01. Introduction

• What is DevOps? Unifying People, Process, and Technology
• What is Azure DevOps
• About the Exam and the Microsoft Certification Landscape

02. Configure Activity Traceability and Flow of Work

• Flow of Work Processes: Basic, SCRUM, Agile, and CMMI
• Configure Activity Traceability and Generating Release Notes
• Demo: Repository Integration with Azure Boards
• Demo: Integrate Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Quiz: Configure Activity Traceability and Flow of Work

03. Configure Collaboration & Communication

• Activity Traceability: Dashboards, Charts, and Widgets
• Documentation with Azure Wikis and Creating a Wiki
• Azure DevOps Boards and Creating Dashboards
• Demo: Notifications from Webhooks
• Quiz: Configure Collaboration & Communication

04. Work with Azure Repos and GitHub

• Source Control Systems: Types and local Git usage
• Getting Started with Azure Repos and GitHub
• Transitioning from TFVC to Git
• Innovating with GitHub Codespaces
• Quiz: Work with Azure Repos and GitHub

05. Branching Strategies for Source Code

• Comparative Analysis: Monorepo vs. Multiple Repos
• Creating and Generating an Effective Change Log
• Types of Branch Workflows and collaborating with Pull Requests
• GitHub Mobile: Streamlining Approvals on the Go
• Demystifying Git Hooks and Forking Workflows
• Quiz: Branching Strategies for Source Code

06. Configuring and Managing Repositories

• Working with large repositories using Scalar
• Configure Git tags in Azure Repos and GitHub Releases
• Recovering and Purging Data from Source Control
• Quiz: Configuring and Managing Repositories

07. Design and Implement Pipeline Automation

• Dependency and Security Scanning
• Integration of automated tests (Unit, Integration, Load)
• Understanding Code Coverage and Orchestration
• Quiz: Design and Implement Pipeline Automation

08. Design and Implement a Package Management Strategy

• Exploring Azure Artifacts and GitHub Packages
• Implementing package feeds and Versioning Strategies (SemVer)
• Quiz: Design and Implement a Package Management Strategy

09. Design and Implement Pipelines

• Introduction to Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Designing Agent Infrastructure: Cost, Licensing, and Connectivity
• Classic vs. YAML Pipelines
• Build Agents: Hosted, Self-Hosted (WSL), and Containerized
• Understanding Parallelism and Trigger Rules
• Quiz: Design and Implement Pipelines

10. & 11. Orchestration and Deployment Strategies

• Release Strategies: Stages, Dependencies, and Conditions
• Implementing Release Gates and YAML Templates
• Resiliency strategies and database tasks in deployment
• Minimizing downtime and Hotfix path plans
• Load Balancer and Traffic Manager Releases
• Feature flags with Azure App Configuration Feature Manager
• Quiz: Design and Implement Deployments

12. Design and Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Configuration management for application infrastructure
• Azure Automation State Configuration and Desired State Configuration
• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates and Bicep
• Defining an IaC strategy and on-demand self-deployment
• Quiz: Design and Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

13. Maintain Pipelines

• Monitoring Health: Failure Rate, Duration, and Flaky Tests
• Optimize concurrency for performance and cost
• Migrating from Classic to YAML
• Retention strategies for pipeline artifacts
• Quiz: Maintain Pipelines

14. & 15. Security, Secrets, and Authentication

• Service Principals vs. Managed Identity
• Managing GitHub Auth and Azure DevOps Service Connections
• Permissions, Roles, and Security Groups
• Azure Key Vault for secrets, keys, and certificates
• Managing secrets in GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines
• Quiz: Managing Sensitive Information in Automation

16. Security Validation and Compliance

• Embracing DevSecOps Culture and Threat Modeling
• Software Composition Analysis (SCA): Mend and Dependabot
• SonarCloud, CodeQL, and OWASP Secure Coding Guidelines
• ZAP for Penetration Testing and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Azure Policy and Resource Locks
• Quiz: Implement Security and Validate Code Bases

17. & 18. Monitoring and Metrics Analysis

• Configure Azure Monitor and Log Analytics integration
• Telemetry collection and GitHub Monitoring
• Infrastructure performance indicators (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)
• Distributed tracing with Application Insights
• Interrogating logs using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Quiz: Analyze Metrics