Certification: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Related Exam: Microsoft AZ-400 (Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions)
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If you are one of those who are interested in delivering business value and work with technologies, people, and processes, the Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification is for you. This accreditation validates your ability to design and use strategies for collaboration, code, security, testing, monitoring, delivery, and feedback. You also should have basic skills in one of the spheres either in Azure development or Azure administration and be certified in one of them. After that, the expert-level certification can be gained by passing one exam AZ-400.
The Microsoft AZ-400 exam is focused on designing and applying Microsoft DevOps solutions. It can be taken only after obtaining the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or the Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate certification. The exam will contain 40-60 questions of traditional types (multiple choice, active screen, build list, hot spot, case studies, to mention a few and will last for 100 minutes. If the exam includes labs, its duration will be 120 minutes. But the exact types of questions as well as their quantity will be known at the exam. To pass the test you need to score at least 700 points out of 1000, and pay an exam fee of $165.
Regarding the exam content, it is divided into 7 parts, each of which is dedicated to a specific topic and checks definite skills. In the first topic, you will need to demonstrate your skills in creating an instrumentation strategy. Your skills in designing and applying logging, using telemetry, monitoring solutions will be checked. This implies that you are proficient in working with Azure storage, Azure Monitor, Exabeam, KQL queries, Azure Monitor, New Relic, and Azure Platforms. You also should be able to apply distributed tracing, review app performance indicators, specify key metrics, integrate user analytics, and operate Access control to the monitoring platform.
The second topic aims to evaluate your ability to develop a Site Reliability Engineering strategy. Here the accent is made on developing an actionable alerting strategy, creating a strategy that refers to a failure prediction, and applying a health check. To be more specific, you should be skilled in working with metrics on which the alerts are based, utilizing alerts, analyzing metrics, measuring baseline metrics for various systems, analyzing system dependencies, designing approaches for health situations and piecemeal recovery, as well as applying different types of health checks.
The third topic will validate your ability to develop a security and compliance plan. In this part, you will be tested on designing authorization, authentication, and a sensitive information management strategy, developing security, and designing mechanisms that relate to governance enforcement. Thus, you should possess top-notch skills in dealing with an access solution, Azure AD B2C, Managed Identity and Service Principals, service connectors, security certificates, vault solutions, dependencies scanning for compliance and security, Azure policies and Azure Container Registry Tasks.
The fourth topic refers to managing source control. It will require you to be competent in creating a modern source control strategy, creating the source code by using branch strategies, integrating source control with tools, and creating repositories. Here you should have a solid comprehension of how to design approaches for working with large binary files and cross repository sharing, work with Pull Requests, branch strategy, oversized repositories, GitOps, ChatOps, and GitHubCodespaces.
The fifth topic is about facilitating collaboration and communication. In this section, you are required to have expertise related to creating pipelines and integrating them, using GitHub with the help of Azure Boards, working with documentation that refers to DevOps processes, and automating communication procedures with team members.
The sixth topic refers to specifying and applying continuous integration. Your skills in creating build automation, package management strategy, and an app infrastructure management strategy will be assessed. In addition, your ability to utilize a build strategy and maintain it, apply build trigger rules, and create a process for standardizing builds within the whole organization will be evaluated.
The seventh topic refers to identifying and utilizing a continuous delivery and release management strategy. In this section, you should be competent in which deployment solution to offer, in how to apply Infrastructure as a code, develop complex deployments, and apply a solution for orchestration automation. Besides, you should be able to create a release strategy, apply it, and choose a state solution for a deployment environment.
Having the expert level certification, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, means that you possess excellent skills in creating and using DevOps solutions. With this accreditation, you can get an annual salary of about $116,279 per annum, as stated on the Ziprecruiter website. And, having more experience in working in this sphere, your salary can grow up to $159,500 per annum.
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