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Azure DevOps Engineer Professional

A beginner-to-advanced path through the topics on the Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) exam: Azure Pipelines and continuous integration, Azure Repos and delivery flow, infrastructure as code with Bicep and Terraform, continuous delivery with progressive rollout strategies, and secure DevOps with observability and continuous improvement. Original content teaching the exam domains from the ground up.

Advanced5 sections · 15 lessons · ~10h total · 60-question self-test

01

Azure Pipelines & CI

3 lessonsTest yourself

01Azure Pipelines & CIStages/jobs/steps, triggers, fast feedback.30 min 02Pipeline as code (YAML)Versioned pipelines, variables, templates.30 min 03Agents & poolsHosted vs self-hosted, securing agents.25 min

02

Repos, artifacts & flow

3 lessonsTest yourself

01Azure Repos & branch policiesPull requests, protected main, hygiene.30 min 02Branching & feature flagsTrunk-based dev; decouple deploy from release.30 min 03Artifacts & dependenciesFeeds, pinning, dependency integrity.25 min

03

Infrastructure as code

3 lessonsTest yourself

01ARM & BicepAzure-native IaC, modules, idempotency.30 min 02Terraform on AzureMulti-cloud IaC, state, plan/apply.30 min 03IaC pipelines & configReviewed/scanned IaC; Key Vault & App Config.30 min

04

Continuous delivery

3 lessonsTest yourself

01Release pipelines & approvalsPromote one artifact through gated envs.30 min 02Progressive deliveryBlue/green, canary, rolling, auto-rollback.30 min 03Zero-downtime deploymentDeployment slots and health-aware routing.25 min

05

Secure DevOps & observability

3 lessonsTest yourself

01DevSecOps in the pipelineShift-left scanning; secure the pipeline.30 min 02Observability & gatesMonitor/App Insights driving deploy decisions.30 min 03Incident response & improvementBlameless post-mortems; the DevOps loop.25 min

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Final exam

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60 questions drawn from all 5 sections — every answer explained as you pick.

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