Microsoft Azure Certification Exam Study Guide - Microsoft Azure Practice Exam

Skills measured

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. View video tutorials about the variety of question types on Microsoft exams.

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Design a DevOps Strategy (20-25%)

Recommend a migration and consolidation strategy for DevOps tools

• Analyze existing artifact (e.g. deployment packages, NuGet) and container repositories
• Analyze existing test management tools
• Analyze existing work management tools
• Recommend migration and integration strategies for artifact repositories, source control, test management, and work management

Design and implement an Agile work management approach

• Identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and DevOps measurements (e.g. cycle time, lead time, Azure Kubernetes Service, WIP limit)
• Implement tools and processes to support Agile work management
• Mentor team members on Agile techniques and practices
• Recommend an organization structure that supports scaling Agile practices
• Recommend in-team and cross-team collaboration mechanisms

Design a quality strategy

• Analyze existing quality environment
• Identify and recommend quality metrics
• Recommend a strategy for feature flag lifecycle
• Recommend a strategy for measuring and managing technical debt
• Recommend changes to team structure to optimize quality
• Recommend performance testing strategy

Design a secure development process

• Inspect and validate code base for compliance
• Inspect and validate infrastructure for compliance
• Recommend a secure development strategy
• Recommend tools and practices to integrate code security validation (e.g. static code analysis)
• Recommend tools and practices to integrate infrastructure security validation

Design a tool integration strategy

• Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps users, concurrent pipelines, test environments, open source software licensing, DevOps tools and services, package management licensing)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design a strategy for integrating monitoring and feedback to development teams
• Design an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Who should take this exam?

Candidates for this exam are DevOps professionals who combine people, process, and technologies to continuously deliver valuable products and services that meet end user needs and business objectives. DevOps professionals streamline delivery by optimizing practices, improving communications and collaboration, and creating automation. They design and implement strategies for application code and infrastructure that allow for continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring and feedback.

Candidates must be proficient with Agile practices. They must be familiar with both Azure administration and Azure development and experts in at least one of these areas. Azure DevOps professionals must be able to design and implement DevOps practices for version control, compliance, infrastructure as code, configuration management, build, release, and testing by using Azure technologies.

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