answers in the Assessments section of the Appendix:

  1. True or false: an Azure DevOps Classic release is always triggered by the availability of a new version of an artifact.
  2. Which of the following platforms can App Center publish apps to? (You can choose more than one.)
    1. Google Play Store
    2. Apple App Store
    3. Microsoft Intune
  3. Which of the following techniques use progressive exposure for minimizing the risks of deploying a new version? (You can choose more than one.)
    1. Feature toggles
    2. Ring-based deployments
    3. Canary deployments
  4. True or false: deployment groups can be used for deploying software to on-premises servers when an Azure Pipelines agent is installed on the machine that will be running the software.
  5. What is the advantage of integrating App Center with Azure Pipelines if you have an Azure Pipelines release definition triggering...