Duration – 5Days

Azure Developer Associate contains courseware that helps prepare students for Exam  AZ-400. Passing this exam is required to earn the Azure Developer Associate  certification.

Audience

Students in this course are interested in implementing DevOps processes or in passing  the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge about Azure, version control, Agile software development, and  core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an  organization that delivers software. 

Course Objectives 

After completing this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe the benefits of using source control 

2. Migrate from TFVC to Git 

3. Scale Git for Enterprise DevOps 

4. Implement and manage build infrastructure Manage application config & secrets

5. Implement a mobile DevOps strategy 

6. Explain why continuous integration matters 

7. Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps 

8. Configure builds and the options available 

9. Create an automated build workflow 

10. Integrate other build tooling with Azure DevOps 

11. Create hybrid build processes 

12. Differentiate between a release and a deployment 

13. Define the components of a release pipeline 

14. Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy

15. Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality  of both 

16. Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and  documentation 

17. Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern  sense 

18. Choose a release management tool 

19. Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling 

20. Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available  deployment tasks

21. Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool 

22. Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline

23. Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job

24. Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline

25. Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection 

26. Embed testing in the pipeline 

27. List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using,  alerts, service hooks and reports 

28. Create a release gate 

29. Describe deployment patterns 

30. Implement Blue Green Deployment 

31. Implement Canary Release 

32. Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment 

33. Recommend artifact management tools and practices 

34. Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse 

35. Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to  packages 

36. Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the  solution 

37. Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes  packages 

38. Manage security and compliance 

39. Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to  align with corporate standards 

40. Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating ∙ Configure secure access to package feeds 

41. Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles 

42. Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such  as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

43. Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

44. Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster 

45. Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure,  such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, and Terraform 

46. Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a  release pipeline and application infrastructure 

47. Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

48. Describe what is meant by code quality and how it is measured 

49. Detect code smells 

50. Integrate automated tests for code quality 

51. Report on code coverage during testing 

52. Add tooling to measure technical debt 

53. Detect open source and other licensing issues 

54. Implement a container build strategy 

55. Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction 

56. Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources

57. Design routing for client application crash report data 

58. Recommend monitoring tools and technologies 

59. Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools 

60. Configure crash report integration for client applications 

61. Develop monitoring and status dashboards 

62. Implement routing for client application crash report data 

63. Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow

64. Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team’s work  management system 

65. Analyze alerts to establish a baseline 

66. Analyze telemetry to establish a baseline 

67. Perform live site reviews and capture feedback for system outages

68. Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts

69. Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines. 

70. Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs. 

71. Create a team and agile organizational structure. 

72. Develop a project quality strategy. 

73. Plan for secure development practices and compliance rules. 

74. Migrate and consolidate artifacts. 

75. Migrate and integrate source control measures.

Outline: Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions Fast Track (AZ400)

Getting started with Source Control 

1. What is Source Control? 

2. Benefits of Source Control 

3. Types of source control systems 

4. Introduction to Azure Repos 

5. Migrating from TFVC to Git 

6. Authenticating to your Git Repos 

Scaling git for enterprise DevOps 

1. How to structure your git repo? Mono Repo or Multi Repo?

2. Git Branching workflows 

3. Collaborating with Pull Requests 

4. Why care about GitHooks? 

5. Fostering Internal Open Source 

6. Git Version 

7. Public projects 

8. Storing Large files in Git 

Implement & Manage Build Infrastructure 

1. The concept of pipelines in DevOps 

2. Azure Pipelines 

3. Evaluate use of Hosted vs. Private Agents 

4. Agent pools 

5. Pipelines & Concurrency 

6. Azure DevOps loves Open Source projects 

7. Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer 

8. Setup private agents 

9. Integrate Jenkins with Azure Pipelines 

10. Integration external source control with Azure Pipelines

11. Analyse & Integrate Docker multi stage builds

Managing application config & secrets 

1. Demo: SQL Injection attack 

2. Implement secure & compliant development process

3. Rethinking application config data

4. Manage secrets, tokens & certificates 

5. Implement tools for managing security and compliance in pipeline

Implement a mobile DevOps strategy 

1. Introduction to Visual Studio App Center 

2. Manage mobile target device sets and distribution groups 

3. Manage target UI test device sets 

4. Provision tester devices for deployment 

Implementing Continuous Integration in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

