November 2022

Azure DevOps Engineer Learning Pathway

www.aka.ms/pathways
Additional Study Role Based Certification
Getting Started Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Continuous Integration Communication & Collaboration Security/Compliance
Gain the knowledge and skills to design and • Key concepts for new Azure Pipelines users • About dashboards/ charts/reports/widgets • Identity and access | Managed Identities
• Pipeline Tasks | Pipeline Agents • DevOps Dashboards | Adding a Chart • Azure Active Directory groups Prerequisite: Azure Admin (AZ-104) or Azure Developer (AZ-204)
implement DevOps processes and practices.
Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use • Run quality tests in your build pipeline by • Azure DevOps Reporting • Service Endpoints
using Azure Pipelines • Azure Boards documentation • What is Azure Key Vault? AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps
source control, scale Git for an enterprise,
• Quickstart: trigger a pipeline run from • Azure Boards & GitHub • Azure Key Vault – Overview Solutions
consolidate artifacts, design a dependency
management strategy, manage secrets, GitHub Actions • Link GitHub commits, pull requests, and • Configure and manage secrets in Key Vault
• Run functional tests in Azure Pipelines issues to work items • Key Vault certificates Skills measured:
implement continuous integration, implement
• Overview of testing with Azure DevOps • Tutorial: Follow a user story, bug, issue, or • Using secrets from Key Vault in a pipeline • Configure processes and communications (10-15%)
a container build strategy, design a release
• Create test plans and test suites other work item or pull request • Scanning Open-Source Libraries • Design and implement source control (15-20%)
strategy, set up a release management
• Release approvals and gates overview • AbRelease artifacts and artifact sources • Protect your cloud workloads • Design and implement build and release pipelines (40-45%)
workflow, implement a deployment pattern,
• Manage build dependencies with Azure • Integrate with service hooks • Understand Security Considerations for • Develop a security and compliance plan (10-15%)
and optimize feedback mechanisms
Artifacts • Create a service hook for Azure DevOps Application Lifecycle Management Solution • Implement an instrumentation strategy (10-15%)
New to the Cloud or Azure? Start with Azure • Azure Artifacts: Feeds | Views with Microsoft Teams • Identity and access | Managed Identities
Fundamentals • Semantic Versioning (SemVer) • Create a service hook for Azure DevOps • Azure Active Directory groups
• Use a PowerShell script to customize your with Slack • Service Endpoints • Getting started on a DevOps transformation journey
• Build your Tech resilience
pipeline • Integrate third-party services • Protect your cloud workloads • Work with Git for enterprise DevOps
• Get started with Windows PowerShell
• Desired State Configuration (DSC) • Webhooks • Understand Security Considerations for • Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Get started with Azure DevOps
• Azure Pipelines: Agents | Triggers Instrumentation and monitoring Application Lifecycle Management Solution • Design and implement a release strategy
• DevOps at Microsoft
• Configure infrastructure in Azure Pipelines • Use monitoring and analytics to gain Source Control • Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure
• Want to get Started learning GitHub and
Continuous Delivery operational insights • Monorepo vs. multi-repo Pipelines
DevOps?
• Infrastructure as code • Designing your Azure Monitor Logs • Choosing the right version control for your • Manage Infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
• Threat Modelling Security Fundamentals
• Create a release pipeline in Azure Pipelines deployment project • Design and implement a dependency management strategy
• Secure your infrastructure with threat
• Deployment Jobs • Roles, permissions, and security • What is Azure Repos? • Implement continuous feedback
modelling)
• Migrate from Jenkins to Azure Pipelines • What is Distributed Tracing? • Improve code quality with branch policies • Implement security and validate code for compliance
• Explore DevOps Technology
• Intro to data protection and privacy • Automate deployments with Release • Unify monitoring solutions in Azure • Check out multiple repositories in your
regulations Management • Identify performance bottlenecks pipeline
• What is Azure Pipelines? • Monitoring solutions in Azure Monitor • Managing code review assignment for your
• CI/CD Deployment: Classic pipelines • Analyse alerts to establish a baseline team
• Deploy applications with Azure DevOps • Analyse and understand mobile application • Create your first pipeline
• Third Party DevOps solutions use • Create a build pipeline
Prerequisites: • Azure Automation State Configuration • Tutorial: Azure Active Directory single sign- Exam Study
Course Page
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator or overview on (SSO) integration with a GitHub Guide
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer • Exercise: Hotfix Changes using releases Enterprise Cloud Organization
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) • Is GitOps the next big thing in DevOps? 30 Days to Learn
Check out the Administrator and Developer • SRE principles and practices: virtuous cycles • ChatOps - Communication and Exam Page
Challenge!
Pathways for more information on this • Azure Monitor: Action Groups | Schema collaboration
training and certification • Health monitoring • DevOps Resource Center
Azure DevOps
• Service Fabric health monitoring • Enabling resilient DevOps practices with Practice Test
code to cloud automation Documentation
• Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
• Introduction to Azure DevTest Labs Check out the GitHub Learning Companion for
more learning resources