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Microsoft DevOps Engineer (AZ-400)
Four months on GitHub and Azure DevOps pipelines, security and monitoring
A four-month classroom course that follows Microsoft's study guide for Exam AZ-400, Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (skills measured as of 27 July 2026). Half the exam is build and release pipelines, and so is half the course; the rest is process, source control, security and instrumentation. The exam fee is not included, and the Expert certification also requires an Azure Administrator or Developer Associate certification.
12Modules
AdvancedLevel
4 monthsDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL
What you will be able to do
Build multi-stage YAML pipelines
Design a deployment strategy with safe rollouts
Keep secrets out of pipelines and scan code automatically
Sit Exam AZ-400 with every skill area covered
Course outline
01
Traceability and flow of work; metrics and queries for DevOps
02
Collaboration and communication
03
Branching strategies; configuring and managing repositories
04
Package management strategy
05
Testing strategy for pipelines
06
Designing and implementing pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
07
Designing and implementing deployments
08
Infrastructure as code
09
Maintaining pipelines
10
Authentication, authorization and managing sensitive information
11
Automating security and compliance scanning
12
Monitoring a DevOps environment and analysing metrics
Tools you will use
Azure DevOpsGitHub ActionsAzure PipelinesBicepAzure Monitor
What you need
Experience administering or developing in Azure
Working knowledge of Git