1. Continuous Integration Overview 

2. Implementing a Build Strategy 

Managing Code Quality and Security Policies 

1. Managing Code Quality 

2. Managing Security Policies

Implementing a Container Build Strategy 

1. Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Design a Release Strategy 

1. Introduction to Continuous Delivery 

2. Release strategy recommendations 

3. Building a High Quality Release pipeline 

4. Choosing a deployment pattern 

5. Choosing the right release management tool 

6. Building a release strategy 

7. Differentiate between a release and a deployment 

8. Define the components of a release pipeline 

9. Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy

10. Classify a release versus a release process, and outline how to control the quality  of both 

11. Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and  documentation 

12. Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern  sense

13. Choose a release management tool

Set up a Release Management Workflow 

1. Introduction 

2. Create a Release Pipeline 

3. Provision and Configure Environments 

4. Manage And Modularize Tasks and Templates 

5. Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline 

6. Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation

7. Automate Inspection of Health 

8. Building a release management workflow 

9. Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management  Tooling 

10. Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available  deployment tasks 

11. Classify an Agent, Agent Queue and Agent Pool 

12. Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline

13. Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job

14. Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline

15. Deploy to an environment securely, using a service connection 

16. Embed testing in the pipeline 

17. List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using,  alerts, service hooks and reports 

18. Create a release gate

Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

1. Introduction into Deployment Patterns 

2. Implement Blue Green Deployment 

3. Implement Canary Release 

4. Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment 

5. Describe deployment patterns 

6. Implement Blue Green Deployment 

7. Implement Canary Release 

8. Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

Hands-On Lab: Microsoft 365 Tenant and Service Management

1. Exercise 1: Set up a Microsoft 365 trial tenant 

2. Exercise 2: Managing Microsoft 365 users, groups, and administration

3. Exercise 3: Configuring Rights Management and compliance 

4. Exercise 4: Monitor and troubleshoot Microsoft 365

Designing a Dependency Management Strategy 

1. Introduction 

2. Packaging dependencies 

3. Package management 

4. Implement versioning strategy 

5. Recommend artifact management tools and practices 

6. Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse 

7. Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to  packages 

8. Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the  solution 

9. Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes  packages 

10. Manage security and compliance

Manage security and compliance 

1. Introduction 

2. Package security 

3. Open source software 

4. Integrating license and vulnerability scans 

5. Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to  align with corporate standards 

6. Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating ∙ Configure secure access to package feeds

Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools 

1. Learning Objectives 

2. Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management 

3. Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates 

4. Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI 

5. Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell 

6. Additional Automation Tools 

7. Version Control 

8. Lab Deploy to Azure using ARM templates 

9. Module Review Questions

Azure Deployment Models and Services 

1. Learning Objectives 

2. Deployment Models and Options 

3. Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services 

4. Azure Automation with DevOps 

5. Desired State Configuration (DSC) 

6. Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services 

7. Azure Service Fabric 

8. Lab Azure Automation – IaaS or PaaS deployment 

9. Module Review Questions

Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

1. Learning Objectives 

2. Azure Kubernetes Service 

3. Lab Deploy and Scale AKS Cluster 

4. Module Review Questions 

Third Party and Open Source Tools available with Azure

1. Learning Objectives 

2. Chef 

3. Puppet 

4. Ansible 

5. Cloud-Init 

6. Terraform 

7.  Lab Provision and configure an App in Azure Using X 

8. Module Review Questions 

Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure 

1. Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps 

2. Azure Security Center 

3. Lab Integrate a scanning extension or tool in an AZ DevOps pipeline/security  center 

4. Module Review Questions 

Planning for DevOps 

1. Transformation Planning

2. Project Selection 

3. Team Structures 

Planning for Quality and Security 

1. Planning a Quality Strategy 

2. Planning Secure Development

Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts and Tools 

1. Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

2. Migrating and Integrating Source Control