Exam Name: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Exam Code: AZ-400

Related Certification(s): Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert Azure DevOps Certification

Certification Provider: Microsoft

Actual Exam Duration: 120 Minutes

Number of AZ-400 Practice Questions: 295 (updated: )

Microsoft Recommended Focus Areas for the AZ-400 Exam:
Topic 1: Configure processes and communications
This topic covers designing DevOps processes, configuring project collaboration, managing work items, and integrating development teams with effective communication and tracking tools.
Topic 2: Design and implement source control
This section focuses on implementing Git repositories, branching strategies, managing pull requests, and configuring version control practices within Azure DevOps.
Topic 3: Design and implement build and release pipelines
This topic covers configuring continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), pipeline automation, build agents, artifact management, and deployment strategies.
Topic 4: Develop a security and compliance plan
This section includes implementing security in DevOps pipelines, managing secrets, secure access, and ensuring compliance using Azure security tools and policies.
Topic 5: Implement an instrumentation strategy
This topic focuses on monitoring DevOps environments using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, logging, and implementing feedback loops to improve application reliability.
Free Microsoft AZ-400 Exam Actual Questions
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Q1: Your company hosts a web application in Azure. The company uses Azure Pipelines for build and release management of the application.
Stakeholders report that the past few releases have negatively affected system performance.
You configure alerts in Azure Monitor.
You need to ensure that new releases are only deployed to production if the releases meet defined performance baseline criteria in the staging environment first What should you use to prevent the deployment of releases that fail to meet the performance baseline?

Q2: You plan to use a NuGet package in Azure DevOps that requires authentication. You need to ensure that the project can restore the NuGet package automatically.
What should the project use to automate authentication?

Q3: Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution
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Your company has an Azure DevOps project.You must ensure that when code is checked in, a build runs automatically.
Solution: Enable Pull request trigger in release pipeline settings.
Does this meet the goal?

Q4: Your DevOps pipeline requires storing secrets such as API keys and connection strings securely. Which Azure service should you use?

Q5: Your team wants automated infrastructure deployments in a CI/CD pipeline. Which approach should you use?